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As one who has gone through about 100+ Khan videos, I appreciate them for what they are - which is usually helping someone over a conceptual hurdle. I would lo
by ghshephard 13y ago
As one who has gone through about 100+ Khan videos, I appreciate them for what they are - which is usually helping someone over a conceptual hurdle. I would love it if someone were to take the next step, and create a more sophisticated question bank than Khan has, which stresses your learning experience. The one key issue with Khan is that it typically doesn't stress you, and as such, the knowledge retained is usually fairly shallow.
- nooron 13y agoStudyEdge (YC S13) is doing a great job with a similar service. They provide Khan Academy-style videos with a live support system (on the FB app platform). The videos + support system are meant to supplement university courses-- essentially acting as a web tutor. Their own supplementary question banks tend to be deep and well designed. I used the service to get through Calc 2 as an undergrad. I liked it so much (went from a C+ to A student in math) that I went to work there the next summer!
- findjashua 13y agoSimilar experience - I had a terrible professor for my LInear Algebra course back in college and Gilbert Strand's lecture videos on MIT open courseware were the only reason I passed that course (actually got a better grade than other math courses).