About Khan Academy, One of the Beginnings of Flipped Learning in the U.S. [eLearning Around the World

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Content

• 1、What is Khan Academy?
• 2、Features of Khan Academy
• 3, Influence given
• 4, Summary

What is Khan Academy?

Khan Academy is an online learning website founded in 2006 by Salman Khan from USA.Originally, to tutor my cousin's child, who lives far away, to learn with web software.They made it to the

At first, the system was designed to give you questions, and when you couldn't answer a question, the system would show you what you needed to learn. Later, on the recommendation of a friend, they made explanatory videos and uploaded them to YouTube. These videos became popular for being easy to understand and for allowing users to learn at their own pace by reviewing them over and over again. The number of users began to increase explosively, and the site developed into a full-fledged online learning site. (The current number of users is said to be several million to several tens of millions every month around the world.

Features of Khan Academy

Khan Academy's stance is."If you can't answer a question, the system will show you what you need to do to solve it."I think the main feature of the video is that it is positioned as a supplementary material.

Mr. Kahn himself."The most useful way to learn is by answering questions, and our real source of power is in the question software (the level-check test)."The more I say, the more emphasis I put on the ability to check levels.

Impacts

One of the most commonly cited effects that has occurred with the advent of Khan Academy is the"Flipped Learning.This is the spread of a teaching and learning style called
Teachers at the school started using Khan Academy's videos as prep videos for their students.

What is "Flipped Learning"?
This is a class format in which lectures, which used to be given in a classroom, are now given at home through video learning, and students practice problems and write reports during class time.

There have been attempts to implement flipped classroom teaching itself since that time, butThere were many teachers who wanted to implement flipped classroom due to the heavy burden of creating video materials for teachers.This has led to an increase in the number of teachers using Khan Academy's videos to prepare for classes, and the flipped classroom style has spread.

Summary

Before I started looking into it, I had a strong image of it as "the catalyst for the spread of flipped learning", so I thought of it as "the roots of video teaching materials", but the point that Khan Academy itself emphasizes is"We use questions and tests to check our understanding, and we use video materials to study the parts we don't understand."I was impressed by the fact that

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