Khan Academy
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| Motto | A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. |
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| Founded | October 2006 |
| Founder | Salman Khan |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
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| Services | E-learning, Education |
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Official languages
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English, 4 official website translations, ~20,000 closed-captioned videos |
| Owner |
Salman Khan (founder and Executive Director) |
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Key people
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Salman Khan (CEO) |
| Affiliations | SAT,Pixar |
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Revenue
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15.795 million USD (2012) |
| Expenses | 19.119 million USD (2014) |
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Employees
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105 (November 6, 2016) |
| Website | www |
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with a goal of creating an accessible place for people to be educated. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available to users of the website. The website and its content are provided mainly in English, but are also available in other languages like Bengali, Hindi and Spanish.
The organization started in 2004 when Salman Khan tutored one of his cousins on the Internet using a service called Yahoo Doodle Images. After a while, Khan's other cousins began to use his tutoring service. Because of the demand, Khan decided to make his videos watchable on the Internet, so he published his content on YouTube. Later, he used a drawing application called SmoothDraw, and now uses a Wacom tablet to draw using ArtRage. Tutorials are recorded on the computer.
The positive responses of students prompted Khan to quit his job in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (Then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time.
The Khan Academy started out by creating videos that focused on teaching mathematics. Since then, the organization has hired more staff members and uploaded material in other subjects including history, business, science, the arts, and computer science. As of 2015, learning materials were created for over 5,000 different topics. It has content specialists which work with faculty members to write learning materials.
The organization's content has been translated to other languages for accessibility. The first official version was Spanish, in September 2013. There are also translations to the content contributed by volunteers. As of November 2016, Khan Academy has seven official websites in other languages, and 20,000 closed-captioned translations on videos.
In addition, Khan Lab School, a school founded by Salman Khan and associated with Khan Academy, opened on September 15, 2014 in Mountain View, California. According to Khan, the school "is founded on the belief that young people are capable of far more than society currently recognizes."
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