Students are motivated to master skills through a badge system that rewards hard work and improvement. The math lessons are totally free and incredibly thorough, ranging from the most basic math to calculus. Khan Academy offers diagnostic testing, instructional videos, practice problems, and assessments over a variety of subjects including math, biology, physics, chemistry, finance, computer science, history, logic, and grammar.

So Khan quit his job and started the website and non-profit organization Khan Academy. But it was not just his relatives who were interested in his videos people from all over were watching them. To accommodate the increasing demand, he moved his lessons from Yahoo’s Doodle Notepad to YouTube. The lessons were so successful that his other family members also requested tutoring. In 2004, Salman Khan - who had degrees in math, electrical engineering, computer science, and business - began tutoring his cousin living in Bangladesh over the Internet. , a website serving up “grammar with attitude,” provides diagnostic testing, lessons, and quizzes over writing skills, but the new staple of most Advocates’ repertoire is Khan Academy. APIE is also using MOOC-style resources for its College Readiness tutoring. Schools like The University of Texas and Rice University jumped on the MOOC bandwagon fairly early and new schools are signing up every day. Universities have reacted to these demands with the creation of MOOCs or massive open online courses. This is pushing not only our Classroom Coaches and College Readiness Advocates, but also educational institutions themselves, to become more creative and tech savvy about how they make knowledge available to students. Even the test APIE’s high school seniors have to take (the TSI, or Texas Success Initiative) is completely digital and graded by the computer immediately upon completion. In the age of Twitter, Instagram, and Vine, it is increasingly hard to engage students with paper resources.

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