Amidst competing claims about the virtues and benefits of digital learning, the Khan Academy — the inspired creation of hedge-fund-analyzt-turned-teacher Salman Khan, the son of an immigrant single mother — stands out: its tagline is ‘a free world-class education for anyone anywhere’. The lessons and the nifty, ‘self-paced’ software tools are entirely free; and there’s even an iPad app.
TED talk and profile: http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html http://www.ted.com/speakers/salman_kahn.html
Bill Gates on Salman Khan: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111942,00.html
iPad app (claim: ‘allows you to learn almost anything for free’): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khan-academy/id469863705?mt=8
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1
Do science videos really work? http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/aug/16/1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/mar/30/1
Bio (to be verified): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Khan_(educator)