The Khan Academy's innovation

In our brainstorming session, Professor Holmes offered advice about the process. When a group gets stumped while brainstorming, it often helps to flip a problem on its head. With the Khan Academy, Salman Khan has flipped the classroom on its head unintentionally. Sometimes the best ideas and innovations can be completely serendipitous, such as the a Khan Academy. While he began by posting YouTube videos to tutor his cousins, he now creates tutorial for a complete online classroom community. Teachers using the Khan Academy in classrooms have inverted the classroom model. Students now learn from tutorials at home, and complete homework exercises in the classroom. Tutorials only move as fast as students can understand, allowing students to master topics before moving on. This industry reinvents the way people learn from schools. With the learning Khan also finds himself as a social entrepreneur, seeking to better humanity rather than maximizing profits, the same way Udacity and Coursara do.