The Next Step in Learning Online... Academic Earth - Video Lectures From World's Top Scholars

Now I don't have to leave my desk at home in Montreal to listen to a lecture by a mathematics MIT professor, or an economics Yale prof. I don't even have to sign up for the course. I just go to Academic Earth and just watch the whole lecture series as if I was watching You Tube.

This is exactly why the internet is awesome.

If I don't like my prof at McGill or Concordia, I can just learn it from the prof at another university - probably more qualified than my prof anyway.

If I miss a class / concept in my regular course, I can go and learn it online, as if I didn't miss a beat.

If I am a gifted high school student of mathematics, and I already got through all the material from high school by the time I reach grade 11, why not get a head start on college / university math by going to Academic Earth and learning a whole course on linear algebra, just as if I was one of the university students.

I never asked questions when I was going to university in the big lecture halls anyway. There was hardly no interaction between prof and student when I went to university (especially for the first few years of university). Thus I don't even see a slight difference between the streaming video online and the real thing. It's seriously as if I was sitting in one of the chairs in a big lecture hall. But now, I can actually pause when I have to go to the washroom, or re-view the lecture if it doesn't quite make sense. The only thing missing are the assignments and tests... (I hated those anyway).

Absolutely FANTASTIC... check it out!