Free Academic Lectures (not as boring as it sounds)

Farhad Manjoo writes about Academic Earth which provides free access to videotaped lectures from premiere academics at prestigious institutions - it currently boasts "fifteen hundred videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale".  (I should also note that Oxford launched its own portal at iTunes U, which provides access to lecture and interview podcasts.)  As Manjoo notes, perhaps the best part is that "Academic Earth doesn't require you to participate in weekly discussion sections, chemistry labs, midterms, essays, or final exams".

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[Jim Whyte]

"Academic Earth doesn't require you to participate in ... chemistry labs...".

No alkali metals? No spontaneous combustion? No nitrogen triiodide? Wonderful. Take all the fun out of higher education but keep the tedium.