{"id":208,"date":"2019-09-14T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T17:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0111\/?p=208"},"modified":"2019-09-14T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T02:58:05","slug":"salman-khan-global-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0111\/salman-khan-global-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Khan – Global Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of my prior blog post<\/a> (about the history of Ed-Tech, where I referenced how potential gains in the field weren\u2019t always fully recognized and why that might be), I chose to showcase here an example of Ed-Tech done right; Salman (Sal) Khan, creator of the Khan Academy.<\/a> The Khan Academy is an immensely popular organization which emerged from humble beginnings and is most famed for their growing collection of free, instructional YouTube videos on a numerous array of multidisciplinary topics.\"\"<\/p>\n

Sal Khan is an American financial analyst, turned educator, who due to the impact that his organization had on education, has been named by Time as one of the World\u2019s most influential people<\/a>. While the use of instructional videos is far from a new concept, Khan\u2019s YouTube videos are modular in approach. That is, they tackle\u00a0 one specific concept or problem at a time. \u00a0Weller cited how this is a \u201cdevelopment of the Learning Object idea\u201d, where a single object is created, and then any teacher in any program can access and embed that object easily into their course design (2018). In this TED Talk<\/a>, Khan elaborates on the potential implications of this idea; that teachers could rely on videos to deliver instruction, and be freed to spend their class time on expanding upon that instruction, or on more experiential learning activities. Thus, Khan has been credited with popularizing, and enabling the Flipped Classroom idea (Thompson, 2011), (Sparks, 2011).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that all of the instructional videos available on the Khan Academy YouTube Channel<\/a> and all of the learning resources available on the Khan Academy Website<\/a> are open and accessible to anyone, which renders the opportunity to learn as open and accessible to anyone. As such, Khan has also been credited as being influential, and inspirational to early MOOC developers (Ng & Widom, n.d.).<\/p>\n

Realizing the potential of instructional videos, and enabling their potential benefits to be available globally in a Web 2.0 enabled context, are what makes Salman Khan a note-worthy contributor to the field of Educational Technology.<\/p>\n

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References<\/p>\n

Ng, A. & Widom, J. (n.d.). Origins of the Modern MOOC (xMOOC). Retreived from https:\/\/www.andrewng.org\/portfolio\/origins-of-the-modern-mooc-xmooc\/<\/p>\n

Sparks, S. (2011). Lectures Are Homework in Schools Following Khan Academy Lead. Education Week. <\/em>Retrieved from https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2011\/09\/28\/05khan_ep.h31.html<\/p>\n

Thompson, C. (2011). How Khan Academy is Changing the Rules of Education, Wired.\u00a0<\/em>Retrieved from https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2011\/07\/ff_khan\/<\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2018). Twenty years of ed tech.\u00a0Educause Review Online, 53<\/em>(4), pp. 34-48. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2018\/7\/twenty-years-of-edtech<\/p>\n

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