The Khan Academy targets the diffusion of free online education all over the world. It is based on recorded videos and the ability to spin up new teaching paradigms that use the videos as support.
1. Khan Academy
Case study
Giorgio Sironi
NEST project
Alta Scuola Politecnica 7th cycle
2. Description
Educational videos for delivering content
at the student's pace and with possibility of replay
at the student's time and will
Platform for exercises
Platform for coaching
Tracking of students and their history as they
change tutors
Tracking of topics and their reception by the class
9. Videos
YouTube hosting
Outsourcing lowers costs
Features
Categorization
Comments
Questions&Answers system powered by students
who watched the video all over the world
11. Practice sessions
Path of exercises of increasing difficulty
Randomly chosen exercises from a particular
subject's archive
The student has to get 10 in a row correct
Mastery learning
13. Coaching
Enables usage also in classrooms
Students
Knowledge map
Video progress
Exercises progress
Teachers
Tracking of students in time
Profile of students when they were with another
teacher
Progress of the single student on a single topic
14. Business model
Non-profit organization
IRS-recognized 501c3
Donations to the foundation
Privates
Gates Foundation
Google prize
15. Conclusions
Take-aways
Videos and other reusable delivery of content frees
up classroom time for exercise sessions
E-learning can track students for their whole
academic life
Finer statistics means a better usage of resources
Teacher stays with students currently left behind
Teacher can discover the problematic areas
automatically
Proficient students (on a given topic) can tutor
the others