Video lectures
Get easy online access to classes from the world’s top universities. Just remember to use the correct format if you cite the videos in your work (see an example of Harvard style).
Academic Earth
Academic Earth was founded to give everyone on earth access to a world-class education. It’s a “user-friendly educational ecosystem” where you can easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Their goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable. Videos are in Adobe Flash format (install Flash).
Webcast Berkeley
Every semester, the University of California Berkeley, webcasts select courses and events for on-demand viewing via the Internet. webcast.berkeley course lectures are provided as a study resource for students at Berkley but they are freely available to anyone interested in the material. There are special events which have talks given by visiting lecturers. The webcasts are organised by course and are in Adobe Flash format or Real Player (follow links if you do not have these installed)
MIT World
Associated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT World holds a wide variety of lectures, panel discussions, and symposia. The MIT World videos are scholarly, relevant, and accessible to a wide audience. They cover the latest discoveries in science, engineering, architecture, humanities, technology, and management. Technical seminars focus on emerging fields and presentations illuminate trends in society, the arts, and humanities. MIT World commentary provides an intellectual context for the lecture and links to relevant sites. Videos are in Adobe Flash format.
YouTube Edu
The fantastic site that is YouTube have collated lectures, discussions and documentaries from various universities are around the world. The videos are categorised buy subject area or searchable like all videos on YouTube, but the results are refined to educational subjects.
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. And in fact, the event is broader still, showcasing ideas that matter in any discipline. The format is fast paced: 50+ talks over the course of four days (to say nothing of the morning and evening events). This immersive environment allows attendees and speakers from vastly different fields to cross-fertilize and draw inspiration from unlikely places.
