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Online Tutorials

A new way of learning?

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Easy to navigate

A video library with over 3000 videos in various topic areas.

Over 125 million lessons delivered

Automated exercises with continuous assessment

200,000 videos watched per day.

*Correct as of Feb ‘12

*Correct as of Jan ‘12

Over 4 million unique users per month.

Up over a million, compared to the previous year.

The Education System now

Teachers not used to their full potential.

Topics covered too fast for some, not thoroughly explained.

Topics covered too slowly for some, lose interest.

Teachers’ time wasted correcting tests etc.

What are the advantages of Khan Academy?

Helping Students

Can pause to ensure total understanding.

Can repeat the tutorial without embarrassment.

Can carry on at own pace.

Helping the education system

Frees up teachers time – Less time correcting tests etc.

Can spend the time in class providing one-to-one tutoring

The set-up of the software is free and easy.

Vast amount of data available to teachers.

This allows teachers to tweak their schedule and focus on topics that students are struggling on

Khan Academy already has plans to introduce:

The Next Steps

• Peer-to-peer tutoring.

• Distribution to areas without internet access.

• Math -camps.

• Tutorials available in a wider variety of languages

The Khan Academy is currently being trialled in several schools in California.

Almost unanimously good feedback from teachers, parents and students.

Trials

Expansion

• In 2009, the Khan Academy received the Microsoft Tech Award for education.

• Bill Gates endorsed the learning resource, calling it ‚unbelievable‚.

• In 2011, Salman Khan delivered a TED talk.

Recognition

• Donations fully accepted.

• $2 million from Google.

• Backing from the Bill Gates Foundation

• $5 million from O’Sullivan Foundation

Financial Backing

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