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400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities


Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 250 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player.

Humanities & Social Sciences

Archaeology

  • HannibaliTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford

Architecture

Art & Art History

  • Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – James Grant, Oxford University
  • Art History: Ancient to MedievaliTunes Video – Penn State, Heather McCune Bruhn
  • Foundations of American Cyber-CultureYouTube – UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Visual ThinkingYouTube – UC Berkeley
  • Masterpieces of Western ArtiTunes – Columbia University
  • SmARThistory Video LecturesVimeo – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
  • The Elements of DrawingiTunes – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University

Classics & Classical World

Economics

  • American Economic HistoryiTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Austrian Economics: An IntroductionWeb Site - Murray N. Rothbard - New York Polytechnic University
  • Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Douglas W. Rae, Yale
  • Economic Crisis and GlobalizationVideo – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Economic Geography of the Industrial WorldiTunes – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
  • Financial MarketsYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Robert Shiller, Yale
  • Financial TheoryiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – John Geanakoplos, Yale
  • Game TheoryYouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Ben Polak, Yale
  • Game Theory in the Social Sciences - iTunes Video – Yves Zenou, UC Berkeley
  • Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory - YouTube – Professor J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • International Political EconomyiTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College
  • International Trade - YouTube - iTunes Video – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to EconomicsiTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online CourseVideo – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Introduction to Environmental Economics and PolicyYouTube – Professor Gordon Rausser, UC Berkeley
  • Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice - Video - Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Marxian Economics – An Intensive IntroductionVideo – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Marxian Economics: Advanced & Applied Intensive CourseVideo - Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Reading Marx’s CapitalGoogle Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
  • The Austrian School of Economics: An IntroductionWeb Site - Friedrich A. Hayek & colleagues – Recorded at University of Colorado

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Film

  • Existentialism in Literature & Film iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
  • Philosophy in Film and Other Media iTunes – YouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, GenreiTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan

Geography

  • Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes Audio – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
  • Geography of US Presidential ElectionsiTunesYouTube – Martin Lewis, Stanford
  • Geography of World Cultures - iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
  • Global GeopoliticsiTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
  • GlobalizationiTunes – Robert Acker, UC Berkeley

History

  • African-American History: Modern Freedom StruggleYouTubeiTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
  • American Economic HistoryiTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Greek HistoryYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Ben Franklin and the World of the EnlightenmentiTunes – Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
  • China: Traditions and TransformationsMultiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
  • Colonial and Revolutionary AmericaiTunesU – Jack Rakove, Stanford
  • Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and StuartsiTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
  • Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 iTunes Video –  iTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Frank Snowden, Yale
  • Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization, 1648-1945 - YouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to PresentiTunes – Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present - YouTube - iTunes Video – Thomas Lacquer, UC Berkeley
  • European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • European Cultural History, 1660-1870 MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • European Cultural History, 1880-1920 MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • France Since 1871YouTubeiTunesDownload Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • HannibaliTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford.
  • Historical JesusiTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of Anthropological ThoughtiTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
  • History of InformationYouTube – Professors Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
  • History of Iran to the Safavid PeriodiTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of the International SystemiTunes – James Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of the Modern Middle EastiTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of New York City: A Social History - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
  • History of the United States Since 1945iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • History of the World to 1500 CEYouTube – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - iTunes – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Greek HistoryYouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Medicine and Public Health in American History – Web Audio - Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame
  • Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - YouTube – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
  • Modern Jewish HistoryMP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Science, Magic and Religion - iTunesYouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
  • The American Founders and Their WorldiTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
  • The American RevolutioniTunes Video iTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – David Blight, Yale
  • The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000iTunes – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second ReichiTunes – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • The United States and the World Since 1945 - iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • The Western Tradition (Video)VideosCourse Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
  • War and Peace: International Relations since 1914iTunes – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War IIMultiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard

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Journalism

  • Journalistic EthicsYouTube – Jim Newton, UCLA

Languages

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Law

Linguistics

  • Old English in Context iTunes – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
  • Structure of English Words - iTunes – Will Leben, Stanford

