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- sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25OH NOES!
When the library appears, nobody's gona buy books anymore! - mathewjm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12It's a shame that these don't include the podcasts released by the University of Warwick in the UK, as they are quite excellent.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/audio/ - mbrane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11In a sense this really isn't anything new - many universities allow people to "audit" undergrad lecture type courses for free; this is a new way of auditing, and great in my opinion -- my podcatcher is downloading a ton of this stuff as I write this.
- thunderl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Thank you!
- bkdelong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9There's quite a large amount of audio AND video on the MIT OpenCourseWare site - http://ocw.mit.edu. I tried pushing the conversion of them into podcasts a couple of years ago but it was a pretty big project. I don't see why someone couldn't create secondary RSS feeds to make podcasts.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/avocw.htm
Unfortunately, most of the video was done in RealMedia for compression purposes. - phatfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Heres a couple more that i know and have prolly been posted on digg before, but what the hell.
http://video.google.com/uctv.html
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video_index.php
http://www.researchchannel.org/ - bdrydyk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm with you. Usually I wouldn't bother saying so, but this post is so ridiculously useful that I am grateful for the post.
I'd hug tatmike if I could. - joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I doubt it,
alot of people do it not only for the education, but the piece of paper at the end. - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You're right of course.
Those who pay for university education as an investment can get exactly the same effect by listening to a few podcasts.
Not only that, but giving away knowledge is absolutely unprecedented.
Modern society and modern academia haven't got where they are today by the open exchange of knowledge and review of academic work by peers, have they?
Sigh.
[/sarcasm], obviously. - leighsah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I found this a couple of years ago, but I have taken the Tolkien class twice.
I have also taken the descriptive physics class at Berkley, a couple of management classes at MIT and think this is fabulous.
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/ - bede, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Great stuff, both the original article and the Warwick material. Digg++
- devr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's weird, I'm enrolled in one of the classes being podcasted.
- dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm listening to one of the "Physics for Future Presidents" lectures right now, it's actually fairly good, especially for a not-a-real-physics-class. There was one point while listening where I thought I'd caught the prof in an untruth, but he corrected it in the next sentence. From what I could tell we'd all be a lot better served in terms of science and technology if our politicians had taken this class and managed to retain even a quarter of the material covered. I suppose that's to be expected from Berkeley though.
- cantoral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Algebra & Trig class from Purdue University I heard, saddens me. High school teachers are not doing their job, if a university professor has to spend his time with such elementary material.
- umesh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think I found this originally on Digg:
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hopefully you were just listening to the first class and the professor was just trying to fill in any gaps that the students had. I've had professors that spent the first 2 weeks just as a review before getting into the normal syllabus.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2damn I didn't finished to watch the last portion, don't link more :S
- sonicdeath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey does anyone know of Film related podcast. Focus areas I am looking for are Creative Writing, Screenplay studies, Film analysis...
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most universities are not-for-profit institutions. Many have mission statements that specifically direct them to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible.
It's a trend that can't be held back. Once one top university puts all their courses online in a way that enables communities of people to teach themselves - then it will be, deservedly, the end for for-profit degree mills like UoP. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great link! I like that even better because they are individual lectures about interesting topics instead of an entire course where you have to wade through hours and hours to find the interesting parts.
I think this list may have be targeting more of the full classes on podcast links. - DiggRadar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Most universities are not-for-profit institutions. Many have mission statements that specifically direct them to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible."
Although even not-for-profit universities are very protective of the intellectual property and try to make money from it. Just look at all the patents held and licensed by public universities.
Still, I think the combination of podcasts, online lecture notes & slides, text books, and online discussion forums are going to radically change education over time. However, it will take a longer time than most think. Even in this age of global warming, universities change at glacial speeds. - fireflyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks, I find it really interesting.
Keep 'em coming ;-) - becknell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Being in Japan and being able to listen to these during work is just outstanding. Great find here. Thanks.
- sfmj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.coa.uncc.edu/arch_on_air/
Here is a great series on architecture from UNC -- it covers theory, design, history in an interview format (fantastic guests) - uschris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Check out http://fora.tv/
This is also a great site with a ton of public affairs lecutures on many subjects from famous academics, politicians, authors, and scientists.
Video, podcasts, and even transcripts. Check it out. - jldugger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, he's cleverly hiding the KINDS of energy here. The energy in a bullet he refers to is kinetic (or stored in the chemical used to propel it out of a gun, whatever), the energy from cookies is primarily energy released from breaking the bonds in sugars and fats, as is the energy from gasoline (and other fossil fuels): combustion. In contrast, solar energy reflects the Quantum Efficiency with which photons are converted into a flow of electrons because of the photoelectric effect. And of course, U238 get its energy primarily from the conversion of mass into energy as you suggested.
- jldugger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0More like land grand universities are not-for-profit, but their research application and extension arm isn't. And guess where the IP usually goes.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I was listening to Energy and Power 1. He said that different objects had different amounts of energy per gram. Now Einstein has that E=mc^2 that says taht mass is energy. I twould seem to me that therefore nothing could have varying amounts of energy per unit mass. What do each of those expressions (the lecturer's and Einstein's) mean?
- DavidYeah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Agreed. With this much material available, I may never need to buy sleeping pills ever again.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0By the way it looks like the URL may have changed to a different hostname. If you can't get to it in your browser try:
http://www.productivity501.com/2006/11/free_academic_p.html - dndbakies, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1@Emilysmiling
This has been a contraversal subject for many Universities. While I really don't see a point because he you could just like up the information on wikipedia or some other website.
Meh I myself Do enjoy watching the Physics Lectures on google. - thunde, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0At least spell Berkeley right...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -24/+3If they are giving these lectures away for free won't it eventually hurt their enrollment? I know you won't get a degree or credit for listening to the class, but at least some people are taking classes just for the knowledge. I'm surprised to see them giving away the lectures like this.
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