In the rapidly expanding field of online education, no one has matched the success of Salman Khan. After he started out tutoring his nephew online, the former hedge fund analyst built up Khan Academy, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on philanthropy, civil society, housing and the welfare state. Just eight years after its founding, Khan Academy has ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: Khan Academy is pretty useful for learning about computer science, math, and many other subjects. If you'd rather learn without being tied to an internet connection, KA Lite allows ...

Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer, who covers education ...

NEW YORK — The original "Star Trek" series isn't just a milestone of science fiction, it's also a treasure trove of mathematical ideas — as Space.com discovered when we attended "Star Trek: The Math ...

Your website may not be as popular as Khan Academy, and you probably aren't teaching math, but you can use valuable principles of gamification – namely, instant feedback and cumulative rewards – to ...