Get Ivy League Lectures for Free

Posted by FrugalPinoy on Oct 28, 2008 in Freebies | 2 comments

What are the chances of the average Pinoy to get into Harvard or Yale?  Unless you have the grades or the money, or both, your chances are pretty slim.  But don’t worry, there’s good news ahead.  Thanks to the internet, we can access free lectures from these high-profile universities.

And we’re not limited to Ivy League schools either – we can access lectures from most major colleges and universities around the globe.

iTunesU

Apple’s venture into free online learning starts with iTunesU.  Basically, it’s where major universities and colleges upload video and audio lectures which anybody can download for free.  Participating universities include Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and many others.

First of all, you need to have iTunes installed in your computer to access iTunesU. If you don’t have iTunes yet, click here to download it.

Once iTunes is open, click on the “iTunes Store” link on the left sidebar, and when you get to the store, find the link that takes you to iTunesU.  You can then browse lectures by subject or by school.

iTunesU also has a separate section that collects lectures discussing the economic downturn we’re experiencing right now.  You can see this section when you scroll down the iTunesU section of the iTunes Store.

Open Yale

Yale University also recently launched Open Yale, where you can access full lectures on different subjects including Astronomy, BioChemical Engineering, Economics, Physics, History, Philosophy, English, and Political Science.