But as you can imagine, more intense support, more intense training takes a lot of resources. We've been able to do very lightweight forms of that with our free offering. The other thing that the teachers get is support in training. But also, it's more valuable for the school leaders and the district leaders to be able to roll things up and understand, “Where is the engagement good? Where could there be more work on the engagement? Where are the kids progressing? Where might they be having more trouble progressing?” One, it simplifies it for the teacher to just have all of that stuff auto-rostered. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. Here, we're formally rostering with the district. It might be a different email address than the kids are using someplace else.
In the grassroots model, a teacher would issue a class code, and kids sign up. Paint a picture of what an individual teacher's experience would be that might be different when their school is part of this partnership approach. And for us to be able to continue to build and invest there, we've got to co-resource this with the district itself, or maybe even other local philanthropists.” We want integration with district-level dashboards.” That's when we said, “Look, this is going to take extra resources. Ideally, integration with our assessments. We need integration with our rostering systems. But when we went to districts they said, “We need support. Sal Khan: As you mentioned, there's hundreds of thousands of teachers who are using Khan Academy.
Since Khan Academy is free anyway, how is this different than what you did before? Below is an edited sampling of the conversation.īelow are highlights of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity.ĮdSurge: One of the newest efforts that you have at Khan Academy is one aimed at school districts to integrate Khan Academy videos and your whole learning platform around those, for a small fee. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player on this page.
This week, we asked Sal Khan just that, as well as what’s next for Khan Academy. It grew even more popular during the pandemic, now reaching 18 million learners a month and translated into 51 languages.īut what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? How is that part going? Khan Academy has now been around for more than a decade, and it has gotten huge.
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