Khan Academy's FREE Tutorial Videos (Maths, Sci, etc.) online OR download & use while on trips

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This is a great time for kids to catch-up on Maths, Science, etc. that they may have fallen behind in, before School break. While others pay tutors or tutoring centres, your kids can revise COST-FREE (except any Internet fees for downloading them).

MIT-graduate Salman Khan has been making & publishing (for cost-free access & use) tutorial videos for years, not; he's put up over 2,400 (so far), on a range of topics.

(Check out what school & uni students are saying about them, eg, in the Education forum on http://forums.Whirlpool.net or just go to the Khan Academy site & check 'em out - FREE!)

There a collections of Khan Academy tutorial videos (by topic, eg, Algebra, etc.) that have Creative Commons licenses & almost no restrictions on how you can use them (ie, instead of strict commercial copyright with many restrictions, that other products have).

No strings.

I understand that Sal Khan has received grants from Googls and also the Bill Gates Foundation, to enable him to continue to make & publish more free-to-use tutorials.

Teachers & tutors / mentors may like to look into the exercise mechanism, that lets them keep an eye on their students' progress (ie, if students access this material & exercises online), and clear indications of when (& on what) a student has got stuck.

Great for home schoolers, but also in use (eg, in USA) in public & provate schools.

He takes a much more serious approach to learning than, say, the commercial Mathletics seems to do; you won't find silly cartoons or be distracted by a silly virtual shop or "dress your character" page, that school kids spent hours of their lives on in Mathletics.

It doesn't bother about NAPLAN (like Mathletics seems & claims to do); instead it just helps people learn real Maths, Science, & lots of other subjects, useful to serious students in or aiming for entry into uni or some TAFE programs.

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  • Product idea: Mate a cheap, dual-core netbook with the 30+ GB of downloaded tutorial videos from Khan Academy, & sell the package to Public Libraries, Home Schoolers' (parents), etc.

    This can even help supplement Distance Education learners' work sheets, etc.

    Here, you can download just the subject(s) you want:

    . http://www.Archive.org/details/KhanAcademy

    They show you the Creative Commons license details (hardly any restrictions, other than to give Sal credit for his work, which is fair enough).

  • OMG!

    Love it!

    • Yep. He started out (after tutoring his many cousins - on the phone or via Skype maybe) putting up videos on YouTube.

      Then he put them up [also] at KhanAcademy.org (I think they're easier to find at his site, than on YouTube.

      Others got the OK to package them up for download by Subject, & they are available too (for off-line use).

      All great value… loved by most users. Great style.

  • +1

    KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN

  • Teachers at my school love this site. So clear and easy to understand.

  • Good news for it too!

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  • I actually used one of his videos for my uni exam last semester. Worked out well!

  • Great source for learning, even i got some good ideas on difficult subjects from there. Thanks for sharing.

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