Teaching practice including technologies. YouTube as a learning tool in higher education

YouTube is one of the most visited audiovisual resource portals in the web. It is a high-value tool in education for it is highly motivating. This article aims to understand its potential in classroom practice in higher education and the study had a descriptive and quantitative design with a sample composed by one hundred twenty-four (124) students of different grades taught in the School of Education Sciences at Universidad de Sevilla. In order to collect data, it applied an ad hoc questionnaire analyzed through the SPSS program (v. 21), as well as the descriptive statistics. Results show three interesting aspects: a) properly used, YouTube is a useful and effective tool in the learning process; b) creating channels of personal education content brings important advantages to the teaching practice in the classroom, and c) it is necessary to increase training in digital skills for using this tool as an innovative and motivating element for learning.