Monday, December 19, 2011

Khan academy is an excellent on line learning site

Khan academy is an excellent on line learning site . It is very refreshing way of teaching a variety of subjects from mathematics to history.
It is a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

http://www.khanacademy.org/


With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 215 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.


The founder of the organization,Salman Khan (of Bangladeshi origin )was born and raised in Louisiana . He earned three degrees from MIT and MBA from Harvard business school . After a brief stint as a hedge fund manager, he started teaching mathematics using yahoo doddle notepad. His Khan academy gets a limited support from Bill Gates Foundation.


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