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Use YouTube to Build a Course in 3 Steps

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The Course Creation Wizard takes a YouTube playlist and builds an entire course in seconds by pasting in one URL and clicking load. If you’ve ever wished for another way to monetize your YouTube content, this LearnDash feature is built for you. Here’s how to build a course with a YouTube playlist in three steps.

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How Long Should My Online Lessons Be?

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But others are torn between the quick, punchy length of YouTube videos and the hour-long lecture format typical of college courses. This has been a common criticism of the traditional lecture format for many years. Lectures, whether written or presented as videos, are a form of passive engagement. Which is better?

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7 Ed-Tech Tools You Can Use Today

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There are pre-recorded lectures, interactive exercises, and live lesson screencasts. YouTube EDU - A repository of all the top educational videos uploaded to YouTube. You can find pre-recorded lectures, live stream video lectures, interactive quizzes, and screencasts.

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The Video Influence on ELearning

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Platforms like YouTube made it extremely easy to share training content in a more entertaining fashion. For example, the very popular MOOC programs use video for dispersing lectures. The TED series posts their lectures to video, and now have 500,000,000 views. One of the biggest influences on elearning is video.

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5 Online Teaching Fundamentals for Online Educators

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Many educators think they can create an online course simply by recording themselves giving lectures. If video content is all you offer your learners, start a YouTube channel. You can even create a placement test for learners to take before they enroll, and offer them a recommendation on what course to take based on their results.

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Benefits of Mobile Devices in the Classroom

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For example, students can answer polls, tweet questions, and look up information during lectures. First, it is difficult for students to avoid distractions, opting to watch a funny YouTube video instead of the lesson lecture. So what makes mobile devices so appealing in a classroom setting? Some Downsides.

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What You Should Know About ELearning

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If you use email, watch YouTube videos, or organize your photos on your computer, chances are you can learn online without any problem at all! Remember the last time you were in a crowded classroom with a lecturer providing reams of notes, key points, and overhead slides while other students asked questions and talked to each other?

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