15 April 2009

Attend classes on youtube & forget college.

College Too expensive?
  • Try Youtube. it might seem counterintuitive to look for higher education alongside avril lavigne music videos, but the video sharing site become a major reservoir of college content.
  • youtube has for the last few years been forgetting partnership with university and colleges. the site recently gathered that video-channels under the banner YOUTUBE EDU. over 100 schools have partnered with youtube to make an official channel, including stanford,MIT, Harvard, Yale and the first university to join youtube : UC berkely.
  • there are promotional videos like campus tours, but the more intresting content is stright from the classroom or lecture hall. many schools have posted video of guest lectures. introductory classes and even a full semester's course.
at a time when many are finding college unaffortable and the ranks of the learning can sound like a good way to spen some Free time.