Salman Khan
Founder, Khan Academy
Salman Khan is an American educator and founder of the Khan Academy, a free online education platform and not-for-profit organization. He has produced over 2200 popular videos elucidating a wide spectrum of concepts, mainly focusing on mathematics and the sciences, in his home. His official channel, 'Khan Academy' has, as of March 2011, attracted more than 45 million views.
Our current form of education is almost 200 years old. What should schools of the future look like?
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Khan Academy founder Salman Khan explains how always dreaming big and setting audacious goals got him to where he is today.
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Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, explains that the aims of online education don’t differ much from those of traditional learning.
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From a personal tutoring service for his young cousin, Salman Khan’s company Khan Academy has grown exponentially into a massive, global, online engine for learning.
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Why do we expect a C student to have a shot of understanding the next concept when they have gaps on a more basic one?
At Khan Academy, we talk about turning it into a global, one-world classroom.
Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, which offers free online lessons on a wide range of subjects. One of the key factors that has made Khan Academy […]
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Salman Khan envisions the school of the future, where mastery and empathy are the core values, and the curriculum is driven by self-paced learning.
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Salman Khan envisions the kind of school he would like to send his own son to. In a way it resembles the one-room schoolhouses of yesteryear, where teachers and peers alike are empowered to act as mentors, humanizing the classroom.
Salman Khan’s self-paced learning model reverses the traditional “one size fits all” educational paradigm. Khan’s model assigns video lectures as homework, and “what used to be homework the students now […]