Khan Academy is a Global classroom with a collection of more than 5500 instructional videos, 100,000 practice problems and along with a personalized dash board
These resources are catered to k-12 curriculum and cover a range of subjects.
It has partnered with NASA,The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences and MIT to offer specialized contents
The coach dashboards provides a summary of class performance along with the student's detailed profile.
It is appreciated by teachers as a tool to help visual learners and students with issues to focus.
It helps students to catch up with the content when they are absent, help them to recap their learning and also to help students while they do their homework .
Khan Academy though is criticized by many educators for its lack of pedagogical approach, inquiry and exploration opportunities. Many educators claim these videos to be nothing but traditional lectures using a different format