The vision of this website is to enable 'every body from every nook and corner of the world to access the best Knowledge Resources available'. This one-stop-shop endeavour at www.freevideolectures.com, hosted by a young Bangalorean, provides hundreds of links to access video and audio lectures, podcasts, lessons, free online classes and courses, animations, interactive online tutorials, Text materials like ebooks, lecture notes, and slide presentations.
When clicked the links straightaway lead to some of the excellent resources presently available on the web on subjects like Anatomy, Physiology, Astronomy & Aerospace, Bio Sciences, BioTechnology, Business and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Electronics, Genetics, Health Sciences, Law, Mathematics, Mechanical, Medicine, Networking, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Signals & Systems, Social Sciences, and Web Designing.
The links provided against each of the subjects are quite comprehensive. For example, the Chemistry section has around 20 links, among them are 'Introduction to Chemistry' (Berkely Fall '06, Video streaming and Audio downloadable), Oxford Webcast Lecture Series (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford), Principles of Chemical Science (MIT, Fall '05, Streaming and Downloadable), and Imperial college chemistry (Lectures by Noble Laureates). To name a few among the many links in the Business Management section - Organizational Leadership and Teamwork (UC Berkeley Spring 2007), Business & Management, Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Being an Entrepreneur (MIT OCW Fall 2004), The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series (Stanford University), HARVARD Working Knowledge for Business Leaders (Havard Business School), Knowledge @ Wharton Business, and Infrastructure Management (Carnegie Mellon University). The Computer Science section has many links leading to some great lectures, among them are - Operating Systems and Systems Programming (Berkeley Fall'06 Streaming), Principles of Computing (Indiana University / Purdue University), and the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Berkeley Fall'06 Streaming).
Teachers and students of Medical Sciences would find links to these resources and others – Bacteriology (Professor Willie Brown, UC San Diego Fall 2007 Audio Podcast), Immunology (University of South Carolina '06, Streaming), Genomic Medicine (MIT, Spring '04, Streaming and Downloadable), Neuroscience and Behavior (MIT, Fall '03, Streaming and Downloadable), Pediatric Pulmonary Care (The University of Arizona Streaming) and Aging, Health, and Diversity (Berkeley Fall Spring 2004 video Streaming).
Among the links to Physics resources are Physics demo videos on various basic topics (Wake Forest University), Descriptive Introduction to Physics (UC Berkeley Spring 2007), Fermilab streaming video archive (Streaming video archive, a collection of 79 academic lectures on various topics given by both professors and students), Saturday Morning Physics (a weekly lecture programme for the general public given by members of the University of Michigan Faculty, live demonstrations and downloadable), and Modern Physics (Prof. Sharma, University of California, San Diego).
The several links related to Web Designing would surely gladden the students, and these include XML Foundations (UC Berkeley Fall 2005), Introduction to Web Design (Indiana University / Purdue University), Designing for Web 2.0: From Markup to Microformats, from Semantics to Ajax, Great Minds in Development a 18-Video lecture series on what to design and the future of web designing, PHP video Tutorials (phpvideotutorials.com), and Learn and Apply HTML (Utah State University).
The Mathematics section focuses on Algebra and Calculus, among the resources here are Fundamentals of Algebra (Indiana University, Purdue University streaming video lectures), Finite Math Online (North Carolina State University, includes Matrices, Linear Programming, Simplex Method, Sets and Counting), and Mathematical video lectures (Prof. Roxanne Byrne, University of Colorado, has more than 100 short video on Algebra, Limits, Derivatives, Integration, Infinite Series, Finance, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations).
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