I’m currently doing a part-time undergrad degree. It’s spread out over six years and not as comprehensive as I’d like it to be, so I use Khan Academy to revise material and fill in any self-perceived blanks in my syllabus. For example, my course is sketchy on linear algebra compared to what I imagine I’ll need in future, so I’m currently exhausting the Khan Academy library on linear algebra, before moving onto something more advanced.
The “ceiling” of Khan Academy is becoming more apparent to me, in that it’s increasingly failing to meet my needs in terms of subject depth and self-assessment. I’ve had to raid MIT OCW for linear algebra problem sets.
On a related note, I’ve found myself explaining things using the same intonations and phrasing as Salman Khan.
Depends on what you mean by “a systematic manner”. If there’s a large subject I want to go through, I’ll start where I think I’m already up to, work my way through the videos one by one, skip topics I’m already happy with, and continue along those lines until I’m satisfied. If there’s a small subject I want to go over, I’ll identify the appropriate videos and watch them all.
It wouldn’t be a productive use of my time to go through every single Khan Academy video one by one, as I’m already most of the way through a maths-heavy undergrad degree.
Well, I meant doing the exercises. I don’t spent much of my time on the videos because either I already know it or I figured out either with the hints or without. Then, it’s smooth sailing the rest of the way.
The exercises aren’t that in-depth. They only really go up to introductory differentiation. It’s clear that the focus of the assessment exercises is a secondary/high school target, and there’s a lot of video content pitched at an undergrad level which is completely unassessed.
I’m currently doing a part-time undergrad degree. It’s spread out over six years and not as comprehensive as I’d like it to be, so I use Khan Academy to revise material and fill in any self-perceived blanks in my syllabus. For example, my course is sketchy on linear algebra compared to what I imagine I’ll need in future, so I’m currently exhausting the Khan Academy library on linear algebra, before moving onto something more advanced.
The “ceiling” of Khan Academy is becoming more apparent to me, in that it’s increasingly failing to meet my needs in terms of subject depth and self-assessment. I’ve had to raid MIT OCW for linear algebra problem sets.
On a related note, I’ve found myself explaining things using the same intonations and phrasing as Salman Khan.
So you don’t use Khan Academy in a systematic manner?
Depends on what you mean by “a systematic manner”. If there’s a large subject I want to go through, I’ll start where I think I’m already up to, work my way through the videos one by one, skip topics I’m already happy with, and continue along those lines until I’m satisfied. If there’s a small subject I want to go over, I’ll identify the appropriate videos and watch them all.
It wouldn’t be a productive use of my time to go through every single Khan Academy video one by one, as I’m already most of the way through a maths-heavy undergrad degree.
Well, I meant doing the exercises. I don’t spent much of my time on the videos because either I already know it or I figured out either with the hints or without. Then, it’s smooth sailing the rest of the way.
The exercises aren’t that in-depth. They only really go up to introductory differentiation. It’s clear that the focus of the assessment exercises is a secondary/high school target, and there’s a lot of video content pitched at an undergrad level which is completely unassessed.