Khan Academy is a brainchild of
Harward, MIT passed, Indian origin, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan. Popularly known as Sal Khan,
his mission is to make it world's first virtual class available to anyone,
anywhere. He has revolutionized online teaching. His pedagogy is
simple. He uploads videos complete with sketches and background voice that
enables a student to learn at his own pace. His 3000 videos have garnered over
150 million hits so far. The idea was conceptualised by him while teaching his cousin online who
was more comfortable with his YouTube videos rather than Salman in person. This
encouraged him to take this social cause forward. Now this Not for Profit Organization
receives fund from Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and Google and it has
listed it as top 10 ideas having potential to change the world. I love the idea of putting learning online. I believe that there’s a big
advantage to having access to a teacher’s think-aloud at any time of the day,
anywhere in the world. That is an extremely powerful idea, and it wasn’t
available or possible a few years ago.
Mission:
The mission of Khan Academy is to provide a high
quality education to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Vision:
Khan Academy wants
to provide world class education to people around the world and to use
technology to give them an opportunity to learn at their own pace and
convenience. They want to turn academy into a charter school.
Not everyone agrees. Critics might
argue that Khan’s videos and software encourage uncreative, repetitive
drilling and leave kids staring at screens instead of interacting with real
live teachers. Even Khan would acknowledge that he’s not an educational
professional; he’s just a nerd who improvised a cool way to teach people
things.
The skill that sets it apart from
others is of assortment and arranging of information over the web, clarity of thought,
and ways of presentation. All this gives it a unique setter advantage with
which it has achieved its place in market.
Short and crisp...to the point...very knowledge full indeed.
ReplyDeleteNice one dude...the concept is really great and an inspiring one.It would be really great if each one of us can spend a few hours of our time, and upload a video. Folks can choose a subject , he/she is best at. This would be helpful today when we come across many fake teachers teaching kids just to make money...
ReplyDeleteThanks again for writing this.
Thanks a lot GP sir...Nice to get feedback from you!!!
ReplyDeleteAmit thanks for reading it and giving ur valuable feedback
ReplyDeleteNice idea, but is this the next level of education, is somewhat doubtful. It maybe successful on a small scale and might find some audience, but surely not in abundance.
ReplyDeleteI also am not sure, about its success chances in India, but a good concept.
Education is backbone of a society....Really inspiring concept....Nicely written!!
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