Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a website that offers free instructional videos on everything from basic arithmetic to multi-variable calculus. Its founder, Salman Khan, originally started the site to help tutor his cousins in math. Today, millions of students across the world have used it for homework help and test preparation. Some even wonder whether it will eventually replace teachers altogether.

 

There is a high demand for quality education in the world and considering the world literacy rate there is much that can be done in this sector. Khan academy identified this gap and made its stand.

Mission & Vision 

The mission is to provide a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if one is a student, teacher or an adult returning to the classroom after 20 years. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to anyone completely free of charge. They raise money and resources for the site's functionality through donations. Khan’s vision is of turning the academy into a charter school.  

 
The Innovation

Salman Khan has made excellent use of technology to let more and more people learn things. He has started a revolution. With such a spark and vigor in him, he has collected a team of people who works full time at the venture in order to fulfill the mission of providing high quality education to anyone signifying the importance of a great hard-working team being the backbone of any organisation. Not only it offers an excellent service it also delights the customers by giving statistical reports of the user. One gets the information about everything one has been learning. One can get a summary of class performance as a whole or look into a particular student's profile to figure out exactly which are the topics in which the students are facing problems. Apart from that, children start earning badges and points for learning. This excites the students and makes learning fun. A non-profit organization making its market share more and more with more and more viewers. Its YouTube channel has over 150 million total views, compared to MIT's 38 million. It also has twice as many subscribers, at more than 320,000.

The Future

Armed with simple though powerful vision statement, he is bringing in major changes to the way a human gets educated. The site now features online assignments and homework. With near term goal of designing more interactive features he ultimately aims to educate any student in any corner of the world.