Sal likens the pandemic to a natural disaster of sorts and hopes that Khan Academy can help in the reconstruction. Today, ten thousand students are involved in a pilot for free SAT prep and homework help. Sal started schoolhouse.world, a prototype offering free tutoring from volunteers, many of whom are students. Learning At Homeĭuring the pandemic, daily learning minutes on Khan Academy increased from an average of 25 or 30 million to 85 million. It inspired Sal to believe that Khan Academy could be bigger than a business. Instead, MIT announced that its Open Courseware Project would provide courses for free. ![]() Sal was also impressed by how MIT resisted the impulse to try to monetize its offerings as other universities were starting to do with for-profit ventures in the early days of the internet. ![]() Sal Khan describes how Isaac Asimov inspired Khan Academy. She asked about the big ideas behind Khan Academy, and Sal said that he felt that if you’re going to do something, you may as well "swing for the fences." The idea of educating the world, was "a bit delusional" at the time, but Sal was inspired by meeting people doing big things at MIT when he was a student there and by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. The event’s first moderator was Anahita Srinivasan, alumna of CHM’s Teen Internship program and Teen Engagement Council, who is currently a student at Sal’s alma mater, MIT, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science just as he did. He shared the origins of his big idea and insights about where he thinks education is headed in the future. McGovern Tech for Humanity Luminary award, was onstage at CHM in a rare appearance on June 1, 2022. ![]() Visionary founder Sal Khan, winner of the CHM Patrick J. “Free world-class education for anyone anywhere.” That’s the ambitious mission of the popular online learning platform Khan Academy.
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