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September 14, 2013
400+ Free University Courses Online on Coursera
The past few years have seen the explosion of MOOCs (massive open online courses). And the global leader of the MOOCs would right now seem to be Coursera.org. This fall semester they are offering over 400 free courses from over 80 partners, most of which are from respected universities. We recently blogged about their “Signature Track” courses which provide a verified certificate from the school and Coursera after you pass the course. Coursera currently features over 50 online college courses that provide a verified certificate. The “Signature Track” usually costs a little money, but you’re getting a certificate! You can browse all of the certificate courses on our blog post here:
Free Online College Courses with Certificate
The deal with Coursera is that you have to act now! Because there is no guarantee that a course you want to take is going to be there after it is initially offered. Some older courses are still up on the site but many have vanished.
We’ve put together this list of about 200 courses from American universities that you should still be able to take right now on Coursera. For these courses we are linking directly to Coursera. Due to their terms and conditions and the fleeting nature of their courses, we don’t feature pages for them on our site yet.
And if you don’t know what Coursera course to take, then you might want to check out their YouTube channel which now features 100s of course trailers that you can watch in order to help you decide:
Video Trailers for 100s of Coursera Courses on YouTube
Below we have listed the courses by university. Enroll in a free Coursera course today!
Berklee College of Music:
Introduction to Music Production
California Institute of the Arts:
Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works
Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists
Live!: A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers
Case Western Reserve University:
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Introduction to International Criminal Law
Columbia University:
Economics of Money and Banking, Part One
Financial Engineering and Risk Management
Curtis Institute of Music:
Exploring Beethovenís Piano Sonatas
From the Repertoire: Western Music History through Performance
Duke University:
21st Century American Foreign Policy
9/11 and Its Aftermath — Part I
A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Georgia Institute of Technology:
Applications in Engineering Mechanics
Computational Investing, Part I
Games without Chance: Combinatorial Game Theory
Health Informatics in the Cloud
Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
Introductory Physics I with Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University:
Care of Elders with Alzheimer’s Disease and other Major Neurocognitive Disorders
Case-Based Introduction to Biostatistics
Community Change in Public Health
Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials
Global Tuberculosis (TB) Clinical Management and Research
Health for All Through Primary Health Care
Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2
Saving Lives Millions at a Time: Global Disease Control Policies & Programs
The Science of Safety in Healthcare
Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data
Statistical Reasoning for Public Health: Estimation, Inference, & Interpretation
Training and Learning Programs for Volunteer Community Health Workers
Northwestern University:
Everything is the Same: Modeling Engineered Systems
Understanding Media by Understanding Google
The Ohio State University:
Calculus Two: Sequences and Series
Generation Rx: The Science Behind Prescription Drug Abuse
Pennsylvania State University:
Creativity, Innovation, and Change
Energy, the Environment, and Our Future
Epidemics – the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
Introduction to Art: Concepts & Techniques
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
Princeton University:
A History of the World since 1300
Networks Illustrated: Principles without Calculus
Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes
Rice University:
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Analytical Chemistry / Instrumental Analysis
Chemistry: Concept Development and Application
Chemistry: Concept Development and Application Part II
Using The Next Generation Science Standards for Studentsí Deeper Understanding
Rutgers University:
Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences
Stanford University:
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Optimization of Antibiotic Practices
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Practical tips to improve Asian American participation in cancer clinical trials
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis
Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
University of California, Irvine:
Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom
Foundations of Virtual Instruction
The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
Preparation for Introductory Biology: DNA to Organisms
University of California, San Francisco:
Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA)
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences
Diabetes: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Opportunities
University of Colorado Boulder:
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Introduction to Power Electronics
Linear and Integer Programming
Physics 1 for Physical Science Majors
University of Florida:
Global Sustainable Energy: Past, Present and Future
Structure Standing Still: The Statics of Everyday Objects
Sustainable Agricultural Land Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Intermediate Organic Chemistry – Part 1
Introduction to Sustainability
University of Michigan:
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education
Internet History, Technology, and Security
Understanding and Improving the US Healthcare System
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
Fundamentals of Rehearsing Music Ensembles
Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy
Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information
University of Pennsylvania:
An Introduction to Corporate Finance
An Introduction to Financial Accounting
An Introduction to Operations Management
Cardiac Arrest, Hypothermia, and Resuscitation Science
Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society
Going Out on a Limb: The Anatomy of the Upper Limb
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
University of Pittsburgh:
Accountable Talk: Conversation that Works
Clinical Terminology for International and U.S. Students
Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health
University of Rochester:
Confronting The Big Questions: Highlights of Modern Astronomy
Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
University of Virginia:
Design Thinking for Business Innovation
Effective Classroom Interactions: Supporting Young Childrenís Development
Foundations of Business Strategy
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II
The Modern World: Global History since 1760
New Models of Business in Society
Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction
University of Washington:
Building an Information Risk Management Toolkit
Computational Methods for Data Analysis
Designing and Executing Information Security Strategies
High Performance Scientific Computing
Information Security and Risk Management in Context
Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics
Introduction to Public Speaking
Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Human Evolution: Past and Future
Vanderbilt University:
Data Management for Clinical Research
Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative
Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software
Wesleyan University:
The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color
Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics
Yale University:
Take a course from Coursera!
