Khan Academy Between The New Era IPad App

Khan Academy Between The New Era IPad App: Khan Academy, lectures are very popular YouTube, plans to launch its application IPad currently in store Apple. Extended version of the Khan Academy will include a time synchronization between devices - no need to connect to the Internet - transcript of online conferences to facilitate research and scrubber easy to move between the parties and conferences. Perhaps more important, now more schools have begun to make their own conference Han class, a free application IPad can replace or supplement books, savings and cash-strapped school students a lot of money.

The main advantage of learning the application offline. "If you go on the road trip or if you take public transportation and you have no mobile phone, or whatever, you can get content," says Khan Academy lead designer Jason Rosoff. Khan Academy IPad liberation from the constraints of a laptop and Internet connection. Rosoff said that the application will remember where the user left the view of progress and synchronization between devices (when the first issue, the two devices to connect to the Internet before disabling synchronization).

Secondly, with inspiration from the TED conference Khan will now have an interactive time-stamped record, which is a convenient search function, as some of the conferences can be quite long.

Finally, as a teaching tool, users come and go between the different parts of the content. "People have a lot of rubbing in our video," said Rosoff. The application will have a clean upgrade the video (scroll bar at the bottom of the video) that echo the area less painful.

For a growing number of schools that accept iPads, the greatest potential impact on the application for Khan Academy "has returned to class," in which lectures on home monitoring of students and the tasks were performed in collaboration class where the teacher is present. "The teacher has the right to make the most of human relationships," said Shantanu Sinha, president and chief operating officer of Khan Academy.

Intrigued by the idea of ​​return to class, a pilot program in the Los Altos, California schools have begun to use the online conference Khan, a significant part of learning. Teachers use visualization software that will monitor student progress in courses, and they found that some students are often incorrectly classified as "at risk".

"Very often the students who thought they were terrible at math, which were designated as poor mathematics in schools ... In many cases they are simply dealing with a very specific topic, "said Sinha." Without the opportunity to study the lecture at home, trying to remain as a student teacher during the lesson development aircraft. But when the students can focus on the problems at their own pace, they could overcome the weaknesses and catch up with the class.

The original version of IPad application will not include visualization tools and exercises that are required for the class of Khan Academy, Rosoff said, but as soon as funds are part of the application, schools may adopt a series of conferences Khan as a replacement of the electronic textbook. Khan also give him more time for feedback on early instruments App updated later.