How to find the good stuff on iTunes U

Some of you have asked how I find the good stuff on iTunes U. After all, a lot of colleges offer mainly PR fluff, like virtual campus tours and welcoming speeches by the dean of students.
So, here are my secrets. Every few days I do some of the following.
1. Survey the main iTunes U [...]

Academic Earth makes debut on the web

Here’s a cool new way to get your fix of university courses and lectures–Academic Earth, a YouTube for the egghead set, is featuring videos of courses and lectures from top universities. Universities on the menu right now: UC Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.

All of this material is already available on other websites [...]

You are invited to the Podcast Parlor

University lecture courses usually come packaged with seminars or discussion sections where students can ask questions and kick around ideas.
Wouldn’t it be nice for us cyber-students if we could have something similar? Well, thanks to the work of blogger Anne at Anne is a Man, we now have the Podcast Parlor. The idea is to [...]

New reporter on the beat

So many on-line courses, so little time…. That’s why I’m glad to welcome a new writer to the academic podcast/webcast reviewing biz: Baxter Wood at the re-education of baxter wood. Check out his new blog for his take on the world of university courses and lectures. He likes some of my favorites [...]

Favorite academic blogs

Did you ever wish you could eavesdrop on really smart people while they argue about the topics that interest them the most?   That’s what you get when you browse academic blogs.
A good place to browse for academic bloggers on your own favorite topics is The Academic Blog Portal.
I’ve started a permanent page, Favorite academic blogs, [...]

A guide to iTunesU

Updated 8/31/2008
See the updated version of this post at Guide to iTunesU.
At last count there were 79 colleges and universities featured on iTunesU, the section of Apple’s iTunes music store devoted to higher education. There’s great free downloadable content here — lots of lectures and entire courses, but sorting through all this material can [...]

How to subscribe to a Stanford podcast

Here is a great tip via podcast review site Anne is a Man!
Although there is no obvious way to subscribe to a Stanford University podcast via iTunes, you can get all the advantages of subscriptions (ie automatic downloading of new episodes and automatic bookmarking) if you go to this Stanford iTunes webpage.
Just follow the instructions [...]

How to download a class session from Open Yale Courses

If you click on the “download” link for one of the courses on the Open Yale Courses website, you will see something like this:

If you want to listen to the course on your MP3 player, you’ll want to download an audio file. Go to a [mp3] link, and click the right mouse button. [...]

The easiest ways to find classes

First, do you want to listen to your lectures on your MP3 player or iPod? If so, the easiest way to find and download academic lectures or full courses is at the Apple iTunes music store. If you don’t already have it, download a copy of the iTunes software, and after you launch [...]

What is open courseware?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the pioneer of the open courseware movement, and to date has posted materials for 1800 of its courses on the MIT open courseware site. Other open courseware sites include:

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OpenCourseWare
Tufts OpenCourseWare
UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
Utah State OpenCourseWare
UC Irvine [...]