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How about a blog post that doesn’t deal with the controversy surrounding The New Yorker’s clumsy attempt at satirizing Barack and Michelle Obama …. ? (Update: See the imagined, right-wing satirical cartoon of John McCain.)
When Stanford launched its new YouTube channel several weeks ago, it debuted with a complete series of lectures from an undergraduate [...]
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Just a quick fyi that we’ve added a popular UC Berkeley course, Physics for Future Presidents, to our collection: Free Online Courses from Great Universities. You can download the complete course to your MP3 player. Just scroll down the page and look under “Physics.”
If you’d rather experience this course in video, you can watch the [...]
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The Western Tradition is a free series of videos that traces the arc of western civilization. Starting in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the survey proceeds to cover the Byzantine Empire and Medieval Europe, then the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally ends up in 20th century Europe and America. Presented by UCLA professor [...]
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Just a quick heads up: Starting today, you can sign up for online writing courses from Stanford. Offered by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program (which is one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance [...]
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Last week, we mentioned The Future of the Internet. This week it’s another course available as a free podcast : Straight Talk About Stem Cells (iTunes).
The course was taught by Christopher Scott, the Executive Director of Stanford’s Program on Stem Cells in Society and the author of Stem Cell Now: An Introduction to the Coming [...]
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Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
Introduction to Archaeology - Feed - MP3s - Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley
Architecture
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) - iTunes - Jan Wampler, MIT
Cultural Studies
Foundations of American Cyberculture - iTunes - Feed - Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley
Heritage and Cultural Informatics - MP3s, Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow
Introduction to Nonviolence [...]
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Here is a new and free course to come out of a Stanford University program that (full disclosure) I help organize. It’s called The Future of the Internet: Architecture and Policy (iTunes), and it’s taught by Ramesh Johari. The course, designed for non-techies, gets into the important question of whether the internet will remain “neutral” [...]
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If you never boned up on your Western history, here is a very good chance to do so.
The Western Tradition is a freely-available series of videos that takes you from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the Byzantine Europe and Medieval Europe, and then through the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution and winding up in 20th [...]
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We haven’t talked about the universe of university podcasts in some time. So let’s get back to it.Below, we have highlighted ten full-fledged courses from top flight universities. All of these courses can be downloaded to your iPod for free. That’s a price that you can’t beat. (You can see our complete collection of free [...]
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Over the past six months, Stanford has released several podcasts of full-fledged courses on iTunes. This past week, the university released yet another — The Geography of World Cultures. You can now download five courses in total, all for free.Below, you’ll find links to each course, plus descriptions of what ground each course covers. Please [...]
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Online learning — or e-learning — has gone from being fairly uncommon to fairly widespread over the past five years. But, a quick look at the list of universities offering online courses reveals that it’s mostly second and third tier schools that have entered the online market, and generally not leading colleges and universities. At [...]
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Not long ago, we wrote a popular piece about UC-Berkeley’s iTunes initiative which, to sum it up,allows anyone, anywhere, to download complete university courses to their iPods for free. Amazing. Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast. You can find the complete list of courses here, but [...]
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This is nothing short of impressive. Last April, UC Berkeley, one of the premiere universities in the country, announced its plan to put complete academic courses on iTunes. Fast forward nine months, and you can already find 59 full courses available as podcasts. Simply click here to access Berkeley’s iTunes site (or [...]
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Online Courses & OpenCourseWare
Updated March 17, 2007
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
A collection of free online courses and course materials. Courses range from physics and chemistry, to french and statistics, to economics and calculus.
Columbia University - The Fathom Archive
This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to a complete range of free content developed [...]
