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Not knowing KA well enough, would anyone here hire someone with only KA credentials? Does a KA certification add much in hirability value?

• tokenadult 15y ago
  would anyone here hire someone with only KA credentials? I definitely would NOT hire anyone only with Khan Academy credentials in mathematics. Mathematics courses are what made Khan Academy famous, and as far as I know, Salman Khan does about as well as anyone in online mathematics lectures. (I've seen very little of his lectures, or of anyone's, as I would rather read books about mathematics than watch videos about mathematics.) But "mathematics is not a spectator sport," in the oft-repeated phrase, and no one can get a complete education in mathematics without solving A LOT of problems. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760663 The Khan Academy developers are aware of this issue, and are currently rewriting the exercise engine(s) on Khan Academy to make more challenging online exercises for the Khan Academy math courses. But it will take a long time to get the delivery model of the courses unstuck from exercises and fully interweaved into problem-solving. An organization that is much farther along in building an infrastructure of sound mathematical instruction based on problem-solving is Art of Problem Solving, which has a free online problem-solving database called Alcumus http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Alcumus/Introduction.php http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Alcumus/Introduction.php and many online courses in various levels of mathematics, supported by thoroughly written textbooks http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/index.php http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/index.php? and an increasing number of video lectures, as well as discussion forums.