I’m not so sure that I would characterize the Khan Academy’s efforts as that of being Superman in nature. Sal’s efforts like many who think an academic subject is the sum of many discrete parts will someday realize that they have only part of the picture (and only part of the subject matter picture). Hopefully his working with the CK-12 organization on their OER materials will improve his materials
Jim Kelly http://wikieducator.org/k-12math.info (English - Español – Français) On Feb 11, 8:27 pm, Steve Foerster <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that Khan Academy, the makers of those awesome (if > insufficiently freely licensed) educational videos, has teamed up with > BitTorrent as a distribution mechanism: > > http://blog.bittorrent.com/2011/02/10/khan-academy-education-videos-a... > > In a practical sense, the big deal is that such uses for BitTorrent > poke holes in the corporate culture argument that BitTorrent is > nothing but a vector for copyright resistance. > > In an aesthetic sense, as a free culture geek it's a big deal because > it feels sort of like the special issue where Superman and Batman team > up. :-) > > Anyway, thought I'd share. > > -=Steve=- > > -- > Stephen H. Foersterhttp://hiresteve.comhttp://wikieducator.org/steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
