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Elon Musk Foundation donates $5 million to Khan Academy
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Elon Musk Foundation donates $5 million to Khan Academy

World's richest person and Tesla's co-founder Elon Musk donated $5 million to the American non-profit educational organisation Khan Academy through his Musk Foundation. Khan Academy founder Sal Khan announced this news in a video posted on Twitter. Sal khan said he wants to give a huge shout and thank you to Elon Musk and everyone at the Musk foundation. "Thank you @elonmusk and @MuskFoundation for an incredible $5m donation to @khanacademy," he said. Elon Musk, along with his brother Kimbal, founded this NGO in 2002 which donates and support in several areas, including education, renewable energy research, human space exploration research, pediatric research etc. Founded in 2008, Khan Academy has 120 million registered users and 20 to 30 million students are using the platfor...
Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India
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Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India

Tata Trusts, and Khan Academy, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit education initiative founded by educationist Salman Khan, announced that they were entering into a five-year partnership to leverage the power of technology to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere in the country. The partnership will focus on developing tech-enabled, high quality and localised education resources across India by providing a personalised, mastery-based learning experience. A former hedge fund analyst, Khan, who began the initiative as a teaching platform for his cousins back in the mid-2000s, is now has 30 million registered students and has delivered over 580 million lessons and over four million exercise problems. Speaking to the media, Tata Trusts, Chairman Ratan Tata said: ...
Khan Academy Launched in Hindi Version
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Khan Academy Launched in Hindi Version

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 ...