How To Effectively Change the 4-Year College Model | Khan Academy's Sal Khan | Google Zeitgeist

Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan gives his take on how to evolve the current traditional 4-year college model.

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As Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy, Sal Khan seeks to remove the barriers to education that leave over 600 million children lacking basic math and reading skills. His free, world-class curriculum—available to anyone, anywhere—has made a massive impact, with the academy’s videos reaching over a billion views. In talks, Khan shares how we can revolutionize education with technology, open interaction, and a personalized approach to learning. Recognized for his incredible influence in the field of education, Sal Khan has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. His passion project, the Khan Academy, started humbly when he began tutoring his cousins and a few family friends in math. Soon, word spread, demand grew, and the Khan Academy was born. Today, the platform has more than 62 million registered users across 190 countries, each able to access practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized dashboard to help students learn at their own pace. Boasting a state-of-the-art, adaptive technology, Khan Academy has partnered with world-class institutions such as NASA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and MIT. The technology has had a reported meaningful impact for students attending top schools such as Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, especially those who are first-generation college students.

[Awakenbeing]

Totaly agree with that. In the end of four years an individual should be a skilled one, that is wanted by the industry. This is how to revolutionize the education to think beyond some stone written rules.

[basrahaider]

First year should be internships, 2-4 internships in industries that a kid wants to do a major in before they spend 4 years learning skills for a job, instead of going directly from high school to university somehow knowing what you want to do for the rest of your life, especially in work force socities where education and skills for certain jobs are microscopic so changing jobs becomes near impossible after garduation without more years studying etc.

[bw]

Right in the money, how would they standardized accreditation

[gavin]

its takes a minute to adjust to his voice because im used to listening to it so intently in order to study