Product Description
Khan Academy produces short lessons in the form of YouTube videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. The website and its content are provided mainly in English, but the content is also available in other languages
Distributors / Implementing Organizations
Online
Manufacturing/Building Method
N/A
Intellectural Property Type
Other
User Provision Model
Users can acquire this product by entering Khan Academy's web site, downloading their mobile app (available for iOS and android), or accessing their Youtube channel.
Distributions to Date Status
As of 2020, the platform has reached 70 million registered users across the globe.
Design Specifications
Khan academy is an online education platform that provides free courses on multiples subjects such as maths, history, science, and more. The platform has 3 main targets, students, teachers, and parents. Students can select, receive assignments, and track the status of their courses. Teachers can assign courses for their students and track their status. And parents can create accounts for their children and control their progress in the selected courses. This product has a web version, and a mobile app (available on iOS, and Android). the users can also access the content in their youtube channels.
Technical Support
Provided by the developers.
Replacement Components
N/A
Lifecycle
N/A
Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters
Khan Academy aims to deliver free education to everyone, everywhere.
Vetted Performance Status
- Students who complete 60% of their grade-level math on Khan Academy experience 1.8 times their expected growth on the NWEA MAP Test, a popular assessment test.
- 20 hours of practice is associated with a 115-point average score increase from the PSAT/NMSQT to the SAT, nearly double the average gain of students who do not practice on Official SAT Practice.
- Khan Academy reduces the number of remedial courses students need to take.
- Student performance in algebra increases from the 76th percentile to the 94th percentile.
- Students using Khan Academy experience double the growth of their peers.
Safety
N/A
Complementary Technical Systems
N/A
Academic Research and References
Valiente, J., Merino, J., Kloos, D., Delgado, C., 2015, ALAS-KA: A learning analytics extension for better understanding the learning process in the Khan Academy platform
Murphy, R., Gallagher L., 2014, Research on the Use of Khan Academy in Schools. SRI Education
Valiente, J., Merino, J., Kloos, D., Delgado, C., 2013, Inferring higher level learning information from low level data for the Khan Academy platform. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK ’13), Dan Suthers, Katrien Verbert, Erik Duval, and Xavier Ochoa (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 112-116.
Morrison, B., DiSalvo B., 2014., Khan Academy gamify computer science. Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Compliance with regulations
Unknown
Other Information
Khan Academy has gained recognition both nationally and internationally:
- Bill Gates spoke about Khan Academy at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
- In 2010, Google's Project 10100 provided $2 million to support the creation of more courses, to allow for translation of the Khan Academy's content, and to allow for the hiring of additional staff.
- In November 2011, the Khan Academy received a $5 million grant from the Ireland-based O'Sullivan Foundation.
- In April 2012, the founder and executive director of Khan Academy, Salman Khan, was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People for 2012.
- Khan was one of five winners of the 2014 Heinz Award. His award was in the area of "Human Condition."
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Academic research:
Pedro J Muñoz-Merino, José A Ruipérez Valiente, Carlos Delgado Kloos, 2013. Inferring higher level learning information from low level data for the Khan Academy platform