By Fred O’Connor, IDG News
“The positive revolutions will not be started by generals and politicians. They’ll be started by innovators like you,” said Khan, a 1998 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Some would place Khan and the nonprofit online education venture he founded, Khan Academy, into this category. The organization offers, for free and to anyone with a Web connection, approximately 3,000 videos Khan created and narrates off camera explaining a range of topics mostly in the science and math fields. In the videos he writes on a virtual blackboard, drawing notes and diagrams to accompany the lessons, and uses Web services, like Google Maps, to help teach. Some of the many lessons on Khan Academy’s YouTube Channel include videos on the big bang theory, chemistry and home buying in addition to topics on U.S. history and civics.
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