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Khan Academy
Khan Academy began in 2006 when Salman Khan, a former hedge fund analyst, started recording math tutorial videos on YouTube to help tutor his cousin remotely, and the videos gradually attracted a large enough audience that Khan left his finance career to build Khan Academy into a full nonprofit organization. The platform's entirely free, ad-free model, funded through philanthropic donations from organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google, distinguished it sharply from the subscription-based business model most subsequent online education platforms adopted. Khan Academy's curriculum expanded well beyond its original math focus into science, humanities, computer programming, and standardized test preparation, and its mastery-based learning approach, letting students progress at their own pace rather than a fixed classroom schedule, influenced broader discussions about personalized education. Khan Academy's combination of its origin as a single tutor's YouTube videos and its enduring commitment to a free, philanthropically funded model has made it one of the most widely used and socially significant online learning platforms ever created.
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edX was founded in 2012 as a joint nonprofit venture between Harvard University and MIT, launched specifically to offer free access to real university-level courses from elite institutions, directly following the same MOOC wave that produced Coursera the same year. The platform's nonprofit, open-source origins distinguished it from venture-backed for-profit competitors, and edX's underlying Open edX software platform was made freely available for other institutions and organizations to build their own independent online course offerings. edX was acquired in 2021 by the for-profit online education company 2U for $800 million, a transaction that marked a significant shift for a platform that had spent its first decade explicitly organized as a nonprofit mission-driven initiative between two of the world's most prestigious universities. edX's combination of its founding as a nonprofit Harvard-MIT partnership and its later acquisition by a for-profit education company has made it one of the most institutionally significant online learning platforms in the MOOC movement's history.
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