Added by on 2013-03-07

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.”

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He goes on to call the current lecture system as downright “dehumanizing” in this interview. Definitely worth watching when you have the time.

Near the end, Khan shares how he hopes Khan Academy and similar tools can become “systemically important to the system.”

Only time will tell.

2 Comments

  • mokhtari dieb 2 months ago

    dommage j’ai rien compris ,j’aimerai bien trouver une traduction de cette vidéo ,j’ai le droit à une traduction lolll

  • It only takes a small team of passionate people to demonstrate the benefits of online learning through videos as embraced by websites such as Khan or MathTV.com.

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