The Importance of Employing YouTube Videos as a Learning Tool in Education

Abstract

YouTube is a website for sharing videos, making it simple for students to create, distribute, and watch educational videos. The purpose of this article was to investigate the experience of teachers in employing YouTube videos within the classrooms, kinds of YouTube videos, advantages of employ YouTube in education and challenging of using YouTube videos in classrooms. This review showed that incorporating YouTube in education has great impacts and benefits on students and teachers. YouTube videos impact learning content creation and assessment, students' attitudes and behaviours, and student educational performance. This study showed that employing YouTube videos in education makes the best use of modern media to spread knowledge and information. It also helps to foster the attitude of productive dialogue among students. There are some challenges facing students and teachers related to incorporating YouTube videos in education including technological problems, lecture preference, awareness, and time.