September 4, 2013
Free Online College Courses with Certificate
The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) giant Coursera currently features over 50 free online college courses that provide a verified certificate from the school and Coursera. These free certificate courses they call “Signature Track” courses. They feature lessons on video and readings from put together by professors at top universities around the globe. Sign up for one of these free certified college courses today, because for many of the courses once they have started then the ability to get a certificate ends. Here are the fall of 2013 courses along with some older courses that still provide a certificate if you take the full course.
September 2013 Certificate Courses:
Introduction to International Criminal Law
Introduction to Systematic Program Design – Part 1
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences
Genetics and Society: A Course for Educators
Foundations of Virtual Instruction
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The 1st Step in Entrepreneurship
Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations
October 2013 Certificate Courses:
The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem
What a Plant Knows (and other things you didnít know about plants)
The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators
Internet History, Technology, and Security
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
An Introduction to Operations Management
Future Certificate Courses:
Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)
Evolution: A Course for Educators
Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
Past Certificate Courses:
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
Global Sustainable Energy: Past, Present and Future
Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialization
Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps
Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story
English Common Law: Structure and Principles
Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression
Structure Standing Still: The Statics of Everyday Objects
Introduction to Music Production
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction
First Year Teaching (Elementary Grades) – Success from the Start
First Year Teaching (Secondary Grades) – Success from the Start
Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA)
Computational Investing, Part I
Take a course and get a certificate this semester!
February 27, 2013
Over 40 Free Courses from Open Yale Courses
Of all the universities offering free courses online now, the best courses might be coming from Yale University. Both in terms of the quality of their content and the quality of the way the courses were recorded. Yale offers the courses on streaming video, audio download, and video download, making it optimal for audio & video learners who can watch the videos at home or listen to them on-the-go. All the courses are introductory level courses so you don’t have to worry about starting one that might be over your head. On LearnOutLoud.com we’ve embedded the courses from YouTube’s player and we link to the courses on YouTube for streaming video. We also link to the courses on the Open Yale Courses website for downloading on audio or video. We’ve created a publisher page showcasing the over 40 courses we now offer from Yale University:
Over 40 Free Courses from Yale Open Courses
A little over a year ago we added hundreds of courses to our site and created our Free Courses Collection of over 400 courses available for free online. Since then Yale has added six new courses and we’ll feature them today. The complete course lectures are up for each of these new courses. And please note: To download these courses you’ll need to click “SESSIONS” or “VIEW CLASS SESSIONS” on the Yale website:
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present by Professor Jonathan Holloway
The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change by Professor Ron Smith
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 by Professor Paul Freedman
Freshman Organic Chemistry II by Professor Michael McBride (a follow up to Freshman Organic Chemistry I)
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner by Professor Wai Chee Dimock
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature by Professor Tamar Gendler
For this last course we started watching it, and it was excellent. Professor Tamar Gendler dives right in with the first lecture covering some of the fundamental questions of human nature which will be examined in the course. The course combines classic texts from the Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with recent findings in cognitive science and related fields. Gendler addresses the core question featured in Plato’s Republic, along with presenting the ethical dilemma of the “trolley problem”, and even examines defeating procrastination with the ideas of behavioral economists. This 19-hour, 26-lecture free offering sounds like a great course!
And here are some of the free Yale courses which we’ve featured in the past:
Introduction to Psychology by Professor Paul Bloom
Take PSYC 110 with Professor Paul Bloom at Yale University and learn the basics about your mind and brain. Bloom is the author of numerous books and popular articles including his most recent book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. He’s a very good lecturer as well and in this course he’ll introduce you to key psychological topics like Freud, Skinner, language, consciousness, memory, emotion, sex & motivation, morality & the brain, and mental illness. Throughout the course he brings in numerous guest lecturers as well. You can watch this 18-hour course on YouTube or download it on audio & video through the Yale website.
The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food by Professor Kelly Brownell
We’re featuring this Yale University course that relates both to the health of humanity and our environment. In this course Yale Professor Kelly Brownell, who is also the Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, takes on the issue of food in the modern world in a comprehensive way. Through 23 lectures, including a number of special guest lectures, a variety of topics on food are covered such as how our diet has changed, the psychology of eating, obesity, the food industry, modern agriculture, food marketing, and much, much more. Professor Kelly Brownell offers a glimpse into food today and ways we can all make a difference in creating a healthier eating environment and a healthier planet. This talk is available on audio download and streaming video.
Introduction to Political Philosophy by Professor Steven B. Smith
We’re featuring the Yale course “Introduction to Political Philosophy” taught by Professor Steven B. Smith. This course introduces you to the major political works of Plato and Aristotle along with Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, and more. You can watch these 24 lectures online or download them on MP3 and take them with you.
Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform by Professor Douglas W. Rae
In the course “Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform” from Yale University, Professor Douglas W. Rae looks at the history of capitalism along with its leading economists including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other influential economists. Throughout the course he examines the contemporary global economy with a focus on the current economic crisis. Professor Douglas W. Rae is an engaging lecturer who interacts with his students during the course (thankfully he passes a microphone around so we can hear the questions!), and it provides for a worthy introduction to the complex economic and political ideas surrounding capitalism in the 21st century. This course is available on streaming video through YouTube and free audio & video download on Yale’s Open Courses site. He does have a slide show going with images as he lectures for those interested in the video. Also you can view the syllabus and download transcripts of the lectures through the Yale website.
Enjoy these free courses from one of the most prestigious universities in the World!
November 8, 2012
Best Udemy Courses
Udemy is an online learning website that allows instructors to host courses. The experts that teach courses on their platform can upload video, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, audio, and offer live classes. They feature many popular and highly rated courses, that are both paid and free. You can browse all their courses right here:
And we’ll highlight some of their highest rated and bestselling courses that we thought you might be interested in. We’ll start off with a list of their most popular free courses. Many of their top free courses come from their Faculty Project Courses featuring the Best Professors Teaching the World. Here are some of those:
Foundations of Business Strategy by Michael Lenox, Professor of Business at University of Virginia
Math is Everywhere: Applications of Finite Math by Tim ChartierAssociate Professor of Mathematics – Davidson College
Ancient Greek Religion by Robert Garland, Professor of the Classics at Colgate University
The US Constitution: A Biography by Robert J. Allison, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Suffolk University
Russian Literature and Music by Professor Irwin Weil, Professor of Russian Literature and Music at Northwestern University
Poetry: What It Is, and How to Understand It by Margaret Soltan, Associate Professor of English at George Washington University
Classics of American Literature: T. S. Eliot by Victor Strandberg, Professor of English at Duke University
Energy Economics and the Environment by Ben Ho, Assistant Professor of Economics at Vassar College
Is American Democracy Broken? Perspectives and Debates by Jeb Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California
Elixir: A History of Water and Humans by Brian Fagan, Retired Professor of Anthropology
And here are some of their other popular and highly rated free courses:
Karl Taylor’s FREE Photography Course
Photoshop Training & Tutorials “FREE
Lean Startup SXSW 2012 with Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and more
21 Critical Lessons for Entrepreneurs Presented by Jason Nazar, CEO of Docstoc
Learn Music Theory Over 38 lectures and 13.5 hrs of content!
The Neuroscience of Reframing & How to Do It
Discover The 1 Thing You Were Born To Do In 5 Easy Steps! Over 14 lectures and 9 hrs of content!
Now we’ll showcase some of their best paid course. A lot of their paid courses are website business related and web development related and we’ll feature those below. Here are some paid courses that are more general learning and self development related courses:
14-Day Yoga Detox and Empowerment Course
Transform Self Doubt into Confidence
Speak Up! – Stand Out.: Learn how to be a Confident Communicator.
A Journey through Medicine: How to Get into Medical School
The Authentic Yoga Experience from Scratch, Series 1 – 3
The 10 Minute Daily Invigorator
LSATMax: LSAT prep that defies logic!
Andrew Warner’s Interview Your Heroes
Beginner Electric Guitar Lessons
And here are some of their most popular and bestselling website business related and web development related courses:
Build an Instantly Updating Dynamic Website with jQuery/AJAX
Become A Web Developer From Scratch
Social Media Marketing for Startups
Microsoft Excel 2010 Course Beginners/ Intermediate Training
This Is How You Make iPhone Apps – iOS Development Course
Beginner’s PHP and MySQL Tutorial
The Lean Startup with the Godfather of Lean Startup himself, Eric Ries
Become a Certified Web Developer
Building Custom WordPress Sites from Scratch
EasyDSLR Digital Photography Course for Beginners
Google Boost your Startup Business
Android Apps in 1 Hour: No Coding Required
How to Create an Awesome Online Course
Copywriting 101: Start making money from home!
The ClickMinded SEO Training Course
And there are way more courses including a lot of free ones. Browse them all here:
July 28, 2009
Free College Lectures
Looking for college lectures to listen to? Download over 100 college courses on audio from the Modern Scholar series featuring great university professors teaching college-level courses on a variety of subjects:
Download Over 100 College Courses from the Modern Scholar Series
You can browse their audio courses by subject by clicking the following links featuring philosophy college courses, history college courses, literature college courses, politics college courses, business college courses, religion college courses, science college courses & more.
To help introduce you to the magnificent Modern Scholar series where great professors teach you, we’re offering a new group of 10 free lectures to download from 10 of their best courses. These recorded lectures are taught by eminent university professors.
