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Stanford Goes YouTube

By jtcobb on Jun 20, 2008 in Open Education

Here are two things I have learned in the past 30 minutes:

Stanford now has a YouTube channel
Oprah Winfrey gave the commencement address at Stanford this year

As it happens, you can find Oprah’s commencement address on the Stanford channel, along with a lot of other great content (nearly 200 videos at this point). One bit of content right up my alley is Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Highlights, featuring business luminaries like Carly Fiorina and Guy Kawasaki.

Speaking of entrepreneurial (or, at least, enterprising)…I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately and have not been keeping up with the Mission to Learn world all that well. I might not have noticed the Stanford announcement at all if I had not received an e-mail from Stanford about it. I’m always happy to hear about new free learning initiatives (and will be mentioning this one in the next Free Learning Monitor and adding it to More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online), but the e-mail offered a nice extra bit of information. Namely, a “tip” to pass on about using YouTube effectively. Here it is:

It’s much easier to browse through university offerings on YouTube by clicking on “playlist” from the university’s YouTube channel. For example: http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=stanforduniversity http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=ucberkeley. Unfortunately, many people don’t see or click on “playlist”, so it can be hard to make sense of what a university has on a YouTube site.

So there you have it. And just in time for the weekend.

If, by chance, you finish all the Stanford content or are just looking for something different, friend and blogger David Houle has also recently launched his own Futurist channel on YouTube. And if you are really ambitious, check out Zaid’s University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! which catalogs more than 200 free online learning destinations.

Have fun.

JTC

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