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Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy

Posted by timothy on from the open-course-ware dept.

theodp writes "At some schools, a teaching load of five courses every academic year is considered excessive. But Sal Khan, as an earlier Slashdot post noted, manages to deliver his mini-lectures an average of 70,000 times a day. BusinessWeek reports that Khan Academy has a new fan in Bill Gates, who's been singing and tweeting the praises of the free-as-in-beer website. 'This guy is amazing,' Gates wrote. 'It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.' Gates and his 11-year-old son have been soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. And at the Aspen Ideas Festival in front of 2,000 people, Gates gave Khan a shout-out, touting the 'unbelievable' Khan Academy tutorials that 'I've been using with my kids.'"

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  1. imagine if copyrights didnt exist or by chronoss2010 · · Score: -1, Troll

    imagine if copyrights didnt exist or patents, hed be even more awesome eh billy boy

  2. More important than Africa by squirrl · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because fighting disease in America is more important?