Teachers have been using YouTube for years to promote their lessons and encourage students to view lessons off-platform. YouTube announced Monday that it is taking broader steps to make the video service more appealing to educators and students and to provide creators with more monetization opportunities.
At its annual conference in India on Monday, Google unveiled Courses, a feature aimed at providing a structured learning experience on YouTube.
Teachers can post and organize their videos and provide text reading materials and questions directly in the video app. They can offer the content for free or charge a fee, the company said.
The courses will cover academic topics as well as professional interests, the company said. Viewers who purchase a course can watch the videos ad-free.
The feature will be rolling out to users in India “soon” and represents a “new monetization opportunity for our creators,” the company said.
Monday’s decision represents growing pressure from Google to enter the Indian education market, where more than 300 million students attend school. Meta and Amazon have also invested heavily in the area in recent years.
Source: La Neta Neta
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