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Videos of university courses

Kattullus — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:59:36 -0800

Academic Earth collects lectures on a wide variety of subjects from UC Berkely, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale that the universities have released under Creative Commons. The site is still in beta so it doesn't quite have the thousands of lectures its frontpage promises. It has many full courses, for example Benjamin Polak teaching game theory, Amy Hungerford on the American novel since 1945, Charles Bailyn's introduction to astrophysics, John Merriman on the history of France since 1871, Shelly Kagan on death and Oussama Khatib's introduction to robotics.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:44:39 -0800

Wow awesome. So glad to see someone do this finally.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:50:29 -0800

Seconding the awesome.

By: Rykey

Rykey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:55:57 -0800

Awesome, thanks.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:00:11 -0800

Thank you. Watching now.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:12:21 -0800

Awesome, love it. (Is there a version of this for podcasts?)

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:18:31 -0800

Well, there's the phenomenal iTunes U.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:23:04 -0800

Just to point out these are not just random teachers. The few that I recognize from the history professions are well known at the top of their fields. John Merriman wrote a standard textbook on Early Modern European history used in colleges around the US, and Donald Kagan is a well known author with many books. I've read both of these authors so being able to watch them teach is pretty neat.

By: HaloMan

HaloMan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:52:52 -0800

Excellent. I have wanted to find a site like this for ages. There's quite a few similar sites out there, but they all have poor navigation and usability, something this site excels at. I've been thinking a lot that the world needs to work harder to distribute knowledge for free to level the playing field in society and sites like these represent a huge step forward.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:50:56 -0800

OH YES A WHOLE COURSE ABOUT DEATH! (Why no, I'm not morbid, thanks for asking.)

By: pseudodoc

pseudodoc — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:38:39 -0800

No one likes the grammar/spelling police, but since it was my alma mater; it is spelled 'Berkeley' (3 e's).