Re: [Server-devel] khan academy videos

2011-12-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 December 2011 10:33, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote:
 There have been various requests to make khan academy videos more widely
 availalbe via school servers.  Ceibal has been making a push to localize
 them into Spanish; on many occasions people have suggested finding a way to
 ensure the videos are available to offline schools.

 Has anyone done this so far, independently?  Is there a spanish-language
 snapshot yet? I'm talking with people at Khan Academy interested in making
 this possible for OLPC to do formally in our builds. (the current NC-SA
 license makes this non-trivia).

 If you have been using these or similar videos on your own schoolservers,
 please share your experiences so far.

I've been told that a key benefit of Khan Academy is the tools for
individual monitoring of student progress. They seem to offer the
chance to give individually targeted interventions to each student
based on their personal needs. Apparently a lot of 'later' maths
difficulties have been shown to start with gaps in foundation
concepts. If informatics built into the teaching platform can pinpoint
those gaps for each student, that should have much the same effect as
smaller class sizes.

Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia
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[Server-devel] khan academy videos

2011-12-09 Thread Samuel Klein
There have been various requests to make khan academy videos more widely
availalbe via school servers.  Ceibal has been making a push to localize
them into Spanish; on many occasions people have suggested finding a way to
ensure the videos are available to offline schools.

Has anyone done this so far, independently?  Is there a spanish-language
snapshot yet? I'm talking with people at Khan Academy interested in making
this possible for OLPC to do formally in our builds. (the current NC-SA
license makes this non-trivia).

If you have been using these or similar videos on your own schoolservers,
please share your experiences so far.

SJ

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