Enriching Information Technology Course Materials by Using Youtube

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IT offers some benefits and collaborations in various sectors. This research focuses on exploring higher education subjects via social technology, YouTube. YouTube is the world largest video based contents application in the world. Current learning materials are not only in text and images, but included video contents. This research enriching students learning materials may involving YouTube as learning sources. The study observed 118 sophomore students in computer science faculty. The results show that, involving YouTube in enriching students course material able to create conductive learning environment. This strategy increases students understanding in their field of study.

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IT offers some benefits and collaborations in various sectors. This research focuses on exploring higher education subjects via social technology, YouTube. YouTube is the world largest video based contents application in the world. Current learning materials are not only in text and images, but included video contents. This research enriching students learning materials may involving YouTube as learning sources. The study observed 118 sophomore students in computer science faculty. The results show that, involving YouTube in enriching students course material able to create conductive learning environment. This strategy increases students understanding in their field of study.

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E-PROCEEDING OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2017

75 E-PROCEEDING OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (e-ISBN: 978-967-0792-19-4). 31st July 2017& 1st August 2017 - Venue: Bayview Hotel, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Organized by http://worldconferences.net/home
ENRICHING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COURSE MATERIALS BY USING YOUTUBE Leon Andretti Abdillah Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Bina Darma leon.abdillah@yahoo.com

Abstract IT offers some benefits and collaborations in various sectors. This research focuses on exploring higher education subjects via social technology, YouTube. YouTube is the world largest video based contents application in the world. Current learning materials are not only in text and images, but included video contents. This research enriching students learning materials may involving YouTube as learning sources. The study observed 118 sophomore students in computer science faculty. The results show that, involving YouTube in enriching students course material able to create conductive learning environment. This stratey increases students’ understanding in their field of study. Keywords: Socal Technology, Social Media, YouTube, SCM.

1. Introduction Cloud social technology as part of information technology (IT) applications has been growed tremendously recently. The users of those social technologies have been reached millions of people. Among the diverse applications of emerging IT, group of social technology or social media has been attracked the author’s attention for a long time. At the moment, there are 15 most popular social networking (SN) sites (Kallas, 2017). Facebook and YouTube lead in the top first and second place. These famous SN applications have been used in many sectors, such as business, banking, government, medicine, even to the field of education. IT has the capability to collaborate (Abdillah, Syafe’i, & Hardiyansyah, 2007) with all those fields. A number of the most popular IT applications have been so commonplace in the field of education has brought some remarkable progress. The development of information and communication technology has been influenced the learning process nowadays in higher education or universities. Conventional teaching methods have undergone significant changes. Delivery of course materials are not enough to face to face with the help of the projector. Changing times have led demands more competition. Lecturers are required to innovate in enriching the learning method involving a number of IT applications. In IT trend, one of which is a social technology that facilitates connections between individuals in the real world. People today have been able to relate to others as if without limits of space and time.
   Numerous studies have been commenting about the social technologies in various fields: 1) promotion in business (Rahadi & Abdillah, 2013), 2) political campaign and presidential election (Abdillah, 2014a, 2014c), 3) knowledge management systems (Abdillah, 2014b), 4) famous Indonesan online transportation of “Go-jek” (Oktaviana, Syah, & Abdillah, 2016; Wulandari, Syah, & Abdillah, 2016), and 5) education (Abdillah, 2013, 2016a, 2016b). The focus of current research is the utilization of social technology, Facebook and YouTube, in enriching course material for students in higher education sector.

E-PROCEEDING OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2017

76 E-PROCEEDING OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (e-ISBN: 978-967-0792-19-4). 31st July 2017& 1st August 2017 - Venue: Bayview Hotel, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Organized by http://worldconferences.net/home

  Figure 1: Top 15 Most Popular Social Netwoorking Apps. 

YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video (Burgess & Green, 2013). Emerging technologies, such as the YouTube video-sharing Web site, are important for both in-class and online instructors to establish a sense of classroom community and achieve greater learner outcomes (Burke & Snyder, 2008). YouTube is the most famous education channel (Saurabh & Sairam, 2013). The use of video in education can be an effective way of engaging students and supporting their understanding (Tan & Pearce, 2012). Student easiness in following the lecture today increasingly rely on information technology that is where one of them in obtaining teaching materials lecture (Pradikta & Haryono, 2015).
The main concern of this study is enrichment of lecture materials for “business modeling

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