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Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos. In addition to micro lectures, the organization's website features practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available for free to anyone around the world. == History == The founder of the organization, Salman Khan, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to immigrant parents from Bangladesh, and India. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MEng in electrical engineering and computer science), he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School. In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin Nadia who needed help with math using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided that it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube.〔 The videos' popularity and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time.〔 The project is funded by donations. Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization,〔 now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Broad Foundation, Google, the O’Sullivan Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and other philanthropic organizations. In 2010, Google announced it would give Khan Academy $2 million for creating more courses and for translating the core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10100. In 2012, Google's first employee, Craig Silverstein, left there and joined Khan Academy. In 2013, the Mexico-based Carlos Slim Foundation made a donation to Khan Academy to expand its Spanish library of videos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Mexico’s Carlos Slim funds Khan academy in Spanish )〕 In 2015, to enable anytime, anywhere learning for people across the world, AT&T contributed $2.25 million to Khan Academy to fund development of a new mobile learning platform and app. In the beginning, Khan Academy offered videos mostly about mathematics. Thanks to donations (the first of significance was from philanthropist Ann Doer),〔 Khan Academy has been able to expand its faculty and offer courses about history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, American civics, art history, economics, music, computer programming and computer science.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Khan Academy's video library )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team )〕 There are more than 5,000 courses in all, as of 2015. In addition to faculty, the organization has a network of content specialists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Our content specialists )〕 Khan Academy also has thousands of resources translated into other languages. It launched the Spanish version of the website in September 2013 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Khan Academy )〕 followed by the Brazilian Portuguese,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Khan Academy )〕 French 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Khan Academy )〕 and Turkish 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Khan Academy )〕 versions. It is supported by partners and volunteers in languages including Indonesian, German, Spanish, Czech, French, Italian, Swahili, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Xhosa, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, and Chinese. Khan Academy's website has been translated to 23 languages and its videos to 65.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Translations )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Is Khan Academy available in other languages? )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khan Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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