These days i have received the link of academicearth.org. A site with “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.”. Quite interesting i thought, and gave it a try with videos about:
Psycology:
History:
and Physics:
Like Rob, i’m an TED-addicted. Therefore it is really hard to convince me replacing my for-TED-preserved-time with ohter stuff. But academicearth definitely has the potential to do so. Beside speakers of Yale, MIT and Stanford, you’ll get access to lectures of Harvard, Berkeley and Princeton. Most of the lecutres can be downloaded as video (mp4) or audio (mp3) file or embed them in your site as we did. Votings and the creation of your favorites is possible as well.
Totally awesome! Especially for going much more deeper in detail than TED, academicearth.org is worth a look. No doubt, here comes not a TED-replacement, here comes a very valuable addition. Congrats to such an ambitious asimpressive project!
I hope we can see lectures from German univerities as well in the future. The Technical University of Ilmenau in Thuringia has experimented with lecture streams, but afaik there are no complete semestres available.