Category Archives: iTunesU

Prospecting for free courses in France, Germany & Israel

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

It seems like there are more free courses on the web every day. Here are a few non-English resources that I have been exploring recently. Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany (website) Most of these free video courses are in German, … Continue reading →

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Chaos helps explain biology

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

I’ve raved before about Robert Sapolsky’s fantastic Stanford course Human Behavioral Biology (iTunes), but I have to draw your attention to two stand-out lectures near the end of the course. In lectures 21 and 22, Sapolsky talks about how the … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Behavioral Economics

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

What happens when a bunch of psychologists try to investigate the assumptions about human behavior that underlie the discipline of economics? You get Behavioral Economics, a fascinating mix of economics and psychology explored in the new UC Berkeley class Economics … Continue reading →

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Harvard, MIT & Stanford introduce computer science to the world

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

In the 1970s I worked for a few years as a computer programmer, writing applications in the now obsolete COBOL language on an IBM mainframe that had a whopping one megabyte of memory. It was clearly the stone age of … Continue reading →

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Some old UC Berkeley favorites are back

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

I have been browsing around in the recently restored UC Berkeley Classic Courses, trying to find some of my old favorites from my Best free courses & lectures collection. It wasn’t easy because the restored courses are listed only by … Continue reading →

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169 Berkeley courses are back!

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Just in time to celebrate the new fall term, UC Berkeley’s webcast team has finished posting 169 courses that went offline during the site’s remodel.  These courses are now available on iTunes U in the Classic Courses section of the … Continue reading →

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Classic lectures by Donald Knuth now online

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth, who is now a professor emeritus at Stanford University, was one of the founders of modern computer science. He authored the classic multi-volume text, The Art of Computer Programming, which laid the groundwork for the … Continue reading →

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Berkeley update: many courses still on iTunes U

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

Alert reader Alex wrote in to point out that many of the courses deleted from the new UC Berkeley webcast site are still available on Berkeley’s iTunesU page. In the coming days I will try to update the links in … Continue reading →

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The Folkways Collection

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

In 1948 Moses Asch (1905-1986) founded Folkways Records & Service Co. and began recording the folk music of the world. Never a smashing commercial success, Folkways succeeded in recording vast amounts of music–everything from Americans Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger … Continue reading →

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: a book that changed history

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the rare novel that changed the world. Published in 1852, the book brought the human cost of slavery to the attention of Americans, who by and large preferred not to think about … Continue reading →

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