Flip This Classroom: Khan Academy Brings Lectures Home

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Salman Khan describes how Khan Academy, his popular YouTube-based virtual lecture series, has "flipped" the traditional homework model for some classrooms. "The lecture now happens at home, and homework happens in the classroom," says Khan. "Now you've turned the classroom into this interactive experience."

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The Real YouTube Revolution: A New Way to Teach Everything. Featuring Salman Khan, Founder, Khan Academy, in conversation with Clive Thompson, Contributing Editor, WIRED.

Salman Khan is the founder and one-man faculty of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing free, high-quality education to "anyone, anywhere" in the world. A hedge fund analyst with degrees from MIT and Harvard, Khan was helping a young cousin with math in 2004, communicating by phone and using an interactive notepad. When others expressed interest, he began posting videos of his hand-scribbled tutorials on YouTube. Demand took off, and in 2009 he quit his day job. The Khan Academy website now provides self-pacing software and unlimited access to over 2,200 instructional videos on its YouTube channel, targeting the K-12 grade levels. It's the most-used library of educational videos on the web, with over a million unique students per month and over 45 million lessons delivered. In 2009, the academy received the Microsoft Tech Award for Education. The following year, it was selected from among 150,000 submissions as one of five "world-changing" ideas in Google's Project 10^100.

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[samiminh]

ironically, the topic is about open-source educational content, and Fora & Wired limit it in paid format. Suck ass!

[SezSays]

This is exactly how school should work. I spend more time watching lectures on youtube than I spend in school; and more time doing homework outside my profs office than I spend doing homework at home.

[MinecraftJocky]

I fucking hate fliped last year I got a's all the time this year I'm struggling to get a c

[pancake2662]

good

[thefranlondon]

Not as radical as it sounds. In graduate school, we would have readings at home, then spend the classroom time discussing what we read. You're just substituting video for books. Research shows interactive classrooms are most effective at teaching adults.

[dreadfullscout1234]

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[Rezwan Mahmud Siddiqui]

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[communistjesus]

!!!!KHAN!!!!! Good job.. Keep the videos coming..

[Nazmul Haider Nahin]

thanks to share it.

[Susan Jones]

Too bad he tells people that "two plus itself times one" is two, and 83 x 4 is a sum... so the confused student who's sure s/he's stupid is told "this is the best thign!" and gets even more confused...

[Bhober pagool]

great wooow