[Maths-Education] Re: Fwd: The Khan Academy
Hugh Burkhardt
Hugh.Burkhardt at nottingham.ac.uk
Sun Mar 18 12:19:57 GMT 2012
The general view in the US seems to be that the videos are examples of clear expository teaching - greatly needed in a country where that is rare. (Not a problem we have here, of course)
Among the more preceptive it is recognised that, for many students, clear expository teaching (+ lots of practice, of course) does not deliver competence.
Hugh
> Colleagues. I wonder if anyone has an informed view on "The Khan Academy" a website which seems to have hundreds of maths instruction videos on YouTube.
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> http://www.khanacademy.org
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> Its been suggested to me as "inspirational " but I've looked at some and have been quite underwhelmed. Am I missing something here?
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> Peter Gates
> University of Nottingham
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