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  1. MIT launches online learning initiative MITx / 20 December, 2011

    MIT announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will: organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication allow for the individual assessment of [...]

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  2. Great News From UC Berkeley Webcasts / 1 September, 2011

    Over the Summer 0f 2011 webcast.berkeley upgraded its aging infrastructure. They completed the migration of roughly 170 courses collections that had to be taken off-line as part of this upgrade process. These courses are now available in the “Classic Courses” section of UC Berkeley on iTunes U. You can read the complete message by Benjamin [...]

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  3. New York University Open Education / 31 August, 2011

    The New York University’s Open Education Pilot makes some NYU courses freely available. You can find the following courses: American Literature I: From beginnings to the Civil War by Professor Cyrus Patell New York City: A Social History by Professor Daniel Walkowitz Introduction to Sociology by Professor Harvey Molotch Genomes & Diversity by Dr. Mark [...]

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  4. ETS Launches New Webcast.Berkeley Site / 1 July, 2011

    The University of California Berkeley has launched the new webcast.berkeley website. You can read more about the revised version in a message from UC Berkeley. Unfortunately, there is a sad news. Dara from the blog The Do It Yourself Scholar reports, that “dozens, maybe hundreds of old courses are gone” from the reworked site. That [...]

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  5. Yale: Digital Images Now Available for Free / 20 May, 2011

    Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world can enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced on May 10, 2011. Yale says it is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible [...]

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  6. Open Education for an Open World / 21 September, 2010

    In Charles M. Vest’s expansive vision, scientists and engineers around the world are creating a “meta university” as they increasingly share ideas and build on common knowledge. Technology enables this integration of minds, leading us toward “an era better called brain circulation,” he says. Charles M. Vest stepped down as MIT’s 15th president in December, [...]

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  7. Yale Expands Free Online Courses / 26 October, 2009

    Ten new college courses — ranging from organic chemistry to ancient Roman architecture to the psychology and politics of food — have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free educational initiative, available to anyone with access to the Internet. Each course, recorded in its entirety as it was presented to Yale College students, [...]

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  8. Entrepreneurship Podcasts from Stanford / 26 November, 2008

    Entrepreneurship Corner (ECorner) is a Stanford University collection of online resources for teaching and learning entrepreneurship. Registration is free and the videos are licensed under a Creative Commons alternative copyright. The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series is a great resource with a lot of very inspiring speeches. Here you can find it: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

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  9. UAF joins OpenCourseWare Consortium / 21 November, 2008

    The University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for Distance Education has signed an agreement that will bring UAF courses to a worldwide audience and introduce Alaska students to courses from more than 200 universities and colleges. Under the agreement, UAF will join the OpenCourseWare Consortium and contribute 10 courses over the next two years. The consortium [...]

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  10. Yale Doubles Number of Free Online Courses / 18 October, 2008

    Eight new courses in history, economics, literature and biomedical engineering taught by leading faculty have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free online education initiative. The courses, which were recorded in their entirety as they were taught to Yale College students in the classroom, are available in video and audio formats. Closed captioning [...]

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  11. Stanford Engineering Everywhere / 21 September, 2008

    The Stanford School of Engineering announced the debut of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), the pilot of a free online service that provides Stanford’s popular introduction to computer science and other computer science and electrical engineering courses. Each consists of complete video lectures and materials such as handouts, assignments, exams and transcripts. With SEE, Stanford Engineering [...]

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  12. Game Development Becomes Lecture Topic / 6 March, 2008

    This is really cool: The GamecityLab of the Hamburg University of Applied Science and the Hamburg@work Initiative have recently acquired a CryEngine 2 license from the game development studio Crytek for teaching and research purposes. This game engine with which technology Crysis has developed will be used for interdisciplinary student projects, and bachelor and master [...]

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  13. OCW Milestone Celebration / 5 February, 2008

    “Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds” is the motto of MIT OpenCourseWare. The free publication of course materials at MIT reached a milestone in November 2007: The complete publication of virtually the entire MIT curriculum, more than 1,800 courses in total. To mark the occasion, OCW held a Milestone Celebration event November 28th on the MIT campus, [...]

