My blog posts look at different aspects of Khan Academy, which is an online educational website that provides free online education. The first blog post compared my expectations of Khan Academy to my first experience with it, while also looking a bit at the mastery learning philosophy that Khan Academy uses along with its extensive […]
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LRNT526 Blog Post #3 – Khan Academy alternatives and NPOs
I was going to write this blog post on people’s concerns about Khan Academy, but found many of the concerns to be unfounded or disproven through empirical research. Many of the concerns are based on misunderstandings of how Khan Academy works. This could have turned into post about debunking the criticism but that did not […]
LRNT526 Blog Post #2 – Khan Academy and the Flipped Classroom
Our team selected online learning and Khan Academy (KA) as our modality, and Intro to HTML and CSS as the specific resource. This post will discuss the impact that the Khan Academy modality may have had on learning and teaching, specifically by promoting flipped classroom delivery and providing the educational materials needed for instructors to […]
LRNT526 Blog Post #1
Our team selected online learning and Khan Academy (KA) as our modality, and Intro to HTML and CSS as the specific resource. Before experiencing KA I understood it to be a website that offered free tutorial videos in math and possibly other subjects. Upon further research I found that KA offers a lot more than […]
Activity 3: Specific Issue Exploration
Our team looked at Intro to HTML and Intro to CSS on Khan Academy (KA). KA is organized by subjects and tutorials as opposed to courses and users do not need to enrol in content, so it’s not what I would consider a MOOC (massive open online course) but is still a MOOC competitor. KA has […]