Here are the 10 lectures you can download right now on MP3. Note: For downloading these files you have to right-click on the Download button and select Save Target As… Then it will allow you to download the file to an assigned place on your computer.
In this lecture, Professor Colin McGinn deciphers what we mean when we say we ‘know’ something to be true. He traces the history of philosophical skepticism, giving the listener several historical arguments for the theory of knowledge, and also touching on arguments made by the likes of Plato, Descartes, and other important philosophers. This lecture is a foundational exercise for the rest of the program, with McGinn arguing that for someone to begin thinking philosophically, he or she must first understand the methods of thinking that go into the pursuit of true knowledge.
2. C.S. Lewis Literature Overview
In this lecture professor Timothy Shutt provides an overview of the life and literature of C.S. Lewis. He mentions various viewpoints that people have had about Lewis and says why he thinks Lewis is more popular now than he was in his time. Shutt breaks Lewis’ works into three categories: his Christian apologetic works, his fictional works including The Chronicles of Narnia, and his scholarly works. He discusses each category of Lewis’ works and examines how Lewis has gained a following particularly in the areas of apologetics and fiction. It’s a good introduction to this masterful writer and storyteller.
In this first lecture called “The Business of America” Professor Brands gives a brief overview of the course and then proceeds to cover 200 years of American business history in 20 minutes from 1776 to the 20th century. He covers the importance of business in colonial times and its influence on the American Revolution. He then examines the 19th century which brought in industrialization and finance as important factors along with the central issue of slavery and its relation to business. And in the 20th century he briefly covers how businesses shifted their focus to the consumers who would buy all of the products that industrial capitalism was producing.
In this lecture professor Peter Meineck introduces Ancient Greek drama and explains why he feels it is still so popular and powerful today. He briefly discusses the plays of the four major Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. He then covers what Greek tragedy and comedy were actually like at the time they were performed in Athens 2,500 years ago.
5. Global Warming in Earth’s History
In this lecture professor Michael B. McElroy introduces the worldwide experiment we have embarked on through the increase in global temperature. He covers some of the basics of global warming such as the greenhouse effect, the gases that contribute to global warming, and what creates the climate on Earth. He then puts humanity and global warming in the context of Earth’s entire history going back 4.5 billion years ago. He uses a calendar year as a reference for Earth’s history and places global warming at the last few seconds before midnight on December 31st. It’s an excellent introductory lecture for placing global warming in global history.
6. Comparing Western Christendom & the Abode of Islam
In this lecture professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses the similarities and differences of early western Christendom and the Islamic World known as Dar al-Islam. He talks about the origins of each religious tradition and how Christianity split into western Christendom and the Eastern Orthodox Church centered in Byzantium, while Islam did not split and expanded quite rapidly throughout the Middle East and into Africa and Asia. He also talks the about the importance of the sacred Islamic language of Arabic which spread throughout the Islamic world, whereas Christendom’s languages were much more diverse. And he discusses a number of other comparisons between early Christianity and Islam.
7. Understanding Conversations Between Women and Men
In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women. She starts with an example she discovered when examining the conversations of kids and teenagers. Girls tended to talk to each other face to face while boys generally sat at angles or parallel and looked around the room while they talked to each other. She mentions many other general patterns of behavior in the communication habits of men and women and hopes that by becoming more aware of these differences we can become more understanding in our communication with the opposite sex.
In this introductory lecture, Professor Jay Winik traces what led America into the grip of Civil War, and begins a series on how the nation survived. Citing examples of how the United States was inherently vulnerable to secessionist impulses from the beginning, we come to see how slavery was an issue that was cast aside in order to preserve a young nation, and how it smoldered within the culture into the fires of war. In showing us the seeds of the conflict, Winik effectively argues that due to America’s vast geographic and social differences, bloodshed may have been inevitable.
In this lecture professor Chandak Sengoopta discusses the life of Charles Darwin covering the major events in Darwin’s life including his voyage on the HMS Beagle and his eventual publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. Professor Sengoopta covers a lot of Darwin’s life in a short amount of time while providing many interesting facts about the man whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized biology and greatly affected many other areas of society from the late 19th century up to the present day.
In this lecture Professor Stephen Prothero discusses what religion is and why it still matters in the modern age. He provides a number of important definitions of religion from its origins up to definitions by modern thinkers such as Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and William James. While many scholars predicted the decline of religion and the rise of secularism in the 20th century, professor Prothero points out many ways in which religion is as widely practiced now as in any time in history.
July 11, 2007
Best of iTunes University
iTunes is no longer letting us link to their individual iTunes U offerings. The most we can do is link to the iTunes U home page. So you’ll have to go to the iTunes U home page and then search these great offerings there:
Apple iTunes now features a section of their store called iTunes U which features free audio & video downloads from dozens of universities across the United States and around the world including Stanford, Duke, MIT, Arizona State, and more.
