ELON MUSK DONATES $5 MILLION TO KHAN ACADEMY

Wed 27 January 2021:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a $5 million donation to online learning organization, Khan Academy, CNN reported Tuesday.

Khan thanked Musk for his donation through a video. He tweeted the same on his personal Twitter handle.

“I just want to give a huge shout out to Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation for their incredibly generous support for Khan Academy,” Khan shared in the video. “This is going to allow us to accelerate all sorts of content. It will allow us to make the software and the practice that much more engaging for millions of students and teachers around the world,” the Indian American entrepreneur added.

The Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization which provides students from all over the world with “free, world-class education.” Translated into 36 languages its videos allow students from anywhere in the world to learn at their own pace.

The content is created by a team of experts and is completely free for all students and teachers.

Moreover, teachers also have access to a number of tools that can help identify gaps in their students’ understanding, it said.

Khan Academy has 120 million registered users and 20 to 30 million students are using the platform every month.

“I view this type of investment as really foundational for us to be able to build a multi-generational institution, so that future Elon Musks of the world are also able to tap into their potential and help all of us up-level who we are as a civilization,” Khan continued.

As millions of kids take online school classes from home globally including in India, the government along with the private education sector have a great responsibility to offer online e-Learning to more than 60 million college students and 1.5 billion school students worldwide, the statement added.

Khan Academy was founded as a non-profit in 2008 and focuses on creating a set of online tools that help educate students, by creating short lessons in the form of videos.

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