What is it??
What is its Mission??
To provide a high
quality education to anyone, anywhere.
What is its Vision??
Khan's long-term
goal is to provide "tens of thousands of videos in pretty much every
subject" and to create "the world's first free, world-class virtual
school where anyone can learn anything."
What it does??
The website
supplies a free online collection of more than 3,200 micro lectures via video
tutorials stored
on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic
chemistry, American civics, art
history, macroeconomics and microeconomics, and computer
science.
Business Revenue Model
The project is
funded by donations. Khan Academy is a not-for-profit
organization now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation and Google. Several people have made US$10,000
contributions; Ann and John Doerr gave $100,000; total revenue is
about $150,000 in donations. Additionally, it also earned $2,000 a month from
ads on the Web site in 2010, until Khan Academy ceased to accept
advertising. In 2010, Google announced it would give the Khan Academy
$2 million for creating more courses and for translating the core library into
the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10100.
Khan Academy has
eclipsed MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) in terms of videos viewed—its
YouTube channel has over 150 million total views, compared to MIT's 38 million.
It also has twice as many subscribers, at more than 320,000.
The theory X & Y Assumption Application
The idea here is
that the students here will learn at their own pace without much interference
and questioning by teachers, who can in fact keep a track of where the student
is getting struck again and again and to analyse if he really requires any
additional help there. Thus in this case the students are not under constant
observation will behave as analogous to good employees and the teacher as most
of the issues are being taken care automatically will behave analogous to good
manger leading to optimum output i.e.’ best quality education for their
students.
Innovative new generation organizations
The above
mentioned application of “the theory X & Y Assumption Application” will
result in a new generation organisations like school where the students are
self motivated and interested in further honing their skills in school and
teachers know that the kids are doing well and want t improve further. Clearly
an example of creative problem solving , prompt and accurate decision making, Hence
leading to great hike in productivity.
Technical - human - conceptual skills
The Khan Academy
started with Khan remotely tutoring one of his cousins interactively using
Yahoo Doodle images. Based on feedback from his cousin, additional cousins
began to take advantage of the interactive, remote tutoring. In order to make
better use of his and their time, Khan transitioned to making YouTube video
tutorials. Drawings are now made with a Wacom tablet and the free
natural drawing application SmoothDraw 3, and recorded with screen capture
software from Camtasia Studio. Khan's audio narratives are recorded with a
Samson C03U USB Multi-Pattern Condenser Microphone with a miniature desk tripod.
Th
Strategy of Khan foundation
While all videos
continue to be hosted on Khan Academy's YouTube channel, they also are
available through Khan Academy's own website, which also contains many other
features such as progress tracking, practice exercises, and a variety of tools
for teachers in public schools. Logging into the site can be done via
a Google or a Facebook account for those who don't want to
create a separate Khan Academy account.
Khan chose to
avoid the standard format of a person standing by a whiteboard, deciding
instead to present the learning concepts as if "popping out of a darkened
universe and into one's mind with a voice out of nowhere" in a way akin to
sitting next to someone and working out a problem on a sheet of paper: "If
you're watching a guy do a problem [while] thinking out loud, I think people
find that more valuable and not as daunting." Offline versions of the
videos have been distributed by not-for-profit groups to rural areas in Asia,
Latin America, and Africa. While the current content is mainly concerned with
pre-college mathematics and physics, Khan Academy also provides a web-based
exercise system that generates problems for students based on skill level and
performance. This software is available as open source under the MIT license.
Khan believes his academy points an opportunity to overhaul the traditional
classroom by using software to create tests, grade assignments, highlight the
challenges of certain students, and encourage those doing well to help struggling
classmates. The tutorials are touted as helpful because, among other factors,
they can be paused by students, while a classroom lecture cannot be.
The success of
his low-tech, conversational tutorials—Khan's face never appears, and viewers
see only his unadorned step-by-step doodles and diagrams on an electronic
blackboard—suggests an educational transformation that de-emphasizes
classrooms, campus and administrative infrastructure, and even brand-name
instructors.
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