UC Berkeley puts hundreds of academic lectures on YouTube

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The University of California at Berkeley has joined the ranks of YouTube partners by providing a number of full course lectures and other special events through YouTube. The school announced the availability of its own YouTube channel yesterday, with over 300 hours of video available on YouTube. This includes lectures on bioengineering, physics, chemistry, peace and conflict studies, and other topics. There's even a lecture by Google co-founder Sergey Brin on search engines.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071...on-youtube.html

[pendragon]

Interesting (well, at least to me).

Thanks for posting!

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Hey Harv, I like some of the courses. I most recently started the one on physics.

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Physics 10 - Physics for Future Presidents 26 Videos
Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006] Credits: lecturer:Professor Richard A. Muller, producers:Educational Technology Services

Professor Muller is a bit wired for my taste but he does make some interesting analogies.

I've posted a number of lectures sites through the years, I think as least from Harvard and MIT anyway. I did one last year on Weather and Marine Science from USF which got me involved with a local weather station project.

Here's one that may interest webmasters.

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SIMS 141 - Search Engines 6 Videos
Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC...

This is an interesting project, watch the video and the action text first.
Then pick a category, a word, then click on the yellow dot.
http://www.galaxy.csail.mit.edu/lectures/

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The Future of Work
52:41 Minutes
 (Thomas Malone)

Under the "Business and Economy" category, using "economy" as a word, starting around 19 minutes, better if you start from the beginning to grasp the whole concept. Malone expands on reasons of societal development through increases in communication. He demonstrates how civilizations have shifted because of changes in communication. He demonstrates how new business models are changing, and will continue to change how we work.

As you watch the video you can also watch how Voice Recognition Software is being used to create the search engine. The lectures are a few years old in some cases, the search engine technology is in development.

I think this sort of search engine is where the technology is heading.
http://www.galaxy.csail.mit.edu/lectures/

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Thanks again SB.

Yesterday,  I completed my first lecture on Physics For Future Presidents.

I never have been able to grasp String Theory. Perhaps the good professor will enlighten me.

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Hey Harv,
I feel the same way about the s-t-r-i-n-g-s, it's something our local Physicist might help to elaborate on.....
I have a problem with the math, and since most of this theory is written in math I'm missing most of it, but..
With pictures I've been able to grasps parts and pieces here in this program/lecture/history with outstanding visuals.  

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iTunes U (new)

A link on the bottom of this page will >open your iTunes application, >open the iTunes store, >and bring you to iTunes U. There you can see many lectures, movies, podcasts on an assortment of topics. Some are free!

Harv, there's a good one on Physics from ACU.
It's laid out in two departments:
The American Physical Society Conference / Mathematics & Science Continental Conference. 19 lectures in all.

When I had an incident with Bees, I viewed one of the lectures from KQED (Quest) and found it informative.

There are many participating universities as well as private lecturers to view.

There are also options to join iTunes U/ Apple's Education Network and share your experiences with a presentation of your own.

http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/?ci...;cp=ITS-ITUMAIN

Enjoy!

[krissel]

Thanks SB!