Author John Green, co-creator of Crash Course, hosted the channel's initial World History series. The Crash Course YouTube channel was conceived by the Green Brothers, after YouTube approached them with an opportunity to launch one of the initial YouTube-funded channels.
In 2017, Crash Course launched three film-related series: one covered film history, another film production, and the last of which covered film criticism. Also in 2017, Thomas Frank began hosting Crash Course Study Skills, which covered topics such as productivity skills, time management, and note-taking.
YouTube-funded and Subbable periods (2011ā2014) Author John Green, co-creator of Crash Course, hosted the channel's initial World History series. The Crash Course YouTube channel was conceived by the Green Brothers, after YouTube approached them with an opportunity to launch one of the initial YouTube-funded channels.
Crash Course World History was the first series launched on the Crash Course channel, running from January 26 to November 5, 2012. On January 26, 2012, the series launched with "The Agricultural Revolution", and a new episode aired on YouTube every Thursday.
brothers John and Hank GreenCrash Course is the creation of brothers John and Hank Green, who started the YouTube channel in 2012. They had no formal training as teachers, and have developed a fast-paced and irreverent style.
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John and Hank GreenCrash Course is an educational channel on YouTube created by John and Hank Green with Stan Muller and Nick Jenkins in the belief that high quality educational content should be available to everyone for free.
Most of the Crash Course videos are very accurate. However, in an effort to simplify content, some of the Crash Course Kids videos miss the mark.
Their SciShow and Crash Course YouTube shows are now funded by Patreon backers to the tune of, respectively, $16.4k and $25.9k a month. Green sees crowdfunding as the key to expanding the range of shows on YouTube that are profitable enough for their creators to be able to make more of them.
John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and the essay collection The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course.
Tharp learned all classes would be going to alternative learning methods because of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, his first thought was how could he help colleagues who may never have taught classes that way.
Tharp said educators must start with what technology they understand and move forward. āIām trying to put out a resource to get people closer to being able to create great online content,ā he added.