As students go back to school, YouTube is equipping classrooms with some handy new features. The platform’s latest suite of educational upgrades includes a distraction-free player and a pair of new didactic formats: Courses and Quizzes.
The so-called “Player for Education” will remove ads, external links, and recommendations from YouTube videos. Other platforms, such as TikTok, have played around with distractionless interfaces. Unlike those experiments, YouTube’s streamlined player is designed to serve a scholastic purpose. It will be put into effect on “commonly used educational apps,” such as EDpuzzle, Google Classroom, Purdue University, and Purdue Global.
One of YouTube’s other new educational features seems like a direct attempt to compete with MasterClass. The online learning platform has recruited influencers like Marques Brownlee to serve as celebrity instructors, and YouTube is now strengthening its own creator-to-educator pipeline. Courses, which can be put behind a paywall or made available for free,...
The so-called “Player for Education” will remove ads, external links, and recommendations from YouTube videos. Other platforms, such as TikTok, have played around with distractionless interfaces. Unlike those experiments, YouTube’s streamlined player is designed to serve a scholastic purpose. It will be put into effect on “commonly used educational apps,” such as EDpuzzle, Google Classroom, Purdue University, and Purdue Global.
One of YouTube’s other new educational features seems like a direct attempt to compete with MasterClass. The online learning platform has recruited influencers like Marques Brownlee to serve as celebrity instructors, and YouTube is now strengthening its own creator-to-educator pipeline. Courses, which can be put behind a paywall or made available for free,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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