Learning Objects and Youtube: an analysis of videos and their categories

Technology has contributed to the Educational area by providing numerous digital content. However, the excess of available materials makes its selection very tiring and frustrating. In order to overcome this difficulty Learning Objects are used during technology learning. The online video-sharing platform YouTube offers several Learning Objects and has more than 2 billion monthly accesses, being widely used for learning purposes. This work presents an analysis of the search engine for educational content videos from YouTube. Results point out that, for educational content, the categorization provided by the platform is generally not assertive.