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Re:Why I Love the Khan Academy by icegreentea on Saturday October 02, 2010 @08:04PM (#1751692)
Khan Academy currently heavily depends on examples. Anything that you can teach by example is probably fair game. For example (ha!), his history stuff right now, while perfectly fine, I find no more engaging/effective than reading about.

That doesn't mean it won't work, just it probably won't be as effective for some other stuff as it has been for math and such.

Re:Why I Love the Khan Academy by dillydally on Saturday October 02, 2010 @08:35PM (#1751750)
I think it just becomes story-telling.
Re:Why I Love the Khan Academy by dinkumthinkum on Saturday October 02, 2010 @09:02PM (#1751800)
I agree. I think making it work beyond math and science will be a bit challenging, I think the style would need to change quite a bit, away from just the white board and more toward something like a real lecture.