Khan Academy for Android

A knowledge resource for everyone

Khan Academy is a free-to-download education and reference app for students, teachers, and adult learners. Whether it’s organic chemistry or college-level macroeconomics, it offers a plethora of topics that pique your interest or meet your current learning needs. As it leans on self-paced learning, you have control over the time you spend mastering a particular lesson. 

Therefore, you won’t be pressured of getting left behind by your peers—making learning a more enjoyable experience. However, the problem with using the Khan Academy app is it takes too long for the content to load, in addition to the occasional freezes and crashes.

Learn anything and everything

Khan Academy is a high-class educational platform for students of all ages to learn a wide variety of subjects on the go, from math and science to arts and humanities. By searching for topics you don’t know about, you’ll find yourself expanding your knowledge of macroeconomics, developing a growth mindset, or improving your financial literacy. You can bookmark your favorite topics, too, so you can study them at any time.

Bookmarked videos are downloadable for offline viewing, which is great news for users who often don’t have access to a stable internet connection, ensuring continuous learning. Quizzes and exercises are also offered in the app to promote active learning and recall as well as assess your current knowledge of the lesson because more often than not they act as a scaffold for the next topic. 

Hence, if you’re unsatisfied with your score, it’s best to retake an exercise or review the learning materials until you have a solid grasp of the lesson. However, some topics such as Entrepreneurship and Career in the Life Skills category do not include quizzes as they encourage a more real-world-based approach to mastery—meaning you have to apply your learnings in your daily life or even in the workplace or your local community.

Study at your own pace

Overall, Khan Academy is the ultimate melting pot of knowledge. As it lets you take charge of your own learning, you can study anything at any time and ensure that you’ve mastered a topic before proceeding to the next one. Downloadable bookmarked videos, meanwhile, are a blessing since not everyone has constant access to the internet. However, do expect the app to crash or freeze at certain times.