Literature

  • American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site - Cyrus Patell, NYU
  • Cervantes’ Don Quixote iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
  • Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Dante in TranslationYouTubeiTunes Audio - iTunes VideoDownload Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
  • Holocaust in Film and LiteratureYouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
  • Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and CultureiTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Theory of LiteratureiTunesYouTubeDownload Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
  • Invitation to World LiteratureWeb Site - David Damrosch, Harvard
  • Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • MiltonYouTubeiTunes Audio - iTunes VideoDownload Course – John Rogers, Yale
  • Modern Poetry - YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Langdon Hammer, Yale
  • Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular TheatreiTunes – Oxford
  • Old English in Context - iTunes – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
  • Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to WordsworthWeb Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Shakespeare - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • Shakespeare After All: The Later PlaysMultiple Formats – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
  • Spenser and Milton – Web Audio - William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays - Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • The American Novel Since 1945YouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
  • The Literature of CrisisiTunes – Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
  • The Western Canon: From Homer to MiltonWeb Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a ClassiciTunes – Susanna Braund, Stanford

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Music

Philosophy

  • A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes VideoWeb Video - Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
  • Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunesWeb – James Grant, Oxford University
  • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - iTunes VideoWeb Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Ancient PhilosophyiTunes – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes VideoWeb Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Aristotle: EthicsWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Aristotle: RhetoricWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures - Web Site – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
  • Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Video & Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • DeathYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes Video –  Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
  • Environmental PhilosophyiTunes VideoWeb Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
  • Existentialism in Literature & FilmiTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • General PhilosophyiTunesWeb – Peter Millican, Oxford University
  • Hegel: The Philosophy of HistoryWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Heidegger: Being and Time - Sean Dorrance Kelly – Harvard - RSS FeedWeb Site
  • Heidegger’s Being & TimeiTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Heideggers Being and Time, Division IIiTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) - Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Introduction to Political PhilosophyYouTubeiTunesDownload Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – YouTubeWeb Site - Michael Sandel, Harvard
  • KantWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasoniTunes VideoiTunes AudioVideo/Audio on Web – Dan Robinson, Oxford
  • Later HeideggerWeb Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre - Web Site
  • Kant’s EpistemologyiTunes – Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow
  • Man, God, and Society in Western LiteratureiTunes Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Medical EthicsWeb Audio – David Solomon, Notre Dame
  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966)Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Morality and Modernity - Web Video – David Solomon, Notre Dame
  • Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy for BeginnersiTunesVideo/Audio on the Web – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Philosophy of LanguageiTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of Love in the Western WorldiTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy of Mind - iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of SocietyiTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Plato Apology/Crito - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato: GorgiasWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: LawsWeb Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: Meno - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato, Protagoras  -Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato’s RepublicWeb Site – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
  • Proust & PhilosophyFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • The Examined LifeiTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
  • The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats – Peter Adamson, King’s College London
  • The Moral Foundations of Politics - iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
  • The Nature of MindiTunes – John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
  • The Secular and The SacredWeb Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Theory of MeaningiTunes AudioiTunes Video – John Joseph Campbell
  • ThucydidesWeb Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Vico: Seminar in Political PhilosophyWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Xenophon’s Oeconomicus - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago

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Political Science, International Relations and Law

  • African American Studies: Intro to African American Political ThoughtYouTube – Mark Sawyer, UCLA
  • Climate Change: Law and PolicyiTunes – Cymie Payne
  • Environmental Politics and Law iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
  • Faith and GlobalizationYouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
  • Geography of US Presidential Elections – YouTubeiTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford
  • International PoliticsFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • International Political EconomyiTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College
  • International PoliticsAudio - James Morrison, Middlebury College
  • Introduction to German PoliticsiTunes – Andreas Busch, Oxford University
  • Introduction to Political PhilosophyYouTubeiTunesDownload Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
  • Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning (Video)Video – Michael Sandel, Harvard
  • Perspectives on China (Video)Video – Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard
  • Politics and StrategyYouTube – Kathleen Bawn, UCLA
  • RepublicanismFeed - Johns Hopkins
  • The Moral Foundations of Politics - iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale

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Religion

  • Faith and GlobalizationYouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
  • Historical JesusiTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)Download Course – Christine Hayes, Yale.
  • Introduction to New Testament History and LiteratureYouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Professor Dale B. Martin, Yale
  • Jerusalem: The Holy City from Ancient Canaan t0 Modern IsraeliTunes VideoiTunes Audio – Robert Cargill, UCLA
  • Jews and Christians Throughout History - iTunes VideoWeb Video – Rabbi Michael Signer, Notre Dame
  • Science, Magic and Religion: From Antiquity to PresentiTunesYouTube - UCLA

