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Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity (Big Thinkers Series)

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a “flipped classroom” that allows blended learning — online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.

September 30, 2011

Go to KhanAcademy.org to see Salman Khan in action. And learn more about his work:

Read an Edutopia.org blog about blended learning -- combining online learning with project-based learning. Or, see more Edutopia Big Thinkers.

More Edutopia Coverage on Khan Academy:

  • VIDEO: Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity

    The founder of Khan Academy discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning, where online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.

  • VIDEO: Khan Academy Explores Hands-On Learning

    Khan Academy's video lectures have the potential to free up time for more hands-on learning in the classroom. In their Discovery Lab summer camp, Khan Academy staff experimented with project-based learning activities to build better student engagement.

  • BLOG: Khan Academy's Discovery Lab -- Summer Camp Where STEM Meets PBL

    Director Minli Virdone describes Khan Academy's Discovery Lab summer camp, where, among other hands-on projects, 5th, 6th, and 7th graders learn by reverse engineering common household objects.

  • VIDEO: Sal Khan Maps Out Blended Learning

    In his signature visual style, Khan sketches a plan for how digital learning tools can make room for teachers and students to embrace more real-life creative learning experiences, and how Khan Academy and the Discovery Lab summer camp fit into that big picture.

Find more information about Khan Academy's Discovery Lab.

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