Khan+Academy

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=Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College=

==The [|founder of Khan Academy,] a popular site that offers free online video lectures about a variety of subjects, lays out his thoughts on the future of education in his book, //The One World School House: Education Reimagined,// released last month. Though most of the work describes Mr. Khan’s experiences with Khan Academy and his suggestions for changing elementary- and secondary-school systems, he does devote a few chapters to higher education.==

==In a chapter titled “What College Could Be Like,” Mr. Khan conjures an image of a new campus in Silicon Valley where students would spend their days working on internships and projects with mentors, and would continue their education with self-paced learning similar to that of Khan Academy. The students would attend ungraded seminars at night on art and literature, and the faculty would consist of professionals the students would work with as well as traditional professors.==

==“Traditional universities proudly list the Nobel laureates they have on campus (most of whom have little to no interaction with students),” he writes. “Our university would list the great entrepreneurs, inventors, and executives serving as student advisers and mentors.”==

==Mr. Khan writes that he admires the work of Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, who set up a fellowship program for college students to drop out and pursue entrepreneurship with the help of financial backing and mentors. But he believes living on a college campus is more valuable than Mr. Thiel acknowledges. “Grow Thiel’s fellowship to several hundred students a year; allow them to be mentored in various settings, not just one where they are starting a venture; house the students in an inspiring residential campus; and give them a scaffold of academics, and we are talking about almost the same thing,” he writes.==

==In the book, Mr. Khan also advocates for a separation of universities’ teaching and credentialing roles, arguing that if students could take internationally recognized assessments to prove themselves, the playing field would be leveled between students pursuing different forms of higher education. Although students would not be graded in the imagined university he describes, they would compile a portfolio of their work and assessments from their mentors.==

==“Existing campuses could move in this direction by de-emphasizing or eliminating lecture-based courses, having their students more engaged in research and co-ops in the broader world, and having more faculty with broad backgrounds who show a deep desire to mentor students,” he writes.==


 * How to Create Khan Academy Style Video Lessons? **




 * == Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. Khan quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009 and created a not-for-profit organization the Khan Academy, now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google.==
 * == The Khan Academy is a library of over 3200 videos covering mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, microeconomics and computer science.==
 * == Automated exercises with continuous assessment; there are 320 practice exercises, mainly in math.==
 * == Peer-to-peer tutoring based on objective data collected by the system, a process that will be projected in the future.==
 * ==Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.==
 * == A map of knowledge shows all of challenges, skills, and concepts. You can **zoom in and out and pan around** all the different skills and challenges, just like on a normal map.==
 * == Classroom data - **teachers can get a summary of class performance as a whole or dive into a particular student's profile.**==
 * == Badges - students spending hour after hour watching physics videos and 5th graders relentlessly tackling college-level math to earn Khan Academy badges.==

=Salman Khan talk at TED 2011=

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=SOFTWARE=

Salman Khan is using the following software applications: Camtasia Recorder($99)

is screen video capture software, published by TechSmith.


SmoothDraw3(Free)

Wacom Bamboo Tablet ($80)
==When recorded (and edited), Salman Khan uploads his recordings to YouTube (YouTube Channel). Then he links his lessons to The Khan Academy==

=**OTHER SOFTWARE**=

==Jing - captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it instantly. ==



Teachers could use Google Sites to develop websites.
==iPad users can use ScreenChomp is a digital whiteboard that users can write and draw on with the touch of a finger or a stylus pen. You can draw using twelve different pen colors. All activity on ScreenChomp can be easily recorded and then if you want, edited through Camtasia for Mac or Camtasia Studio. The videos produced in ScreenChomp can be downloaded as MP4 files, making them easy to share on ScreenChomp.com, Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, and other video hosting platforms.==



Teachers can record everything from the SMART board.
==Record everything you do on the SmartBoard in .avi movie format no matter which application you’re using. You can even record audio in sync with screen video capture if you have a microphone. To use the **Recorder**, follow steps below:==

3. Click **Stop** when finished.
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