{"id":1096,"date":"2020-09-28T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:22:07","slug":"khan-academy-sal-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/28\/khan-academy-sal-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Khan Academy- Sal Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Post by: Justin Bolivar June 10, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sal Khan and his venture Khan Academy has a mission to \u201cprovide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.\u201d They are a non-profit organization based out of the Bay Area that offers \u201cpractice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard\u201d as well as a variety of courses from Math, Science and Engineering, Computing, Arts and Humanities, Economics, and various standardized exams. As a pioneer of the flipped classroom model, Khan Academy allows students to not only enhance the skills they learn in the classroom but to go more in depth in topics that they are passionate about. Further, Khan Academy allows learners from all over the world to come together in a truly global classroom. As per a 2015 interview with Business Standard Magazine, Khan Academy delivered 440 million lessons, and students have completed approximately 3 billion exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sal Khan has been called \u201cThe Most Influential Person in Education Technology\u201d by Peter High of Forbes Magazine. The idea for Khan Academy came when Sal was tutoring his cousin and he noticed that she was good at math, but had gaps in her basic mathematical knowledge. At the time this was happening, Khan was working in software and wrote a tool to help others with math problem. The tool and database worked, but he realized that scaling the tool would be an issue, and then turned to video to scale the product to a larger audience. Khan holds a robust educational background, holding a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, and Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from MIT. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before creating educational videos and starting Khan Academy, he was a Financial Analyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind Khan Academy is a large team of software engineers, developers, marketers, data scientists, and product managers. Further, the organization possesses a strong Board of Directors, Global Advisory Board, and Thought Leadership Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is his TED talk titled \u201cLet\u2019s Use Video to Reinvent Education\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Let&#039;s use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nTFEUsudhfs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High, P. (2017).&nbsp;<em>Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Forbes.com<\/em>. Retrieved 10 June 2017, from https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterhigh\/2014\/01\/06\/salman-khan-the-most-influential-person-in-education-technology\/2\/#1e4e3e8a452d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linkedin. (2017).&nbsp;<em>Sal Khan Founder at Khan Academy<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Linkedin<\/em>. Retrieved 10 June 2017, from https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/khanacademy\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Post by: Justin Bolivar June 10, 2017 Sal Khan and his venture Khan Academy has a mission to \u201cprovide a free, world-class education to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/28\/khan-academy-sal-khan\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khan Academy- Sal Khan<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":60763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founders-parade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}