Learning about Learning

I learned something today which I should have learned several years ago.  In 2009, YouTube launched an educational tool called YouTube EDU , "a volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities" (an excerpt from the YouTube blog March 2009).

I am frequently searching for on-line educational material and while I had found some videos on YouTube, I had not found any mention of YouTube EDU.  I stumbled across it today while Googling iTunes University.   (Slightly off topic - have you noticed how you can often learn about something you weren't expecting to learn about while you were trying to learn about something else?)

They have something for everybody.  Here are some examples:

Universities and Colleges:

• Want to listen to an MIT lecture on physics (and who doesn't!) try MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics
• What about a Harvard lecture on murder?  try Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"  Professor Michael Sandel is a good lecturer.
• Or perhaps you would prefer lectures and courses from Yale, Università Bocconi, Carnegie Mellon, The Open University, or Cambridge University

 K - 12:

• Need help with your math homework? Explore videos from several sources such as Math TV.  The instructor made learning differential equations easy.
• Sesame Street  has 1,076 videos.  SuperSillySongs  features 65 super silly songs. KidsTV123 has103 cute videos.
• There are 22 lectures on Japanese culture and a course on learning to speak Japanese.

and Lifelong Learners (that would be me):

• Dream of flying like a bird?  Check out this video about a robot that flies like a bird by flapping its wings.
• Want to hear what others are talking about? Watch TED Talks .
• National Geographic has 2,999 fascinating videos about the ocean, the Arctic, photography, cooking, nature, history, drugs, and almost anything else you can name.  The Secret History of the Bra yielded surprising information.  Did you know that women were asked to stop wearing corsets during WWI and that this measured saved enough steel to make 2 battleships?  That's a lot of corsets!