Modern information technologies can become a catalyst for the cardinal changes in education. Now education is the most powerful weapon and thanks to the information technology, a network of distance courses and educational institutions are actively developing. They provide an opportunity to study remotely or to optimize the educational process in the educational institutions.

In 2006 was created one of the most promising and very interesting experimental sites on the use of the information technology in education. What is this experimental site and what are its features we will consider today.

The Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a non-profit organization and a website that was created by a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School, Salman Khan. Salman is an American of Bangladeshi origin. The mission of such an academy is to provide a high-quality education to everyone anywhere and whenever. Just imagine that this website provides collections of free video lectures. Their number is more than 3600 micro video lectures.

You can find educational videos on such subjects as history, math, medicine, finance, physics, biology, economics, astrology, organic chemistry and so on. Naturally, such video lessons are very popular. Every month, more than a million students use this resource, viewing from 100 and up to 200,000 video lessons per day.

The Changes in Education by Salman Khan

Salman Khan offers a major revolution in the educational system. Moreover, most students would support such changes. So, he suggests that students should be asked to watch video lessons as homework. And make their usual homework in the classroom. Agree, who would prefer the boring and burdensome homework rather than watch a video? The answer is obvious.

The founder of the Khan Academy represents and imbues the advantages of his educational system. So the benefits of an automated explanation of the material are:

• Students can quietly stop and revise the teacher’s explanations without any embarrassment or the thought that they are spending the teacher’s time.
• If students need to repeat the material that they learned a few weeks ago or even years, then they do not need to blush before the teacher. They just can watch the video with an explanation.
• If the student is bored, then he can drop in ahead and see the next topic.
• Students can view the material at their own pace and at a convenient time.

Salman believes that the main advantage of his educational system is that these video lessons can help not only the students but also their future children. Salmon believes that a good teacher can teach a large number of students.

Let’s Move Away from the Traditional

Equally, the significant advantage is that in this system of education the traditional division of students into able and incapable ones is eliminated. The practice of Salmon constantly confirms that if the student is engaged in a pace that is comfortable for him, then such students jerk forward. And those students who were considered incapable can accept for the talented.

The key idea in the education of Khan is that a student can move from a simple to a more complex topic only after having mastered a simple topic for 100 percent. Each student learns in his own rhythm with the help of video clips with the necessary theory and tips to solve problems. Only after the student gives 10 correct answers in a row, he has an opportunity to move on to the next topic.

Khan has shot more than 3000 videos in which he provides a wide range of academic subjects (however leaning towards the mathematical and natural sciences). The experience of the Academy of Khan provides an opportunity to qualitatively rebuild the educational process throughout the world. Knowingly the founder of this new education system was called the revolutionary of education.