Case study

Giorgio SironiNEST project

Alta Scuola Politecnica 7th cycle

Khan Academy

Description

Educational videos for delivering content at the student's pace and with possibility of replay at the student's time and will

Platform for exercises Platform for coaching

Tracking of students and their history as they change tutors

Tracking of topics and their reception by the class

Homepage

Homepage

Video explanations of different depths 2' introductions TED talk

Promoters are shown Bill Gates Google

Curricula

Curricula

Variety of subjects Mathematics Scientific subjects Economics and finance …

Weaknesses Humanities (History, Literature) Soft skills (writing)

Videos

Videos

Videos

YouTube hosting Outsourcing lowers costs

Features Categorization Comments Questions&Answers system powered by students

who watched the video all over the world

Practice sessions

Practice sessions

Path of exercises of increasing difficulty Randomly chosen exercises from a particular

subject's archive The student has to get 10 in a row correct

Mastery learning

Coaching

Coaching

Enables usage also in classrooms Students

Knowledge map Video progress Exercises progress

Teachers Tracking of students in time Profile of students when they were with another

teacher Progress of the single student on a single topic

Business model

Non-profit organization IRS-recognized 501c3 Donations to the foundation

Privates Gates Foundation Google prize

Conclusions

Take-aways Videos and other reusable delivery of content frees

up classroom time for exercise sessions E-learning can track students for their whole

academic life Finer statistics means a better usage of resources

Teacher stays with students currently left behind Teacher can discover the problematic areas

automatically Proficient students (on a given topic) can tutor

the others