Q Early on, you were the voice and instructor in Khan Academy videos - is that still the case?Ī There’s a team, but I still - especially in math and science - make a majority of the videos right now.Ī That’s the fun thing about this format is it’s out there for millions of people to look at it, and it’s adaptable, not like a textbook.
Even post-business school, working in finance in Boston and then Silicon Valley, I’d tell friends, “I’m going to do this until I can start my own school.” So it was always there in the back of my mind. I got rejected twice for a Rhodes Scholarship - I said I wanted to get a PhD in education. Q You were one of hundreds of people posting educational videos on YouTube, what made yours so popular?Ī I’ve always had this deep interest in teaching, even in high school, where I was a lead peer tutor. Now she is in a PhD program for clinical psychology. I found myself tutoring five to 10 cousins, I started making software for them and videos for them - that was the initial seed for Khan Academy. Word spread in my family there was free tutoring going on. She was having trouble in math, they were putting her in a slower math track. What’s she doing now?Ī It was almost 16 and a half years ago.
Q The inspiration for Khan Academy was when you started long-distance tutoring your 12-year-old cousin, Nadia, in math in 2004 and eventually other family members. The interview has been edited for brevity. Khan spoke with us about Khan Academy and how he thinks it can help. The past year has seen demand for Khan Academy’s lessons soar, as the coronavirus pandemic led to school closures around the world, forcing kids to attend classes online and dramatically cutting instruction time. With its free lessons in math, science and humanities in 46 languages, it is used in more than 190 countriesĪnd has more than 118 million registered users, nearly 20 million learners per month. Sal Khan’s Mountain View nonprofit Khan Academy has since 2008 grown into a learning powerhouse, built around YouTube-hosted videos narrated over a simulated blackboard and a website with teaching tools and practice exercises. Thirteen years ago, a Silicon Valley hedge fund analyst from Louisiana turned his talent for tutoring cousins into one of the internet’s most popular lines of free educational resources.
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