In India, ever since we set up in 2016, our focus has been to ensure content alignment and that we secure as many school and government partnerships. What all has Khan Academy done in India so far and what are the future plans? We have really grown about a hundred fold over the last decade and I hope we can grow our impact a hundred fold over the next decade as well. Our mission is free world class education for anyone, anywhere and we have a long way to go because there are hundreds and millions of learners, that we want to empower, learners of all ages, especially in places like India. Now, if you look at some of the recent months, 17 million people taking some form of a learning action every month on Khan Academy. Over the last 10 years, we have had about a 100,000 thousand users. The core of Khan Academy, even though many people associate us with videos, is the idea that students should get as much practice and feedback as they need, and be able to learn at their own pace, so that they don’t accumulate gaps that become debilitating later on. In 2010, we started hiring educators, researchers, engineers, designers to build out the practice platform.
It was an incredibly stressful time but about 10 months into that we finally got support from people like Ann and John Doerr and then shortly thereafter Google and Bill Gates came out of the woodwork. My wife and I figured we could try and set this up as a not-for-profit for a year and live off of savings. I immediately thought that it was not so great idea, I said“Youtube is for cat’s playing piano, not serious mathematics”, but I got over that and long story short, my cousins told me they liked me better on Youtube than in person.Īround 2009, I quit my day job. It was really a friend’s suggestion that I make videos and upload them onto Youtube to supplement the practice exercises that I was creating for my family. It was mainly a site where I was creating software that allowed my cousins to practice, and for me, as the tutor, to see how they were doing on that practice, understanding what they were getting right and what they were getting wrong. The first Khan Academy had nothing to do with videos. Tell us about the journey of Khan Academy in the last one decade and some of its important milestones From Google to Tata Group, several large organisations have contributed towards Khan Academy’s mission of providing free education to school children.
Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organisation and survives solely on donations and philanthropic fundings.
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