From a tiny closet in Mountain View, Sal Khan is educating the globe for free. His 1,516 videotaped mini-lectures — on topics ranging from simple addition to vector calculus and Napoleonic campaigns — ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on philanthropy, civil society, housing and the welfare state. Just eight years after its founding, Khan Academy has ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: Khan Academy is pretty useful for learning about computer science, math, and many other subjects. If you'd rather learn without being tied to an internet connection, KA Lite allows ...

Thirteen years ago, a Silicon Valley hedge fund analyst from Louisiana turned his talent for tutoring cousins into one of the internet’s most popular lines of free educational resources. Sal Khan’s ...

Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer, who covers education ...