At LearnOutLoud.com we combed through these free resources to pick out the best lectures, courses, and audio & video programs that iTunes U offers. Here are the best titles on iTunes U:
Stanford University:
Philosophy Talk at Stanford University – Hour-long radio series produced by Ben Manilla discussing a wide range of philosophical topics with contemporary philosophers.
The Aurora Forum at Stanford University – Popular nonfiction authors and intellectuals come together to discuss their books and contemporary issues in society.
Hoover Institution Lectures – Libertarian public policy think tank out of Stanford featuring talks on politics and economics both domestic and foreign.
Stanford Technology Ventures Program Lectures – Over 40 hour-long lectures from entrepreneurial thought leaders at the intersection of business and technology.
The Literature of Crisis – One of many free downloadable courses offered by Stanford, this course taught by Martin Evans and Marsh McCall covers Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Plato’s Apology, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Voltaire’s Candide.
Hannibal – Lecture course covering the life of the Carthaginian military commander Hannibal.
Geography of World Cultures – Course examining the locational dynamics of the worlds languages, religions, and ethnic groupings.
Arizona State University:
Arizona State University News and Events Audio – Over 100 free lectures from ASU from visiting speakers covering the gamut of topics.
Ask a Biologist – Geared towards students from preschool to high school, Dr. Biology works with guests to explore many biological subjects.
Introduction to Exercise Science & Wellness – ASU course on video which provides a brief overview of the field of Exercise Science & Wellness.
Building Healthy Lifestyles Conference – Conference devoted to promoting healthy lifestyles with doctors addressing physical activity, surviving cancer, getting enough sleep, mindfulness, and other methods for living a healthy life.
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict – Talks delivered on religious wars and religious terrorism as well as numerous lectures on Transhumanism (which we’re not sure what they have to do with religion and conflict, but they look interesting).
New Jersey Institute of Technology:
World Literature & World Literature II – Courses taught by professor Norbert Elliot covering works of literature and authors from all over the world.
Technology & Society Forum Series at NJIT – Forward-looking series of lectures which looks at technology from a global and environmental perspective.
Confronting the Insurmountable Opportunities of Online Education – Discussion covering issues that impact the effectiveness of online teaching and learning.
Texas A&M University:
George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service Speeches – Speeches from the recipient of this award recognizing an individual’s or group’s dedication to public service at the local, state, national or international levels, including speeches from Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorbachev, Edward M. Kennedy, Reverend Billy Graham, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
University of South Florida:
Lit2Go: Audio Files for K-12 – Massive collection of audio poetry, short stories, and novels for all grade levels from kindergarten to 12th grade.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for Kindergarteners:
Features Robert Louis Stevenson poems for children, as well as classic nursery rhymes like “Jack and Jill”, “Little Bo-Peep”, “Hickory Dickory Dock”, and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 1st Graders:
Features more classic poems and fairy tales including Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”, “Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!” from Aesop’s Fables, “Humpty Dumpty”, “Peter Piper”, and “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 2nd Graders:
Features “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter, “The Hare and the Hedgehog” by The Brothers Grimm, more Robert Louis Stevenson poems, and an unabridged audio book called The Outdoor Girls in Florida by Laura Lee Hope.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 3rd Graders:
Features a number of Aesop’s Fables, “The Ugly Duckling” & “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Anderson, “How the Alphabet Was Made” by Rudyard Kipling, and the audio books Squinty, the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum, The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists by Captain Quincy Allen, and Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 4th Graders:
Features many more of Aesop’s Fables, tales by Beatrix Potter, and the unabridged audio books The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Seven O’Clock Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson, The Tale of Tommy Fox by Arthur Scott Bailey, Whitefoot the Woodmouse by Thornton W. Burgess, and many of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 5th Graders:
Features “Sleeping Beauty” by The Brothers Grimm, even more of Aesop’s Fables, tales by Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Brownie Beaver by Arthur Scott Bailey, The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat by Ross Kay, Curly and Floppy Twistytail the Funny Piggie Boys by Howard R. Garis, The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat by Thornton W. Burgess, Half-Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson, Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 6th Graders:
Features dozens of short stories including many by Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling. Also features the audio books The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, & The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin, The Light Princess by George MacDonald, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, A Florida Sketch-Book by Bradford Torrey, Sylvie and Bruno & Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Philosophy and Fun of Algebra by Mary Everest Boole, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 7th Graders:
Features Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, as well as the audio books The Tin Woodman of Oz & Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum, The Little Lame Prince by Maria Dinah Mulock Craik, The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 8th Graders:
Features poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, short stories by Emily Bronte, more of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, and the audio books In the Wilds of Florida by W. H. G. Kingston, Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read, M.A., The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant, Ph. D., The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 9th Graders:
Features “History” essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, more poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the audio books Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida & Canoemates: A Story of the Florida Reef and Everglades by Kirk Munroe, Florida Trails by Winthrop Packard, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, A Victorious Union by Oliver Optic, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 10th Graders:
Features the audio books St. Augustine Under Three Flags: Tourist Guide and History, Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll, The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 11th Graders:
Features the audio books The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll, The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance & The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Deductive Logic by George William Joseph Stock, M.A., Lettres Philosophiques by Francois-Marie Arouet, and Beowulf translated by Frances B. Grummere.
