Khan Academy founder, Salman Khan, talks future of education today at Cal Poly Pomona
Posted: 11/13/2012 11:07:44 AM PST
Updated: 11/13/2012 06:37:16 PM PST
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POMONA -- Khan Academy founder Salman Khan spoke about reinventing education to about 1,000 people, a crowd which was two-thirds teachers and university students, Tuesday afternoon at Cal Poly Pomona.
"How many of you are not aware of the Khan Academy at all?" Khan asked the audience. No hands went up.
Six years ago, Khan, a hedge fund analyst, created online videos to tutor his cousin in math. As of Tuesday, he has more than 435,000 subscribers on YouTube and his videos have been watched almost 205 million times.
Khan talked about how he started with tutoring his 12-year-old cousin in math over the Internet every day after