Academic Earth:Thousands of free video lectures from the world's top scholars.

[Bravo Zulu]

A description from their website: Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

http://academicearth.org/

[madrchsod]

1. excellent....this site can only get better.

[Lorien]

2. Very cool. Thanks so much for posting this!

:thumbsup:

[efhmc]

3. Sent it to my family. Thanks.

[Bravo Zulu]

7. You are very welcome!

[sammythecat]

4. This sure deserves some promotion

This was mentioned a month or so ago and I'm glad you brought it up again.

This is a wonderful and fun learning resource. Should be in just about everyone's bookmarks.

[Jim__]

5. Great reference! Thanks for posting. - n/t

[DemoTex]

6. I just watched Amy Hungerford's "Jack Kerouac, On the Road - Part 1."

What a great way to start the day. Thanks for this link. I'll be wearing it out.

[girl gone mad]

8. My son watched Dr. Diamond's anatomy class.

He used the textbook, watched her lectures, took notes and aced all of the tests she put online. She's a great teacher and I would recommend her lectures to anyone who wants to go in to nursing or med school. My son likes cellular biology, but I made him study anatomy first so that I could avoid having a "birds and bees" conversation. I'm certain he knows more about female anatomy than I do at this point.

[cilla4progress]

9. This one -

MIT, also! http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

[OnionPatch]

10. "What are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?"

Here are the barriers: $$$$$$$$$$$$$

This is nice and all, but what good will it do anyone if it doesn't come with the sheepskin? Learning for the mere sake of learning is great and all, but most people need their education to actually get them a job.