≡ Category: Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 3 Comments
A quick update for you. Yale University has added its third batch of courses to its open education initiative, bringing the total number of courses to 25. (Find the complete list here.) The latest round is slightly bigger than previous ones, which bucks the trend that we’re generally seeing. (Open Courses have been in a [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Philosophy | ≅ 4 Comments
We happened to mention Michael Sandel last week, and then I came across this…
Harvard University and WGBH Boston have posted online Sandel’s very popular course, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” How popular is it? Over 14,000 Harvard students have taken this course over the past 30 years. The course takes a close look [...]
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Folks, I happened to notice that the Teaching Company is offering 50% off its audio download courses this weekend. As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m a big consumer of their products. (They travel across the United States and record great professors teaching great courses.) You can get more information on their Facebook page, or start shopping [...]
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A quick news break: Time.com has released today a new list, “The 50 Best Web Sites of 2009,” and right alongside some well known brands, you’ll find Academic Earth, a new venture that aggregates high quality university video. Essentially, Academic Earth pulls together videos from top-notch universities and lets users watch them with a very [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 1 Comment
Over the past two years, Yale has released fifteen free “open courses.” Initially, these courses were only available through Yale’s web site and later YouTube. Now, they’re also accessible through iTunesU — which means that you can put these courses on your iPod with relative ease. Just click here and scroll down, and you’ll find well-produced courses that [...]
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Recently, Time Magazine ran a piece called “Logging On to the Ivy League” that tells a story we’re all familiar with here — many major universities are now recording courses and making them freely available online. (See our full list of courses here.) Somewhat ironically, the article mostly features courses from non ivy league universities [...]
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The folks at universitiesandcolleges.org have provided a very handy resource here. They’ve sifted through the big OpenCourseWare universe and centralized the resources for over 500 college courses. In some cases, you’ll find audio lectures. In other cases, you’ll find lecture notes, reading lists, and homework assignments. This mega list makes it easy to browse through [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics, Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 3 Comments
This week, Stanford has started to roll out a new course, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Taught by Leonard Susskind, one of America’s leading physics minds, this course is the fourth of a six-part sequence – Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum – that traces the development of modern physics, moving from Newton to Black Holes. As the [...]
≡ Category: History, Online Courses | ≅ 7 Comments
For lifelong learners, courses on Ancient Greece and Rome always remain in steady demand. While these courses are poorly represented in undergraduate programs (at least in the States), they seem be to making a comeback in continuing education programs designed for older students. Eventually, it seems, many come to the conclusion that you can’t skip [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, History, Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Geography of US Presidential Elections keeps rolling along. With his well-crafted lectures, Martin Lewis shows you this week how America’s political map and its political parties changed dramatically following the Civil War. In the space of 90 minutes, he takes you through the Reconstruction period, The Gilded Age, the Depression, World War II and The [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 5 Comments
I wanted to give everyone a heads up that Yale has just released its second round of “open courses.” And I have to say that the lineup looks great. Let me quickly list them for you:
The American Novel Since 1945 (Amy Hungerford)
Introduction to Greek History (Donald Kagan)
Game Theory (Ben Polak)
Financial Markets (Robert Shiller)
Milton (John Rogers)
France [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 3 Comments
Here’s a project that a few colleagues and I have had some fun developing. So it only seems fair that I get the scoop, right?
Starting on October 15, you can follow a timely, free course presented by Stanford University. Led by Martin Lewis, the course will explore the geography of U.S. presidential elections (both past [...]
≡ Category: Business, Economics, Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
Here’s a course for our historical moment….
Behavioral economics—”the study of how thinking and emotions affect individual economic decisions and the behavior of markets”—is a relatively new discipline. This approach to economics, which marries psychology and economics and discards the assumption that every economic actor is rational, was developed partly by Richard Thaler, Director of the Center [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
Several months back, we mentioned how the Indian Institutes of Technology (otherwise called the IITs) had launched a series of free technology courses on YouTube. You can find about 50 free courses here in total.
