Let's use video to reinvent education

By Khmer Democrat, Phnom Penh
Expanding our Mind Series

We at KI Media understand the power of the internet not only for the strengthening of democracy and freedom but for EDUCATION. Every teacher, educator, civil society leader, government official who genuinely cares for the welfare of Cambodia, every donor SHOULD WATCH THIS VIDEO. Every Khmer individual who would like to receive FREE, QUALITY EDUCATION should watch this. If it requires that you go learn English first, then do everything to learn English and then come back to watch these videos.

THIS IS THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION, GLOBAL EDUCATION. What a brilliant man, what a great personality! Interview with Bill Gates toward the end.

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

Why you should listen to him:

Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org) -- a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30 million lessons delivered to-date). All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry and biology, have been made by Salman.

Prior to the Khan Academy, Salman was a senior analyst at a hedge fund and had also worked in technology and venture capital. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng and B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in mathematics from MIT.