The Most Popular Educator on YouTube

The most popular educator on YouTube is Salman Khan, a 33-year-old “who quit his job as a financial analyst to spend more time making homemade lecture videos in his home studio.” Mr. Khan produces 10-minute lectures on a wide range of subjects. He has so far produced 1400 online lectures and is adding one to fine new ones per day. Mr. Khan’s instructional technologies comprise of a video camera, a digital sketchpad, and recorded narration.

The Khan Academy explicitly challenges many of higher-education’s most sacred assumptions: that professional academics make the best teachers; that hourlong lectures are the best way to relate material; and that in-person teaching is better than videos. Mr. Khan argues that his little lectures disprove all of that.

Below is a sample lecture by Salman Khan on the topic of stem cells. (RN)

A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Jeff Young | 6 June 2010

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