Sociology

  • Foundations of Modern Social TheoryiTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Iván Szelényi, Yale
  • Global Sociology - YouTube – Professor Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to SociologyWeb Site – Harvey Molotch, NYU
  • The Sociology of Race RelationsiTunes – Gianpaolo Baiocchi, UMASS Amherst

Urban Studies

  • Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry (Video)iTunes – Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT

Sciences

Aeronautics

Astronomy

Biology

  • Animal BehavioriTunes – Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Behavioral EndocrinologyFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • Bioscience in the 21st CenturyiTunesVideo Downloads – Team taught, Lehigh University
  • Brain Structure and its OriginsiTunes - Prof. Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Changing the Face of American HealthcareWeb Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame
  • Darwin’s LegacyYouTubeiTunes Team taught – Stanford
  • Evolution, Ecology and BehaviorYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Professor Stephen C. Stearns, Yale
  • Frontiers in Biomedical EngineeringYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – W. Mark Saltzman, Yale
  • General Biology 1 - Feed – John Hopkins
  • General Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyiTunes – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • General Human AnatomyYouTubeiTunes – Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley
  • Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and LawVideo/Audio on Web - Robert B. Goldberg, UCLA
  • Genomes and DiversityWeb Site – Mark Siegal, NYU
  • Genomics & Computational BiologyiTunes – George Church, MIT
  • Global Problems of Population GrowthYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course - Professor Robert Wyman, Yale
  • Human Behavioral BiologyiTunes VideoYouTube – Robert Sapolsky, Stanford
  • Introductory BiologyiTunesMP3s/Videos – Multiple professors, MIT
  • Introduction to BiologyYouTube – Multiple Professors – UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Oceanography - YouTube – Edwin Schauble, UCLA
  • Modern BiologyWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Molecular Biology: Macromolecular Synthesis and Cellular Function - iTunes Audio – Multiple Professor, UC Berkeley
  • Molecules and CellsFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • Replaceable You: Stem Cells and Tissue EngineeringiTunes – Jill Helms, Stanford
  • Straight Talk About Stem CellsiTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford
  • Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics - iTunes – Christopher Scott, Stanford
  • The Future of Human HealthYouTubeiTunes – Jennifer Raymond
  • The Stanford Mini Med School (Fall)iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Multiple Professors
  • The Stanford Mini Med School (Winter) - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Multiple Professors
  • The Stanford Mini Med School (Spring) – iTunesWeb Site – Multiple Professors

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Chemistry

  • Biochemistry Web Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Biochemistry 1YouTube – S. Dasgupta, IIT
  • Biochemistry 507iTunes – Multiple Professors, University of Wisconsin
  • Chemical Structure and Reactivity -YouTubeiTunes – Peter Vollhardt, UC Berkeley
  • Chemistry - Web Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Freshman Organic ChemistryYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course - Professor J. Michael McBride, Yale
  • General ChemistryiTunes – Kristie Boering, UC Berkeley
  • Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to SustainabilityYouTube – Professor John Arnold
  • Introduction to ChemistryiTunes – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Chemical EngineeringYouTubeiTunes – Channing Robertson, Stanford
  • Introduction to Solid State ChemistryYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Donald Sadoway, MIT

