Principles Of Management

Management Lessons : Khan Academy

Overview

Salman Khan is Bangladeshi American educator who graduated from MIT and Harvard Business School and he run a no profit educational organization . The website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on Youtube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy , economics and organic chemistry .

Vision : To Revolutionize the world of eduction by making available the knowledge online.

Mission : Providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere

The Source of income for this venture is Google ads and the Donations it receives .

Innovation : Khan chose to avoid the conventional way of a person standing by a blackboard, deciding instead to present the learning concepts as if "popping out of a darkened universe and into one's mind with a voice out of nowhere" in a way similar to sitting next to someone and working out a problem on a sheet of paper.

Additonal Services.

The website offers software that generates practice problems and rewards good performance with videogame-like badges—for answering a “streak” of questions correctly, say, or mastering a series of algebra levels .
Khan Academy provides teachers with a dashboard application that lets her see the instant a student gets stuck.
Khan’s site automatically recommends new topics to move on to.

Impact

Mastering Basics : Keep it simple Silly !!

It’s aimed at helping people master the basics . It is solving the old problems with new innovative techniques .
His marketing strategy was through the Word of Mouth which is considered more credible .
The video themselves are very simple and hence appeal to the viewer .
Only those subjects where answers are unambiguously right or wrong can be dealt with here

Plans/Motives

Khan doesn’t want to change the way institutions teach; he wants to change how people learn, whether they’re in a private school or a public school .
He’s now considering starting his own private school, as a way to see just how much you could wrap learning around Khan Academy .
Khan and his team are now sitting on a massive pile of data about how people learn and where they get stuck. He plans to mine the information to discover previously invisible patterns.

Applications and learnings from Khan Academy in Management

1. Education

a) Khan Academy has raised this pertinent question that How can you use your expertise to contribute to the outcomes desired for students and the teaching profession ?
b) Building professional knowledge among teachers .
c) Developing new practices for teaching .
d) Laterally transferring new professional knowledge to other sites and teachers so that it becomes new professional practice .
e) Identifying and developing the most creative, innovative and ingenious teachers.


Innovation in Education

Imagining Future of Education

the virtual school became a reality?
students created digital learning resources?
...students worked from home or elsewhere?
...students led their own learning?
...timetables were flexible?

2 . Creativity in Problem Solving and Organization Management

Creative problem solving requires an attitude that allows you to search for new ideas and use your knowledge and experience.
Change perspective and use knowledge to make the ordinary extraordinary and the usual commonplace .

      Steps to Creative Problem Solving

1. State what appears to be the problem.

      The real problem may not surface until facts have been gathered and analyzed. Therefore, start with what you assume to be the problem, that can later be confirmed or corrected.


What exactly is the problem we are trying to solve ??

Like in the case of Ring toy problem , it is important to first understand what we are aiming for .
The real facts help make this possible, and provide supporting data.

2. Identify the Limitations and the Constraints .