Abstract—YouTube, known as an entertainment and social interaction website has created a trend in the current teaching amongst the educationists. This blended learning, of which using YouTube in teaching has made teaching and learning more effective in classroom. Students are easily amazed by the videos that have been uploaded and selected for teaching purposes. Students, moreover, find it more enjoyable and effortless in watching video rather than calculating, reading, speaking or writing in classroom. In fact, video teaching can offer ‘an accessible visual and emotional experience to students’, since it presents ‘a literacy’, and a new language – the ‘language of images’, and a form ‘symbolic visual codes’. With this in view, a research has been carried out among students of culinary arts to seek new ways of improving the teaching and learning process via the use of current media. In the culinary classroom, however, hands-on-teaching of which students need to experience first-hand learning of processes namely vegetables cutting on their own is being emphasized. Therefore, this research will address the following issue of how effective teaching and learning via YouTube among students in the culinary arts is in the higher institution. A set of questionnaire has been administered and results have indicated a positive impact among the selected students in acquiring better grasp of the concepts, techniques and method in learning the arts of culinary via the means of this particular media.

Index Terms—YouTube, Culinary Arts, Blended Learning, Effectiveness, Media.

Mohammad Azli Razali, Nina Farisha Isa and Mohamad Abdullah Hemdiare with Faculty of Hotel Management & Tourism,Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (mohamad080@ppinang.uitm.edu.my,ninafarisha@ppinang.uitm.edu.my, moham984@ppinang.uitm.edu.my).
Farina Nozakiah Tazijan, Suzana Ab. Rahim and Fazrul Azmi Zulkifli arewith Academy Of Language Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia(farina762@ppinang.uitm.edu.my, suzana.arahim@pinang.uitm.edu.my,fazrul124@ppinang.uitm.edu.my).

Cite: Mohammad Azli Razali, Farina Nozakiah Tazijan, Suzana Ab. Rahim, Fazrul Azmi Zulkifli, NinaFarisha Isa, and Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi, "Perfecting the Culinary Arts via the YouTube way," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 214-217, 2012.