Khan Academy

Giorgio Sironi (Nest Group)

Description

• Service: educational videos for delivering content

• Platform for exercises• Platform for coaching–Tracking of students and their history as

they change tutors–Tracking of topics and their reception by

the class

Description

• Users–K-12 students–Adults

• Main actors–Content creator (Salman Khan)–Platform creators (rockstar developers

hired by the foundation)–Coaches: teachers who use the platform

as main support

Description

• Didactic objective: deliver content...–at the student's pace and with possibility

of replay–at the student's time and will–and provide exercises targeting

excellence

• Business model– It's a foundation! (IRS-recognized 501c3)–Donation from Google, Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation...

Browsing the website: homepage

Browsing the website: homepage

• Video explanations of different depths–2' introductions–TED talk

• Promoters are shown–Bill Gates–Google

Browsing the website: curricula

Browsing the website: curricula

• Variety of subjects–Mathematics and scientific subjects–Economics and finance–…

• Weaknesses–Humanities (History, Literature)• not suitable for teaching with registered

videos

–Soft skills (writing)• require exercise and human correction

Browsing the website: videos

Browsing the website: videos

Browsing the website: videos

• YouTube hosting–Outsourcing lowers costs–CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA license

• Features–Categorization and comments–Questions&Answers system powered

by students who watched the video all over the world• It's a large FAQ where a student's question is

usually already been answered by someone

Browsing the website: practice sessions

Browsing the website: practice sessions

• Path of exercises of increasing difficulty• Randomly chosen exercises from a

particular subject's archive–The student has to get 10 in a row correct• Stage: mastery learning• Students are not left behind: they can continue

exercises at different paces

Browsing the website: coaching platform

Browsing the website: coaching platform

• Enables usage in classrooms–Students• Knowledge map to get to know their position

• Video progress and exercises progress– Data for the teachers

–Teachers• Tracking of students in time (their whole academic life)

• Profile of students when they where with another teacher

• Progress of the single student on a single topic

Strengths & weaknesses

• Comprehensive and consistent video content–All videos shot by the same person–Different subjects

• Strong platform being built by some of the best developers in the world

• No monetization: costs are high

Conclusions & take-aways

• Videos and other reusable delivery of content frees up classroom time for exercise sessions

• E-learning can track students for their whole academic life

• Finer statistics means a better usage of resources–Teacher stays with students currently left behind

–Teacher can discover the problematic areas automatically

–Proficient students (on a given topic) can tutor the others