Professor John Santiago (retired US Air Force) who is a faculty member at the Colorado Technical University has created a nice resource on the social networking site, Ning, Freedom University. His network's main focus is electrical engineering, and you will already find some nice technical videos ... many of which John created himself.
Those of you who have followed my blog for some time may remember I reviewed Ning early last year. In the intervening year, Ning has fixed many of the issues I initially had with their systems and admin interface. However, there is an additional problem now for folks behind corporate firewalls. Certain kinds of sites that use Ning's social networking software may cause many corporate firewalls to block the entire service, including great sites like Professor Santiago's.
Having said all of that, Freedom University is worth a visit. The various features (videos, blogs, forum) allow one to subscribe to focused updates via RSS. I will add Dr. Santiago's site to the electrical engineering page of the Engineering Learning Wiki.
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