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UC Berkeley Posts Full Lectures to YouTube

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the education-for-the-masses dept.

mytrip writes to tell us that Berkeley is now using YouTube as an important teaching tool. Today marks the first time a university has made full course lecture available via the popular video sharing site. Featuring over 300 hours of videotaped courses initially, officials hope to continue to expand this program.

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  1. Awesome! by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 5, Funny

    By watching these, it will have the same effect on me as getting UC Berkeley degree!

    (Except for the job offers and stuff.)

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  2. Hey! What do you think you're doing? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    The internet wasn't created to distribute information, dammit!

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  3. The Berkeley Advantage by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a Berkeley grad though, I generally wouldn't attribute very much of the value of my education there to lectures I sat (or slept) through. Especially in Computer Science, most of the lectures probably didn't differ a whole lot in content or form from those taught at other less prestigious institutions. Most of what I learned came from being surrounded by other driven students in a unique environment and completing challenging assignments. In particular, the first of those is all but impossible to capture in an online manner.

    Blah blah blah, all code for: "You can't take LSD over the Internet."

    ;)

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