9
Google Confidential and Proprietary Google Confidential and Proprietary The Power of the Internet in Education Andy Yee, Public Policy, Google

The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

 

Citation preview

Page 1: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

Google Confidential and Proprietary

The Power of the Internet in Education

Andy Yee, Public Policy, Google

Page 2: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

People think differently about media today

And even for this generation, video is the most compelling

way to engage them

Page 3: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

YouTube and Gen C

Connecting Gen C audiences with the content they

want to watch, share, and interact with

Page 4: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

YouTube EDU at a glance

• YouTube has always been about expanding access, so we also wanted to

increase access to the wealth of high-quality education content on YouTube.

We wanted to further YouTube's mission to inform and inspire, and show

that education can be entertaining as well!

• YouTube EDU is a special portal on YouTube design to help our global

community find high-quality educational videos from partners in the

educational community.

• YouTube EDU launched in 2009 and today, thousands of people every day

tune into YouTube EDU to learn and understand better the world they live in.

o 80% of YouTube EDU views come from outside of the U.S.

• 1000+ channels in YouTube EDU and around 850,000 individual videos

Page 5: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

Khan Academy (可汗學院)

• A donor-supported, non-profit with a mission to

provide a world-class education for anyone,

anywhere

• 4,000+ videos on any subjects ranging from

basic arithmetic to advanced subjects like game

theory

• Viewed 252 million times, or on average 60,000

times for each video!

• Founded by Salman Khan, a former hedge fund

manager

Page 6: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

Khan Academy (可汗學院)

Page 7: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

Power of the Open Internet

The availability of free and high-quality content online means less

costs to students and schools, and also enables more people to

develop skills who might not have had access.

Page 8: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

The Hong Kong Digital Academy

Enabling teachers and students of different levels to have better

access to high-quality content

Page 9: The Internet: A treasure trove for teaching and learning

Google Confidential and Proprietary

Thank you.