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Does anyone know how you can become a video contributor to khan? I have several years of teaching experience, two of them with online learning models and have worked with the University of Texas. I've attempted to contact them and offer my free services, but haven't heard anything back. Not even a 'no thank you'.

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The other comments are wrong. Khan talks about it in his talk at linkedin and his talks at google. They want to add more teachers in the long run. If you really want to do this you have to take a subject you know well an make a small set of lectures on it and send that in. If they like it, then you have a change.

Khan does not like all this meetings and talk stuff. He want people to do the same thing he did. Just start and talk later.

hate to disappoint you, but they wont host your videos no matter how great of a teacher you are. If you have looked at a bunch of their videos, you might have noticed that they are all done by one guy! Hence the name Khan Academy. The whole site is from the crazed brain of this one guy.

You can see him talk in person in this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...

They're not really set up for taking external contributions, but there's nothing stopping you from making videos and putting them on YouTube. If you pick a subject and do it better than anyone else, you will have made a valuable contribution.

I know that's not as cool as contributing to Khan Academy, and makes it harder to get an audience, but it's something you can do at any time, without asking permission from anyone.

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