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Yes, but Khan academy also provides exercises to test your undestanding of the material, so I don't think it falls into this category. Also, Sal doesn't write

Yes, but Khan academy also provides exercises to test your undestanding of the material, so I don't think it falls into this category. Also, Sal doesn't write the exercises and the people that write the exercises don't use Sal's videos exclusively as far as what to put in a module. There are videos with no specific exercises and modules that cover multiple videos and bits that are left out of video that use the same techniques. So, student can see if they really understood the concepts or just thought they did.

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kmfrk 16y ago
A cursory glance in Practice only shows maths-related exercises. I haven't used the exercises, so it's perfectly possible that I missed something.
- solarmist 16y ago
  Gotta start somewhere. The website's only been around for less than a year.
  - kmfrk 16y ago
    Oh c'mon. Maths is the easy way to assess if someone's understood something. If it's equal to the result, it's correct. If it isn't, with the regular type of testing, it's going to be wrong. There are also other maths skill gauges to look into, but for now, Khan Academy sticks to a certain format. As far as maths is concerned, Khan Academy is a great educational tool. But "maybe eventually" can't exempt it of concerns in the other regards, like what has been argued. We are giving the OP a lot of flack and singing the highest praises of Khan Academy while doing it. The critics might as well deserve the benefit of the doubt as well as Khan Academy. Just for the sake of summing up the comment branch, pseudolearning is a factor to consider - with ajays's anecdotal evidence as well as Khan Academy. Khan Academy's tests also serve as tests for Khan Academy's didactic merit. And so far, we can only assess the merit of the maths material.
    - solarmist 16y ago
      What? I'm just saying they haven't gotten there yet, so there's no use trying to evaluate whether Khan Academy will work on more subjective areas of learning. I do see maths as being the easiest subject to use this method with and only time will tell if it can be extended successfully to more subjective subjects.

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kmfrk 16y ago

A cursory glance in Practice only shows maths-related exercises. I haven't used the exercises, so it's perfectly possible that I missed something.

solarmist 16y ago
Gotta start somewhere. The website's only been around for less than a year.
- kmfrk 16y ago
  Oh c'mon. Maths is the easy way to assess if someone's understood something. If it's equal to the result, it's correct. If it isn't, with the regular type of testing, it's going to be wrong. There are also other maths skill gauges to look into, but for now, Khan Academy sticks to a certain format. As far as maths is concerned, Khan Academy is a great educational tool. But "maybe eventually" can't exempt it of concerns in the other regards, like what has been argued. We are giving the OP a lot of flack and singing the highest praises of Khan Academy while doing it. The critics might as well deserve the benefit of the doubt as well as Khan Academy. Just for the sake of summing up the comment branch, pseudolearning is a factor to consider - with ajays's anecdotal evidence as well as Khan Academy. Khan Academy's tests also serve as tests for Khan Academy's didactic merit. And so far, we can only assess the merit of the maths material.
  - solarmist 16y ago
    What? I'm just saying they haven't gotten there yet, so there's no use trying to evaluate whether Khan Academy will work on more subjective areas of learning. I do see maths as being the easiest subject to use this method with and only time will tell if it can be extended successfully to more subjective subjects.