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

  • Artificial Intelligence – Introduction to RoboticsYouTubeiTunesMultiple formats – Oussama Khatib, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence – Natural Language ProcessingMultiple formats – Christopher Manning, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence – Machine LearningYouTubeiTunesMultiple formats – Andrew Ng, Stanford
  • Artificial IntelligenceYouTube – P.Dasgupta, IIT
  • BitsMultiple Formats – Harry Lewis, Harvard
  • Building Dynamic Web SitesiTunesVideo & Audio – David Malan, Harvard Extension
  • Building Mobile Web SitesiTunesWeb Site - David Malan, Harvard Extension
  • Computational Camera and PhotographyDownload Course – Ramesh Raskar, MIT
  • Computer GraphicsYouTube – Sukhendu Das, IIT
  • Computer Language Engineering - YouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Martin Rinard, MIT
  • Computer NetworksYouTube – S.Ghosh, IIT
  • Computer System EngineeringWeb Site – Profs. Robert Morris and Samuel Madden, MIT
  • Data Structures - iTunes Video – Paul Hilfinger, UC Berkeley
  • Developing Apps for iOS (iPhone & iPad)iTunesU – Paul Hegarty, Stanford
  • Discrete Mathematical Structures YouTube – Kamala Krithivasan, IIT
  • Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript – Multiple Formats – David Malan, Harvard
  • Introduction to AlgorithmsiTunesYouTubeWeb Site –  Prof. Charles Leiserson & Erik Demaine, MIT
  • Introduction to Computer Programming for Scientists and Engineers - iTunes AudioiTunes Video – Roberto Horowitz, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - YouTubeiTunesMIT Web Site – Eric Grimson, John Guttag, MIT
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming MethodologyYouTubeiTunesMultiple formats – Mehran Sahami, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Abstractions - YouTubeiTunes - Multiple formats – Julie Zelenski, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Paradigms - YouTubeiTunes - Multiple formats – Jerry Cain, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer GraphicsYouTube – Prem Kalra, IIT
  • Introduction to Embedded Systems - YouTube – Professors Sanjit Seshia, Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Problem Solving & ProgrammingYouTube – Deepak Gupta, IIT
  • iPhone Application Development in iOS5 (Fall 2011)HD video iTunesStandard-Def Video iTunes
  • iPhone Application Development (Spring 2009)- iTunes – Stanford
  • iPhone Application Development (Winter 2010)iTunes – Stanford
  • Logic & ProofsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Machine StructuresiTunes Video – David Culler, UC Berkeley
  • Multimedia Systems - iTunes – Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame
  • Operating Systems and System ProgrammingiTunes – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Operating Systems PrinciplesiTunes – Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame
  • Principles of Digital Communications I - YouTubeiTunes – Profs Gallagher and Zheng, MIT
  • Principles of Digital Communications II - YouTube – MIT
  • Programming Languages and Compilers - YouTube – Professor Paul Hilfinger, UC Berkeley
  • Quantum Computing for the Determined - YouTube – Michael Nielsen, The University of Queensland
  • Search Engines: Technology, Society and BusinessYouTube – Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
  • The Beauty and Joy of ComputingiTunes - Brian Harvey, UC Berkeley
  • The Beauty of Joy of ComputingYouTube – Professor Daniel Garcia, UC Berkeley
  • The Future of the InternetiTunes – Ramesh Johari, Stanford
  • The Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsYouTubeiTunes – Brian Harvey, UC Berkeley
  • Understanding Computers and the InternetiTunesFeed – David Malan, Harvard University

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Engineering (Mechanical, Civil and Electrical)

  • Advanced Analog Integrated CircuitsYouTube – Professor Simone Gambini, UC Berkeley
  • Atomistic Computer Modeling of MaterialsYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Gerbrand Ceder & Nicola Marzari, MIT
  • Convex Optimization IMultiple Formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Convex Optimization 2Multiple Formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Direct Solar/Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion TechnologiesiTunesDownload Course – Gang Chen, MIT
  • Dynamics of MachinesYouTube – Amitabha Ghosh, IIT
  • Electrical – Digital Signal Processing YouTube – S.C Dutta Roy, IIT
  • Electro Magnetic FieldsYouTube – Harishankar Ramachandran, III
  • Engineering StatisticsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Environmental Air PollutionYouTube -Mukesh Sharma, IIT
  • Fluid MechanicsYouTube – T.I.Eldho, IIT
  • Introduction to Chemical EngineeringYouTubeiTunes – Channing Robertson, Stanford
  • Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits - iTunes – Elad Alon, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Digital Integrated CircuitsYouTube – Professor Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to EngineeringiTunes – Tod Laursen, Duke
  • Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems - Multiple formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Introduction to Microelectronic CircuitsiTunes – Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to EngineeringiTunes Video – Multiple presenters, Duke University
  • Linear Integrated CircuitsYouTube – Professor Clark Tu-Cuong Nguyen, UC Berkeley
  • Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to MEMS Design - iTunes AudioiTunes Video – UC Berkeley
  • Nano-to-Macro Transport ProcessesiTunes AudioWeb Site – Gang Chen, MIT
  • The Fourier Transform and its ApplicationsYouTubeiTunesMultiple formats – Brad Osgood, Stanford

