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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Super Cool! Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App | Fast Company

Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App

BY Gregory Ferenstein | 03-10-2012 | 4:31 PM
Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app.

Khan Academy, the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store. The enhanced version of Khan Academy will include time-syncing between devices--no Internet connection required--an interactive transcript of the lectures for easy searching, and a handy scrubber for moving between parts of the lectures. Perhaps more importantly, now that more schools have begun adopting Khan's lectures for their own classrooms, the free iPad app could possibly replace or supplement textbooks, saving cash-strapped schools and students a lot of money.

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http://www.fastcompany.com/1823819/khan-academy-ipad

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