"As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.
We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable."
fonte: http://academicearth.org/about
Para além de poder assistir a palestras e master classes, poderá inserir os vídeos em páginas web, fóruns e outras actividades Moodle. Desta forma, poderá utilizar os vídeos para discussões e actividades lectivas.
Também poderá partilhar as suas palestras em vídeo, divulgando o seu trabalho para uma plateia global.
Um exemplo de palestra:
Introduction to Black Holes - Charles Bailyn (U.Yale)
Bailyn, Charles "Introduction to Black Holes." Academic Earth. 15 Dec 2008. Web. 30 Jan 2009.
http://academicearth.org/lectures/black-holes