A friend passed on an interesting link to Academic Earth, a repository of thousands lectures from people the site bills as the world's best scholars.
It'd be interesting for everyone, according to their respective disciplines, to see if the big names are represented. For entrepreneurship, there are over 70o videos. Among them are a few hitters, but there's a regrettably high number of mid-level nobodies (and the poor scores of the lectures reflect that). Another disappointment is the single lecture in the category of religion.
Thoughts on the site as a whole? Is it worth universities to try and use this as a tool to promote their allstar lecturers? What other applications could this have?
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This is very cool - and I think I'd actually like to use some of this material as "assigned" reading in my intro IR course. That said, the poli sci section is pretty thin, and hits only a couple big names.
In English--one hit for literature and one for poetry. Both profs from Yale; neither of much interest.
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