Braille courses desperately needed,

Khan Academy does not have any courses to teach Braille to sighted people who want to learn Braille in visual, 2 dimensional form. The only online website in the world that teaches Braille online to sighted people is in Australia at this link: http://uebonline.org/ . UEBOnline is a brilliant, Javascript based sight (it uses JQuery and WordPress) that is very highly regarded within the Braille Transcription community-- it gives instant feedback and adheres to the Khan Academy philosophy of teaching.

But there is a none-the-less a serious shortage of Braille teachers, Braille Transcribers, Braille Proofreaders, and people knowledgeable in music Braille and math Braille. The United State Library of Congress is the only body that certifies Braille expertise in these subjects, and their course work is all via e-mail correspondence-- it lacks the immediate feedback that is a hallmark of the Khan Academy..

Khan Academy with its world class Javascript experts is a "natural" to develop a series of online Braille courses for sighted people who are interested in learning Braille so they can help in the Braille community.

To be put into contact with leading experts in Braille transcription certification, etc., please join the Braille Transcription Facebook public group

Jang Hee I

February 17, 2018 19:05

Hello, my name is Jang Hee and I am CEO of Cobrix, LLC, a software company which develops a digital platform to promote Braille literacy for blind and visually impaired students, families, and educators. We would be very interested in developing Braille courses. We would love to hear your ideas and thoughts.

Evan Lewis

February 18, 2018 20:22
Edited

Hi Robert and Jang,

Thanks for your interest in contributing to Khan Academy!

We receive a lot of requests to add content to Khan Academy. We're sorry to say that we can't add all of them. We are a very small team and stay very focused on our core priorities, which are to create content for core academic subject areas spanning K-12.

At the moment, we are not looking to host partner content. If you would like to contact the Khan Academy staff for further information on partner content, you can create a support ticket.

If you are interested in joining the Khan Academy team as a content creator, please view our Careers page for relevant job openings.

Let me know if you have any further questions!

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