Web Site of the Week: Academic Earth
Posted by: Christine Bulson
Over ten years ago MIT announced that they would make available online all the syllabi and course lectures that are taught at the univeristy. By 2007 MIT’s complete curriculum was available with 1,800 courses online. Now a Yale graduate, Richard Ludlow, has created AcademicEarth.org that gives access to anyone interestsed in courses or lectures from leading universities with noted scholars and guest lecturers. There are now ten universities participating including MIT, Harvard, NYU, and Berkeley. You may view courses in everything from architecture to religious studies and even choose top rated instructors or top rated courses and lectures. This site could be useful for college students doing research on topics that are covered on Academic Earth. An interesting example is David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue, teaching a course at Stanford with twenty-three lectures on his experiences in developing a successful airline.
