The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization created by Salman Khan. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of over 2,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
It generates problems based on skill level and performance. In order to move on to the next lesson you must correctly answer 10 times back to back. The program tracks the performance of an individual down to each question, allowing a teacher to instantly see not only how a student stands on a section but what the issue is and make their interaction with students more productive. It also empowers the students to help each other.
It started because he was tutoring his cousins and they preferred it be done remotely.
The Wikipedia entry (link) and the TED talk (link).
Looks cool to me. :surprised Do y’all think it has… I guess the way to say it is, mass market potential? :eh: