Web has became not only a space for finding generic information, but also a nice place for self further studies. Put an example, if you want to scour for education-related resources, Academic Earth is a must site to visit for.
Academic Earth, headlined on the landing page with “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars” can fulfill many people’s dreams to learn the video lectures from the top scholars at the Ivy League Universities. Similarly to one of MIT’s Web-based projects, i.e. MIT Open Course Ware, you can find course lecture videos on anything from engineering to management. However, there are more universities covered as you can find some of the online video lectures at these stated universities, that are UC Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale, with the exception of the course work or the course material in any text format.
While you find tons of video lectures at Academic Earth and you might thought that it is a huge repository of videos from these top universities. However, quite the contrary, the videos are not hosted on this site itself. Most of the videos were pulled from blip.tv but a great feature offered by Academic Earth is that users can rate a particular video and the ratings from A to F is given.
Ok, Academic Earth is well done. But they have only US-lectures and they are a business dispite the using of dot org. There is an old site (http://www.world-lecture-project.org), which has more lectures from the other countries. I´ve heard, that the makers of wlp plan a relaunch of the site with a new design and they plan to include step by step some nice features into the site, which will really help to learn.