Lit2Go: Audio Files for 12th Graders:
Features the audio books Physics by Aristotle, Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century by Alexander MacFarlane, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball, History of Modern Mathematics by David Eugene Smith, Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, The Flamingo Feather by Kirk Munroe, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and Spherical Trigonometry by Isaac Todhunter.
Concordia Seminary:
Lay Bible Institute – Which Jesus? – Course taught by Jeffery Kloha exploring the historical Jesus from the perspective of the canonical and gnostic gospels.
Elementary Greek – Language learning course covering Greek grammar and pronunciation.
The Lutheran Mind – Lecture course covering the core ideas of Lutheran theology.
Seattle Pacific University:
Seattle Pacific University Campus Lectures & Forums – Over 80 lectures on Christian topics, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and much more.
John M. Perkins Lectures – Outspoken Christian and civil rights leader John M. Perkins delivers talks on racial reconciliation, leadership training, and community development.
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Over twenty lectures celebrating the life, work, and calling of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thomas F. Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lectures – Dozens of lectures from distinguished Christian scholars including Ravi Zacharias, James Sire, and many others.
J.R.R. Tolkien – Numerous lectures on “The Lord of the Rings as a Defense of Western Civilization”, as well as lectures about Tolkien’s relationship with C.S. Lewis.
MIT OpenCourseWare:
Introduction to Psychology – Course covering questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love taught by Jeremy Wolfe.
Electricity & Magnetism – Comprehensive physics course on video taught by award-winning physics professor Walter Lewin.
Animal Behavior – Comprehensive course covering the categories of adapative behavior in animals covering the evolution of behavior and sociobiology.
Philosophy of Love in the Western World – American philosopher Irving Singer gives 4 two-hour lectures on the philosophy of love which he has written numerous books about. These lectures are available on downloadable video and can also be streamed through MIT course website.
Physics I: Classical Mechanics – Popular MIT lecturer Walter Lewin leads this freshman physics class available on video download.
UC Berkeley:
Arts Events & Programs at UC Berkeley – Prominent poets read their works at UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems.
Politics & Public Policy Events & Programs at UC Berkeley – Talks from John Edwards, Robert Reich, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Wilson IV, and more.
All UC Berkeley Courses – And don’t forget to check out the 100+ audio courses that UC Berkeley is now offering in their generous and expansive catalog.
Heideggers Being and Time, Division II Podcast – A new course on Heidegger and his influence on contemporary European philosophy from professor Hubert L. Dreyfus.
Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument Podcast – Course covering rhetoric and logic examining both ancient and modern approaches.
The Roman Empire Podcast – A history of Rome from Augustus to Constantine.
Shakespeare Podcast – Course on Shakespeare eventually covering the plays Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, All’s Well that Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.
Pennsylvania State University:
Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Lecture Series – Where else can you get a lecture called “Sexual Geographies: Utopian Terrains of the Late-Victorian Counterculture”?
Colorism: Global Perspectives on How Skin Color Still Matters – Colorism Symposium covering topics in discrimination on the basis of skin color.
Michigan Tech University:
Introductory Astronomy – Video course taught by Robert J. Nimeroff covering the solar system, the stars, and the whole universe.
Digital Logic – Michigan Tech University Course – EE 2171 – Course covering digital logic including Boolean algebra, binary numbers, logic gates, combinational and sequential logic, and other topics complete with PDF Lecture Notes.
Otis College of Art and Design:
Modern Art History – Course taught by Jeanne Willette covering everything from Impressionism to Dada.
Duke University:
Duke University: Fuqua/Coach K Leadership Conference – Numerous lectures on attaining the edge in leadership in sports, business, and more.
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Addresses – Speeches from Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, and others commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.
Duke University: Kenan Institute for Ethics Lectures – Lectures confronting ethical issues such as Goodness & Evil, Knowledge & Society, and more.
Duke University: Nicholas Talks – Over twenty talks from the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences covering pollution, ecosystems, deforestation, biodiversity, and more.
Provost Lecture Series: Privacy at Risk? – Features a lecture by blogger Cory Doctorow entitled “From Myspace to Homeland Security: Privacy and the Totalitarian Urge”.
Abilene Christian University:
Clinical Dietetics I – Dr. Sheila Jones covers diet and nutrition in relation to numerous disorders and diseases.
American Military University:
Sports Training Videos – Short downloadable videos covering baseball, lacrosse, the weight room, and sports medicine.
Broome Community College:
Physical Therapist Assistant Program – Short videos covering muscle testing for every area of the body.
Central Washington University:
Moments in American History – 90-second historical video documentaries featuring numerous historians covering specific moments in American history from 1750 to the present.
