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Open Courses at Universities

OpenCourseWare Material An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as 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.

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. Yale courses on YouTube

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.  You Tube

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.

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 Videos

 ibiomagazine YouTube Feed

Yale Image Finder Search the actual image content of over 34,000 Open Access articles from PubMed Central.

Medicine Videos

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.

Mathematics

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 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.
  • Free digital textbooks initiative (California Learning Institute)

Open Theses