Khan Academy
Introduction
The Khan Academy is a
non-profit educational organization on a mission. It was created in 2006
by Bangladeshi 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 3,200 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 and microeconomics,
and computer science. The Lewis Center for Educational Research, which is
affiliated with NASA, is bringing the content into community colleges and
charter schools around the United States. World Possible is creating offline
snapshots of the content to distribute in rural, developing regions with
limited or no access to the Internet. Salman Khan was recently listed among the Time
100 Most Influential People for 2012.
Vision
- Individualizing learning by replacing one-size-fits-all lectures with self-paced learning.
- Taking a mastery-based approach to learning critical knowledge and skills (every student takes as long as he/she needs to learn each concept fully).
- Creating collaborative learning environments with students solving problems together and tutoring one another.
- Using focused coaching by the teacher to address students' individual needs.
- Providing guidance to the teacher through real-time metrics and reporting on student performance .It was believed that teachers can use online resources to meet the needs of all of their students.
Mission
With the stated mission of "providing
a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", and a vision to have a
one single global classroom, Khan Academy has helped the world to learn
independently which is incredible.
A mission
statement which looks very simple and the ground reality is really shocking as
Salman has done .A simple and innovative concept of online tutoring to provide high
quality learning to anyone and anywhere.
Insight Into Khan’s
Academy innovative Concept
Khan Academy started when Salman Khan wanted to teach
mathematics to his cousins online. After sending them the videos, he put them
up on You Tube so anyone else could view it if they wanted to. But he could
never have imagined that this would snowball into a major phenomenon that is
currently under way, but we'll touch that later. The feedback he received from
his cousins was unthinkable. They actually preferred his videos to him. The
videos granted them the ability to listen to him at their own pace. It was much
easier now to ask him to repeat what they couldn't understand. They could
revisit his lectures as and when they needed to. This ability that has been
placed at the disposal of students has profound implications. This happening
snowballed into teachers actually leaving comments relating to how it was
changing their classrooms. While all videos continue to be hosted on Khan
Academy's YouTube channel, they also are available through Khan Academy's own
website, which also contains many other features such as progress tracking,
practice exercises, and a variety of tools for teachers in public schools.
Learnings
- ‘Strategic planning’ is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions. The key components of 'strategic planning' include an understanding of the firm's vision, mission, values and strategies. Vision and mission statements of Khan’s Academy showcase it beautifully. The place where Khan’s Academy stands today needs no explanation.
- As per Salman Khan’s thought, everyone is having brain and they can learn. It is different matter that someone can grasp the concept fast and someone can grasp slowly if they get proper guidance and effective way to learn on their own pace. This proactive habit actually exhibits Theory Y of management concepts.
- As mission statement of Khan’s Academy “Providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere” seems to be simple , but in actual it is very complex. For this complex problem Salman Khan came up with the very simple and innovative idea of e-learning. It is very good example for Complex Problem and Simple Solution .
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