Khan Academy’s mission is “providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.” Its mobile app is an extension of the Khan Academy website. Access more than 4,300 “microlecture” videos on math, history, astronomy, economics, science, humanities and more. Get downloadable videos (individual videos or entire playlists to watch offline), subtitles and progress tracking by logging in with your user account to get credit for watching videos. Your learning syncs betweer your device and khanacademy.org, so your progress is always up-to date. Exercise modules are to be added soon. Free for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
The Khan Academy can be seen as one of the best publicized and most promising examples of the power of the Internet to educate and to transform traditional education. As of 2015, the Academy offered over learning content for over 5,000 subjects — a great many on mathematics and the sciences but also including, for example, economics and art history. According to the Khan Academy’s website, it has delivered over 132,909,653 lessons.
The Khan Academy is part of an ongoing trend to making educational resources freely available online for users all over the world. Related resources include MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) and various massively open online courses (MOOC).
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