Academic earth

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About this resource

The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed by subject, university, or instructor through a user-friendly interface. Additionally, editors have compiled lectures from different speakers into Playlists such as ¿¿¿Understanding the Financial Crisis¿¿¿ and ¿¿¿First Day Of Freshman Year.¿¿¿ The site also features a roster of famous guest lecturers on entrepreneurship and technology including Larry Page, Carol Bartz, Tim Draper, Elon Musk, and Guy Kawasaki. [Richard] Ludlow launched Academic Earth with the goal of building a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities.--Leena Rao, TechCrunch website.

Data Format: Text (HTML) and streaming audio and video files. Users can also download a QuickTime version of a lecture when the "Download" option appears.

Subject headings

Universities and colleges--Curricula--United States--Databases.

Open learning--United States--Computer network resources.

Independent study--United States--Computer network resources.

Education, Higher--United States--Computer network resources.

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