As a quick follow up, it’s also worth letting you know about a new series of courses being webcast live (and [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Online Courses, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week, the launch of Stanford Engineering Everywhere, featuring 10 free computer science and engineering courses, got no shortage of buzz on the net. This led me to think, why not highlight other major collections of free university courses/resources. As you’ll see, each collection offers countless hours of free, high quality content. Download the audio [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ 1 Comment
In case this got lost over the weekend I am bumping it back up: The New York Times has a piece running this weekend that surveys the landscape of online university lectures. (Get a jumbo list of free courses here.) Along the way, they focus on five lectures that “no one should miss.” They are [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford, Technology, Video - Science | ≅ 19 Comments
Stanford Engineering Everywhere is a new project rolling out of Stanford, and it’s making available to anyone, anywhere 10 complete online computer science and electrical engineering courses. This includes the three-course Introduction to Computer Science series taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates.
The top-notch courses are free, which means that we’ve added them to our [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Online Courses, Physics, Science, UC Berkeley, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Richard Muller teaches one of the most popular undergraduate courses at UC Berkeley: Physics for Future Presidents. You can download the course in audio (iTunes – Feed – MP3s) or watch it on YouTube (see first lecture below and get full course here). And now you can buy Muller’s new book. Just published by [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics, Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 9 Comments
What’s the “theoretical minimum” for thinking intelligently about modern physics? Here’s your chance to find out. Below, you will find three courses (the first of eventually six) presented by Leonard Susskind, a Stanford physicist who helped conceptualize string theory and has waged a long-running “Black Hole War” with Stephen Hawking (see his new book on [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, History, Online Courses, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
How about a blog post that doesn’t deal with the controversy surrounding The New Yorker’s clumsy attempt at satirizing Barack and Michelle Obama …. ? (Update: See the imagined, right-wing satirical cartoon of John McCain.)
When Stanford launched its new YouTube channel several weeks ago, it debuted with a complete series of lectures from an undergraduate [...]
≡ Category: Economics, Online Courses, Philosophy | ≅ 1 Comment
David Harvey, an important social theorist and geographer, has got the right idea. Take what you know. Teach it in the classroom. Capture it on video. Then distribute it to the world. Keep it simple, but just do it.
In launching this new web site, Harvey is making available 26 hours of lectures, during which he [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 3 Comments
Today we’re highlighting for you a new course posted on Stanford University’s iTunes site. Originally presented by Stanford Continuing Studies (where I happily spend my days), Global Geopolitics is taught by geography expert Martin Lewis, and “examines the global political situation from a geographical perspective. Topics include: how the countries of the world were formed [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, UC Berkeley | ≅ Leave a Comment
Just a quick fyi that we’ve added a popular UC Berkeley course, Physics for Future Presidents, to our collection: Free Online Courses from Great Universities. You can download the complete course to your MP3 player. Just scroll down the page and look under “Physics.”
If you’d rather experience this course in video, you can watch the [...]
≡ Category: History, Online Courses, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 4 Comments
The Western Tradition is a free series of videos that traces the arc of western civilization. Starting in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the survey proceeds to cover the Byzantine Empire and Medieval Europe, then the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally ends up in 20th century Europe and America. Presented by UCLA professor [...]
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Just a quick heads up: Starting today, you can sign up for online writing courses from Stanford. Offered by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program (which is one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Science, Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, we mentioned The Future of the Internet. This week it’s another course available as a free podcast : Straight Talk About Stem Cells (iTunes).
The course was taught by Christopher Scott, the Executive Director of Stanford’s Program on Stem Cells in Society and the author of Stem Cell Now: An Introduction to the Coming [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Online Courses | ≅ 55 Comments
Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
Introduction to Archaeology – Feed – MP3s – Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley
Architecture
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes – Jan Wampler, MIT
Roman Architecture - iTunes - YouTube [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford, Web/Tech | ≅ 3 Comments
Here is a new and free course to come out of a Stanford University program that (full disclosure) I help organize. It’s called The Future of the Internet: Architecture and Policy (iTunes), and it’s taught by Ramesh Johari. The course, designed for non-techies, gets into the important question of whether the internet will remain “neutral” [...]
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If you never boned up on your Western history, here is a very good chance to do so.
The Western Tradition is a freely-available series of videos that takes you from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the Byzantine Europe and Medieval Europe, and then through the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution and winding up in 20th [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
We haven’t talked about the universe of university podcasts in some time. So let’s get back to it.Below, we have highlighted ten full-fledged courses from top flight universities. All of these courses can be downloaded to your iPod for free. That’s a price that you can’t beat. (You can see our complete collection of free [...]
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