The net has been used for a lot of stuff. Mainly e-mail, social media - facebook & twitter, find data for assignments, find facts, watch movies and so on. It has also been used on and off to find some useful educational material. The issue has always been with, "So much stuff, so little time."
I've always felt that 1 of the most lethal uses of the internet technology and media would be education. And a couple of years ago, when I tried to find a 1 stop place for educational material, I came across khanacademy.org. It had relatively little content, but that content was really good, and I was a fan. In the last couple of months on several occasions, when the topic came around to education, the main crib was no good content and youtube by itself was too unstructured and it took a while to find what you wanted. I was surprised that no one had come across my favourite website and so checked it out.
And surprise of surprises, it was much larger, better and covered a whole lot more than earlier. In fact, there seems to be stiff even for the older people who are not looking at education and learning from an examination perspective but from a learning perspective.
And like most of the things they do, they explain what they are about, better than I ever could. So let me just quote from their website.
"Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.
With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 215 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace."
These few lines that appear on the website say it all. And then another few lines again that appear on the website say the rest.
"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 to 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."
A big "Thank You" to Sal and his team for making meaningful education available and affordable, not only for those who lack resources, but even for those who may have resources but did not have viable options.
I've always felt that 1 of the most lethal uses of the internet technology and media would be education. And a couple of years ago, when I tried to find a 1 stop place for educational material, I came across khanacademy.org. It had relatively little content, but that content was really good, and I was a fan. In the last couple of months on several occasions, when the topic came around to education, the main crib was no good content and youtube by itself was too unstructured and it took a while to find what you wanted. I was surprised that no one had come across my favourite website and so checked it out.
And surprise of surprises, it was much larger, better and covered a whole lot more than earlier. In fact, there seems to be stiff even for the older people who are not looking at education and learning from an examination perspective but from a learning perspective.
And like most of the things they do, they explain what they are about, better than I ever could. So let me just quote from their website.
"Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.
With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 215 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace."
These few lines that appear on the website say it all. And then another few lines again that appear on the website say the rest.
"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 to 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."
A big "Thank You" to Sal and his team for making meaningful education available and affordable, not only for those who lack resources, but even for those who may have resources but did not have viable options.
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