YouTube launches EDU site

Posted on | March 26, 2009 at 2:20 pm | No Comments

This is handy if you want to weed out the riff-raff on YouTube and get to learning things other than how to pop popcorn with your cellphone or make a soda explode with Mentos.

From TechCrunch:

The site is aggregating videos from dozens of colleges and universities, ranging from lectures to student films to athletic events. Some of this stuff is solid gold (the Stanford and MIT lectures are really good). Other content, not so interesting.

Personally, I prefer the riff-raff most days, but on occasion I get an urge to learn something useful. Hopefully YouTube has made this easily duplicatable because I can see a lot of other uses for this type of content segregation: Searchable channels full of, TV shows/clips, interviews, political speeches, music videos, sports clips, etc, etc.

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