[Why I write English articles once in a while] The famous "University of California, Berkeley" makes some of its entire lectures freely available on YouTube.
The press release states that
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to "Physics for Future Presidents," the title of a popular campus course. Building on its initial offerings, UC Berkeley will continue to expand the catalog of videos available on YouTube.Unfortunately, up to now there aren't any Computer Science courses are available on YouTube. But the old webcast site of Berkeley doesn't seem to be dead. There you can stream videos of lectures using the RealPlayer (since 2001!). It would be great if Berkeley would replace the streaming with YouTube since the RealPlayer streaming is very unrelyable even with 4k DSL. Even better than YouTube would be a "real" video podcast, but I assume that would cause to much traffic.
One of the lecures the university is offering on the old webcast site is "Operating systems and system programming", the Berkeley analog to "Konzepte und Methoden von Systemsoftware". It is nice to see how Paderborn (or better Prof. Karl) performs in a (more or less) direct comparision to John Kubiatowcz, one of the fathers of the P2P systems OceanStore and Tapestry.
Since I haven'€™t it done before, it is also worth to mention the iTunesU program where a lot of american universites post recordings of some of their lectures.
[via Jendrik Bertram]
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