This week the team YouTube announced that the platform will offer a tool for courses paid to creators 2023. Aimed at platform members looking for education-related content, the new player will look cleaner by removing ads, links, and recommendations from other videos, allowing students to better focus.

Starting next year, YouTube will provide an embeddable video player to companies using the server for educational purposes. This way, creators will be able to offer courses in structured videos without directing their audience to other course websites or apps.

In practice, the new player without ads and recommendations will be open to select partners to start using it, including educational technology companies such as EDpuzzle, Google Classroom, Purdue University as well as Purdue Global.

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Beta in US and South Korea

According to Google, the courses will be in-depth and structured. Thus, its creators can charge for content or provide it for free to their subscribers.

It is worth noting that the new feature will initially be available in beta in 2023 in the US and South Korea. After rolling out in these two countries, the company plans to roll out the YouTube tool to more places.

In addition, to help students explore and complete educational content, the platform will launch another feature called quiz, which will allow channel owners to insert questionnaires for their community, asking questions related to what was learned in the videos. However, the beta version of the surveys will be rolled out in the coming months.

It’s also important to remember that YouTube has introduced other learning-related initiatives and resources in recent years, including $20 million for educational video creators and deprecated playlists on topics such as math, science, and music.

See also: YouTube TV now supports 5.1 surround sound on Apple TV and FireTV.

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Via: Engadget, The Verge

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