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Mathematics

  • Abstract Algebra - Multiple Formats – Benedict Gross – Harvard
  • CalculusiTunes Audio – F. Michael Christ, UC Berkeley
  • Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus (1970)YouTube - iTunes VideoWeb Site – Herb Gross, MIT
  • Computational Science and Engineering I - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Gilbert Strang, MIT
  • Core Science MathematicsYouTube – SK Ray, IIT
  • Differential EquationsYouTubeiTunes – MIT – Arthur Mattuck
  • Engineering StatisticsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Geometric Folding Algorithms:Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra - Web Site – Erik Demaine, MIT
  • Introduction to Probability and StatisticsYouTubeiTunes Video – Deborah Nolan, MIT
  • Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business iTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to StatisticsiTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • Linear AlgebraYouTubeiTunes – Gilbert Strang, MIT
  • Logic & ProofsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Multivariable CalculusYouTubeiTunes – Dennis Auroux, MIT
  • Probability for Math ScienceiTunesYouTube – Herbert Enderton, UCLA
  • Sets, Counting, and ProbabilityMultiple Formats – Paul Bamberg, Harvard
  • Single Variable Calculus - YouTubeiTunesU – David Jerison, MIT
  • StatisticsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • The Calculus LifesaverDownload Videos – Adrian Banner, Princeton

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Natural Resources

Physics

  • Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & AstrophysicsYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Edmund Bertschinger, MIT
  • Descriptive Introduction to Physics iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
  • Fundamentals of PhysicsiTunesYouTubeDownload Course – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
  • Fundamentals of Physics II iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
  • Introduction to AstrophysicsiTunesYouTube – Josh Bloom, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Cosmology and Particle PhysicsYouTube – Sean Carroll, Caltech
  • Introduction to Solar System AstronomyiTunesFeed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
  • Introductory PhysicsiTunes – Michael Deweese, UC Berkeley
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Classic Mechanics (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Special Relativity (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Einstein (Video)iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Cosmology (Video) - iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Statistical Mechanics (Video)iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Quantum Entanglement Part 1: (Video) – iTunesYouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Quantum Entanglement Part 3: (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Quantum MechanicsiTunes – JJ Binney, Oxford University
  • Quantum MechanicsiTunesFeed – John Terning, UC Davis
  • Quantum Physics Made Relatively SimpleVideos - Hans Bethe, Cornell University
  • Physics I: Classical MechanicsiTunesVideo DownloadYouTube – Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics II: Electricity and MagnetismiTunesVideo DownloadYouTube – Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics III: Vibrations and WavesiTunesVideo DownloadYouTube – Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics for Future PresidentsYouTube – Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
  • Stars, Galaxies, and the UniverseiTunesFeed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
  • String Theory, Black Holes, and the Laws of Nature (Video)Videos – Andrew Strominger, Harvard
  • The Character of Physical LawVideo – Richard Feynman, Cornell

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Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

  • Brain Structure and its OriginsiTunesDownload Course – Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Buddhist Psychology - iTunes – Eleanor Rosch, UC Berkeley
  • Clinical PsychologyiTunes – Ann Kring, UC Berkeley
  • Cognitive NeuroscienceiTunes – Richard Ivry, UC Berkeley
  • Developmental PsychologyiTunes – Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley
  • General PsychologyiTunes Audio – John Kihlstrom, UC Berkeley
  • Human Emotion - iTunes Audio – Dacher Keltner, UC Berkely
  • Human HappinessiTunes – Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to PsychologyYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course, Paul Bloom, Yale
  • Introduction to PsychologyiTunesMP3s – Jeremy Wolfe, MIT
  • Neural Networks and Biological ModelingWeb Video – Wolfram Gerstner, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Neuroscience and BehavioriTunesDownload Course – Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Scientific Approaches to Consciousness - YouTube – Professor John F. Kihlstrom, UC Berkeley
  • Social PsychologyVideo and Audio Files – Benjamin R. Karney, UCLA
  • Social Psychology: Self and Society - iTunes Audio – Robb Willer, UC Berkeley
  • The New Psychology of Depression - iTunes AudioWeb Audio - Mark Williams and Danny Penman, Oxford
  • The Psychology, Biology and Politics of FoodDownload Course – Professor Kelly D. Brownell, Yale

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Public Health

  • Epidemiology and Control of Infectious DiseasesYouTube – Professor Tomas Aragon, UC Berkeley
  • Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic and RoutineYouTube – Professor Harvey Kayman, UC Berkeley

Business

  • Entrepreneurship and Business PlanningiTunesFeed – Mark Juliano, Carnegie Mellon
  • Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business iTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • Marketing 321iTunes – Elaine Daussy, Texas A&M

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Gaming Degrees Grow In Popularity And Application

Gaming

A student in an augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech stands over a three-story pit, which in reality is a green screen transformed by the head-mounted display she is wearing. This is part of an experiment that measures fear of heights.

