Now that so many universities are making lectures available online, I wonder if anyone has a system for reviewing and rating them, or for sharing related material. As the material is on such a diverse range of subjects and each lecture is likely to be an hour long I doubt that one person, or even one blog, could handle the task.
A site reviewing lecturers as well as lectures might be appropriate (and sites for reviewing lecturers already exist - such as Rate My Professors) ... but I'm not entirely sure how useful what 18-year-olds studying full-time think about the lecturer or material would be particularly relevant to me.
There are several sites listing available educational podcasts:
- Open Culture's list of university podcast sites
- Eliteskills.com's list of resources is well organised and highlights video as well as audio lectures
There's also been a converation on lifehacker about transcribing podcasts. The conclusion so far seems to be that it's still a task for people rather than machines, but there's some useful advice in there.
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