Like Google, Salman Khan’s Khan Academy, a not-for-profit, has an ambitious mission statement, to provide “A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere”. He is an outsider in education, in that he comes from business, namely hedge-fund management and attributes his success, to not being part of the educational establishment. It is this that allowed him to…
via Khan – Khan Academy… a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere — Donald Clark Plan B
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