The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006, by Salman Khan. The idea behind Khan Academy was first conceived in late 2004 when Khan started tutoring his cousin in Mathematics remotely using Yahoo!’s Doodle notepad.
When other relatives and friends sought his tutorial, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube. Their popularity there and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance in 2009 and focus on the Academy full-time.
Khan eschewed a format that would involve a person standing by a whiteboard, desiring instead to present the content in a way akin to sitting next to someone and working out a problem on a sheet of paper: “If you’re watching a guy do a problem [while] thinking out loud, I think people find that more valuable and not as daunting.”
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