New Khan Academy mobile apps, including first official Android app
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#2It's amazing to see how far Khan Academy has evolved over the past few years from it's days as a simple gallery of YouTube links. I also think Khan Academy is a great example of the importance of structure and organization in learning. You could probably find all of the same material scattered all over the web, including the KA videos themselves, but the structure, tracking and assessments add immense value to the material.
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#3Any idea if the source will be posted online on their github https://github.com/Khan ?
Khanacademy is a non-profit but when it comes to licensing they are closer to for-profit business licenses in that don't allow commercial derivative like wikipedia does. I love what they do though.
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#4Funny to realize I had the urge to have an Android app for Khan Academy just today, took the time to search and got into their Tester program, used it the whole day and now I've found they just released it officially.
That's great news, they've been doing a really awesome job evolving their business and it's great to see now they are expanding even more, an Android app was really something they've been missing for a long time.
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#5How will the mobile app enhance the delivery of education that the mobile website won't?
[edit: thank you for all the replies!]
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#6How will the mobile app enhance the delivery of education that the mobile website won't? [edit: thank you for all the replies!]
it works offline.
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#7How will the mobile app enhance the delivery of education that the mobile website won't? [edit: thank you for all the replies!]
In terms of reach, a native app seems like a pretty big win. KA are aiming for global reach, and, in countries like India where tons of folks are running on old devices, any bandwidth or performance upgrade is significant.
Native apps save bandwidth on each request by relying on the API, which primarily transmits semantic data rather than presentational data. On a slow, metered connection, that's significant.
And, once the exercise framework lands on Android, it oughta have way better performance than the current Javascript implementation that the mobile website uses - especially for manipulating those fancy graphs. When users are frustrated by KA's unresponsiveness, they drop off and don't learn.
That said, the current Android app is definitely just a starting point; until exercises and all the personalized learning features land, mobile web will still be the best tool for KA's non-casual mobile users.
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#8How will the mobile app enhance the delivery of education that the mobile website won't? [edit: thank you for all the replies!]
without using it or even looking at it: if they made a native app, the interface will be faster out of the box.
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#9Glad to see Khan Academy supporting Android! This is definitely the better way to reach the majority of the world at the moment.
Would really love to see AndroidTV / AppleTV apps too!
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#10How will the mobile app enhance the delivery of education that the mobile website won't? [edit: thank you for all the replies!]
Giving a look at the content and length of videos, this also looks like a great way to consume educational content while on the way to work (On the train, of course. Not driving! :))