{"id":7164,"date":"2017-11-20T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:28:54","slug":"our-mission-is-to-reach-everyone-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/our-mission-is-to-reach-everyone-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Our mission is to reach everyone across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7165\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Salman-Khan.jpg\" alt=\"Salman Khan\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" \/>With online learning revolutionizing access to education, prominent American educator and Khan Academy founder Sal Khan reaffirmed on Wednesday that his mission is to reach everyone with his idea of e-learning.<br \/>\nSpeaking at a keynote session titled \u201cEducation Re-imagined\u201d on the opening day of the Misk Global Forum 2017 in Riyadh, Khan, who runs his academy as a free online education platform, explained how he runs the academy, which according to him has 60 million registered learners in more than 100 countries.<br \/>\nWhile sharing his experience, Khan said he began with tutorials for his cousin through online videos but growing demand from relatives and friends prompted him to come up with a YouTube channel to distribute lessons.<br \/>\nHis organization has produced more than 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of subjects especially mathematics, science and computing.<br \/>\nSpeaking in front of a huge gathering of Saudi youths as an icon with an inspiring story, Khan said, in a few years he had millions of viewers that inspired him to concentrate on developing the Khan Academy as a non-profit organization.<br \/>\nDuring his presentation, he iterated that online learning complements rather than competes with traditional education, adding that this online access to education helps individuals learn diversified skills.<br \/>\nDuring his talk, he shared a video of Bill Gates, how he was impressed with Khan Academy\u2019s idea of online learning and later turned to be a big supporter of his charitable work, which he is doing for free and for everyone.<br \/>\nThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Google helped Khan Academy flourish, he said, adding that they also get generous donations from others, which help run the program.<br \/>\nHe also shared videos of students who benefited from the academy with their reactions on how the academy is helping students in learning lessons.<br \/>\nKhan is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate with a management degree from Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/our-mission-is-to-reach-everyone-across-the-globe\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With online learning revolutionizing access to education, prominent American educator and Khan Academy founder Sal Khan reaffirmed on Wednesday that his mission is to reach everyone with his idea of e-learning. 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