[sotd] Academic Earth [February 19, 2009]

From: "Site of the Day" <amholm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:17:18 -0400
        Site of the Day for Thursday, February 19, 2009

        Academic Earth

Today's site, initiated by Yale University alumnus and entrepreneur, Richard
Ludlow, features a site which has been making waves in the educational community
recently for its efforts to make top-flight university lectures available for 
free
online. Gentle Subscribers may want to take particular note of this exceptional
resource.

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

With an impressive array of subjects, topics and themes, this newly created
enterprise aspires to making the material of some of the most respected academic
institutions available to all. Among the participating universities are Yale,
Berkeley, Harvard,  MIT, Princeton, and Stanford, while the subjects range from
astronomy to psychology. Delve into the 26 Yale lectures which comprise the
complete course offering of "The American Novel Since 1945" or sample the
intriguing Yale / Entrepreneurship lecture on "How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To
Solve Problems Big and Small". The presentations are offered without any 
dazzling
effects but instead are straightforward video recordings of university lectures
delivered in the personal style of each professor. Currently, there are more 
than
1500 lectures available which can be downloaded as well as watched online. A 
useful
collection of queries is covered in the FAQ.

Jump over to the site for an outstanding educational resource for all at:

http://academicearth.org/

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