Open Source Education Options

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From the early years to the college years or just want to better yourself, it's all just a mouse click away.

 

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Even if Khan is truly liberating students to advance at their own pace, it’s not clear that the schools will be able to cope. The very concept of grade levels implies groups of students moving along together at an even pace. So what happens when, using Khan Academy, you wind up with a kid in fifth grade who has mastered high school trigonometry and physics—but is still functioning like a regular 10-year-old when it comes to writing, history, and social studies? Khan’s programmer, Ben Kamens, has heard from teachers who’ve seen Khan Academy presentations and loved the idea but wondered whether they could modify it “to stop students from becoming this advanced.”

From Wired Magazine:

How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

Salman Khan at TED this past March

 

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"Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.


We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY.


This makes the videos freely available and discoverable by all, without reliance on any one entity to provide them (even us!).

The full catalog is over 4 TB and will be synced over the next several days."

20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them

I love Anarchists!