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Khan Academy Launches IPad App

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Khan Academy has launched a free iPad app. The app includes access to its library of over 2,700 videos, which can be downloaded as either individual videos or playlists, subtitles, and a progress tracker, among other things. Users will also be available to access exercises on the app soon.

Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization started in 2008 by Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, and a former hedge fund analyst. The Khan Academy has received the Microsoft Tech Award for education, and grants from the O’Sullivan Foundation and Google.

[Image Courtesy: Khan Academy]

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