From Chronicle of Higher Education:
A new company called Academic Earth offers free online videos of lectures from some of the world’s most renowned scholars teaching at leading universities. The company has simply grabbed the videos off the universities’ own Web sites and plans to offer tools to students who want to talk about the content — along with a chance to grade the quality of the lectures.
With just a cursory glance of the site, I was impressed with the content and user experience. These are entire courses, not just a handful of lectures. Academic Earth is easy to navigate, and gives you several viewing tools to enhance your viewing of the lectures.
Currently, there are six schools with content: Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton. The videos are hosted on the blip tv website under the Creative Commons License.
This is a great opportunity to look in on an actual lecture, and get a feel for the instructor. You can even embed the videos into your own site:
