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- sodade, on 01/10/2008, -0/+23Screw this link. Here is a MUCH better link to all kinds of online resources, including 177 UCB videos:
http://education.jimmyr.com/ - jamesalfaro, on 01/10/2008, -1/+16The PoliSci courses look interesting.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php - borez, on 01/10/2008, -1/+16Same thing with MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/inde ... - myotive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+13"100% Free to Anyone" that knows a mirror.
- pkrumins, on 01/10/2008, -0/+12I have been collecting video lectures for 1.5 years now.
My blog is at http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com
I have collected maths, physics, computer science, biology, engineering and many other lectures! Check it ou! :) - Motodog, on 01/10/2008, -0/+9A+++ Excellent E-Digger 100% Satisfied!!!! A+++, seriously, thank you.
- cgomez, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8I hate to complain, but this has been on Digg about forty-five times in the twelve months.
Super-dupe. - theholotrope, on 01/10/2008, -0/+7It's amazing how much you can learn from the number 404.
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -1/+7I get it... That's funny because of Ebay!
- petemcfraser, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6Because when you have ADD, you just open a new window and play games. Maybe it's just me.
- danrdanny, on 01/10/2008, -1/+7My organic chemistry teacher is amazingly horrible. Thankfully we use Vollhardt's book for our class...so, I'm just going to watch Vollhardt's organic lectures during my lecture. I love the Internet.
- Neiby, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5"Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument"
That should be a required high school course. I actually had a logic course as part of a class in high school and found it to be quite helpful. - cygnus183, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6thanks for bypassing the blog spam
- cactus476, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6404?
- brjndr, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4You wouldn't want them
- xedd, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3And very likely they wouldn't want him...
- smackhero, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3of course they're not going to give you free books or credit towards a degree. but free/open courses like these are still great resources for lots of people. and it may surprise you to know that some people actually enjoy learning for the sake of learning/intellectual growth, not simply to earn credits or to receive a degree.
- milarepa, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3Would you feel that way if it was Plato? Buddhist psychology has influenced millions upon millions of people and has peacefully transformed whole civilizations.
- jpetrides, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3Go check out iTunesU. I've downloaded a ton of lectures through that portal. They also have guest lectures posted - I just listened to a great one from Duke about the Oil for Food scandal. iTunesU has it pretty well organized.
- kryptonite514, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3Why the hell would a proud and prominent place like Berkeley use add infested garbage like Real Player?!?!
- alkos333, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3Bad link?
- smackhero, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3couldn't agree with you more. the need to introduce formal/philosophical logic & dialectic to high school curricula is ever more pressing as our society becomes increasingly irrational, and public opinion becomes more and more easily swayed by political sophistry and fallacious arguments by demagogues.
- lordthor, on 01/10/2008, -1/+4buried as spam, god damn blogspammers.
- Neiby, on 01/10/2008, -1/+3Regardless, that does sound like an interesting course.
- Gregfr, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2buried for using .rm files
- Ross, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2Wow, I never have to go to school again! haha
- sodade, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Ah - I realized they have closed captioning too.
- sodade, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Note that these are in RM and the ones I tried to watch (bio stuff) all had HORRIBLE audio.
- Roger, on 01/10/2008, -1/+2The blogspam is dead, just go directly to their site: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
- sodade, on 01/10/2008, -1/+2As I am watching one of these lectures, I am reminded that lectures are a crappy way to learn. Why hasn't education evolved?
- shcotttty, on 01/10/2008, -2/+3the Introduction to General Astronomy course taught by Alex Filippenko is probably one of the most awesome and intellectually stimulating courses I've ever heard...i enjoyed listening to every lecture. He's an awesome teacher with contagious enthusiasm, i recommend it to anyone who enjoys cosmology or just learning about the world we live in. Priceless
- huxleyan, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1The 106A course is really not political SCIENCE, it's practical politics. There really should be two separate degrees in college. The vast majority of political scientists will never work on a campaign in any way.
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -3/+4The free classes are great - I'll avail myself of some of them; but Buddhist Psychology is far from a "core" course that everyone should take.
- vernsan, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Same for me.
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1No advanced chemistry courses? boo. I thought it was what Berkeley was most known for (aside from hippies).
- j3one, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Nice, btw Latvia looks like a nice place to visit :-)
- j3one, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Very nice. Say Latvia looks like a good place to visit!
- change881, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Is it just me or is Berkeley just like a Tim Burton movie? http://blog.bizzflip.com/bizzflipcom/2008/01/tim-b ...
- rybo1084, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1gogo realplayer
- smackhero, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1a "lecture" is simply a teacher speaking to an audience of students. and seeing as human-beings primarily communicate with each other orally, this seems like the best way for a teacher to instruct students in a classroom setting. with technology like whiteboards, overhead projectors, microphones & PA systems, it's become much easier to instruct hundreds of students at the same time, but aside from these communication aides, i don't know how else you expect teaching to evolve.
i mean, college courses aren't taught entirely through lectures. most are a mixture of lecture & discussion, which still relies on oral communication, but using a different format to encourage better individual student involvement. then there's labs, homework assignments, testing, online resources, etc. unless you want to be able to just download knowledge directly into your brain through some kind of telepathic link, i think oral communication/discourse is still the best means of imparting/absorbing knowledge. - Singularitarian, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1This is great. But why are there so few schools doing this?
- TheImmigrant, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Give that man a BEER! He beat me to it. I record (all my audio lectures) but not video. Im sure this will help me Next Semester. With love from USA to LATVIA. Thanks for the lectures. I love you. will you go out with me? btw I am Male.
- smackhero, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1lectures/college courses are meant to teach theory. it's not technical training. if you want to learn a new language, it's easier to just pick up a reference book and teach yourself. you don't need a college course for that.
for programming, O'Reilly books are great references. Deitel & Deitel also provide programming books that are more in the structure of an educational course. - smackhero, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1no, berkeley is famous for TWO things: LSD and BSD.
- Jude007, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Just watched Physics for presidents, LOL, talk about brainwashing the impressionable.
- KingGorilla, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1more people should take it
- CedEx, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1I think there are three ways you can learn; by hearing it, by seeing it, by doing it. Most people have a dominant way of learning. Perhaps you are not an audio learner?
- GorillaCowboy, on 01/10/2008, -1/+1umm....doesn't work
- pcpimpster, on 01/10/2008, -1/+1Can Berkeley put these on a server that can take some load.
- graytrade, on 01/11/2008, -0/+0try http://wikivid.com, its a repository of free videos, its all software from the front page, but there is some programming stuff http://wikivid.com/index.php/Special:Search?search ...
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