Friday, July 31, 2009

A virtual education for free

Virtual education... for free reports:

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Video-sharing site YouTube recently created a hub called YouTube EDU at youtube.com/edu for the more than 100 US colleges and universities offering free online learning.
They don't offer degrees but then they don't charge tuition either.
Colleges and universities across the United States are offering free courses online on virtually every subject imaginable, including videotaped lectures by some of their most distinguished professors.
Video-sharing site
YouTube recently created a hub called YouTube EDU at youtube.com/edu for the more than 100 US colleges and universities offering free online learning.
Among the thousands of
videos on YouTube EDU are the celebrated classroom theatrics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physics professor Walter Lewin, whose clips have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
Other leading institutions of
higher education posting videos to YouTube include the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
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Just amazing!


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3 comments:

Celina Macaisa said...

Hi Henry,
To help your site visitors make the most of these YouTube educational videos they can also use MySpeed from enounce to help them playback streaming videos slower or faster, according to their speed or level of understanding.

Sometimes more people want fast delivery of info to better focus, while others may want to slow down the video to fully understand the concept.

Hope you check it out if it works for you.

CaliforniaHSParent said...

The state of California has begun paying for online high school courses. Students can go to school from home 100% online and all the curriculum is provided. Here's a short video about Kaplan's online high school program for California students.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXIB_HqTrU

Henry Cate said...

Celina - thank you. I hadn't heard of MySpeed. It sounds pretty useful.

CaliforniaHSParent - Thanks. This could be a good option for some people. I hope Kaplan does well.