23 Feb 2011

Changing Education through simple online videos

I want to give you some tips of people who use new technology and media to change the world in one way or another.

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Today I read a story about Sal Khan who gave up an extremely well paid job as a hedge fund manager to build up an online academy through simple video clips on Youtube teaching people mathematics.

Now Khan has received financial backing from Google and the Gates foundation and his videos have now received over 41 million views.

The start was small and simple but it grew into something big (even though it's still rather simple).

Changing the world in some way doesn't have to be as complicated as we might think!

Links:

Read the interview here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1728471/change-generation-bill-gates-favorite-teacher-wants-to-disrupt-education
Hear Bill Gates talk about the Khan Academy: 
Watch one of his videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/FD0EB975BA0CC1E0/0/xyAuNHPsq-g