Youtube University

Youtube is a real rotation in the field of audiovisual material shared on the network. His motto, "to convey to yourself (broadcast yourself)," self-explanatory rewards of the page is accepted as the paradigm of Web 2.0.

The millennian genesis (those born after 1980) has got an effectual and Youtube to look on free music films, episodes of pop serial publication and films. The corp Google corrupted YouTube in U.S. dollars 1.760 million in late 2006.

However, Salman Khan, a resident of California, United States, of Indian origin, has another use for the tool and has become a celebrity on YouTube to introduce audiovisual teaching material matter most revered by students: math .

Sampling to service a proportional who had trouble agreement the advance calculus, Khan modeled slate Paint program, recorded his voice through a taping program and was explicating step by step guidelines to accompany to resolve a complicated trouble.

In a proportional you the video was useful, so that Khan, who endure the determination of the effort that took place, raised the material to a YouTube channel made by the November 16, 2006 and that was the birth of Khan Academy (The Academy of Khan).

Nearly four yrs and 1.630 videos later, Khan virtual classes have been played 20.2 million times. In addition, its website has 70,000 users, consequently Khan Academy has more educatees than the Catholic University of Santo Domingo (UCSD) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (Intec) together.

Youtube has get a sort of alternative universe, without titles or schoolrooms or schedules, only knowledge-hungry students whose only desire is to learn.

Like Khan, other specialisers from around the global accept shared on Youtube what they cognize about how to assemble a computer, how to instal an OS and even how a heart transplantation. Who said the Internet is totally that is stunting the young minds and violating the copyright?

Khan Academy in the audio-visual classes are calculus, physics, algebra, geometry, statistics, finance, chemistry and biology.

Khan's method at all can't replace the schoolroom, following the teacher-student fundamental interaction is central to the teaching-learning procedure. However, it is potential that those who have incurred a hapless performance in some of the subjects learned by Professor of Youtube can review their lessons interesting.

Classes are delivered in videos that don't last more than 15 minutes, since Youtube has limits for average users, but the content is as precise and focused, you do not need to explain extended.

Khan holds a chair in a simple and correct English, apart from adding a sense of humor to the Pythagorean theorem and the binomial theorem, which in formal schoolrooms do not seem unfunny.