Salman Khan is thinking of taking his online academy to a bricks and mortar school.

In the past two years, Salman Khan has created some 2,700 educational videos to help students learn what they need to know in mathematics, science, and history. Many classrooms and home learners throughout the country are using his videos and, with support from a $5 million grant from the O'Sullivan Foundation, Khan is now creating complete online curriculum for the Khan Academy.

What has created a major stir in the education world is the way in which these videos—and the "flipped classrooms" that are associated with Khan Academy and other digitally-delivered lectures—have permitted learning to extend beyond the classroom walls. But now Salman Khan is considering rebuilding those walls as he contemplates a brick and mortar Khan Academy.

For starters, Khan is putting together a summer camp that will help middle and high school students study topics in science and engineering. They will also work on probability, modeling, negotiating skills, and game theory. Basically they will learn that science can help analyze the whole world. Khan is hoping that through the camp he will learn more about what helps students learn.

Whether a face-to-face school—or a series of them around the country—will follow remains to be seen. For sure, Khan is planning on increasing the scope of his lessons in order to create a complete curriculum—including the ability for educators to upload their own videos and tailor them to their own classroom needs. "We have a long way to go before we can do a full curriculum," Khan says. "I don't know if there will be a physical school called the Khan Academy. I would like for something like that to happen."

Source: Khan Academy: Out of the Screen, Into the Physical World, KQED Mind/Shift