Khan Academy
Summary
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization created in 2006, by Salman Khan. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of over 2,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.Salman Khan was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is of South Asian descent; his father is from Barisal, Bangladesh and his mother was born in Kolkata, India. Khan holds three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science.
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Taking Risks and Going Big: Leveraging Content Across Digital
While the Wednesday morning keynote at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit focused on a mega-demo of the new Adobe Marketing Cloud, the Thursday session took a big picture view, with NASCAR, adventure seeker Felix Baumgartner, NBC Sports, and Khan Academy sharing stories of challenges overcome and lessons learned. Taking Risks Baumgartner, who jumped from the edge of [.
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MOOCs Mood
I have been rumbling silently about MOOCs for a long time , but it was only when I read a report on the Domain of One’s Own experiments that I realised what it was about Massive Open Online Courses that gave me a sense of disquiet. MOOCs have had huge publicity in the last six months , and as always we seem to be convinced that a single initiative is going to Save education / universities / educational content / publishing / Life on Earth.
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Amara starts offering crowdsourced subtitles for all of your YouTube videos
Crowdsourced video captioning platform Amara launched an improved YouTube integration this week that allows any YouTube user to crowdsource the subtitling of their videos, utilizing many of the same tools that are being used by companies like TED, Khan Academy, Udacity and Netflix. The move could not only help YouTube producers to provide support for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, but also expand their international audience.
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Udacity looks to expand internationally with crowdsourced captions
E-learning startup Udacity has partnered with Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles, to use crowdsourcing for closed captioning of its video assets. Volunteers can use Amara’s web-based captioning editor to add subtitles to more than 5000 Udacity videos, and Amara co-founder Nicholas Reville told me via email that he expects “thousands of volunteers join over the next month.
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Netflix experiments with crowd-sourced captioning
Netflix just launched a subtitling community project on the video captioning service Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles. The company is looking for a limited number of volunteers on the site, and apparently wants to try using crowd-sourced captioning with a “popular 80s cartoon and other classic TV programming,” according to information posted on the site.
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A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
Miguel Hernandez, the founder of a company specializing in explanatory videos for startups, said he spent about three hours a day for three weeks making an online video course explaining his craft. But, last year, that one video series earned him nearly six figures on the online course platform Udemy.
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New Read it Later data show more people are saving ‘longform videos’
Read it Later Apps like Read it Later have made it easier for people to save not just longform articles, but longform videos. New data released this morning show that video saves on Read it Later increased by… Read more.
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Dr. Keith Devlin: Khan Academy: Good, Bad, or Ugly?
CBS's 60 Minutes segment on Khan Academy recently, opened with former hedge fund manager turned world-educator Salman Khan riding home on a bicycle, evoking (I suspect deliberately on the part of 60 Minutes) one of America's most cherished images: the lone stranger who rides into town and fixes what needs to be fixed.
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Apps Rush: Khan Academy, Watch with eBay, Williams F1 Predictor, Splat the Cat, iA Writer, Dodgy and more
Armed with the promise that it "allows you to learn almost anything for free", educational site Khan Academy now has an iPad app providing access to its 2,700+ videos, covering everything from maths, biology and physics to finance and history. iPad.
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Blair Levin on national broadband and its implications for the future of journalism
“Innovation is always about the adjacent possible,” Blair Levin told me. “It’s about two things kind of combining in ways we had not thought. It’s not about great leaps, but it’s about that combination. I think we’re going to see that on devices in a variety of ways.
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