YOUTUBE AS A RESOURCE FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION OF JOURNALISM STUDENTS
YOUTUBE AS A RESOURCE FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION OF JOURNALISM STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: Journalism as a profession has undergone significant changes with the emergence of the new technologies and the new media. Future journalists will have to be able to acquire a large number of skills in order to be able to do their job, in comparison to journalists who successfully worked only ten years ago. What further complicates the education of journalism students is the fact that the changes that have occurred are not final, but the process is constantly changing, and the education system, no matter how modern and flexible, is not able to provide students with all the necessary knowledge and skills, because no one cannot predict the direction which the change will take. It is therefore of utmost importance that students learn how to independently search for resources to acquire new knowledge, which will be essential in future. The aim of this research is to examine students' attitudes to the use of YouTube as one of the possible platforms for continuous education to which they could turn to after graduation to acquire additional skills. The instrument was specifically designed for the purposes of this study; a survey sample included 162 students from the Department of journalism. The results varied in relation to the year of study. First-year students were generally ignorant of all the possibilities that this service may offer in the field of education. In the second year of study through course on Modern media technology YouTube is introduced during the teaching process and the research shows that students who have passed this exam are more likely to turn to this platform later in life for acquiring new skills. The general conclusion is that the teaching process in the field of new technologies should introduce YouTube and similar platforms in college curriculum, which would help the students to adapt to the future educational needs.

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