Khan Academy
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The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization and a website created in 2006 by Bangladeshi-Indian-American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,600 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science. Khan Academy launched a computer science module in September 2012. Khan Academy has delivered over 200 million lessons.
Очень интересный проект, и очень интересный человек, и очень интересная история. История (взятая из википедии) - под катом. К тому же, он опубликовал книгу, и я таких хороших отзывов на амазоне не видела кажется никогда в жизни.
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455508381?tag=khanacad-20
Даже подумываю, не купить ли книгу эту, но что-то меня останавливает.
Что именно меня останавливает - мне никогда не удалось этим богатством (Khan Academy материалами)воспользоваться. Ни в классе, ни для домашней работы, ни для репетиторства. Может этот формат рассчитан на людей, у которых нет доступа к учителю вообще? Потому что если учитель есть, непонятно, зачем нужны эти видео. Если вы преподаватель, и вы когда-нибудь использовали эти видео, расскажите, какие именно и в какой ситуации. Мне очень интересно. А то весь мир в восторге, а я не могу понять, почему.
The founder of the organization, Salman Khan, was born to a Bangladeshi father and Indian mother from Kolkata living in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. His father is from Barisal, Bangladesh. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science), he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School. In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin Nadia in mathematics using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube.
Their popularity there and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time. Bill Gates once said that "I'd say we've moved about 160 IQ points from the hedge fund category to the teaching-many-people-in-a-leveraged-way category. It was a good day his wife let him quit his job".
The project is funded by donations. Khan Academy can be a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google. Several people have made US$10,000 contributions; Ann and John Doerr gave $100,000; total revenue is about $150,000 in donations. Additionally, it earned $2,000 per month from ads on the website in 2010 until Khan Academy ceased to accept advertising. In 2010, Google announced it would give the Khan Academy $2 million for creating more courses and for translating the core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10100.
Khan Academy has eclipsed MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) in terms of videos viewed. Its YouTube channel has more than 202 million total views, compared to MIT's 43 million. It also has twice as many subscribers, at more than 429,000.
Khan Academy also had a language release in mid-2012. It was supported by volunteers from Amara and included Indonesian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swahili, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Xhosa, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Bengali, Hindi, Chinese.
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Date: 2012-12-31 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-31 12:36 am (UTC)*
А вот чем я абсолютно не пользуюсь - это материалами Khan Academy. Я даже пробовала. Но не получается.
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Ты преподаёшь в колледже какую-нибудь биологию? Я в колледже использую видео каждую лекцию. (В школе почему-то реже).
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Date: 2012-12-31 02:20 pm (UTC)В школе - нет, там на видео дети просто выключаются и начинают заниматься своими делами, им нужно постоянно держать фокус внимания лично (это city schools).
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Date: 2012-12-31 02:25 pm (UTC)*
Полностью ресурс -здесь (пароль не нужен):
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/classware/selfstudy.do?isbn=0072965819
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А вот пример видео "Electron Transport System and ATP Synthesis":
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/classware/ala.do?isbn=0072965819&alaid=ala_1032283&showSelfStudyTree=true
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Date: 2012-12-31 04:12 pm (UTC)