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by yhuang via YouTube 6/25/2014 4:18:04 PM
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Hello, everybody! We're happy to see you all here. Sal will be joining us in just a few minutes. If you have any more questions, use the comment box on this page!
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here are some of the latest stats on Khan Academy, as of November:
• Unique users per month: 10M
• Lessons delivered: 300M+
• Problems completed:
1.4Billion+ (~ 4M per day)
• Practice problems: 100,000+
• Instructional videos: ~5100
• Number of employees: 49
• Number of temporary
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There are some highly motivated individuals who have already done things along those lines (maybe not starting quite as early as 1st grade) and our hope is to always allow for that (and improve the game-mechanics on the site to increase the number of people who are "highly motivated"). And even then, we believe these folks would benefit from also experience a physical classroom focused on projects/discussion.
The more widespread use case we hope for is students getting and practicing their core skills at their own pace from us (and the teacher getting good data to make them feel good that this is happening) which frees class time for richer interactions. -
Sal, what d'you make of the article in Fast Company where Sebastien Thrun basically admits that MOOC's are broken (which is why Udacity is pivoting to corporate training)... I think the decision had something to do with the really low completion rate of online courses. Do you think the Khan Academy approach has an inherent advantage over these MOOC's that are more like traditional university courses delivered in an online format?
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@auser Thanks so much for joining us, Sal! My guest is Sal Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy, which has been bringing live free online video-based education to millions of people since 2008.
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Sal, what d'you make of the article in Fast Company where Sebastien Thrun basically admits that MOOC's are broken (which is why Udacity is pivoting to corporate training)... I think the decision had something to do with the really low completion rate of online courses. Do you think the Khan Academy approach has an inherent advantage over these MOOC's that are more like traditional university courses delivered in an online format?
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by Miles Kohrman via YouTube 6/23/2014 6:37:14 PM
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@Zhi It's just hard to read if it's a long response because of the small bold text, I think. There are some highly motivated individuals who have already done things along those lines (maybe not starting quite as early as 1st grade) and our hope is to always allow for that (and improve the game-mechanics on the site to increase the number of people who are "highly motivated"). And even then, we believe these folks would benefit from also experience a physical classroom focused on projects/discussion.
The more widespread use case we hope for is students getting and practicing their core skills at their own pace from us (and the teacher getting good data to make them feel good that this is happening) which frees class time for richer interactions. -
@Zhi Also: why is your mention not bold??
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Hey Alexa, we're doing this training. EDIT
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The company restoring Egypt's oldest pyramid has actually made it worse f-st.co/MHqsCBWby Fast Company via twitter 9/15/2014 4:39:57 PM
