First off, I'd like to say that Khan Academy is awesome. I've started using it with my 8-year old daughter to practice math and she loves it.
That being said, I have a few criticisms of the iPad app:
1. The title of "Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free" is deceptive. I think the strongest point of the Khan Academy web site is the practice section but it's not available on the iPad app.
2. The transcript is way too granular. It makes it hard to read and it makes the transcript really long in some cases. Breaking it out by paragraph (instead of every 3-5 seconds) would make it more readable. I don't even think the timestamp needs to be shown.
3. It'd be nice to see the directed acyclic graph of lesson dependencies like they have on the site. It's hard to know where to start when you have 2,800 videos.
Great job putting out the app though! It's great to see some good educational tools for the iPad that don't suck.
Thanks for feedback, and agreed on title. There are many 3rd party apps out there that have taken "Khan Academy" and we didn't want to go through the legal hassle or harm any developers using our API, so we added that on. We may eventually have 3rd party apps rename to something slightly less 100% official.
That being said, I have a few criticisms of the iPad app:
1. The title of "Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free" is deceptive. I think the strongest point of the Khan Academy web site is the practice section but it's not available on the iPad app.
2. The transcript is way too granular. It makes it hard to read and it makes the transcript really long in some cases. Breaking it out by paragraph (instead of every 3-5 seconds) would make it more readable. I don't even think the timestamp needs to be shown.
3. It'd be nice to see the directed acyclic graph of lesson dependencies like they have on the site. It's hard to know where to start when you have 2,800 videos.
Great job putting out the app though! It's great to see some good educational tools for the iPad that don't suck.