“While I’m around, Khan Academy will be free,” Khan says.
"The new world is not about selling or having a gate to knowledge," he said. "It's about having a relationship with the user."
I was very frustrated and angry about the fact that after the course ended, they took down everything: the whole forums and the wiki page including all the information and links we students collected.
It doesn't make any sense to me and to be honest I find it offensive. The only reason I could think of was coursera trying to create a 'business model'. That's another reason why you should set up
your own blog and save the information that is valuable for you.
Or as my friend Marcio Gualtieri put it:
"You can't change the world (in a positive way) and have a "business model". I hope that MOOCs
read this book, because from my interaction with them I have the impression that they just don't get it."
I love the quote Salman Khan puts in the beginning of his book:
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabindranatha Tagore
You can read the Introduction to his new book here:And here is another nice talk:
Be sure to also check out the heart warming Khan Academy student stories:
https://www.khanacademy.org/stories
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