One of the major highlights for TED 2011 was the presentation by Salman Khan (known as Sal Khan, founder Khan Academy). Khan was speaking during the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) special session on education where the main speaker was Bill Gates. To learn more about the TED session please check here. Salman Khan shares the same name with the popular Bollywood actor who goes by the same name and sometime people got confused, but I am pretty sure what Sal is doing is much better as compared to the Bollywood actor. Khan academy is an awesome site which has helped millions of kids and education seekers (around 70,000 students benefit from the contents posted each day). This site is the science and math grail for students having trouble grasping the fundamentals. I myself use the site to get the basics of Finance, Economics, Valuation Investing and Venture Capital.
Sal was a academic start and did his MBA from Harvard, BS in Math and BS & MS in Electrical Engineering all 3 degrees from MIT. Sal was a successful analyst at one of the Hedge funds and has the potential to earn millions but instead he decided to turn to social giving. In 2004, Sal decided to help one of his cousins who was having difficulty in learning math and science and to help her Sal started posting math and science lessons on youtube and those 8-12 minutes mini lectures became major hit and Khan Academy was born. Sal left his lucrative job and started posting science and math videos online. Bill Gates used the same site to help educate his 11 year old son Rory and is a big fan of Sal’s work.
If you have a kid who is having problem understanding the basics of science and math then Khan Academy is the site you should refer. It’s all free and you will be amazed by the contents and the efforts put in by Sal and his team. As of today 2,100 videos are there in the library of Khan Academy and they are growing. Finally someone has taken the ownership to make education free and this someone only want kids or as matter of fact anyone who wants to learn and change the World.
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