Computer programmers have sometimes been called nerdy, geeky and brainy. The industry has a new reputation, though. It has become cool.

More than 250 colleges and universities offer gaming degrees, and many of these programs involve more than just video games. At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, for example, there is one that combines engineering, computer science, art and media.

Beyond Entertainment

The augmented environments lab at Georgia Tech is bustling. Blair MacIntyre runs the lab and shows off some of the experiments. In one corner there's a room surrounded by wooden planks, and a green screen covers the floor.

This experiment is designed to measure a person's response to a fear of heights and learn from it.

"It really is the kind of combination of the kind of graphics you would see in a movie or video game," McIntyre says. "But because you are in the world, it really feels more real."

Gaming is the biggest force driving this technology. But MacIntyre says many others use it including the U.S. military and people in the medical field.

There are also practical, everyday uses for this type of technology. MacIntyre gives the example of an application that could, when installed on an iPhone, show a car owner if there was something wrong with her vehicle. "You look at your engine through your phone and figure out some basic repairs," MacIntyre says.

Across the Georgia Tech campus, students learn how to design and program based on one of the first major gaming systems — the Atari. Ian Bogost, a professor of digital media, gives students a background in gaming and knows they will use the technology to solve all kinds of real-world problems.

"We can apply them to journalistic pursuits, corporate learning," Bogost says. "We can apply them to social action, social justice. So when we look at games, and when we teach about games, it's not just about the entertainment industry. Although that's one aspect, it's really about the future of media much more broadly."

A Growing Industry

Even with a sagging economy, colleges and universities across the country have added gaming programs in the hopes of attracting students.

Richard Shemaka started out as mechanical engineer but found gaming more creative and, he hopes, more profitable.

"As a mechanical engineer, I was all about slide rules and multiplication tables," Shemaka says. "As soon as I got into computing, I just fell in love with it. I really love the logic behind it. I love just the sort of building-something-out -of-nothing sense that you get from it."

Emily Cribb is also a senior and one of a few women in this program.

"Everyone's going to need their escape," she says. "Everyone's going to need their muse, and games provide an excellent source of that. And I want to be in there helping people feel inspired and, thus, being inspired in turn."

The majority of undergraduate gaming programs have been developed in the past few years. Some people worry the industry will become saturated.

But Joseph Olin, with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, says there are no signs the appetite for gaming is waning.

"I don't believe consumer interest in interactive entertainment is going to abate," he says. "If anything, it seems to be increasing each year."

While universities figure out which courses to offer, most suggest there are still plenty of opportunities for creative students to find jobs with major companies or to make their own way in business, Web design or as independent game developers.

School Accused Of Spying On Kids In Their Homes With Spyware That Secretly Activated Webcams

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BoingBoing reports that a recent case filing in Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, a Pennsylvania school, is a class action suit on behalf of students with school-issued laptops whose webcams have been used to watch the students and their families at home.

It was discovered that the laptops issued by the high school contained software allowing administrators to covertly activate the on-board webcam. The plaintiff, Blake J. Robbins, was disciplined by the school for “improper behavior in his home.” The evidence of said impropriety was brought forth by the school vice principal, who displayed a photo of Robbins taken by the laptop’s webcam.

According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the Robbins's child was disciplined for "improper behavior in his home" and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines.

If true, these allegations are about as creepy as they come. I don't know about you, but I often have the laptop in the room while I'm getting dressed, having private discussions with my family, and so on. The idea that a school district would not only spy on its students' clickstreams and emails (bad enough), but also use these machines as AV bugs is purely horrifying.

Schools are in an absolute panic about kids divulging too much online, worried about pedos and marketers and embarrassing photos that will haunt you when you run for office or apply for a job in 10 years. They tell kids to treat their personal details as though they were precious.

your privacy is worthless and you shouldn't try to protect it.

Update: The school district admits that student laptops were shipped with software for covertly activating their webcams, but denies wrongdoing.


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