Khan Academy - Organisation on a Mission

Education For All, have heard these line so many times before but never saw them being implemented the way Khan Academy is doing . Its pure example of how a man's vision can bring about such a big change.

The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics,history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics and microeconomics, and computer science.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years. The main advantage of learning in this manner is that student can go on with the pace they are comfortable and can learn the entire concepts not just the one's which are required to pass a classroom exam.

          I really liked the way Salman Khan (The Founder ) explained the current education system  with an example of a child learning how to ride a bicycle in which he learns the basics but doesn't learn how to take a left turn or a right turn but it is as equivalent of passing with distinction so he moves on to the next level ,sounds odd but hats the way it is .This thought gave him a vision to bring about a change.

Learnings :

It is the best example relating to Theory Y concept in which a manager continues to come up with positiveness all the time no matter how the road is in front of him .Here Khan academy has worked with an attitude to bring about a change for the betterment of students leaving behind the roadblocks in the way of new and creative thinking.

 It was only possible with the innovative thinking of founder backed with a organisational model for earning revenues as every organisation small or big needs funds for functioning properly.

Khan academy has a significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google. Several people have made US$10,000 contribution. Additionally, it also earned $2,000 a month from ads on the Web site in 2010.