FREE ONLINE EDUCATION FOR THE MASSES

06TH APRIL 2009

(1) YouTube EDU

YouTube the video site has just released a new subsite called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and many more. From the Directory page http://www.youtube.com/edu?action_directory=1, browse through all the university options, and when you pick one, you can see all of the full courses or individual lectures available. [URL] http://www.youtube.com/edu

 
(2) Academic Earth

The Academic Earth website pulls free lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale into one attractive, easy-to-navigate the s ite. The videos can be embedded anywhere or downloaded and enjoyed wherever you want to take them. It’s easy to use, has tons of great content, and it doesn’t cost anything. [URL] http://academicearth.org.

 
(3) MIT’s OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. [URL] at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm  

 
(4) Stanford University Offers Free, Full Courses Online

For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering. Stanford Engineering Everywhere offers anytime and anywhere access to complete lecture videos via streaming or downloaded media, Full course materials including syllabi, handouts, homework, and exams, Online social networking with fellow SEE students, Support for PCs, Macs, and mobile computing devices. [URL] http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx.

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