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For years, teachers have used YouTube to promote their lessons and persuade learners to join their classes off the platform.
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YouTube said on Monday it is taking broader steps to make the video service more appealing to educators and learners and provide more monetization avenues to the creators.
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At its annual India conference on Monday, Google unveiled Courses, a feature that will seek to bring a structured learning experience to YouTube.
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Teachers can publish and organize their videos and provide text reading materials and questions on the video app.
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The company said they would be allowed to offer the content for free or charge a fee.
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The company said that courses would span academic subjects and vocational interests.
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Viewers who buy a Course can watch the videos without ads.
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The feature will roll out to users in India “soon” and will represent a “new monetization option for our creators,” the company said.
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Monday’s move represents Google’s growing push to make inroads in India’s education market, where over 300 million students attend schools.
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Meta and Amazon have also invested deeply in space in recent years.
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