WC: Free Virtual School: an interview with Salman Kahn

[RJN]

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011039.html

...well into college level calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, physics, chemistry, and biology.

The goal is to create the world’s free virtual school. Right now it's more content, but there is a kind of community forming around it. And between the community that is forming around it, the video content, and the software, we can do data manipulation and understand how we can keep tweaking it and making it a better platform for people to learn on. I envision it as the world’s free virtual school.

[wonderboy]

This is a great idea, don't get me wrong. It would be like handing in an essay with references from wikipedia, but an education is an education all the same is it not?

[RJN]

Yes. The Khan Academy is actually found here: http://www.khanacademy.org/.

[owlice]

Thank you for this! Very timely and useful for a number of reasons for me.