Khan Academy – Free World-class Learner / Educator Resources for Anyone…Anywhere

 

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. They are a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

How it works for students

Students can make use of our extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web.

• Complete custom self-paced learning tool
• A dynamic system for getting help
• A custom profile, points, and badges to measure progress

Coaches, parents, and teachers

Coaches, parents, and teachers have unprecedented visibility into what their students are learning and doing on the Khan Academy.

• Ability to see any student in detail
• A real-time class report for all students
• Better intelligence for doing targeted interventions

Over 2700 videos

Their library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.

"I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him."—Sal

A world of exercises, with help along the way

Practice math at your own pace with our adaptive assessment exercises. The learner can start at 1+1 and work your way into calculus or jump right into whatever topic needs some brushing up.

Each problem is randomly generated, so you never run out of practice material. If the learner needs a hint, every single problem can be broken down, step-by-step, with one click. If you need more help, you can always watch a related video.

Your stats, instantly

Every time the learner works on a problem or watch a video, the Khan Academy remembers what you've learned and where you're spending your time. We keep all of this data private but expose powerful statistics to each user and their coaches. The learner can get at-a-glance information about everything you've been learning and whether or not you've been hitting your goals.

The learner can even drill all the way down from a bird's-eye view of your profile into each and every exercise problem that you've ever worked on. The learner will see real, hard data about your increasing mastery of math.

 

A map of knowledge

The knowledge map shows all of our exercise concepts. You can zoom in and out and pan around all the different exercises, just like on a normal map. You can start working anywhere on the map, and the Khan Academy will suggest the best exercises for you to work on. We'll even remind you when you need a review.

As you zoom out of the knowledge map, you'll find our challenges, which combine the concepts from multiple smaller exercises. Zooming all the way out of the map and completing all of our challenges is a sign of math mastery. They are constantly adding new exercises to be discovered.

 

Your classroom data...finally

Teachers and coaches can access all of their students' data. the educator can get a summary of class performance as a whole or dive into a particular student's profile to figure out exactly which topics are problematic. The class profile lets coaches glance at their dashboard and quickly figure out how to best spend their time teaching.
We've put a lot of energy into making sure that the Khan Academy empowers teachers by giving them access to the data they should've had for years. the educator will know instantly if a student is struggling in multiplying fractions...or if the student hit a streak and is now far ahead of the class.

 

Badges worth bragging about

They are full of game mechanics. As soon as you login, you'll start earning badges and points for learning. The more you challenge yourself, the more bragging rights you'll get.

They responded when they heard of students spending hour after hour watching physics videos and 5th graders relentlessly tackling college-level math to earn Khan Academy badges. Some of the smaller badges are very easy, but the most legendary badges might require years of work.

Educational Applications:

I have share many different teacher tools in the past but Khan Academy is one of the most outstanding, world class learner / teacher sites on the web. We use Khan Academy at my school, both in class and in our Math Lab. I highly recommend all teachers review and integrate the videos, and other fantastic classroom tracking / management tools now available at Khan Academy. Go to this link Khan Academy and sign up / bookmark all the great free resources that are available. Tip-of-the-Hat for a truly remarkable e-learning experience that can actually make a difference with learners and educators throughout the world!  Thank you goes out to Sal and all the folks at Khan Academy organization!