Interesting article, thanks. I hadn't heard of Codeacademy before.
I'm not sure if classifying Khan as "the latest addition to the education video pile" is quite right. Yes, the videos are nothing new, but I find that it's the automated exercises and not the videos that make sites such as KA so valuable. Granted, you could find the exercises in textbooks as well, and those would be somewhat more varied... but at least for myself, digging up a textbook, solving the questions using pen and paper, and then verifying the answer from the back of the book feels considerably more tedious than doing it on a computer and getting instant feedback and earning silly badges for my progress.
On the other hand, that might just be because I've associated the textbooks with school and tedium, and if I'd been originally schooled using resources such as KA, I'd find them tedious as well.
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Date: 2012-02-05 08:46 am (UTC)I'm not sure if classifying Khan as "the latest addition to the education video pile" is quite right. Yes, the videos are nothing new, but I find that it's the automated exercises and not the videos that make sites such as KA so valuable. Granted, you could find the exercises in textbooks as well, and those would be somewhat more varied... but at least for myself, digging up a textbook, solving the questions using pen and paper, and then verifying the answer from the back of the book feels considerably more tedious than doing it on a computer and getting instant feedback and earning silly badges for my progress.
On the other hand, that might just be because I've associated the textbooks with school and tedium, and if I'd been originally schooled using resources such as KA, I'd find them tedious as well.