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Question: Youtube college lectures

bbranden1 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:46:33 -0800

Help me find longer lectures on Youtube. Is there a browsable index of what's on posted on Youtube (something more detailed and descriptive than the left sidebar on the homepage, the channels page, or the few video links that show up on any given page)? I'd like to find something to watch on my ipod at the gym, something to hold my interest for fifteen to sixty minutes, but not videos of laughing babies, music videos or teenagers beating up each other. Doing a search for "university lectures" leads me to the several UC Berkeley lecture series and the inspiring lecture from the fellow with pancreatic cancer. Is it possible to move beyond that into other college lectures or even multipart courses (arts or science), discussions, longer films, the unexpected? How do I find them?

By: fiercekitten

fiercekitten — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:52:55 -0800

You can download various college lectures and other educational tools from iTunes U, inside iTunes itself. I've been watching some of the physics lectures from MIT.

By: yz

yz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:54:21 -0800

It's not YouTube but you might be interested in MIT World:

MIT World" is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT [such as lectures and panel discussions]. MIT World's video index contains more than 500 videos.

By: Partial Law

Partial Law — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:59:00 -0800

If you use Google Video's advanced search (which searches YouTube), you can specify duration and only search videos that are longer than 20 minutes. Searching for "lecture" with this restriction currently returns 11000 results.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:59:32 -0800

While not answering your question as it relates to YouTube be sure to check out these previous threads for online video lectures -- 1000 Science Lecture Videos || Free Science and Video Lectures Online || Good times, good times! || TED Talks || Perspectives.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:02:27 -0800

Also -- Harvard@Home.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:03:01 -0800

@GoogleTalks might be of interest... basically lectures by authors and other similar types

By: s01110011

s01110011 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:03:55 -0800

Here's a couple university opencourseware type links just off the top of my head.

Standford
Princeton
MIT
UC Berkeley
Univ. California "TV"

In terms of full course materials/lectures, MIT Opencourseware is probably your best bet. They have the largest selection of courses, and a good range of materials.

By: s01110011

s01110011 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:04:35 -0800

^ I can't speel standford...

By: cachondeo45

cachondeo45 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:11:02 -0800

I really like Philip Tagg's strange and unusual lectures on youtube. He's a professor of semiotics and ethnomusicology at the University of Montreal and has very interesting insights into culture wars, communication and the media, and other random topics.

By: clockwork

clockwork — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:16:44 -0800

The search term you're missing is Zizek!

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:25:13 -0800

UCTV on youtube http://youtube.com/user/uctelevision -- with almost 2K videos.

By: needled

needled — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:47:16 -0800

UNC lectures (and other events) on YouTube can be found on this channel.

By: Arthur Dent

Arthur Dent — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:28:49 -0800

Have you looked at TED Talks? I believe you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

By: bbranden1

bbranden1 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:38:05 -0800

This are great answers. Thanks you very much! Any more ideas out there?

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:05:12 -0800

These presentations by James Randi are pretty interesting.

By: nooneyouknow

nooneyouknow — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:38:39 -0800

Fora.tv has lots of lectures about pretty much everything - from Ani DeFranco on file sharing to a talk about the history of national identities in Europe to a talk about the life of an Hindu farmer to Amy Richards and Dan Savage talking about why abstinence education is does not work.

By: oxford blue

oxford blue — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:47:52 -0800

While TED talks aren't lectures in the strictest academic sense, they are still intellectually valuable and well worth checking out.

By: xulu

xulu — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:10:36 -0800

UChannel aggregates both audio and video lectures from a number of universities.

They're not free online, but your local library probably has lots of lectures from The Teaching Company.

I listen to and watch a lot of lectures. For what it's worth, I've blogged about some of my favorites. Another favorite was the two semester class on non-violence taught at Berkeley by Michael Nagler. His lectures are sometimes rambling, but it's an interesting subject that you're not likely to hear much about in mainstream media.

By: ncc1701d

ncc1701d — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:37:31 -0800

you should totally get physics for future presidents. incredibly interesting. it looks like the only video in is real, so you may need to go mp3. good luck.

By: bbranden1

bbranden1 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:09:48 -0800

Thanks, Lifehacker visitors!

By: dhcolman

dhcolman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:35:56 -0800

Here are a couple of suggestions:

First here is a list of intelligent YouTube video collections which includes video collections from good media outlets and universities:

http://www.oculture.com/2008/03/youtubesmartvideos.html

Next, here's a big list 200 courses from top-notch universities that you can download to your iPod for free.

http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/free_podcasts_of_university_courses_75_courses_and_growing.html

By: dhcolman

dhcolman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:44:02 -0800

Sorry, I should have used real links above. Here they are:

60 Smart Video Collections on YouTube

Free Online Courses from Great Universities (Download as Podcasts)