The Academy of Han ( Khan Academy ) is a non - profit educational organization created in 2008 by a graduate of MIT and Harvard Salman Khan . The goal of the academy is “to provide high-quality education to everyone, everywhere.” The Academy website provides access to a collection of more than 4,200 free micro-lectures in mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, the basics of American citizenship, art history, macro and microeconomics, computer science.
| Khan Academy | |
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| Type of | Non-profit organization |
| Year of foundation | September 2008 |
| Founders | Salman Khan |
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| Site | khanacademy.org |
The project is supported by donations, with a significant portion of the donations coming from Google and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [1] . In 2010, Google announced that it would donate $ 2 million to create more courses and translate into the most used languages [2] .
Lectures are provided in English, a project is being implemented to translate lectures into other languages, supported by volunteers [3] .
See also
- Coursera
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Udacity
- edX
Notes
- ↑ The Right Way to Use Technology in the Classroom . Archived January 22, 2013.
- ↑ $ 10 million for Project 10 ^ 100 winners . Archived January 22, 2013.
- ↑ Translate our lessons . Archived January 22, 2013.