Khan Academy

[Owen Densmore]

One of the education threads within the complex has been small,  
intense courses broken down into small pieces that are easily browsed,  
then a deep dive possible if you find something you like.

While searching for courses on the web, I stumbled onto Khan Academy:
        http://www.khanacademy.org/
It is pretty fascinating.  It averages around 10 minutes per lecture,  
and has lots of topics.  I've sampled several and they've done a  
surprisingly good job.

In particular, if you know folks, or are one yourself, who say "I  
can't understand Math"  .. or "I can't do X" where X is any of:
           Algebra 1
           Algebra
           Arithmetic
           Pre-algebra
           Geometry
           Chemistry
           Brain Teasers
           Current Economics
           Banking and Money
           Venture Capital and Capital Markets
           Finance
           Valuation and Investing
           Credit Crisis
           Geithner Plan
           Paulson Bailout
           Biology
           Trigonometry
           Precalculus
           Statistics
           Probability
           Calculus
           Differential Equations
           History
           Linear Algebra
           Physics
.. then send them to Khan!

    -- Owen


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[Joost Rekveld]

thanks a million for this link !
a great resource for an artist who is always looking for ways to learn  
these kinds of things...

best,

Joost.


On 20100428, at 0531, Owen Densmore wrote:

> One of the education threads within the complex has been small,  
> intense courses broken down into small pieces that are easily  
> browsed, then a deep dive possible if you find something you like.
>
> While searching for courses on the web, I stumbled onto Khan Academy:
> http://www.khanacademy.org/
> It is pretty fascinating.  It averages around 10 minutes per  
> lecture, and has lots of topics.  I've sampled several and they've  
> done a surprisingly good job.
>
> In particular, if you know folks, or are one yourself, who say "I  
> can't understand Math"  .. or "I can't do X" where X is any of:
>          Algebra 1
>          Algebra
>          Arithmetic
>          Pre-algebra
>          Geometry
>          Chemistry
>          Brain Teasers
>          Current Economics
>          Banking and Money
>          Venture Capital and Capital Markets
>          Finance
>          Valuation and Investing
>          Credit Crisis
>          Geithner Plan
>          Paulson Bailout
>          Biology
>          Trigonometry
>          Precalculus
>          Statistics
>          Probability
>          Calculus
>          Differential Equations
>          History
>          Linear Algebra
>          Physics
> .. then send them to Khan!
>
>   -- Owen
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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(Heinz von Foerster)

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