Friday, November 30, 2012

New type of college for a new century proposed

English: Salman Khan, famous for the Khan Acad...
English: Salman Khan, famous for the Khan Academy, speaking at TED 2011. Cropped from the original. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

lays out his theories in a new book.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/khan-academy-founder-proposes-a-new-type-of-college/41160?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

Khan's vision:


A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.



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