Open Courses
OpenCourseWare Material An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. Find course materials by browsing individual OpenCourseWare sites or by searching across all courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. Example MIT OpenCourseware
MIT World is a free, open streaming media web site of the most significant public events at MIT. It features speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. The collection dates back to February 2001, and holds more than 500 video lectures. MIT World Video Index
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. Courses include Astronomy, Biomedical Engineering, Classics, Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, & Religious Studies.
UC Berkeley Podcasts and Webcasts of current and archived courses. Courses include Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Education, English, History, Philosophy, Public Health, Psychology, and much more. UC Berkeley's YouTube Channel
UCTV- University of California Television UCTV provides informational, educational, and enrichment television programming to the public and draws upon the vast intellectual, scientific, and creative talents of the University of California. UCLA YouTube Channel
Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) launched its program in Fall 2008 by offering one of Stanford's most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering. Stanford's YouTube Channel
OpenWetWare Protocols OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. OWW provides a place for labs, individuals, and groups to organize their own information and collaborate with others easily and efficiently. More information
General Science
Academic Earth Academic Earth is working to bring together the best available content across many subjects and distribute it in an engaging and useful way to learners worldwide. It has over 1500 video lectures from the world's top scholars. Universities participating include MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
Nature Podcasts A weekly news feature, with highlights from the publication. Hosted by Adam Rutherford and Kerri Smith and features reporters Charlotte Stoddart, Geoff Brumfiel and Natasha Gilbert.
SciVee SciVee is changing the pace at which science is conducted and communicated. As the first Web 2.0 site it enables researchers to combine video with documentation and data in a media rich format and make their research more visible, shareable, and accessible throughout the research cycle. Read UC Researchers launch a YouTube for Scientists
UC Davis Med Ed Hour University of California - Davis Office of Continuing Medical Education produces these audio and video podcasts which feature "a variety of medical programs aimed at physicians, nurses and other health care professionals".
Biology & Medicine Videos
Audio Medica Audio Medica produces medical audio journals for specialist doctors carrying over-the-microphone interviews with leading specialists presenting new findings from clinical trials at the top conferences all over the world.
DAVE Project : The Digital Atlas of Video Education is a collection of video and audio podcasts including a gastrointestinal endoscopy video atlas, medical lectures, presentations, etc. Editors are all Massachussets General / Harvard Medical School faculty.
FDA Patient Safety News : "A video news show for health professionals." Created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Lectures in Microbiology & Immunology (Univ. of South Carolina)
Medical Genetics Lecture Videos (University of Nebraska Medical Center)
- Immunology animations & videos
- NHC Anatomy & Physiology
- Immunology Scientists Lectures (Harvard)
- Immunology Lectures & Videos (Univ. of South Carolina)
MedSchoolTV (Univ. of Toronto) MedSchoolTV is a web-based video-on-demand broadcast channel, bringing contemporary and historical programming on a wide range of health and medical topics from the Univ of Toronto. One of the projects at Discovery Commons is the preservation and digitization of this media collection for students, staff, members of the medical community and everyone who has an interest in the subject matter.
The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The Next Paradigms Center for Computational Molecular Biology (Brown University)
Yale Image Finder Search the actual image content of over 34,000 Open Access articles from PubMed Central.
Mathematics
Dovermann's Derive Videos (The University of Hawai'i)
Endowed Lectures Videos From the Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University
Mathematical Lectures with slide shows and videos(Roxanne Byrne, University of Colorado Denver)
Neuroscience/Vision Videos
The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The Next Paradigms Center for Computational Molecular Biology (Brown University)
Public Health & Prevention
SuperCourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a network of over 55000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3518 lectures in 26 languages. The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, with other core developers.
Physics
Feynman Lectures Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently bought the rights to videos of seven lectures that famed physicist (and bongo drummer) Richard Feynman gave when he was teaching at Cornell in the 1960s. Videos (which require Microsoft Silverlight) are fully searchable and enhanced with related content including images, notes and commentary.
Quantum Theory In 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbours near Cornell University. Given by Professor Bethe at age 93, the lectures are presented as QuickTime videos synchronized with slides of his talking points and archival material.
Physics Videos (Dr. Russell L. Herman, University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Open Books
Flat World Knowledge A New Approach to College Textbooks. As of this coming September, more than 40,000 college students at more than 400 colleges will access the publisher's e-learning services and textbooks. Team
Free digital textbooks initiative (California Learning Institute)
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