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This article is about the American educator. For other people named Salman Khan, see Salman Khan (disambiguation).

Sal Khan
সালমান খান
Salman Khan TED 2011.jpg
Khan speaking at a TED conference in 2011
Born
Salman Amin Khan

(1976-10-11) October 11, 1976 (age 47)
Metairie, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma mater
OccupationEducator, entrepreneur
Title
Board member ofAspen Institute
Spouse(s)Umaima Marvi (2004–present)
Children2

Salman Amin Khan (born 11 October 1976), known as Sal Khan, is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online education platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and sciences.[1] He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar school associated with Khan Academy.[2]

As of December 2021, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 7.02 million subscribers and Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than 1.92 billion times.[3] In 2012, Time named Khan in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[4] In the same year, Forbes magazine featured Khan on its cover, with the story "$1 Trillion Opportunity".[5]

Early life and education[edit]

Salman Amin Khan was born in Metairie, Louisiana, to a Bengali Muslim family.[6] His father is from Barisal, Bangladesh, and his mother is from Murshidabad in West Bengal, India.[6][7] He attended Grace King High School, where, as he recalls, "a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities."[8] He also worked as a cartoonist for the high school's newspaper.[9] Khan took upper-level mathematics courses at the University of New Orleans while he was in high school and graduated valedictorian in 1994.[10][11]

Khan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Course 6 (electrical engineering and computer science), and another bachelor's degree in Course 18 (mathematics), in 1998.[12] In his final year, Sal was the president of the "Senior Gift Committee," a philanthropy program of the graduating class.[13]

Khan also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.[14][15][16]

Career[edit]

In 2002, Khan was a summer intern at PARC. From 2003 to late 2009, Khan worked as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management.[17][18][19]

Khan Academy[edit]

Main article: Khan Academy

In 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad.[20] When other relatives and friends sought his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube, where he created an account on November 16, 2006.[21]

The popularity of his educational videos on the video-sharing website prompted Khan to quit his job as a financial analyst in late 2009.[22] He moved his focus to developing his YouTube channel, Khan Academy, full-time with the aid of close friend Josh Gefner.[17] Khan subsequently received sponsorship from Ann Doerr, the wife of John Doerr.[23]

His videos received worldwide interest from both students and non-students, with more than 458 million views in the first numberTemplate:How many of years.[22]

Khan outlined his mission as to "accelerate learning for students of all ages. With this in mind, we want to share our content with whoever may find it useful." Khan plans to extend the "free school" to cover topics such as English literature.[24]

Khan published a book about Khan Academy and education goals titled The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.[25]

Khan Academy, initially a tool for students, added the Coach feature in 2012, promoting the connection of teachers with students through videos and monitor tools.[22] In 2012, Khan received the American Academy of Achievement’s Gold Medal.[26][27] In 2014, Khan received the 19th Annual Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.[28]

In 2015, Khan announced that Khan Academy was partnering with the College Board to create free practice resources for the SAT test.[29]

In 2021, Khan Academy's videos on YouTube had been viewed over 1.8 billion times.[3]

Khan believes that supplementing traditional classroom education with the technology being developed by his Academy can improve the effectiveness of teachers by freeing them from traditional lectures and giving them more time for instruction specific to individual students' needs.[30]

Stanford AI researcher Andrew Ng has named Khan as a huge inspiration for the founding of Coursera, one of the first massive open online course (MOOC) platforms.[31]

Schoolhouse.world[edit]

In 2020, Khan launched Schoolhouse.world,[32] a free non-profit initiative to provide small-group tutoring for students across the world. The service uses the taxonomy of the Khan Academy to organize its online video conferencing tutorials. The initial pilot was conducted in partnership with the Long Beach Unified School District.

Awards[edit]

In 2016, Salman received India's fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri, from the President of India.[33] On May 27, 2021, Salman received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University.[34]

Personal life[edit]

Sal Khan is married to a Pakistani physician, Umaima Marvi. The couple live with their children in Mountain View, California.[35][36][37]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Number of videos, Khan Academy.
  2. ↑ "'From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan, A School with Real Classrooms". NPR.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Khan Academy". Youtube. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Salman Khan – Time 100". Time. April 18, 2012. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ "$1 Trillion Opportunity". Forbes.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Salman Khan". Biography.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  7. ↑ Gear Views (July 11, 2015). "Salman Khan's message: about bangla Khan Academy". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021.
  8. ↑ Sengupta, Somini (December 4, 2011). "Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach With Classrooms". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Tension in an accelerating system and pie in the face". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Alumni Spotlights - Salman Khan". www.unoalumni.com.
  11. ↑ Tan, Sarah (May 18, 2013). "Khan Academy founder returns home as big name in U.S. school reform". The Times Picayune. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  12. ↑ Solomon, Ethan A. (December 6, 2011). "Sal Khan Is Commencement Speaker". The Tech.
  13. ↑ "MIT's Next Commencement Speaker Sal Khan Compares His Alma Mater to Hogwarts". Wired Academic. December 7, 2011. Archived from the original on January 26, 2015. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  14. ↑ Kaplan, David A. (August 24, 2010). "Innovation in Education: Bill Gates' favorite teacher". Money. CNN. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  15. ↑ "How Khan Academy Is Changing Education With Videos Made In A Closet – with Salman Khan". Mixergy. June 28, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
  16. ↑ "Sal Khan at Khan Academy". LinkedIn. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Kowarski, Ilana (June 6, 2010). "College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' on YouTube – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education". Chronicle.
  18. ↑ Colbert, Stephen (Host) (2011). The Colbert Report. Colbert Nation. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  19. ↑ Khan, Sal. "Sal Khan". LinkedIn. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  20. ↑ Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education. TED. 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  21. ↑ "Khan academy". YouTube. November 16, 2006. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Sen, Ashish Kumar (June 28, 2010). "Bookmark: The Prof Who Keeps His Shirt On". Outlook India.
  23. ↑ Bower, Amanda (December 16, 2011). "Substitute teacher". The Australian.
  24. ↑ Temple, James (December 14, 2009). "Salman Khan, math master of the Internet – SFGate". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
  25. ↑ Khan, Salman 'Sal' (2012). Talking about his new book. AirTalk (radio interview). Khan Adcademy. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
  26. ↑ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  27. ↑ "2012 Summit Highlights Photo". Salman Khan, pioneer of online education, receives the Gold Medal from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
  28. ↑ "The Heinz Awards :: Salman Khan". www.heinzawards.net.
  29. ↑ "College Board and Khan Academy team up to ease access to new SAT". www.insidehighered.com.
  30. ↑ Temple, James (December 14, 2009). "Salman Khan, math master of the Internet". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 23, 2009.
  31. ↑ Ng, Andrew. "Origins of the Modern MOOC" (PDF).
  32. ↑ Schoolhouse, One World (April 21, 2020). "Welcome to Schoolhouse.world". Schoolhouse.world. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  33. ↑ "Padma Awards website". Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  34. ↑ Salman Amin Khan Doctor of Laws, Join the Celebration (May 27, 2021). "Honoring the Class of 2021". Harvard.edu. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  35. ↑ "Education 2.0: The Khan Academy". Dawn. April 26, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  36. ↑ "Meet Sal Khan, Khan Academy". jointventure.org. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  37. ↑ "Sal Khan – Educator". Biography. Retrieved August 28, 2015.

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