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What is Khan Academy, massive open online courses and flipped classrooms?
Khan Academy is an educational non-profit organization founded by Bangladeshi American salman khan. Its main purpose is to use online movies for free teaching. At present, there are more than 2,000 teaching films on mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy. Its mission is to speed up the learning of students of all ages.

Massive open online courses (large-scale open online courses) and large-scale open online courses are the products of "Internet+education". English literal translation "massive open online course" is a new online course development model.

Flipped Classroom is translated from "flipped classroom" or "inverted classroom" and can also be translated into "inverted classroom". It refers to readjusting the time inside and outside the classroom and transferring the decision-making power of learning from the teacher to the students.

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The original intention of Khan Academy.

Salman khan, the founder of 1. holds a master's degree from MIT and an MBA from Harvard University, and once worked in the financial industry. In order to help relatives who live far away, he tried to put his teaching films on the Internet, mainly on YouTube.

2. Due to the wide acclaim, the viewing volume of related films has increased rapidly. Encourage Salman to resign in 2009 and record related courses full-time. Have your own independent website. The organization won the Microsoft Education Award in 2009, and in 20 10, it received a $2 million grant from Google Baili Project.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Khan college

Baidu Encyclopedia-Massive Open Online Courses

Baidu Encyclopedia * Flip Classroom