User blog comment:Noeinstein777/Why KA?/@comment-24808864-20140706165529

I found out about KA from a colleague in the Business department at my institution. I teach mathematics and he was sending his advisee (a mutual student) to KA to practice her skills.

I went on to see what they offered and was hooked!

I believe in learning for the sake of learning, but gamification of learning has the additional draw of encouraging students that are not necessarily excited about learning and school. I am very "competitive" so I decided to go out and get as many points and badges as I could. I still use this as a supplemental resource in practically all of my classes.

While searching for leaderboards, I found this wiki, and that brings us to the current day. I noticed that many of the videos on KA are "worked out examples" so I was motivated to hopefully make a resource for teaching some of the details behind the processes (this would be a long term goal, of course)!