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OER Project is a non-profit open educational resources provider co-founded in 2011 by Bill Gates and David Christian.Originally known as Big History Project (BHP), the titular course was intended to enable the global teaching of the subject of Big History, which has been described as "the attempt to understand, in a unified way, the history of Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity."
Cynthia Stokes Brown initiated Big History at the Dominican University of California, and she wrote Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. [68] In 2010, Dominican University of California launched the world's first Big History program to be required of all first-year students, as part of the school's general education track.
Khan Academy is an American non-profit [3] educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. [1] Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. [ 4 ] The organization produces short video lessons. [ 5 ]
She served as a founding board member of the International Big History Association (IBHA). Brown died of pancreatic cancer on October 15, 2017, at her home Berkeley, California, surrounded by family. Brown was an American Book Award recipient in 1987 for Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement .
Over the course of his career Toth has participated in public education programs which help provide children and adults access to educational materials and related media on subjects such as human evolution, archaeology, anthropology, and big history. One such program is a big history project with Kathy Schick titled "Origins: From the Big Bang ...
Christian is credited with coining the term Big History [7] [8] and he serves as president of the International Big History Association. [6] Christian's best-selling Teaching Company course entitled Big History caught the attention of philanthropist Bill Gates , who is funding Christian's efforts to develop a program to bring the course to ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education lists the major providers as the non-profits Khan Academy and edX, and the for-profits Udacity and Coursera. [46] The larger non-profit organizations include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the American Council on Education.
This lead Khan to start the Khan Academy Non-profit Organization in 2008 and quit his job to focus on education in 2009. To date, Khan Academy has produced over 20,000 videos [ 3 ] with over 1.7 billion views on YouTube.