Streamline Training & Documentation: Academic Earth Update

Monday, January 18, 2010

Academic Earth Update

Last February, I wrote a brief post calling attention to Academic Earth, a portal for videos of college lectures that was then in beta. The site is now fully functional and has notably expanded the number of universities and courses it covers.

The unversities — with the added schools marked with asterisks — are:

      Berkeley
      Columbia*
      Harvard
      Michigan*
      MIT
      NYU*
      Princeton
      Stanford
      UCLA*
      Yale

The list of subject areas is also a bit longer now (added subjects are marked with asterisks):

      AP Test Prep*
      Astronomy
      Biology
      Chemistry
      Computer Science
      Economics
      Engineering
      Entrepreneurship
      Environmental Studies*
      History
      International Relations*
      Law
      Literature (broadened from "English")
      Mathematics
      Media Studies*
      Medicine
      Philosophy
      Physics
      Political Science
      Pre-Med*
      Psychology
      Religious Studies (used to be "Religion")

I haven't personally sampled many of these courses, but can recommend "Building Dynamic Websites," taught by David J. Malan, a lecturer on computer science at Harvard College, to anyone interested in relatively advanced website development. The syllabus is here.

For a more basic treatment of computers and the internet, you can try Prof. Malan's Harvard Extension School course, "Understanding Computers and the Internet." The syllabus is here (pdf).

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