Salman Khan interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
summary
Started as 2004 remote tutoring and YouTube lectures in 2006, scaled into a nonprofit in 2009 with early backers like John Doerr Google and the Gates Foundation and now serves 3.5 million students a month with site analytics driving A/B tests, exercises, peer tutoring and prototypes for multiplayer interaction. Team is ~18 people mostly engineers building an exercises and analytics platform; pilot in ~42 classrooms shows mastery-first pacing (variable time, fixed mastery) and 300% growth last year.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00The origins of Khan Academy
- 1:30Going professional as non-profit
- 2:13Beyond just video libraries
- 3:24Flipping and mastering classes
- 6:17Expanding subjects and humanities
- 7:56Future of education and access
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