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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.