The Principal of Change
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
It was more of a refusal of Blockbuster to move forward than it was a willingness for a different company to do something different, and more importantly, better. ” If you remember when Khan Academy first came out, many educators were extremely nervous that this would replace schools and were sick of that narrative.
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The last thing I expected to encounter this week was a resurgence in the Khan Academy Debates of this past summer. But honestly, I hadn’t thought much about Khan Academy since then — until Monday afternoon. I did, and found that I was being used as a prime example of a Khan Skeptic.
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Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2017
As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. These efforts are not cheap.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 6, 2020
The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university: Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. Khan Academy was going to change everything.
Hack Education
MAY 6, 2020
So no, Khan Academy did not invent "personalized learning." Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. 150,000 a year to lease coaxial cables from Bell Telephone Company, for example. " That's 1937 talk, I guess, for "one-size-fits-all." " Mass media meant mass education.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. Khan Academy. I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.” So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Smarter Every Day on YouTube. Learning simulations.
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