VIDEOS: Kahn Online Learning Academy - Math, Science, etc...

[Ryan Goble]

MC POPPER Beverly Stout wrote me about this - she's not a math person so I'm posting on her behalf.  When I looked more carefully at the material it is really a math, science, econ and "new" technology story as it talks about online education across the globe.

Check out this short PBS story... 

Math + story = powerful.  All lecture on a digital blackboard = meh.  Short lectures = good idea! 

Would love to know what the other folks think below...

You can go to the Khan Academy channel @ YouTube - here's a blurb & video from the NewsHour website...

 

A 33-year-old math and science whiz kid -- working out of his house in California's Silicon Valley -- may be revolutionizing how people all over the world will learn math. He is Salman Khan, and until a few months ago he made his living as a hedge fund analyst. But he's become a kind of an unseen rock star in the online instruction field, posting 1200 lessons in math and science on YouTube, none of them lasting more than about 10 minutes. He quit his job at the hedge fund to devote full time to his Khan Academy teaching efforts, which he does essentially for free.

Khan explained how the U.S. unemployment rate is calculated in a NewsHour exclusive video.

So you can read the whole story about Mr. Khan, a math and science graduate of MIT with an MBA from Harvard at this news hour feature.

Discuss away...