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Home schooling just got a whole lot easier with the comprehensive - and free - Khan Academy app for the iPad. Khan Academy fancies itself as a non-profit "global classroom", with over 3000 educational videos for students of all ages. You can learn about topics as diverse as Romanticism in France (art history), binomial distribution (statistics} and deflationary spiral (macroeconomics), and each video can be streamed to your iPad or downloaded for off-line viewing. You also get the option of downloading all of the videos for a particular topic.
The maths, science and economics sections are by far the most comprehensive, and adults wanting to brush up on their high school maths in particular will find most of the major topics covered. The humanities section only covers o handful of topics in history. American civics and art history, while the test prep section is heavily skewed towards US exams. Calling them "videos" is also o bit of a stretch - most of them are really more like audio podcasts with a picture slideshow. although o few of them do make use of diagrams drawn in real-time to illustrate particular concepts.
The app saves the position of each video you watch so you can come bock to them later, and there ore subtitles below the videos so you can jump to different parts of the lecture quickly. You get the option of creating your own profile, and this logs the videos that you've completed and any 'achievements' that you've unlocked. You con also post about videos you've watched on Facebook and Twitter, but that's about the limit of the interactivity that's available. Sadly, there's no option to comment on videos or ask questions, and there are no follow up exercises you can complete to test your learning.
The maths, science and economics sections are by far the most comprehensive, and adults wanting to brush up on their high school maths in particular will find most of the major topics covered. The humanities section only covers o handful of topics in history. American civics and art history, while the test prep section is heavily skewed towards US exams. Calling them "videos" is also o bit of a stretch - most of them are really more like audio podcasts with a picture slideshow. although o few of them do make use of diagrams drawn in real-time to illustrate particular concepts.
The app saves the position of each video you watch so you can come bock to them later, and there ore subtitles below the videos so you can jump to different parts of the lecture quickly. You get the option of creating your own profile, and this logs the videos that you've completed and any 'achievements' that you've unlocked. You con also post about videos you've watched on Facebook and Twitter, but that's about the limit of the interactivity that's available. Sadly, there's no option to comment on videos or ask questions, and there are no follow up exercises you can complete to test your learning.
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