KHAN ACADEMY

WHAT KHAN ACADEMY REALLY IS ? 

It is a non-profit educational organization established in 2006. It was started by Salman khan a graduate of  MIT and Harvard Business School. The website supplies a collection of more than 3200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on youtube.  The lectures cover Mathematics, History, Healthcare ,biology ,physics, chemistry, economics, civics ,art history, microeconomics, macroeconomics, computer science etc.

VISION

The vision of the khan academy is to provide quality and conceptual education which accelerate learning for student of all ages. It is provided free of cost and anyone can access it from anywhere. To convert this academy into a charter school.

MISSION

To provide a high quality education to anyone, anywhere at free of cost.

The videos on website are of about 10-20 minutes of each topic and put emphasis on practical learning so one can easily understand. The concepts are conveyed as understood by salman not as they are written in text books. Its like peer to peer teaching as one can watch them whenever they want 

Khan chose avoid the standard format of a person standing by a whiteboard writing problems on it then solving but he chose the way which look more practical like he is sitting next to a person and solving out the problem on a sheet of paper and people find this more valuable.

The long term goal of the khan Academy is to provide atleast 10,000 videos which cover almost every subject  and also to provide offline videos which can be provided to the people living in rural area and don't have the access of internet and to dub these videos in as many as languages possible so everyone can understand these videos.

The khan academy is supported by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and Google.

World Possible is creating the offline snapshots of the content to distribute these in rural areas.

Google has provided the support to dub this content in various languages.