youtube is introducing a handful of online education tools for content creators in the education space to offer free or paid online classes in a blog post on thursday youtube said that it will offer an adfree version of the streaming platform viewers will be able to learn without distractions as there are no ads external links and recommendations in its platform for educational content read alsoeffective prowess and steps children need to acquire for online learningwith the huge shift in the dynamics of education transcending from learning in traditional classrooms there is a lot more for students to look into in virtual learning one has to go beyond textbooks and acquire some basic skills for online schooling a student needs to acquire skills in technicalcreators can also set up in the community tab a new quiz feature on their channel that relates to the educational content they make the feature will be released in beta in the coming months with creators being able to use the feature next year additionally in the beginning of 2023 certain content creators will be able to charge viewers for paid courses which if a viewer buys will be available in an adfree format and they can play the videos in the background these videos will come to the us and south korea first in beta youtube said that for the first two years all sales from its new service will go to creators whose videos are played in classrooms while a commission fee will be taken by the platform from the third year onwards youtube plans to license the adfree education player to select partners which can then filter youtubes enormous library with different restrictions says a bloomberg report the education player will be open to edtech companies like edpuzzle purdue university purdue global and google classroom a product from youtubes parent alphabet incs google notably this isnt youtubes first stab at the edtech market over the last several years the streaming platform reportedly lobbied brickandmortar schools as well as virtual classrooms to incorporate its education content and howto videos but with the presence of targeted advertising and abundant noneducational material on the platform educators had serious reservations about prior pitches the bloomberg report said