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eznet
A while back I stumbled upon the marvel that is Academic Earth. Academic Earth is a service that specializes in providing entire courses of high quality academic video lectures for free via their website.

The site’s main page shows the lectures to have come from the likes of Berkley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale. Just a quick stroll shows weeks worth of what appears to be pretty valuable content. Topics include Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religion - many of which contain entire courses worth of material… for free… Free as in beer.

Of course, I am really excited about the Computer Science section - there seems to be a solid line up of topics ranging from introductory to incredibly advanced. Of course, this is not the first venture into freely available online educational resources (My favorite, for example - OpenCourseWare from MIT), but those visual learners out there (Ew, ew, ew!!! Me, me, me!!!), this is a god-sent!
deanhills
I checked out the Website and found the pickings slim.
http://www.academicearth.org/
nivinjoy
deanhills wrote:
I checked out the Website and found the pickings slim.
http://www.academicearth.org/


Hey that was nice..!! There is a huge collection of recorded classes in that site...!! I was watching a video of a class by a professor from Yale University...!! I think this a good measure for all people to help them in getting more knowledge...!! Best effort by the site makers..!!
Afaceinthematrix
Differential equations, multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, etc... They have some nice lower division courses. I wish they had more upper division like number theory and such... but they do have some good courses.... Thanks for the link.
eznet
Yea, I have watched many videos from this site... Although there may not be tons and tons of resources here, I do feel their offerings to be significant. I also feel it an important point to make - concerning material such as this, quality takes precedence over quantity... So far I have been happy..

Another excellent resource is MIT's OpenCourseWare site - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Lots of good CS stuff here - arguably, some of the best in the word.

TED is also another nice site... http://www.ted.com/
bloodrider
It seems interesting, lets see if it's useful.
Thanks for the tip Wink
coolclay
Wow that's pretty cool free college classes. Obviously you don't get credit but education isn't really about getting credit? I never realized something like this existed but it's great. Unfortunately my internet isn't fast enough to view them I'll definitely check it out in the future. Thanks for the link and post.
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