Khan Academy
by Salman Khan
Khan Academy is an online platform to provide free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
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
Worldwide
Online
Free
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
Students, Educators, Teachers
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Trademarked
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.
As of 2020, the platform has reached 70 million registered users across the globe.
Mobile Internet, SMS, voice, Fixed Internet, Wi-Fi, etc
2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, broadband, dial-up, other [specify]
Smartphone, feature phone, computer, tablet, other [specify]
- Any device to access to the online platforme.
- iOS or Android for the mobile apps.
bluetooth, Wifi, camera, IVR, GPS, Accelerometers/Motion sensors, physiologic biosensors, biometric identifiers, SIM, Memory card (e.g microSD), other [specify]
Connectivity requirement for the product/service to work. Some apps/services can work offline.
- Yes; to access to online courses.
- Learners can download the content and access it offline.
he product/service able to receive and send back information to the user?
Stanford Consulting Group ran a survey in 2015 that included the question, “Have you found Khan Academy meaningful to your education?” Here’s the breakdown of students who replied yes:
- 65% of Stanford students (out of 504 surveyed)
- 57%of students in top schools including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, UC Berkeley, Caltech, and MIT (159 surveyed)
- 64% of first-generation college students (164 surveyed)
Support according to the literacy level required from the user. If no, the user is intended to be literate.
Android, IOs, Windows, or other [specify]
Uninterrupted power supply (UPS), ocassional power supply [minimum time required], other
education equipment, educational behavior change, human resource management, decision support, data collection & analytics, electronic education records, education provider, stock management, special education surveillance and reporting
- Access to free online educational ressources.
- knowledge growth and better quality of education.
- Engage more students and teachers in classrooms.
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.
Screenshot of the dashboard
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Khan Academy aims to deliver free education to everyone, everywhere.
- 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.
Many governments, organizations, and schools have tested and used the product, some of them include the government of Chile, Los altos district school, and Oakland Unity High School.
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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
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Different methods are used such as the improvement on test scores, Khan Academy has information available on several case studies.
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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