The iPad app, meanwhile, gives users the opportunity to download videos for offline viewing and jump through videos by navigating subtitles. Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, in 2010. This free access, combined with the breadth of the topics covered and conversational tone of the lessons, provides an accessible alternative to the traditional classroom on a number of complex subjects students traditionally struggle with, such as science and mathematics. (In the interest of full disclosure, my brother works for Google.)

Unlike for-profit educational institutions that offer online classes for a fee, Khan Academy is a nonprofit group that offers all its classes free of charge, thanks in large part to big donors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google. But Khan Academy’s YouTube video class database, which launched on the iPad on Sunday, gives any individual with a computer and sufficient Internet connection the opportunity to receive instruction on a variety of subjects, assuming they find the format and content of the classes palatable.Īll the classes are taught by the site’s founder and executive editor, Salman “Sal” Khan, who brings a conversational tone to each of the videos. Okay, maybe you don’t want to take all of those classes, which could take years to get through (and not all of us need or want to prep for the GMAT). Sal Khan and his team at Khan Academy have a class - or roughly 3,000 classes - you might want to take. Screenshot of Khan Academy iPad application.

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