Making sense of comments on YouTube educational videos: a self-directed learning perspective

Purpose Through the lens of self-directed theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if social technologies such as YouTube will be viable to disseminate educational instructions and in the process empowering learners to take charge of their learning. Design/methodology/approach A total of 150 educational videos on YouTube were selected and 29,386 comments extracted using the authors’ customized extraction software application....