Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined [ETL Looks Back]

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

While the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders speaker series is on pause, we’re excited to bring you ETL Looks Back, a series of timely gems from our archives. We’re kicking off the school year with some talks on education, starting with Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of the world-renowned Khan Academy. When he visited ETL in 2014, Khan offered a blueprint for individualized, technology-enhanced learning long before Covid and the explosion of EdTech products. Catch up with what he had to say about personalized learning, the role of technology in education, and how we should be thinking about developing the next generation of makers.

This episode was originally published April 16, 2014.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.1	So today we have a huge honor to welcome Sal Khan to here to Stanford.
0:23.6	Sal is a world-renowned educator and entrepreneur. He's the founder of Khan Academy, which is a free
0:29.2	online education platform. Starting in a small room in his home, Sal has produced 5,000 video
0:36.7	lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects,
0:40.3	mainly focusing on math and sciences. As of today, the Khan Academy's YouTube channel attracts
0:46.3	more than 2 billion subscribers and the videos have been viewed by over 400 million times.
0:55.0	As a result of his work in 2012, Time magazine named Sal Khan
1:00.0	on the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
1:04.0	He has degrees in math, electrical engineering, and computer science from MIT,
1:10.0	and he also went to Harvard Business School.
1:11.9	Please join me and welcoming Salka.
1:17.9	It's always great to be here, and I actually do like to start just kind of getting a gauge of where everyone is. So I saw how many of y'all are students actually would be more, how many of y'all
1:30.9	are not students? Would it might be more interesting? Okay, so there actually are, and how many
1:34.9	of y'all are undergrads? And how many of y'all are grad students? Okay, that's interesting.
1:41.0	And how many of y'all have used Khan Academy at some point? Okay. And how many of y'all have used Khan Academy at some point?
1:45.0	Okay.
1:46.0	And how many of you still use Khan Academy every now and then?
1:50.0	Okay, that's good to know.
1:51.0	And how many of you have no idea what Khan Academy is?
1:54.0	There's always somebody.
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