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Financial analyst’s YouTube lectures on science and other topics prove popular

JUN 07, 2010
Physics Today
Chronicle : For the past four years, Salman Khan has been posting brief video lessons to what he calls the Khan Academy on YouTube, the video-sharing site. The lessons are popular. Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed them. A former financial analyst, Khan focused first on math and other topics he knows best. Now, he teaches about topics he’s had to learn about himself, such as entropy . A news story by the Chronicle‘s Jeffrey Young examines the Khan Academy and its implications for online education.
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