The Khan academy the future of education, the Khan academy
is changing the rules of education, the Khan Academy this, the Khan Academy
that, these are familiar headlines in news reports and online news portals,
let’s use video to re-invent education it was the title on TED tech talk about
Khan Academy. It is the online education portal with correction of thousands of
video featuring tutorials in different aspects of education.
Amazingly, when you "Google Salman Khan" you will definitely
see the India Bollywood successful actor Salman Khan it’s obviously he was in
the game long enough before even the Khan Academy was practically working idea.
Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy but not the Bollywood Salman
Khan, the Khan of the Khan Academy in which to me until wright now he is the
great of the Khans in Technology and media impact.
The idea was simple give the student the ability to learn
online although he is denied the chance to ask questions but he can rewind the
video several times until he catches the concept. The Khan Academy involve
almost everything from the laws of physics to the human anatomy to algebraic
expressions its inevitable you will have a video concerning your topic.
Actually the top lecture today is “why Europe should worry about Greece” when
open the home page of the site you will see a video about the lecturer.
Indo-Bangladesh American educator, a graduate of MIT and
Harvard Business School Salman Khan was the founder of the idea and the master
mind behind the Khan Academy success, he is the one who started devoting is
time in posting these micro lectures via video tutorials from his house.
African computer pioneers and ICT stake holders have to
learn from the idea to come up with ideas which would impact our societies
directly and help people to have access to the basic needs of the human being, knowledge
being among them. There is a lot to learn from The Khan Academy as a project
and the content that the site produces.