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image source: https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/about\/blog\/post\/176235043470\/have-you-seen-our-new-look<\/span><\/p>\n Salman \u201cSal\u201d Khan, the founder and chief executive officer of Khan Academy, has played a prominent role in promoting the use of video in education and has a bold vision for the future of education that is learner-centered and learner-directed.<\/span><\/p>\n Founded in 2007, Khan Academy is a not-for-profit online learning platform.\u00a0 <\/span>It offers \u201cpractice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard\u201d (Khan Academy, 2019a, para.1) which teachers can use to supplement in-class material and students can use independently to reinforce their comprehension.\u00a0 <\/span>It currently includes more than 6500 videos and has over 74 million registered students and over 700,000 registered teachers across 190 countries (Khan Academy, 2019b, video, 0:33). <\/span><\/p>\n Weller (2018) listed video as the most significant education technology of 2005 (p. 39), the year YouTube was founded, claiming that \u201cthe realization that anyone could make a video and share it easily . . . broadcast democratization\u201d (p. 39).\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately, video in education is often restricted to passive, lecture-style broadcasting, but it has enormous potential that has yet to be fulfilled (p. 39).\u00a0 <\/span>Khan Academy\u2019s videos are currently restricted to broadcasting, however, the platform includes interactive exercises and networking opportunities, including discussion areas and study groups.<\/span><\/p>\n Khan\u2019s vision has considerable merit, despite criticism as an unrealistic utopia (Morrison, 2013, para. 3).\u00a0 <\/span>He posits self-paced, personalized learning with combined age groups and tutor-teachers and a focus on mastery of content.\u00a0 <\/span>The future of education needs creative solutions and visionaries to create positive change.\u00a0 <\/span>Watters (2014) proposes that the future of education technology should be \u201cmore progressive and less programmed\u201d (p. 93), encouraging more student-centered, peer learning through networks and less traditional content delivery.\u00a0 <\/span>Perhaps Khan Academy, and Khan\u2019s bold vision, will have a role in making this a reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Relevant Links:<\/span><\/p>\n 1) https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 2) https:\/\/khanlabschool.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 3) https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 4) https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/khan-lab-school-tour-inside-sal-khans-newest-school-2017-10#just-a-couple-miles-away-from-where-the-worlds-biggest-tech-companies-are-reinventing-consumer-products-khan-lab-school-could-be-doing-the-same-for-education-10<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 5) https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-07-16-sal-khan-test-prep-is-the-last-thing-we-want-to-be<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 6) https:\/\/search-proquest-com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca\/docview\/2264120250\/fulltextPDF\/318F7B384DF94592PQ\/1?accountid=8056<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Resources<\/span><\/p>\n Khan Academy. (2019a). Khan Academy. <\/i>Retrieved from https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/about<\/span><\/p>\n Khan Academy. (2019b). Celebrate 10 years of Khan Academy. <\/i>[Video file]. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Gn5Q1efT4g<\/span><\/p>\n Khan Lab School (n.d.). Khan Lab School. <\/i><\/span>Retrieved from https:\/\/khanlabschool.org\/<\/span><\/p>\n Morrison, D. (2013). Can we transform education with Sal Khan\u2019s One World Schoolhouse? Online Learning Insights. <\/i>Retrieved from https:\/\/onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/10\/can-we-transform-education-with-sal-khans-one-world-schoolhouse\/<\/span><\/p>\n Watters, A. (2014). The future of education: Programmed or programmable. Chapter 10. In\u00a0<\/span>The Monsters of Education Technology<\/i>. Retrieved from https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/audreywatters\/the-monsters-of-education-technology.pdf<\/span><\/p>\n Weller, M. (2018). Twenty years of EdTech.\u00a0<\/span>EDUCAUSE Review, 53<\/i>(4).<\/span> Retrieved from https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2018\/7\/twenty-years-of-edtech<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" image source: https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/about\/blog\/post\/176235043470\/have-you-seen-our-new-look Salman \u201cSal\u201d Khan, the founder and chief executive officer of Khan Academy, has played a prominent role in promoting the use of video in education and has a bold vision for the future of education that is learner-centered and learner-directed. 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