[Server-devel] khan academy videos

[Caroline Meeks]

To get full value from Khan Academy I think you will need to set up the
software on the school server and have the videos and exercise software
locally and even then the students are only going to be able to use it when
they have a good connection to the server.

The concept map, with exercises, videos and gamification were quite
engaging for my students in Somerville.  The ability to move through the
content at their own pace, to construct their own learning path, was very
effective.  They enjoyed earning the badges, but I think the control of
their own learning and immediate feedback for each question was a bigger
factor in motivation.

The videos were fairly secondary in my experience, but we had plenty of
adults around to explain things and I think most of the students preferred
the interaction, I think the videos would be more useful in situations with
a high student/teacher ratio.

Only some videos have subtitles in different languages, but that is
something that deployments plus volunteers could do.

I'm very interested in this work, please keep us posted!

Thanks,
Caroline

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au>wrote:

> On 10 December 2011 10:33, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> > There have been various requests to make khan academy videos more widely
> > availalbe via school servers.  Ceibal has been making a push to localize
> > them into Spanish; on many occasions people have suggested finding a way
> to
> > ensure the videos are available to offline schools.
> >
> > Has anyone done this so far, independently?  Is there a spanish-language
> > snapshot yet? I'm talking with people at Khan Academy interested in
> making
> > this possible for OLPC to do formally in our builds. (the current NC-SA
> > license makes this non-trivia).
> >
> > If you have been using these or similar videos on your own schoolservers,
> > please share your experiences so far.
>
> I've been told that a key benefit of Khan Academy is the tools for
> individual monitoring of student progress. They seem to offer the
> chance to give individually targeted interventions to each student
> based on their personal needs. Apparently a lot of 'later' maths
> difficulties have been shown to start with gaps in foundation
> concepts. If informatics built into the teaching platform can pinpoint
> those gaps for each student, that should have much the same effect as
> smaller class sizes.
>
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Engineering Manager
> One Laptop per Child Australia
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