23 April 2020
Netflix has said that it will make some educational documentary features and series, including Our Planet and Explained, available on the company’s YouTube channel for free.
This move will avail students to a wider variety of educational content as they embark on their journey of Home Based Learning.
The decision to make some content free on YouTube is a rare exception to Netflix’s marketing strategy, which otherwise charges a monthly subscription fee from users.
In Singapore, teachers have been scrambling to adapt to teaching students online and have rushed to churn out online resources for students to master in the comfort of their homes.
While there have been technical and logistics issues recently, teachers are working round the clock to resolve them and provide each Singaporean student a good HBL experience.