If you pay for a course, you can watch ad-free, and you’ll also be able to play the video content in the background like the YouTube Premium feature.

From next year, YouTube creators will be able to create paid video “courses” in a similar manner to platforms like Skillshare, Udemy, and more. To enable more educational content creators to benefit from this, alongside the Player For Education, YouTube has also announced brand-new tools to help increase revenue via this ad-free model. To improve the YouTube experience in educational environments, we’re launching YouTube Player for Education - a new YouTube embedded player that shows content on commonly used education apps without distractions like ads, external links or recommendations

YouTube Player for Education is said to improve upon the basic embedded player already available within Google Classroom for a more honed and targeted learning experience. The aim to to reduce “distractions,” with YouTube also partnering with high-profile edtech firms in the United States including EDpuzzle, Purdue University, and Purdue Global for the player. The player is stripped of ads, external links, and content recommendations.

To help the huge educational sector, YouTube has launched Player for Education in the United States and Korea, which will offer ad-free playback and better recommendations for learning institutions.Īnnounced in a dedicated blog post, the YouTube Player for Education, which is an embedded player designed to show purely educational content within common learning applications.

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