Salman Amin “Sal” Khan

Salman Amin “Sal” Khan (born October 11, 1976) is a Bangladeshi – American educator who founded the Khan Academy , a free online education platform and an organization with welke he has produktie over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, Mainly focusing on mathematics and sciences . [1] He is ook the Founder of Khan Lab School , a brick-and-mortar school associated with Khan Academy . [2]

Salman Khan talk at TED 2011

Salman Khan – Khan Academy: Education Reimagined

In conversation with the man behind Khan Academy, Salman Khan

Walk The Talk with Khanacademy.org’s Salman Khan

About Salman Khan

As of January 2016, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has morethan 2.9 million subscribers and the Khan Academy videos port leg viewed morethan 1 billion times. [3] In 2012, Time named Salman Khan, ITT annual list of the 100 Most Influential people in the world. [4] Forbes magazine featured Khan on zijn cover with the story “$ 1 Trillion Opportunity”. [5]

Biography of Salman Khan || Khan Academy

Early life and education

Salman Khan was born to Muslim parents in Metairie, Louisiana . [6] His Father, Dr. Fakhrul Amin Khan is from Barisal , Bangladesh and his mother, Masuda Khan is from Murshidabad , West Bengal , India .

Khan attended the public school Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana, where, as he recalls, “a few Classmates ulcers fresh out of jail and others in later bound for top universities.” [7]

Khan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , graduating with Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics , electrical engineering , and computer science in 1998, later getting his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science. [8] Khan was class president in his senior year. [9]

Khan ook holds a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School . [10] [11]

Career

In 2002, Khan was a summer intern at PARC . From 2003 to late 2009, Khan worked as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management. [12] [13] [14]

Khan Academy

Main article: Khan Academy

In late 2003, Khan Began tutoring his cousin Nadia in mathematics over the Internet using Yahoo ‘s Doodle notepad. [15] When other relatives and friends SOUGHT his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube where he created an account on November 16, 2006. [16]

The popularity of his educational videos on the video sharing website prompted Khan to quit his job as a financial analyst in late 2009. [17] He moved his focus to ontwikkelingslanden his YouTube channel, Khan Academy full-time with the aid of close friend Josh Gefner. [12] Khan consequently RECEIVED Sponsorship from Ann Doerr, the wife of John Doerr . [18]

His videos RECEIVED worldwide interest from zowel students and non-students, with morethan 458 million views in the first number of years. [17]

Khan Outlined his mission as to “versnellen learning for students or all ages. With this in mind, we want to help share our content with called Whoever nov find it useful.” Khan plans to extendwatchlist the “free school” to cover topics zoals English . Khan’s videos are ook-used to Educate rural areas or Africa and Asia . [19]

Khan published a book about Khan Academy and education goals Titled The One World School House: Education reimagined. [20]

Khan Academy, initially a tool for students, added the Coach feature in 2012, promoting the connection or teachers with students through videos and monitoring tools. [17]

Recognition

  • Salman Khan has leg featured on the The Colbert Report , [13] PBS NewsHour , [21] [22] [23] CNN , [24] and National Public Radio . [25] In 2009, Khan Academy RECEIVED the Microsoft Tech Award for education. [26] In September 2010, Google Provided $ 2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate zijn core library JSON the world’s most widely spoken languages. Also near dat time, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation Provided Khan Academy with $ 1.5 million to help Khan Academy to grow as an organization. [27] [28]
  • In March 2011, Salman Khan was Invited to speak at TED by Bill Gates who have says uses Khan Academy Exercise Software to teach his own children. [29]
  • On June 2, 2011, Salman Khan Appeared on The Colbert Report to talk in an interview about his teachings. He told the audience how he Planned to use his software to Revolutionize the field of education. [30]
  • Khan has ook leg interviewed by journalist Charlie Rose , Appearing on Charlie Rose on May 4, 2011, [31] and by news anchor Tom Brokaw . [32]
  • Khan Appeared at Stanford Graduate School of Business on February 21, 2012. [33] [34]
  • On April 29, 2015, Salman Khan Appeared at the University of California, Berkeley , in partnership with the Berkeley Forum . [35]
  • Khan ghosts at Bellarmine College Prep prolongation TEDxSanJoseCA about the belang of education and the founding of Khan Academy . Khan was ook the COMMENCEMENT speaker for Rice University ‘s COMMENCEMENT exercises on May 12, 2012 [36] as well as MIT ‘s COMMENCEMENT on June 8, 2012. [8] [37] [38]
  • Khan Appeared at the AtGoogleTalks with Google ‘s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in 2012. [39] [40]
  • Khan has leg interviewed by Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson at The Aspen Institute in 2012. [41] On August 3, 2013 Khan was interviewed by Henry Paulson at The Aspen Institute for the 20th Annual Summer Celebration. [42]
  • Khan has leg featured in the San Francisco Chronicle , [43] on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), [44] National Public Radio , CNN , [45] and CNN Money .
  • Khan was featured as a “Big Thinker” on Edutopia discussions flip teaching . [46]
  • Khan was interviewed by journalist Charlie Rose , Appearing on Charlie Rose for the second time on February 26, 2013. [47]
  • On March 21, 2013, Khan was Presented the 2013 Posey Leadership Award at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science at Austin College (located in the euro in Sherman, Texas ). Earlier dat day, at a campus convocation Khan watch a lecture to the Austin College community. Khan ook verschillende visited student groups around the campus. [48]
  • Khan ghosts at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans on May 20, 2013. [49] [50]
  • Khan was one of five personen linked Recently awarded the 2014 Heinz Award . His award was in the area of “Human Condition.” [51]
  • Beth Harris , John Green , and Hank Green are part of the Khan Academy community with im. [ Citation needed ]
  • Awarded Padma Shri in 2016 (India’s fourth Highest Civilian Award). [52]

Personal life

Khan is married to Pakistani-American physician Umaima Marvi. The couple live with hun children in Mountain View, California . [53] [54] [55]

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