

Khan also shared his “Big Idea” at the opening session of the Festival. Watch his 15-minute Game Changer session here: While at Aspen Ideas, Khan demonstrated how the ground-breaking program is being implemented in middle schools. In addition to the free video lessons online, the Khan Academy has a vibrant software development team that has created tools for using Khan videos in the classroom with a sophisticated tracking system for teachers to monitor progress. With more than 3,000 lessons on everything from Algebra to Art History to Valuation and Investing, Khan Acadamy garners 4 million views a month from students around the world.

Did you catch Sal Khan on “60 Minutes” this week? Dubbed by its producers as Teacher to the World, Khan talks about a huge turning point for his online nonprofit the Khan Academy, which happened after Bill Gates introduced Khan to the world from the stage of the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival.
