Former hedge funds analysts sall sweat never going to be friends Bill Gates also does not have the flip fuchsia typical education guidance video on YouTube last released in 2004.
Sweat, living in Boston, remote tutor his cousin in New Orleans began to pay attention to the effectiveness of the upload online lessons.
Soon, he developed the following sweat finally gave up his daily work, and began to sweat college in 2008, a nonprofit's mission is to create a "free world class education, for any local anyone." The college web site now has a library of more than 3400 video, including K - 12 mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, about ten minutes long "easy to digest block".
In 2010, he won a $2 million grant from Google and the bill and Melinda gates foundation grants us $1.5 million. When asked what he was startled to work with Bill Gates the most concern, khan said, Microsoft founder "are very concerned" about education and teachers.
"He said, yes, this technology is good, we can offer help, these tools is good, the data is good, but all this at the end of the day, there is a great teacher," khan said.
How teachers and students interaction is sweat college is a change the rules of the game. In five to ten years, khan said, lecture based teaching will be a the past can only be found in the history books of the relics.
"This will become the market mainstream people say, 'why do we give the student have a class classroom?" "No, we use this time to do some more human, more interactive?" Khan said.
The teacher told him that his films have turned their classroom, as homework, because they designated online lectures, begin learning class time. Sweat is not strange classroom. He has three degrees, MIT and Harvard Business School (Harvard Business School) MBA degree.
A parents' two children in mountain view, California, khan said, all the parents in two extreme error.
"I think, in one end of the spectrum, it all schools to teacher's mistakes," he said. "I think, parents should engage in content, understand it yourself, and students and help the teacher."
At the other end, khan said, parents is to be "too much", excessive arrange their own children. "Let the students invented something, create some things, because otherwise they just want to create these students who are really good at, but not good at creating," he said.
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