Is a Hybrid On-Line Learning+Teacher Classroom the Future of Education?
I was watching NBC news last night and they featured a story about Sal Khan. He's a guy who was trying to help his cousin in another state with math. He made a video lesson of himself teaching and got her through it and now's she's pre-med at Sarah Lawrence. He created the Khan Academy which is a warehouse of about 2100 10-20 minute FREE video lessons from K-12 math (the original one) to biology, chemistry and physics with a little humanities (history and finance). From the website : Each problem is randomly generated, so you never run out of practice material. If you need a hint, every single problem can be broken down, step-by-step, with one click. If you need more help, you can always watch a related video. You can also get stats on how you are doing. You can track your progress or, if you are a teacher, your class' progress. Sal started doing this while his wife was doing her residency. He had started to dip into his savin...