Central Washington University Lectures & Events – Featuring guest speakers such as Gloria Steinem, Bobby McFerrin, Angela Davis, Jean Michel Cousteau, and Robert Kennedy Jr.
CWU Counseling Center – Relaxation and mindfulness exercises for anyone seeking emotional health.
DePaul University:
Basic Spanish – Audio files of basic Spanish speaking to improve your listening comprehension.
Intellectual Property Scholars Conference – Conference featuring the presentations of 75 scholars covering a vast array of topics regarding intellectual property.
DePaul Humanities Center Audio – Features a lecture by the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute Clayborne Carson entitled “Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, along with many other intriguing lectures.
Gordon College:
Gordon College Featured Speakers – Interviews, addresses, and lectures at Gordon College including a talk by author Brian McLaren along with many other Christian speakers.
Lehigh University:
The Examined Life: Intro to Philosophy – Lectures and post-lecture talks on Plato and Descartes from Professor Greg Reihman.
Bio Science in the 21st Century – Multidisciplinary survey course on biological science today covering stem cells, genes, neurobiology, and more featuring video lectures from many experts in their fields.
Miami Dade College:
The Earth Ethics Institute – Video lectures covering environmental ethics and ways to pursue a green and sustainable future.
Northeastern University:
Welcome to Boston: Audio Tours – Full audio of the Boston Harbor Walk Audio Tour.
Free Culture Forum – Lawrence Lessig and other experts on free culture give talks at the Free Culture Forum.
Queen’s University:
Ethnicity & Democratic Governance – Talks from the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Project International Summer Institute covering many aspects of governing ethnic diversity.
Reformed Theological Seminary:
C.S. Lewis – Course on C.S. Lewis covering his biography, theology, ethics, and more. Reformed Theological Seminary features over 20 free courses to download!
Rock Valley College:
Film History and Appreciation – Brian Shelton provides brief descriptions of different aspects of film including film production, documentary, and more.
UMBC:
BIO 305: Animal Physiology – In this course Dr. Frank Hanson takes a comparative approach to the study of how various selective pressures have resulted in the evolution of specific solutions to physiological problems.
University of Arizona:
Global Climate Change Lecture Series – Seven video lectures covering Global Climate Change and what could happen as a result of it and what ways there are to stop it.
University of Pennsylvania:
60 Second Lectures from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences – Entertaining 60 second lectures from University of Pennsylvania faculty covering a potpourri of topics.
Moynihan Report Revisited – Numerous lectures looking back at Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report on the high joblessness among black men as a principal cause of poverty and family instability among African Americans.
University of Southern California:
Faculty at USC: What Matters to Me and Why – USC professors give their stories about what matters to them and why.
USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – From USC’s largest academic schools comes a number of fabulous lectures such as “Quaking in California: The Faults Beneath Our Feet”, “History of Hollywood”, and author T. C. Boyle talking about his latest novel “Talk Talk”.
USC School of Cinematic Arts Speaker Series – Speakers include documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, director Ron Howard, and others working in the industry of film and television.
University of the Pacific:
Engineering and Technology in a New Millenium – Cutting edge video lectures on covering everything from neonatal hearing testing to the world’s largest wind tunnel.
Vanderbilt University:
Worlds of Wordcraft – A unique course exploring the interactive technology and narratives of video games.
The Rev. James Lawson on the Non-Violence Struggle – A course of video lectures by a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement Rev. James Lawson.
Yale University:
Yale Religion Podcasts – Theologians, scholars, educators and clerics at the Yale Divinity School talk about faith in American and the rest of the world.
Yale International Podcasts – From the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization comes from speakers on the international stage including Thomas L. Friedman on how “The Flattening World Challenges The Imagination” and an interview of the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto about “The Future Of Pakistan”.
Highlights from new educational providers on iTunes U:
American Public Media:
Living Buddhism – Thich Nhat Hanh and other practicing Buddhists discuss this religion with Krista Tippett, host of the American Public Media program Speaking of Faith.
Vietnam & the Presidency – Series of American RadioWorks audio documentaries covering the Vietnam War and its effects on the U.S. Presidency, including interviews with David Halberstam, Jimmy Carter, General Wesley Clark, Dan Rather, and many others.
American Theatre Wing:
Downstage Center – Over 180 in-depth single subject interviews with theatre artists, producers and others in the field, addressing their most recent work as well as providing an overview of their careers.
Gilder Lehrman Institute:
American Presidents – Historians from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History discuss their books on American presidents.
Slavery and Abolition – Scholars discuss the history of slavery and abolition in the United Stated from the Founding era through the Civil War.
Indianapolis Museum of Art:
Indianapolis Museum of Art Raw and Uncut – Video interviews with numerous artists at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Little Kids Rock:
Little Kids Rock: Guitar Lessons – 20 short video lessons teaching kids to play the guitar complete with PDF lesson books.
