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Khan Academy has 5.4 million monthly users of its educational videos, exercises, and gamelike badging platform online. Tens of thousands of schools are using the platform.

Jamie Alexandre has taken the KA platform and created an offline version, called KA Lite, to be used in areas where there is little or no internet connectivity. This has been previously covered by the Foundation in a blog post.

However, now the KA Lite system is being used by Idaho’s Department of Corrections to educate prisoners. Surprisingly enough (cough, cough) supplying internet connectivity is not top of the priority list for the prison system so this is an ideal solution for IT-driven learning.

You can learn more about this initiative by reading this article at Fast Company.

This is a great learning resource for anyone who wants to get into programming or computing in general. It is a MOOC – a Massive Open Online Course – created by OCR, Cambridge University Press and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Here’s what they say about the course:

The course is based on OCR’s GCSE Computing curriculum and gives participants an excellent opportunity to investigate how computers work, how they are used, and to develop computer programming and problem-solving skills. The course has been designed for 14-16 year olds; but is free and open to all, and can be used either as a course or a resource to support teachers.

Read more and take a look at the resources available .