Students go to Khan Academy with a topic that they want to work on, watch a series of video tutorials, and finally do curated exercises to reinforce their learning and reevaluate their level. The channel has over 5 million subscribers and over 7 thousand videos. Khan Academy is an online learning platform built on top of a YouTube channel. By the time he quit his day job, his YouTube channel had passed the million views mark and Khan was determined to turn his newfound hobby into his full-time occupation by creating the Khan Academy website. It wasn’t until his cousin needed help in mathematics that Khan realized that there was a massive need for high quality, free educational materials online. Armed with his degrees and an excellent work ethic, he then set out to work as a hedge fund analyst. Khan attended the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a bachelor’s degree in math and a master’s degree in computer science. Workshops Category used for workshop “handouts.”Īs the founder of Khan Academy, American educator and mathematician Salman Khan started his life in Louisiana where he lived and attended public schools before graduating as the valedictorian of his high school.Professional Development Use this category to mark workshops, birds of a feather, and other training opportunities so they display when someone clicks on Professional Development.Projects in a Box Category used for workshop “handouts.”.I’d like to Category to place articles on the “I’d Like to…” page.And he offers all of the knowledge for free. Volunteers translate his videos into more than 25 languages.
Millions of students visit his site each month. His Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than 200 million times in recent years.
Yet he’s becoming the world’s first superstar teacher. With degrees in mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science and business, Salman Khan studied seemingly everything but education. Khan won the award-which comes with a $100,000 check-for his vision and passion to spread education to everyone, and former winners include Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman.Īustin College president Marjorie Hass said that students have told her that Khan Academy helped them get into college, and Todd Williams, chairman of the college's board of directors, said Khan "set a tough bar" for next year's winner. Khan Academy founder Salman Khan received Austin College's 2013 Posey Leadership Award at the institution's Global Outreach Forum at Dallas' Perot Museum of Nature and Science on Thursday.
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