Have you ever imagined a world with free, accessible education, well we are living it but a few might not know it? Information is key, and knowledge can lead to power and YouTube offers this knowledge to its audiences.
Youtube is a brilliant, highly democratic platform for education, where you can learn, teach, reiterate and build on what’s been taught. An avenue where you can put out your hypothesis and get multiple peers from around the world to test and demonstrate this hypothesis.
The burden of discovering, understanding, and learning is no longer on one person, now we have a shared economy where we learn from each other and share the acquired knowledge.
A university where people can gather their information from various sources and can disagree and rebut by sharing their points of view.
Audiences now can be content creators who choose to inform, entertain or educate their peers on their topics, brands, or beliefs.
Millions are building with, creating with, and immediately entertaining their peers. This new era of content creation is crucial in understanding who we are as a community and a culture.
Methods of learning are evolving, resources from schools, YouTube, Google, and social media are now accessible to millions of people, making it easier to share their voices and stories in any way they choose to, making it more important to the underrepresented and misrepresented minority communities.
The independent content created by these groups can now be viewed and appreciated by their communities, as well as the mainstream audience.
Millions of people around the world are on YouTube every week, all it needs is a more structured education model that allows for unstructured learning, its very organic and intuitive method of teaching may become an actual accredited University.
By earning on the internet, you are not pressured by a set of rules, you hunt down knowledge based on what’s important to you and what interests you and want to learn. Unlike the traditional education system that bombards you with outdated, mostly irrelevant stuff.
With YouTube’s learning and development style, you can progress at your own pace, choose the topics you love, the learning methods of your choice, and the teachers who appeal most to you. The lessons when organized into proper models can be complete, comprehensive, and enjoyable. A model that turns YouTube’s content into a structured curriculum that provides unstructured learning, could be highly effective and successful.
This is the future of education — an immersive reality where information is readily available with myriads of choices and forms of different content.
