“Get your learn on at YouTube EDU,” says an erudite young student in a video promoting YouTube’s latest channels. With a bevy of new channels on YouTube EDU, this cutesy video aims to sway more people and educators toward video learning.
YouTuber Matt Koval and “star pupil” Olivia host a brief video explaining how YouTube EDU works. Launched in 2009, YouTube EDU is a collection of more than 500,000 free videos from organizations and institutions such as PBS, Khan Academy and Harvard University. Viewers can take the latest “Are You a Brainiac?” Pop Quiz to test their knowledge of general education topics. After a brief video question, viewers click on one of three answers, which will transfer them to a new screen and video.
Video questions come from educators at recently added channels: Deep Sky Video (astronomy), TED-Ed (a channel from the organizers of TED talks), Crash Course (an educational channel from The Vlog Brothers), the Sci Show and The Spangler Effect (famed science teacher). Each click will take you to a new screen.
Completing the quiz is a worthwhile effort — there are different endings depending on how well you do.
YouTube EDU allows users to search for videos according to content or browse categories such as “University & College,” “K12,” and “Lifelong Learning.” YouTube offered YouTube for Schools in 2011 to grant educators access to YouTube EDU in their classrooms. The version for schools would cut-out the comments as to not distract students.
Do you use YouTube EDU? Pros and cons? If you don’t use it, why not? Tell us in the comments.
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Source: Mashable
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