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VIDEO: Khan Academy Founder Discusses the Power of New Course Delivery Systems

March 13, 2012

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, talked to attendees at ACE's 94th Annual Meeting yesterday about his free online education platform and its power to transform how courses are delivered at all educational levels.

After describing how he got started in 2004, Khan took questions from the audience. The full Q&A session is below (21:43):

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