Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre.
They also published a small press release on it’s Khan Academy Blog –
Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, you can learn math through our video lessons and practice problems mapped to India’s NCERT curriculum.
Wherever you are Mumbai, Jaipur, a village in Haryana, or anywhere else around the globe, we believe you deserve the opportunity to learn at your own pace and in your own language.
Khan Academy in Hindi brings us one step closer to our mission of a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and we thank our friends at Central Square Foundation for helping to make this possible. We hope you enjoy Khan Academy in Hindi! –Sandeep, India Country Manager at Khan Academy
“We are hugely motivated by the Indian government’s focus on facilitating quality education for all and the use of technology as an enabler to do so. The partnership with Central Square Foundation in India is a key step towards enabling Khan Academy’s vision of democratising world-class education, for anyone, anywhere. Applying our mission to India, we are hoping that making localised content available will benefit learners of all ages,” said Khan.
The Hindi platform will contain “practice exercises, instructional videos, dashboard analytics and teacher tools to empower learners in and outside the classroom to study”. This, the academy claims, will enable students to “see their progress and goals, and create personalised recommendations” on what to learn next.
Speaking on his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the latter’s visit to the Silicon Valley, Khan said, “It was a very positive meeting and he was very enthusiastic about the work we are doing”.