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YouTube has launched 'Study Hall,' which will allow users to earn college credits online. YouTube, Arizona State University, and Crash Course, the well-known YouTube channel of authors and brothers Hank and John Green, have announced a remarkable expansion of their accessible education programme Study Hall.
The partnership, according to YouTube, is "a new approach that demystifies the college process while creating an affordable and accessible onramp to earning college credit," outlining the opportunity for online learners to pursue transferable course credits with fewer restrictions than traditional college programmes.
🚨Big news! 🚨You can now earn college credit with Study Hall - starting by watching YouTube videos!
— Study Hall (@GoStudyHall) January 24, 2023
Sign up and start earning credit https://t.co/IXQnB6EkKZ pic.twitter.com/IbAkISeKiQ
Users may enrol for relevant courses established by Crash Course and academics at Arizona State University in order to acquire credits and construct a transcript, in addition to seeing all Study Hall videos for free on YouTube.
The current lineup of four "College Foundations" courses will handle postsecondary foundations such as English writing, college arithmetic, American history, and interpersonal communication beginning on March 7, 2023. Each course costs $25 to enrol in, plus a $400 registration fee to obtain credit. Each course will cost $350 to enrol in before March 7, 2023.
When Study Hall is fully operational, the amount of accessible credits will match the whole first year of study at most universities, and the cost will be "less than one-third of the usual course cost at a public four-year university," according to YouTube.
Enrollment does not require a minimum GPA or even an application, and students may repeat classes as many times as necessary. Any qualified student who wants to apply for admission to Arizona State University through the Earned Admissions programme or transfer to any institution in the United States that accepts ASU credits can do so.
According to Katie Kurtz, YouTube's head of learning, the firm aspires to act as a bridge between the general population and higher education.
"We aim to encourage learners to go farther by removing obstacles to high-impact learning experiences at YouTube. Postsecondary education remains one of the most important drivers of economic and social mobility, but the route to higher education is fraught with obstacles "She said.
"We aim to contribute to addressing this pressing issue by leveraging our constantly creative and enthusiastic learning maker community. With ten years of expertise creating captivating and engaging instructional content, we felt Crash Course would be a great alliance to handle this problem."
The Green brothers, well-known for being early and important YouTube and Tumblr artists, founded the Crash Course channel in 2012. The channel has created a decade's worth of instructional content on a wide range of subjects related to early college and Advanced Placement high school courses, such as psychology, global history, and even intellectual property law. Because they are both regulars on the TikTok For You Page, the Green brothers' fast and easy instructional films have reached an even larger audience.
Hank Green tweeted about his most recent educational endeavour, writing: "A total of 43 million Americans are stuck with $1.75 trillion in student debt. This may appear to be a poor situation, but it is worse than it appears: 40% of those 43 million people do not have degrees and will not seek them."
In 2010 my brother and I started posting educational videos because we had run out of ideas for our vlog.
— Hank Green (@hankgreen) January 24, 2023
Today, with @ASU and @Google, we’re launching https://t.co/ciWkOtX8iS a path from YouTube to real, transferable college credit, and I want to talk about why (and how).
According to Green and his production company, Complexly, the most significant barriers to getting degrees into the hands of students were fees, the complexity of college admissions systems, and the difficulty of many college courses for people who did not complete a comprehensive high school education. "With some financing and a lot of hard work, we began construction on 'Study Hall,' with the purpose of lowering these obstacles."
In addition to the new course alternatives, Study Hall provides instructional content on grasping and navigating the higher education landscape, such as a Crash Course series on "How To College" and brief primers to popular topics and subject areas hosted by Green and other academics.
The curriculum is anticipated to have 12 courses available by January 2025. Prospective students can join up on the Study Hall website.
