Comments on: UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube

University will start by posting 300 hours worth of class lectures--including one from Google's Sergey Brin--to video-sharing site.

[cog2803mac]

10 Minute video limit?

All of these videos far exceed the 10 minute limit that Youtube
specifies. Is this an exception for UC Berkley or are there YouTube
accounts that allow for longer clips?

I think it's great that they are putting them on YouTube - just
curious how they are getting around the file size/clip length issue.

[MarkRotblat]

Special Director Accounts

I'm guessing UC Berkeley is going to have a special account that allows for longer clips. There are others within the YouTube community that have accounts that allow for files that are longer than 10 minutes.
Mark
http://tubemogul.com

[gandalfnz]

Berkeley's cool, but not quite the first

Berkeley the first? Well, not quite. All 22 lectures of my 2007
course on Game Theory, Introduction to Game theory for
Business Science and Politics, are, and have been posted online,
for around a year.
URL is : http://uctv.canterbury.ac.nz/4/67
Yes yes, uctv - Canterbury University, while open, and open
source, is not quite YouTube, but you catch my drift. Also, on
our Erskine channel
URL: http://uctv.canterbury.ac.nz/2/19/8
we have Berkeley's own Nobel prize winner Gerard Debreu
giving 8 hours of lectures in mathematical economics (from a
grad lecture series presented in 1987), so we do a little more
than game theory. Math Econ is not everyone's cup of tea to be
sure...but hey, thats why the philosophy of posting university
educational material for public access is so damn cool.
Well done Berkeley !!
We here down under at the University of Canterbury in
Christchurch New Zealand, are doing our bit. So NZ isn't just a
home for hobbits wizards and wraiths from Lord of the Rings.

[Goeran1]

Online Lectures from Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton etc.

Here's a great list of available online lectures:
http://internet-tv-search-engine-swicki.eurekster.com/online+lectures/

[wojciechbrudzewski]

Good Morning America ... (Irony)

The European Graduate School - http://www.egs.edu/ - has already uploaded several hundred lectures and videos featuring Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Peter Greenaway, Slavoj Zizek, John Waters, Geert Lovink, Friedrich Kittler, DJ Spooky, Giorgio Agamben, Manuel Delanda, Jean Luc Nancy, Michael Hardt and many others before UC Berkeley even signed up.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=egsvideo

The video archive will include more and more video lectures from the last 10 years. In September the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul even wrote an entire article about the lectures from the European Graduate School. Thank you for waking up ...
Lets send a friendly message to UC Berkeley: "If you think education (and research) is expensive - Try Ignorance ..."

Excerpt:
Jean Baudrillard - Cultural Identity and Politics 2002
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2B53370C61600BDA

Jacques Derrida - On Forgiveness.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DD498CDE04B51C2D

Paul Virilio - Dromology and Claustrophobia
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E36B727EAFCB31D

Slavoj Zizek - Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson. 2006
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C738FEA997693946

[wojciechbrudzewski]

correction video uploads started one month ago ...

their profile was already created in 2006 - but they started uploading their lectures only one month ago - several months after other universities and graduate schools. the statement of uc berkeley ("we are first") is obviously wrong.

[jeckman]

No ads?

I wonder if UC Berkeley's arrangement with YouTube enables them to forbid the running of ads inside their videos.

Long term, it seems google will continue to grow monetization strategies around youtube which may be problematic for some users, including UC

[rosso1876]

What's even better now is that there is a utility called MySpeed that will let me speed up these long lectures. It's hard enough sometimes to sit through a real life lecture and some of these YouTube lectures will put me right to sleep but if I speed them up to double speed, they actually sound interesting. I just found this new utility at http://www.enounce.com/myspeed.php

I do hope the education bring the world peace.

[strange188]

sure, have u seen a smart soldier?

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