Above, Salman Khan at TED 2011 last week
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- How does Khan Academy continue to grow while staying accessible, a question begged by Salman’s noting at one point that the site is totally free for now. Will school districts and governments buy licenses? Will ads, gulp, find their way into the virtual classroom?
- What can TED learn from this so far brilliant lesson in online lessons? TED, with its thousands of hours of free streaming online lectures, is a grown-ups version of Khan Academy, but with a greater emphasis on spectacle, magic and branding, both personal and corporate. Could the organization somehow port the magic of person-to-person idea sharing that happens at its physical conferences to the impersonal space of people’s computer screens? Until it can, the event will be less like the new Harvard than a shiny 21st century version of The Learning Annex.