Assessing The Instructional Video for English As Foreign Language: A Content Analysis of Video from Ruangguru

Abstract

The use of video as a learning media is popular among scholars and students nowadays since educators believe that instructional video brings many advantages to the student’s learning. However, with the numerous instructional videos that are shared online, the quality of the videos are going to be questioned. Thus, this study is analyzing the quality of some instructional videos online. The objective of this study is to assess the quality of English videos on the Ruangguru YouTube channel since Ruangguru is one of the reputable educational platforms in Indonesia. The videos analyzed in this study are five English Videos for ninth grade from Ruangguru YouTube channel. The videos are analyzed with Content Analysis method with Multimedia Product Rubric by Smaldino et al. (2019) as the research instruments. The result shows that all the five videos analyzed have a very high quality with all the videos reaching the highest score of four from five categories, which are content, sources, organization, and originality; only requirement categories have a lower score since three videos only met two scores. The three videos only got two scores since the videos do not contain any exercise within the video to deepen the material explanation. Aside from this shortcoming, Ruangguru still did a remarkable job on delivering very high quality instructional videos.