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Project 2: Khan Academy

What is Khan Academy:

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.The teacher dashboard provides a summary of class performance as a whole as well as detailed student profiles.

Who are the carriers of the project:

The project is carried by developpers, many interns, content specialists in various subjects, executives (leadership teams, board, global advisory board), translators and finally financial supporters.

Who are the beneficiaries?

Learners, teachers and parents.

Who are the users?

Mostly students, but also teachers who tutore.

What is the need for this project to be?

Across the globe, 617 million children are missing basic math and reading skills. Khan Academy is a nonprofit company delivering the education they need.As of 2018, over 70 million people use Khan Academy, out of which 2.3 million students use it to prepare for SAT. As of February 2022, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 7.11 million subscribers and Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than 1.94 billion times

What is the principle?

Its goal is creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. It has produced over 8,000 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and sciences. All resources are available for free to users of the website and application.

What are the main technologies involved?

The Khan Academy API provides programmers with access to almost all of the playlist-categorized information stored on the web, where users can explore videos or get knowledge about the assignments for each. The API also provides badge award details through the exercise dashboard. The API approaches are broken down into themes, images, drills, user data and badges.