Museum of Modern Art:
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul – Audio covering MoMA’s exhibition of Edvard Munch and his paintings with a link to the online collection that can be viewed. MoMA’s exhibition archive features 25 of their past exhibitions with audio, video, and online collections to view.
Pablo Picasso – Audio from MoMA’s Selected Artists gallery covering Picasso’s seminal work of modern art “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” along with many other paintings by Picasso. The Selected Artists offerings include audio on the paintings of Henri Matisse and other reknowned modern artists.
PBS:
Meet the Author – Interviews with popular children’s authors from WETA Learning Media.
QUEST: Science and Nature – KQED’s QUEST explores science and nature through video programs focusing on astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, environment, geology, health, physics, and weather.
ResearchChannel:
Allen Edwards Psychology Lectures – Nationally distinguished psychologists give talks on different aspects of psychology.
Behind the Code from Microsoft Research – From the office of the CTO of Microsoft comes these talks with the most influential technical employees who give their personal stories about their careers.
Loma Linda University’s Bioethics Grand Rounds – Presentations on topics in Bioethics, including physician-assisted suicide, handling medical errors, neurobiology, and other critical issues.
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies – October 2006 – Series of three lectures by Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman entitled “Creation, Revelation, and Redemption: The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls”.
Smithsonian Global Sound:
Smithsonian Global Sound Talking Music – Ethnomusicologists discuss various types of ethnographic music.
UCTV:
UCTV: Religion and Spirituality – Downloadable audio versions of UCTV offerings including talks with John Selby Spong, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and an interesting talk entitled “Gen-Xers: Changing American Religion”.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum:
Genocide Prevention: What You Can Do – Stories of individuals taking action when it comes to confronting genocide in Congo, Darfur, Rwanda, and throughout the world.
Holocaust History: Eyewitness Testimonies & Personal Stories – From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museums oral history collection, listen to stories of Holocaust survivors.
WGBH:
Life Science: WGBH Teacher’s Domain – Short videos from WGBH’s NOVA that can be used by educators as a resource.
Politics: WGBH Forum Network – Political talks at the WGBH Forum Network including numerous notable liberal thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Chris Hedges, Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman, Paul Krugman, and others.
So that’s all for our latest update on the best of iTunes U. A special thanks to all the universities and providers offering these audio & video titles and to iTunes for orchestrating such an invaluable resource. Now load up your iPods or other portable audio & video players and start learning out loud!
February 6, 2006
webcast.berkeley Courses Podcasted
I was very excited this semester to see what Berkeley was going to unveil for their webcast.berkeley courses. We were told at the podcasting expo that some of their courses were going to be podcasted and that they had a sweet set up. Well they most certainly do. The audio quality it great, the courses look fascinating, and we just entered in all the ones they’re offering this semester:
https://www.learnoutloud.com/Results/Publisher/webcast.berkeley/467
And here’s the ones they are currently podcasting:
Operating Systems and System Programming
Economic Analysis – Microeconomics
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present
US Foreign Policy After 9/11
Animal Behavior
Introduction to Computers
Introduction to Human Nutrition
Descriptive Introduction to Physics
Introductory Physics
Undergraduate Colloquium on Political Science
And throughout the month of February they’ll be offering more of them as podcasts. For the ones that aren’t currently being podcasted they can be listened to or viewed as streaming audio & video. Let us all offer our thanks to UC-Berkeley and start learning.
November 9, 2005
Stanford Lectures on iTunes
So I figured that since at least two people e-mailed me (thanks Dave and Brian!) separately today about the Stanford Lectures on iTunes I probably had better blog about it. 🙂 The market for academic podcast is exploding right now. At the start of the fall quarter/semester I was aware of probably two or three colleges and universities that were podcasting lectures. Now, according to a glance at Thomson’s academic podcast directory it appears that there are dozens. And this growth will only accelerate as professors have a few weeks off over the winter break and have some time to try to figure out what this whole podcasting thing is all about.
We’ve definitely only scratched the surface of this trend. It’s not too difficult to imagine a future in which virtually every college and university course is podcasted. But that begs a few questions. Are the lectures free or is there a charge for them? Are they open to the public or restricted to students of the school or people enrolled in the class? How will colleges and universities deal with the intellectual property issues surrounding audio (and most likely video in the not-too-distant future)? It’s going to be interesting to watch and I’m sure that there will be a wide spectrum of how universities will handle this ranging from those that take MIT’s apporach of putting as much out there for free as possible to colleges and universities that will be very protective of their content.
It also raises an interesting debate for us. Academic podcasts are a perfect inclusion for LearnOutLoud but at the rate they are coming online it’s almost impossible to put together a directory in-house. So we’re discussing creative ways that we can tie these podcasts in with our directoy which already offers some similar content include lectures from The Teaching Company and Barnes and Noble’s Portable Professor series. We would love to hear your suggestions. If you have some ideas for the best way for us to integrate this rapidly expanding world with our existing site please shoot an e-mail to suggestions@learnoutloud.com. Thanks!