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The Most Popular Educator on YouTube Is a One-Man Academy
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Salman Khan is a 33-year-old who makes lecture videos in his hole studio/closet. His lecture on "Cancer" is embedded in this post, below.
Mr. Khan calls his collection of videos "Khan Academy," and he lists himself as founder and faculty. That means he teaches every subject, and he has produced 1,400 lectures since he started in 2006. Now he records one to five lectures per day.
The lo-fi videos seem to work for students, many of whom have written glowing testimonials or even donated a few bucks via a PayPal link. The free videos have drawn hundreds of thousands of views, making them more popular than the lectures by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, famous for making course materials free, or any other traditional institution online, according to the leaders of YouTube's education section.
Labels: Online learning, scanning, futuring, Innovation, Transformation, Social Media, YOUTUBE, Salman Khan