Experience lectures from Harvard and Oxford from home

Only a few select students become enrolled and can attend lectures at the top universities in the world, where either very good grades or very good connections are required. However, a Danish student from the University of Aarhus has set about to change that so everybody can attend lectures from all over the world – via the computer.

Jakob Sandvad is the student behind Public University Online - a kind of Youtube for lectures, where you can up- and download links to lectures made public on their university homepages.

There are already more than thousand lectures online and although the majority are in arts and philosophy related areas, there are already many science lectures online.

By writing Penrose in the search field, for instance, it is possible to find all three public lectures by the famous physicist Roger Penrose in the series "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe” held at the University of Oxford in 2003.

Source:
Campus – Magazine from the University of Aarhus, 25/3-2008.