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http://www.khanacademy.org/

by access_denied • 16 years ago

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khanacademy.org

cpach2• 16 years ago

This was posted here just a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058359

access_denied• 16 years ago

Sorry.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

Never mind the 'sorry', I missed it then and I'm really happy you posted it now.

araneae• 16 years ago

The information density of video is generally too low for me. I wish there was a text-based version of this.

sketerpot• 16 years ago

Or an option to speed up the video by a factor of 2.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

There used to be a piece of software that would do this for audio tracks, that would actually be really nice for speedviewing youtube videos.

DenisM• 16 years ago

To be fair this is for kids around the world, not for someone who's already got a degree.

thejo• 16 years ago

Here's an IT Conversations interview with Sal Khan - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4386.html

MikeCapone2• 16 years ago

Thank you for posting this link. I'm 15 minutes into the interview right now, and while there are no big revelations, it gives context to the whole thing.

edit: Finished it, and feeling hopeful about the potential of the web to both make the best teachers much more accessible to everybody, and to create mechanisms to select for those good teachers.

bretpiatt• 16 years ago

Is my sample just poor? I picked a random math video and the first problem is demonstrated wrong. Y = 0, not Y = 10 verbally, the writing on the board is correct but he glosses over it very quickly not catching he said anything wrong (error around 2:00).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqq3Sls1d8&feature=youtu...

[Update 1] Watched through to the end and he makes more errors and they caught other errors and put in red bubbles to note them. I appreciate the effort and idea behind the project -- hopefully we can actually get experts to provide quality course materials.

[Update 2] Odd, watched more of the math videos and he seems to do a better job on more complicated material -- it could be he's too much of an expert and not patient enough to teach the easier material or just assumes it is easy and even with a few errors people will "figure it out".

MikeCapone2• 16 years ago

Comment seen on youtube:

"Yeah...try playing Khan and Obama audio at the same time. It sounds very similar. I feel like the prez is teaching me stats and math."

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