What if you didn’t quite understand a fundamental law concept in your last lecture? What if you wanted a different perspective on that something or other? What if you wanted something explaining in a slightly different way?
How about attending a lecture on it at a different university? Maybe Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, Yale, Harvard or MIT. Well maybe you can’t actually attend a lecture at one of those prestigious institutions of learning, but what about viewing a series of lectures recorded there in your subject?
Well via Academic Earth you can do just that.
Their mission:
‘Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education’.
Courses and subjects covered include:
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Engineering
- English
- Entrepreneurship
- History
- Law
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religion
If you want to see a whole 36 part lecture on general human anatomy covering the human brain and muscular system, nervous system, muscular system, digestive system, the liver, and so on, then that’s available. What about The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism, Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Introduction to Solid State Chemistry, and many more.
In addition the site runs a rating system, where registered users grade the standard of the lectures.
This looks like a great resource and one which can be used for a lifetime’s worth of learning. Great find!
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