Are there other high quality lecture sites besides TMS and TTC?

December 10, 2008 7:23 PM

Are there other high quality lecture sites besides TMS and TTC?

I'm looking for similar sites like TMS or TTC which offer high quality lectures recorded by world renown professors. I do know that there are many universities that have opened up their curriculum like MIT or Berkeley but I'm looking for these paid site in particular.

posted by clueless22 to education (5 comments total)

iTunes University?

They have free podcasts from a lot of universities. I also recommend their recordings of the TED lectures.
posted by Mephisto at 7:44 PM on December 10, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

I just noticed you seem to specifically be looking for paid lectures. Why you'd prefer to pay for what you can often get for free I can't imagine, but that's up to you. Apologies for the inappropriate answer.

Good luck!
posted by Mephisto at 7:47 PM on December 10, 2008

Yeah I just realized it as well. MIT's opencourseware is so addictive !! Why pay for any of the other sites...
posted by johannahdeschanel at 8:18 PM on December 10, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Fora.tv

"FORA.tv is the leading interactive viewing experience of the smartest, most entertaining video content in the world. —The world of ideas and knowledge—all drawn from the live-event speeches, discussions, interviews and debates going on everywhere all the time at the world’s leading conferences, ideas festivals, think tanks and other major centers of thought and discourse."

They have lectures by professors and pundits and everyone in between about pretty much everything.
posted by nooneyouknow at 7:28 AM on December 11, 2008

The preference for the paid sites is not specifically for the paying aspect of it, rather I've noticed that these kinds of site offer a more comprehensive collection of lecture content (with more reputable lecturers).

Also with so many of these iTune U "opencourse" style lectures you tend to get introductory or first, second year classes. I'm mostly looking for the latter year courses.
posted by clueless22 at 9:42 AM on December 11, 2008