Berkeley Courses on YouTube

The University of California, Berkeley announced today that it is posting the lectures from courses on YouTube.

“YouTube’s ongoing innovations create a great environment in which students and lifelong learners alike can discover, watch and share educational videos,” said Ben Hubbard, ETS co-manager of webcast.berkeley. “We are excited to make UC Berkeley videos available to the world on YouTube and will continue to expand our offerings.”

At the moment the offerings on the Berkeley Channel are mostly science courses, and there’s no law yet. A couple of the more accessible offerings include PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence – Fall 2006 (27 lectures, with another 28 in the Winter semester of the course) and Physics 10 – Physics for Future Presidents, which in my day at my university was known as physics for poets and was one of the best courses I ever took. Of more interest to Slaw readers, perhaps, is SIMS 141 – Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business (with a mere 6 videos).

Here’s something, then, to while away those winter hours when Grey’s Anatomy has palled and the light’s not good enough for reading that fine print.