YouTube targets education with network setting for schools [siliconrepublic.com]
- Published: 12 December 2011
Video site YouTube has launched a new network setting aimed at the education market – YouTube for Schools – which allows teachers to bring up useful educational videos only and keep students from being distracted by other content, such as music videos.
The network setting ‘YouTube for Schools’ allows school administrators to grant access only to educational content from YouTube EDU.
Once the network setting is switched on, teachers can choose from the hundreds of thousands of videos on YouTube EDU created by more than 600 partners like the Smithsonian, TED, Steve Spangler Science, and Numberphile.
“Sight, sound and motion have always had the power to engage students and complement classroom instruction by bringing educational topics to life,” explained product manager Brian Truong.
