Sal Khan | |
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 Khan speaking at a TED conference in 2011 | |
| Born | Salman Amin Khan October 11, 1976 Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Board member of | Aspen Institute |
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Umaima Marvi (m. 2004) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Abdul Wahab Khan (grandfather) |
Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.[1] He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.[2]
As of December 2023[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.17 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times.[3] In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100.[4] In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."[5]
- ^ Number of videos, Khan Academy.
- ^ Westervelt, Eric (June 30, 2016). "From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan, A School with Real Classrooms". NPR.org. NPR.
- ^ "Khan Academy". YouTube. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
- ^ Gates, Bill (April 18, 2012). "Time 100 – Salman Khan". Time. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
- ^ Noer, Michael (November 2, 2012). "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education". Forbes.