2. Description
• Service: educational videos for
delivering content
• Platform for exercises
• Platform for coaching
– Tracking of students and their history as
they change tutors
– Tracking of topics and their reception by
the class
3. Description
• Users
– K-12 students
– Adults
• Main actors
– Content creator (Salman Khan)
– Platform creators (rockstar developers
hired by the foundation)
– Coaches: teachers who use the platform
as main support
4. Description
• Didactic objective: deliver content...
– at the student's pace and with possibility
of replay
– at the student's time and will
– and provide exercises targeting
excellence
• Business model
– It's a foundation! (IRS-recognized 501c3)
– Donation from Google, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation...
8. Browsing the website:
curricula
• Variety of subjects
– Mathematics and scientific subjects
– Economics and finance
–…
• Weaknesses
– Humanities (History, Literature)
• not suitable for teaching with registered
videos
– Soft skills (writing)
• require exercise and human correction
11. Browsing the website:
videos
• YouTube hosting
– Outsourcing lowers costs
– CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA license
• Features
– Categorization and comments
– Questions&Answers system powered
by students who watched the video all
over the world
• It's a large FAQ where a student's question is
usually already been answered by someone
13. Browsing the website:
practice sessions
• Path of exercises of increasing difficulty
• Randomly chosen exercises from a
particular subject's archive
– The student has to get 10 in a row correct
• Stage: mastery learning
• Students are not left behind: they can continue
exercises at different paces
15. Browsing the website:
coaching platform
• Enables usage in classrooms
– Students
• Knowledge map to get to know their position
• Video progress and exercises progress
– Data for the teachers
– Teachers
• Tracking of students in time (their whole academic life)
• Profile of students when they where with another
teacher
• Progress of the single student on a single topic
16. Strengths & weaknesses
• Comprehensive and consistent video
content
– All videos shot by the same person
– Different subjects
• Strong platform being built by some
of the best developers in the world
• No monetization: costs are high
17. Conclusions & take-aways
• Videos and other reusable delivery of content frees
up classroom time for exercise sessions
• E-learning can track students for their whole
academic life
• Finer statistics means a better usage of resources
– Teacher stays with students currently left behind
– Teacher can discover the problematic areas
automatically
– Proficient students (on a given topic) can tutor the others
