Will the Khan College, which achieves 10 million students in 24 months, subvert global education?

24 months ago, Khan College (Khan Academy) was only 36-Year-old founder Salman Khan (Salman Khan) A person, he worked alone in a cloakroom, and 12 months ago, Khan was a sensible and hyperactive hedge-fund analyst, making instructional videos just his odd hobby. But now, Khan College has 37 employees from Google, Facebook and other companies, and has become the world's largest school with 10 million students. Khan College also raised 16.5 million of dollars in funding, including Facebook, Twitter and Groupon's early investors, Yuri Milner, billionaire VC John Doerr's wife Ann Doll, Bill Gates, CEO Ride Hastings, New school venture capital, and Google chairman Eric Schmidt. The 2009 is a crucial period for the change of sweat. At the time, he had been making YouTube videos for three years, and the videos came from Nadia, his cousin Nadia, who was in Boston, Nadia in New Orleans, and had hundreds of thousands of clicks a day. Although Khan has invested a lot of time in this project, he mainly treats it as a hobby. Later, Khan received an email from a young man who had successfully entered the university through numerous difficulties. But still far behind their classmates, especially in mathematics. Then he found the sweat of the video. He wrote: "All summer vacation watching your YouTube page ... I just want to thank you for everything. Last week I took a math test and now I'm in the math class for 200 people ... I can say without hesitation that you have changed my life and the lives of all my family members. "This remark deeply touched the Khan, especially he is also a poor family origin." He recalls: "I skipped a lot of classes, and I got two undergraduate degrees and a master's degree in four years." Skipping classes is not slack. There are many more efficient ways to learn than to sit in class. "He quit his job as a hedge fund analyst, locked himself in his bedroom locker room and started making videos. 10 months later, when Khan was forced to give up his life pressure, he received his first cheque from Ann Doll. "I decided to do something about it," Dole recalls. What really surprises me is that Salman has been on some news programs, CNN and the like, and I thought he was financially well-off. Then I found out that I was his biggest donor. I also found that he was ready to stop and find a ' real ' job, which was equally frightening to me. "Subversion education but supporters are donating rather than investing to Khan college." "Salman Khan can be said to be the most influential educator in the world, and he did it within 24 months," said Michael Mor, chief executive of GSV, an investment fund that pays attention to the education industry. It's really cool, exciting and inspiring. He is leading the revolution. The only disappointment I felt was that he could have made a profit andWould be as good, though it is hard to say that his strategic decision is wrong. "But Salman Khan's concern is not profitability. Khan College is a non-profit organization whose mission is to "provide free, first-class education for all the world". No employee equity and no listings; money comes from philanthropists, not VCs. Salman Khan want to do is, with science and technology will eventually subvert the way people learn, shaping the next 50 years of educational innovation. The current educational system has largely originated in the Prussian model (Prussian), which dates back to the late 18th century, when the King of Prussia introduced free primary education. These schools are dedicated to teaching citizens three skills-reading, writing and arithmetic; junior secondary education is more cynics, the goal is to cultivate docile working class, let them accustomed to obey authority. Most of our educational framework has originated in the Prussian era, including by age, by ringing reminders of different classes. Khan and many of the same educational subversive want to subvert the existing model. This subversion is generally referred to as the "flip classroom" (flipping the classroom), with the idea that students watch lectures and solve problems according to their own time and pace. Once they have mastered a concept, adaptive software will recommend new courses, just as Amazon recommends books. The teacher controls the progress of the trainees through the back-end control panel. The classroom time used for the lectures will be dedicated to mentoring and one-on-one coaching. Now, the Khan College website covers an astonishing number of subject subjects, from basic arithmetic and algebra to electoral college and the French Revolution. These videos are so bizarre that they never see the lecturers. The students face a blank digital blackboard, and in a 10-minute course, with a gentle, sweaty baritone, the blackboard is slowly filled with colored scribbled writing. Over the past two years, Khan College has more than 200 million video browsing. The website is used by 6 million independent trainees each month, and the participants solve more than 750 million problems together, teaching materials are provided free of charge and are used as formal or informal teaching content in about 20,000 classrooms around the world. Volunteers translated the Khan Academy video into 24 different languages, including Urdu, Swahili and Chinese. "With these tools, students can learn at their own pace and have the concepts they need before continuing to study, so could we reflect on the standard education model for hundreds of years?" "said Khan. In the last 10 years, broadband popularity, low content costs (including creation and dissemination), and rapid proliferation of mobile devices have created a time window for change in the education industry. The same key factors include a shift in social norms – the effect of accepting online learning and the generation of people who grew up in the digital age willing to embrace it wholeheartedly.