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  14. University of Bath Wins Podcast Award / 14 December, 2007

    The University of Bath has won a prestigious international award for its podcasts of its public lectures, which have proved popular world-wide. The University was given the European Excellence Award for the best podcasts at a ceremony in Berlin last night. There were 600 entrants in total for all the award categories, and the University [...]

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  15. Free Yale Courses Debut Online / 13 December, 2007

    Yale University is making some of its most popular undergraduate courses freely available to anyone in the world with access to the Internet. The project, called “Open Yale Courses,” presents unique access to the full content of a selection of college-level courses and makes them available in various formats. Each course includes a full set [...]

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  16. Organic Chemistry: Lab Training Videos / 6 December, 2007

    Undergraduate students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) created a series of dynamic videos about their work in the science laboratory. Haim Weizman is a lecturer in U.C. San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He powers the video project. As reported by Sherry Seethaler each video is approximately five to seven minutes [...]

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  17. Yale and Microsoft Partner on Digital Project / 31 October, 2007

    Readers around the world will soon have online access to thousands of rare books in Yale’s Library thanks to an agreement between the University and Microsoft Corp to digitize many volumes found only in the Yale collections. The Microsoft-Yale project will initially focus on the digitization of 100,000 out-of-copyright English-language books, which will then become [...]

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  18. First Internet-scale Programming Courses / 8 October, 2007

    A pilot course taught at the University of Washington has been expanded into a national program that shows students how to program using tens, hundreds or thousands of computers. Google and IBM announced an initiative Monday to promote new programming methods that will help students and researchers address the challenges of Internet-scale applications. “This is [...]

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  19. UC Berkeley Launches YouTube Channel / 4 October, 2007

    The University of California, Berkeley, announced that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube. It is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. “UC Berkeley [...]

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  20. U.S. News University Ranking / 17 August, 2007

    U.S. News & World Report has puplished its annual university and college ranking: Princeton Tops U.S. News Rankings, Again. In each category, data on up to 15 indicators of academic quality are gathered from each school and tabulated. Schools are ranked within categories by their total weighted score. For undergraduates looking for the top program [...]

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  21. Cornell is Partnering with Google / 11 August, 2007

    Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library’s collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. About 500,000 volumes from Cornell’s collection of nearly 8 million will be digitized over the next six years, including both public domain and copyrighted works. Cornell is the 27th institution to [...]

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  22. OpenLearn receives 4.45 Million / 29 June, 2007

    The Open University has been awarded a further $4.45 million grant to support its work to make course materials freely available to anyone in the world. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approved a bid to enable the OpenLearn website to double the amount of free learning content by April 2008. The website will also [...]

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  23. The Source of Happiness / 5 May, 2007

    Yesterday the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso, visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin Public Television has made available an archived streaming video of the talk on its website. The speech “Compassion: The Source of Happiness” has a length of 1 hour 28 minutes. It was the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s fifth visit [...]

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  24. Dalai Lama at Rice University / 2 May, 2007

    Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, lectured at Rice University on May 1, 2007. He talked about “The Meaning of Compassion in Everyday Life” and in another unit about “Tolerance and Universal Responsibility”. Both lectures take one hour 30 minutes. You can watch the lectures or download the MP3 audio files. Rice University and The [...]

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  25. Internet-controlled Robots Anyone can Build / 27 April, 2007

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect to the Internet. The press release says that the robots can take many forms, from a three-wheeled model with a mounted camera to a flower [...]

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  26. Study for free at Yale in Fall 2007 / 22 March, 2007

    Yale University, the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, plans to deliver a pilot of seven undergraduate courses to the public free of charge, via the Internet. This is not a brand-new announcement, it was made public in September 2006. But it is nonetheless very interesting. Ultimately, the University aims to offer [...]

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  27. Books from Princeton Library soon online / 8 February, 2007

    A new partnership between the Princeton University Library and Google soon will make approximately 1 million books in Princeton’s collection available online in a searchable format. The library will work with Google over the next six years to digitize books that are in the public domain and no longer under copyright. Digital copies of books [...]

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