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Khan Academy

Khan Academy

software

1 creator use or recommend it

▲ 1 active in the last 90 days

1 use 6 mention
Last discussed Oct 5, 2026

An online learning platform offering free courses and educational content.

What creators say

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Used for: Self-teaching remedial physics and calculus as an adult learner while studying aerospace engineering

"I bought textbooks. I went back and I did remedial Khan Academy physics and calculus because I hadn't had any since high school. I was doing the problem sets."

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Praised: Teacher dashboards tracking self-paced progress vs: Compared to Aristotle

"Eventually Khan Academy had these great dashboards. I remember Sal showing me these crazy dashboards where a teacher can see all the self-paced progress across the class, where people are stuck."

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Jason Calacanis
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"This maybe will help my kid, you know, when I get a personal tutor for them. Like Sal would be the perfect example of Khan Academy."

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Joe Liemandt
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vs: Mentioned alongside MIT OpenCourseWare and libraries as examples of freely ac...

"Why doesn't everybody have an MIT degree? The open courseware is available. Libraries have been here forever. Khan Academy — why doesn't everybody just use that?"

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Ian Rogers
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Praised: Great for the 15% of people who are curious

"Sal Khan just said this off-handed remark that I think about every day, which is that Khan Academy is great for the 15% of people who are curious."

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John Coogan
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Used for: Learning college-level subjects for free via videos and online coursework Praised: Covers essentially everything taught in college; free and open vs: Discussed as an alternative learning path to traditional college, alongside b...

"Khan Academy of course is sort of open-source education. You can basically learn everything that you learn in college from Khan Academy just watching videos and doing their online open coursework. It's still crazy that Khan Academy exists and plen..."

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"It reminds me a lot of like, you know, I've used Khan Academy before. There's a similar sort of, you know, there's videos, there's quizzes."

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