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Open Culture - scours the Web for free cultural and educational media.

Academic Earth - Here you’ll find thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.

YouTube EDU - The rapidly expanding default site for user-generated video now includes an education “channel” called YouTube EDU, with content from top universities and other institutions.

ResearchChannel - A consortium of leading research and academic institutions share with the public more than 3,500 videos produced by its members.

Videolectures.Net - The site offers video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at international conferences, seminars, workshops and the like.

webcast.berkeley - The University of California-Berkeley records in lecture halls and classrooms equipped with video- and/or podcast-capture systems. In addition to hundreds of courses, the site offers on-campus lectures, debates, symposiums and other events.

Harvard@home - The site features more than 60 multimedia-rich programs on topics ranging from stem cells to Beethoven.

OpenCourseWare - Here you’ll find 1,800-some academic courses—complete with syllabuses, assignments, exams, and, in many cases, audio or video lectures—that the MIT has put online.

Learning center - Acquire lots of different skills—from organizing your daily life to mastering Google Desktop—from Hewlett Packard’s online classes. Each class includes up to 10 lessons and may also include interactive demos, assignments and quizzes.

TEDTalks - Since 1984, the annual conference that goes by the acronym TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) has brought together some of the world’s top thinkers and doers and challenged them to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes or less.

Nobel Prize Winners - The online home of the Nobel Prizes is packed with interviews with and lectures by some of the world’s smartest people.

Forum National Network - Aconsortium of public television and radio stations offers live and on-demand lectures by some of the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policymakers and community leaders.

Big Ideas- This site, courtesy of TVO, Canada’s largest educational broadcaster, presents lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics that range across politics, culture, economics, art, history, science, and other fields.

Einzstein - Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier:
free online courses.

Career Library - Offers a comprehensive inforatmion resource for career and college search.