YouTube is blocked by many corporate firewalls. Companies are worried that employees will waste time watching dumb videos ... well YouTube has moved into the land of relevancy. Welcome to YouTube.Edu. After all, how do you define an educational portal (including search engine) which includes free learning from the likes of Stanford, MIT ... and of course the University of Minnesota (land of the NorthStar Nerd)?! YouTube.Edu also includes many, many other fine academic organizations. Here are just two results from the YouTube.edu search engine:
Thus, whether your interests range from engineering to ancient Greece ... try it out! I'm adding YouTube.edu to the Engineering Learning Wiki.
YouTube.EDU is also blocked by many corporate firewalls
Posted by: A Reader | March 31, 2009 at 04:04 AM
"YouTube has moved into the land of relevancy" Youtube was relevant long before EDU, for those who took the trouble to look. The Commoncraft videos have been an invaluable resource. MIT lecturers have been putting their stuff out on YouTube. Untold private individuals have put their tutorials out there - covering all manner of subjects. World Wildlife Fund puts its videos on YouTube.
I just wish organisations would stop thinking of their staff as naughty children champing at teh bit to goof off. If that's all they have on their staff, then their recruitment process needs to be revisited.
Posted by: Karyn Romeis | March 27, 2009 at 07:36 AM