One of the most celebrated new developments in education technology is the Khan Academy. Founded by Salman Khan, the Khan Academy offers instructional videos around a variety of topics but is most noted for its math related content. Key features include powerful dashboards and analytics which let instructors and users monitor performance and identify and reinforce needed focus areas. Khan’s site has about 2 million visitors a month and in total has offered around 54 million individual lessons. Khan is now drawing attention from many prominent people in the education, technology, non-profit, and social entrepreneurship sections. Bill Gates said about Salman Khan “I see Sal Khan as a pioneer in an overall movement to use technology to let more and more people learn things,” says Gates. “It’s the start of a revolution.” (more…)
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