In interviews with Forbes and Charlie Rose last year, Bill Gates spoke of his love for watching recorded lectures. Mr. Gates commented that although he often purchased courses from The Learning Company, there was a great need for free online courses with similar content.
A new website named AcademicEarth aims to provide just that. AcademicEarth has lectures from renowned professors from universities including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Princeton, and Stanford. There are courses from a wide array of subjects ranging from Economics and History, to Physics and Religion. There are even a few courses in the law section including a copyright lecture from MIT and a class on climate change law and policy from Berkeley. The videos are free to watch, and can be viewed without registering.
LectureFox, a site focused primarily on science lectures, does remarkable job of aggregating free lectures and organizing them so they are easy to access.
What other online lecture sites do you use?
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That’s one novel idea. Who knows, maybe higher education will eventually be free.