The best free cultural & educational media on the web
The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ 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: 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: Current Affairs, Science, UC Berkeley | ≅ Leave a Comment
How does modern neuroscience make sense of the current McCain-Obama race? Have a listen to Christopher Lydon’s fascinating conversation with George Lakoff, a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley (iTunes – MP3 – Feed – Web Site).
Lakoff is the author of the new book, The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand [...]
≡ 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: Google, UC Berkeley, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 16 Comments
Updated: See full collection of University Video Collections on YouTube.
I heard rumors something like this was coming, and now it’s here. YouTube has struck deals with major universities, creating dedicated channels from which schools can distribute their media content. Not surprisingly UC Berkeley, always at the digital forefront, has taken the lead and launched an [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Online Courses, UC Berkeley | ≅ 27 Comments
Not long ago, we wrote a popular piece about UC-Berkeley’s iTunes initiative which, to sum it up,allows anyone, anywhere, to download complete university courses to their iPods for free. Amazing. Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast. You can find the complete list of courses here, but [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, UC Berkeley | ≅ 6 Comments
This is nothing short of impressive. Last April, UC Berkeley, one of the premiere universities in the country, announced its plan to put complete academic courses on iTunes. Fast forward nine months, and you can already find 59 full courses available as podcasts. Simply click here to access Berkeley’s iTunes site (or [...]
≡ Category: UC Berkeley | ≅ Leave a Comment
Not long ago, we talked about UC Berkeley’s ambitious podcasting initiative, about how the university is currently distributing a large number of courses over iTunes. But there is nothing like giving users some options, and so the university has also decided to make some courses, campus events, and conferences available over Google Video as well. [...]
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