Explainist » Academic Earth http://www.explainist.com A celebration of explanation Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Free Ivy League Education, Delivery Included http://www.explainist.com/2009/03/29/free-ivy-league-education-delivery-included/ http://www.explainist.com/2009/03/29/free-ivy-league-education-delivery-included/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:31:48 +0000 Tom http://www.explainist.com/?p=79 Continue reading →]]> Why shell out $34,000 a year when you can load up on Harvard learnin’ for free? So far, the new site Academic Earth has videos of thousands of lectures, including entire courses, from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. Meanwhile, YouTube has debuted their own college lecture channel, YouTube EDU.

Some, like this physics course with audience participation, are a lot livelier than others:



For the full college experience, be sure to skip a video occasionally and watch some of these.

[via Lifehacker]

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