Khan Academy

Educate The World For Free !

                                      

                                 

There are many working professional doing highly lucrative jobs. Obviously they must be intelligent and highly qualified . There are plenty of them say countless number of such persons . You or I may be among them .  But I've seen only a few persons who have a certain passion to uplift the society whether they are the part of that society or the part of another society . Here I would like to mention a person who has a vision to create a system which would try to uplift the education system of the world .
                     
He is none another but Mr. Salman Khan ,operating " The Khan Academy ".


                                  

What is Khan Academy ?  

The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. It teaches any educational subject with YouTube videos .  Basically it is a video based tutorial for school students , college students and even teachers. It is a hit in the entire world.

The Khan academy does't charge any fees for the online videos. Hence it has to arrange funds for running this organization . This project is funded by donations . Donations came from across the world in small small packets  with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google.  In 2010, Google announced it would give the Khan Academy $2 million for creating more courses. 


                                   

Evolution of Khan Academy (Origin of a great Idea) :-

The Khan Academy started with Khan remotely tutoring one of his cousins interactively using Yahoo Doodle images. Based on feedback from his cousin, additional cousins began to take advantage of the interactive, remote tutoring. Hence he decided to upload his videos in the you tube so that any person in need can have a better clarity of the particular subject .

Gradually his videos become famous and compliments were showering in from across the globe. Now the time came and he decided to quit his lucrative job as an Hedge Fund Analyst to devote full time to this activity.

                                 

(Salman Khan delivering the insights of his academy and the evolution of the same.) 

Up to what is written above , showcases following unique values of an entrepreneur :-

1. Decisive -  Mr. Khan identified the future potential of this organisation and quit his job.
2. Social Entrepreneur  -   One can be an entrepreneur by serving the society also. However any entrepreneur certainly gives something to the society.
3. Futuristic   - Entrepreneur should have a big future sight.

Learning from Khan Academy :-

• Khan academy consists of 28 core members , and lots of other volunteers. It shows no organization can be made without any support of its employees . 
• Its employees should have a a strong fundamentals of their domain to execute any task.
• Employees should have diversified domain like Khan Academy is employing members from different subjects.
• Besides profit making , every organisation should contribute something towards social cause of the society. It should play a key role in the proper training of its manpower.