Educational Technology

March 15, 2013

The Present And Future Plans Of Khan Academy (Video)

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:39 am

by Katie Lepi, Edudemic

In a recent visit (2/26/13) to Charlie Rose, Sal Khan shared some insight into the current state of Khan Academy. According to his interview, the site is now reaching about 6 million students. The Khan Academy team is comprised of 40 people. Khan is no longer the only person making the videos, and he says it’s about “ten times bigger” than when he last spoke to Rose roughly 18 months ago. Khan goes on to discuss the self-paced model and how it is effective for certain learners. He also talks about the problems surrounding passive lectures: “whether you have 10 students in the room, 20 students in the room, or 2,000 students in the room, if you’re having a passive lecture … it doesn’t matter.” He goes on to call the current lecture system as downright “dehumanizing” in this interview. 

http://edudemic.com/2013/03/sal-khan-plans-stats/

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