Academic Earth: From Harvard to UCLA

It's rare that a new learning portal excites me, but Academic Earth has definitely attracted the attention of the Northstar Nerd. After all, how could one not be intrigued about a web service which does NOT have the usual 1,000's of online advertisements and includes courses from these schools:

Universities:

• Berkeley
• Columbia
• Harvard
• Michigan
• MIT
• Princeton
• Stanford
• UCLA
• Yale

While the portal is not limited to engineering courses, given the focus of NorthstarNerd.Org here are the technical subjects: (other examples: History or Political Science)

• Academci Earth: All Subjects
• Academic Earth: Chemistry
• Academic Earth: Computer Science
• Academic Earth: Engineering
• Academic Earth: Mathematics
• Academic Earth: Physics

I hope Academic Earth's experiment in bringing some of the world's top courses online succeeds. The site carries the dot org label, and here is a link to their story:

• Academic Earth: About Us | Investors

Finally, remember to check out the Engineering Learning Section of NorthstarNerd.Org. I've added all the Academic Earth courses to the apprpriate sections. Academic Earth is also now included in the custom Google search engine (focus: engineering courses)
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