Ang Peregrino Recommends 66: YouTube Edu

YouTube Edu
URL: http://​www​.youtube​.com/​edu

In a world that is steadily visual and audi­tory, of ipods and pod­casts, and videos and short atten­tion spans and the seem­ing extinc­tion of the paper­bound book, YouTube Edu is a com­pro­mise– you still learn and get edu­cated, while lis­ten­ing and watch­ing the great speeches and lec­tures of the great teach­ers, pro­fes­sors, and accom­plished experts in the world. It is like the Read­ers Digest of edu­ca­tional videos; like TEDTalks, only more col­lege pro­fes­sors and com­mence­ment speakers.

It is a YouTube chan­nel that lists down videos from Uni­ver­si­ties and Col­leges around the world. It has the chan­nels of Ari­zona State U, MIT, Carnegie Mel­lon, Har­vard Busi­ness, Tulane, UCLA, Stan­ford, Berke­ley, Bran­deis, Dart­mouth, Duke, Yale, among others.

There are great finds there, like Pres­i­dent Obama’s speech at Ari­zona State, or Desmond Tutu’s Com­mence­ment Speech at UNC Chapel Hill, or this dra­matic short film about chang­ing your out­look in life.

Check out the videos your­self and you will prob­a­bly learn a thing or two about life in gen­eral or some­thing rel­e­vant in particular.

For being a one-stop shop for videos from the best edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions around the world, and for help­ing edu­ca­tion become avail­able to the rest of the world, Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends YouTube Edu this week.