Khan Academy is a non-profit organization providing
online education platform. It is founded by educationist Salman
Khan in 2006. It is focused on personalized learning which
provides tutoring experience and is available for
free to anyone around the world
via internet. It provides assistance to students to understand concepts of
subjects at their own pace. Khan Academy has video library
with over 6000 videos on various topics. It has thousands of automated exercises with
continuous assessment. Now its educational platform is being used in classroom in many
schools as well.
Khan Academy introduced several
badges to encourage learning. Some of the badges are easy and some are extremely
hard to earn depending upon level of learning.
Initially
Khan Academy was focused only on Maths and Science but now
learning materials are available in Humanities,
Economics, Finance and Computing from very basic level to advanced level. It has the
materials even for test
preparation of SAT,
GMAT, CAHSEE, IITJEE and MCAT.
Upto June 2014, Khan
academy has launched its website 23 languages
and its videos in 65 languages. This project is funded by several donations
like Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, Ann and John
Doerr, Lemann Foundation, Google, Carlos Slim Foundation etc.
In 2012, an offline version of
the platform, called “KA Lite”, has been
launched to help people who do not have internet access. KA Lite has been
installed in more than 30 schools and orphanages around the world. Recently, Khan Academy launched its "#youcanlearnanything
campaign", designed to encourage
lifelong learning and acknowledge the role of struggling in skill development.
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