The UChannel project is an initiative of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. They have an excellent collection of one-off public affairs lectures that can be downloaded or streamed. Their idea is to be a global academic forum. Go here for the website.
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September 21, 2008I have already had some university websites and the latest one is Yale University. It has a small selection of course but they are going to have eight new ones this Autumn. The sound quality is excellent, which is not always the case. You can download them onto your MP3 player. The courses include:
Modern Poetry
Introduction to Psychology
Fundamentals of Physics
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
Go to http://oyc.yale.edu/
My Favourite Links #9
June 8, 2008In January 2007 the London School of Economics launched its first podcasting channel, Public lectures and events: podcasts. You can access podcasts of a wide selection of LSE’s public lectures. The podcasts can be played directly from that page or downloaded for playing later using your PC or MP3 player. Lectures include:
A Debate about the Definition of ‘Britishness’
Global Financial Regulation: The Essential Guide
Modern Erotics and the Quest for Intimacy
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
Trade and Inequality Revisited
The speakers come from a wide range of ideologies; George Soros, Fred Halliday, David Miliband, Jeffrey Sachs, Michelle Bachelet and Tim Harford just to name a few.
Here is the website.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
My favourite Links #6
May 18, 2008HowStuffWorks is a website dedicated to explaining the way many things work. These things could be mobile phones, mortgages, pickpockets or cults. The site uses photos, diagrams, video and animation to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language. It was founded by Marshall Brain in 1998 and has has 58 million visitors annually.
My Favourite Links #4
May 4, 2008The University of California, Berkeley was founded in 1868 and its motto is Fiat lux or for those of us who didn’t have a classical education Let there be light. Now that light can reach anywhere in the world with access to the internet. They have now posted 100s of courses at their website. These include the following: The Making of Modern Europe: 1453 to the Present, Microeconomics, Shakespeare, The Ancient Mediterranean World, General Psychology, Heidegger…….. the list goes on and on. These courses have been available for a number of years now and you can find them all here. You don’t need to register and they are all free.
