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A short critique of the Khan Academy
- edtechdev 14y agoThere do not appear to be any instructional designers or learning scientists or faculty developers working with Khan Academy, Udacity, or Coursera. The closest is a 'course operations specialist' for Coursera: "As part of this multi-faceted role, you will train our teaching staff to produce video lectures". It's all just lecture videos. As a contrast, here are a few free, self-paced non-lecture-based courses from the Open Learning Initiative (the downside is they take millions of dollars and years to make their courses) https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses