Khan Academy - Evolution of The 21st Century Education System

Flying a kite without a string 

Everyone does things in simple ways but quite a few who are different do things differently. They are the ones who have a dream and they dare to realize it. Almost everything in the modern world which we are all using is directly or indirectly gifted by the ideas of these great different thinkers whom we call as innovators.
They fly the kite of their dreams in their mind without the strings and work hard to make their dream come true so that one day they can fly their dream's kite with the string of the ways they found for reaching the target.

And modern day's innovators are not in any way less than the Entrepreneurs. And one of them who visualized to revolutionize the present education system with the incorporation of Technology to humanize the classrooms, is Salman Khan. Khan, an MIT graduate, had a dream of making "A Global One World Classroom" so as to facilitate peer to peer learning, increasing the participative learning, breaking the age barrier and bringing everyone at a common platform i.e. a global classroom for real time free learning.

He started implementation of his idea as a non profit organization-  Khan Academy , for which he left his job of the Hedge Fund Analyst. He set his goal ,visualize it in the mind , and started working for it with full dedication. Now with the mission of imparting free and always accessible education to millions of students through this platform, he is working hard with his team.

Khan Academy started with a very simple thought, when Salman Khan saw his cousin needing some help in mathematics, he started tutoring her using yahoo notepad. When other friends sought similar help, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on Youtube. This started the revelation we now know as khan academy. The popularity of the videos and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and completely focus on the tutorials.

Now Khan academy is having different projects in different geographic locations and are constantly trying to impart education in a more efficient way of using their online truely personalized adaptive tool. They are growing and are acheiving their goals with the help of Technology implementation. They have in a way flipped the whole of the education system where now lectures happen at home and homework at schools under the complete supervision of teacher. Using this tool , different students in the same class do different things at their own pace and teacher administers all of them at the same time. This is how Salman Khan is making the string of his endeavors to make the kite of his dreams fly.

Today Khan Academy is seen by 4 million different users per month to access different videos. And they are still counting.