Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university. --Bill Gates, 2010
There have been exciting developments this week in the area of online learning resources. Recently, the Khan Academy revealed that they are receiving 39 million pageviews per month. This site of free video lessons mostly in the area of secondary math and science now has more that 2700 videos available for free viewing. This article provides some fascinating information on how the Khan Academy got started.
In other online developments, Stanford is offering ten new, entirely free, online courses. In the fall, one of their free courses saw an astounding 58,000 enrollments! These new courses offer a combination of video lectures, quizzes, assignments, exams, discussion forum, feedback and accomplishment certificates.
The high-quality resources being developed online are a testament to the increasing importance of emphasizing digital literacy with our K-12 students.
References:
Barseghian, T. (2011, November 18). The Khan Academy opens its virtual doors - carefully [web log post]. Retrieved from http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/11/the-khan-academy-opens-its-virtual-doors-carefully/
Ferenstein, G. (2011, February 16). How Bill Gates' favourite teacher wants to disrupt education. Fast company. Retrieved from http://www.fastcompany.com/1728471/change-generation-bill-gates-favorite-teacher-wants-to-disrupt-education
Open Culture. (2011, November 18). Stanford opens ten new online courses. Retrieved from http://www.openculture.com/2011/11/seven_new_stanford_courses.html
Rao, L. (2011, November 4). The O'Sullivan Foundation grants $5M to online learning platform Khan Academy. Retrieved from http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/the-osullivan-foundation-grants-5m-to-online-learning-platform-khan-academy/
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