Khan Academy

I read about him in Fortune Magazine probably more than a year ago. The first time I went to his site (by the way you can simply Google: Khan Academy, click the link and viola), it was still in the "full of promise" phase. But once Bill Gates knew about him and the resources started to roll in - Khan Academy and Salman Khan became the toast of "What do we do with the technology we have?" crowd :)

What happens to a usual brick and mortar school, like Mapua, if lectures (and solved examples) in Algebra, Arithmetic, Banking and Money, Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Cosmology and Astronomy, Economics, Developmental Math, Differential Equations, Finance, Geometry, (Western) History, Linear Algebra, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Probability, Statistics, Trigonometry and Capital Valuation becomes free?

What happens to the professors? How will their jobs change? What new role will they embrace?

What happens to the school administrators' mental model of what a school is? What changes will they make? Or will they do nothing?

Above all, what happens to the students when they can actually "listen" to lectures without being physically in school? Plus, they can actually "listen" to the lectures over and over again without piling 5s? :)

How will the "face to face", "student-to-faculty face time" be used when giving lectures is done at the most comfortable time of the students and not in the usual classrooms as we know it now?

I have "watched" this change evolve for over a year now. It is scary exciting when you hear Bill Gates announced and anoints Salman Khan as the "future of education".

I can't wait to see how will the classrooms change. :) Will they still be called "classrooms"? :)

I am glad I am part of the academe as this fundamental shift takes place! :)

"... why think like mere men."