What is the effect of internet(Youtube), cellphone(video), and other video media in enhacing skills education?

Im having a research on enhancing nursing skills education using internet(you tube), cellphone(video), and other techonological media. I would like to know what is your view towards the effect of documenting nursing skills(including other knowledge skills),using video recording and saving it to various media like youtube, cellphone video, cd's, vcd's and other media against a conventional hand-outs given by professors and teachers. Which do you think would give better result?

In fact they can only speed up the access to the information. The only true skill for education will remain inside the searcher -need, passion, ambition, talent.

The IT infrastructure to support such a scheme would cost a lot. The time required to set up educational multimedia can be labor intensive too.

I'd be skeptical that the benefits (visualisation) would outweigh the financial cost (setting up broadband on campus,etc).

It could (and does) work, as a supplement, for large universities/technical colleges. For smaller or poorer learning institutions there would need to be a strong case to justify the expense.

I think that better teacher training would be more cost effective. Employing multimedia would be worthwhile, but only as a secondary tool not to replace conventional lectures, using a whiteboard, prescribing good standard texts, etc.

What skills do you want to improve? Finger-faster would be one that would be enhanced.

And the infrastructure exists today. But the temptation to 'go elsewhere' while accessing the particular Youtube 'movie' that the teacher prescribes would outweigh the benefit, I think.

How many times have you gone to Youtube and WASTED 15 minutes because you accessed the one you were told to see, and then went on to others??? Be honest!

Video recording is valuable, but the time to grade such things is enormous. And the grading is SOOOoooooo subjective. A videographer has to be talented too, or the pics are jerky and 'raw'.

Besides that, I think that your idea is being implemented here and there, and the opportunities are vast. Just slow to be taken advantage of.

It can help make the information more relevant. I hate watching training videos in which the actors are wearing clothes from 20 years prior (and by hate I mean I like watching them to laugh, but not to learn).

By using the forms of technology you mentioned as opposed to paper handouts, you're better able to SHOW rather than TELL, which can be extremely useful, especially in a field like nursing. The more hands-on it seems, the better.

If you used technology to tape students learning and practicing processes, instructors could then use the videos to assess their work, and the students could use the videos to assess, reflect, and revise their work.