Here is one person making a difference. I learned of Salman Khan's work when someone forwarded me a link to an audio interview of him by John Udell on IT Conversations, YouTube Teaching as Guerrilla Public Service. Impressive credentials -- Harvard MBA, MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS in Mathematics from MIT, recently a fund portfolio manager, with a past that includes Technical Architect at Scient and Senior Product Manager at Oracle. But what is even more impressive is Salman Khan's idea of creating videos on YouTube to teach mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and finance. The non-profit Khan Academy now is the gateway to 1000+ teaching videos! Take mathematics: the topics range from elementary algebra to differential equations, probability and statistics, matrices, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus and more. The mission is simple, "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere". Admirable!
Here is one person making a difference. I learned of Salman Khan's work when someone forwarded me a link to an audio interview of him by John Udell on IT Conversations, YouTube Teaching as Guerrilla Public Service. Impressive credentials -- Harvard MBA, MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS in Mathematics from MIT, recently a fund portfolio manager, with a past that includes Technical Architect at Scient and Senior Product Manager at Oracle. But what is even more impressive is Salman Khan's idea of creating videos on YouTube to teach mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and finance. The non-profit Khan Academy now is the gateway to 1000+ teaching videos! Take mathematics: the topics range from elementary algebra to differential equations, probability and statistics, matrices, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus and more. The mission is simple, "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere". Admirable!