As described in this Slate article, a new site called Academic Earth has brought together a large numbers of lecture videos and made them available online for free. Right now, it includes lecturers from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
There is a six lecture series on Understanding the Financial Crisis.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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I watched the lecture on Real Estate and the financial crisis, the guy is pretty entertaining.
Now I’m watching the lecture course on Greek history. But, it reminds me more of a “teaching company” lecture, i.e. made for DVD, than one from an actual lecture course. The total lack of student interruption is a bit distressing. Not the most entertaining prof (that’s what counts here, I think). But, quite informative.
I don’t generally like video as an educational medium. It requires too much immediate concentration, then provides too little information per unit time. I prefer to do several things at the same time: usually, with several different kinds of document open in different windows.
That said, very charismatic speakers are sometimes worth focusing on exclusively.
For my money, this lecture by Krugman is the be-all-end-all when it comes to understanding the crisis – and he gave the lecture well before all this shit went down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XhvG_fD0HA