[LINK] Academic Earth

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

 http://academicearth.org


A World-Class Education for Everyone on Earth
 
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving 
everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available 
online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to 
achieving a world class education?  

At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find 
innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give 
internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact 
with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s 
leading scholars.  

Our 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.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate 
in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make 
learning easier for everyone.


Most Popular Courses of 2010:

1. Introduction to Psychology (Yale)
2. Computer Science I: Programming Methodology (Stanford)
3. Game Theory (Yale)
4. Building Dynamic Websites (Harvard)
5. Physics I: Classical Mechanics (MIT)


Top Rated Courses:

1.  Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Yale / History
Donald Kagan

2.Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Harvard / Philosophy
Michael Sandel

3.Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
MIT / Physics
Walter Lewin

4.The Poetry of John Milton
Yale / Literature
John Rogers


Universities:

Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Khan Academy
Maryland
Michigan
MIT
Norwich
NYU
Princeton
Stanford
UCLA
UNSW
USC
Yale


Subjects:

Art & Architecture
Astronomy
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Computer Science
Economics
Education
Electrical Engineering
Engineering (Except Electrical)
Entrepreneurship
Environmental Studies
History
International Relations
Law
Literature
Mathematics
Media Studies
Medicine & Healthcare
Online Bachelor's Degrees
Online Courses for Credit
Online Master's Degrees
Online Professional Certificates
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Religious Studies
Test Preparation
Writing

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TIME.com - 50 Best Websites of 2009
PC Mag - Top 100 Websites
BusinessWeek -  "These are not cut-up dumbed-down introductions made 
zippy for today's short attention spans, they are the full-length 
lectures that you would see if you were an undergraduate at Yale, 
Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton or Stanford."


Partnering with Academic Earth

We're working to bring together the best available educational content 
for our users. We are most interested in video content that is packaged 
with additional educational materials, (activities, exercises, readings, 
and assignments).

If you are a professor, educator, or representative from an academic 
institution and would like to use our platform to distribute content to 
learners worldwide, we would be excited to hear from you.

Please contact Chris Bruner at partners at academicearth.org for additional 
information on our content partnership opportunities.

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Cheers,
Stephen