Why hasn't a video sharing platform dedicated to educational content been developed yet?

The title sounds like it has a very straightforward answer, so stick with me before commenting.

For >99% of videos on YouTube, I'd agree that different genres don't warrant niche platforms for their content. Both because of its dominant market share and generalist feature set, YouTube makes sense for a vast majority of the content posted on there.

But I would argue that educational content is fundamentally different from any other genre, differences that would allow someone to build an education-specific video sharing platform with a differentiable feature set. Features that come to mind include comment threading conducive to questions/discussion, manually provided/auto-generated notes, supplementary resources for viewers to reference, more specific tagging for lesson/content type, unique playlist creation for "courses," and many others. Look at how video content is laid out in Udemy/edX/Coursera courses, for example.

I think this will be developed sooner rather than later. At least, I hope it is.

Submitted October 10, 2020 at 10:18PM by imattractedtodcfs https://ift.tt/34JYFoz