Khan Academy Founder Finds Simplicity Appeals In Online Learning Experimentation - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Today the online Khan Academy offers more than 2,600 free, 10-minute video tutoring sessions in 10 languages on subjects ranging from K-12 math and science to art history. Students can earn points and badges for achieving mastery in the subjects, just as they would in video games, while their teachers and parents keep track of their progress. The academy also has started working directly with school districts, including Los Altos, East Palo Alto, and San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area, to supplement regular classroom instruction. “Our total invested capital to date is less than $3 million, and we’re pushing about 5 million unique students per month,” Khan said proudly. “That’s six to seven times the number of students that Harvard has served since 1636.”