Especially for UC Berkeley, they named it  For those who are interested can go directly to the home page and download the lecture you want. Bids his courses – average only at the beginning of the semester, but there are quite varied subjects: molecular biology, politics, communication sciences, physics and even philosophy. I myself just listening to lectures so far biology, but the professor deserved thumbs up. They could deliver lectures with a solid and clear in time – average one hour, and some even have a can communicate with a few jokes to entertain. If you use iTunes or another program that can download podcasts directly, you can sign up to RSS feeds from the relevant subjects and new content will be downloaded instantly once they are published.

UC Berkeley is not the only university that opened classroom content to the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is also having the program Open Course Ware (OCW). But unlike such webcast.berkeley where we participate in the lecture hall, the concept of OCW is a publication of the material – material that used to lecture at MIT. Some courses provide lectures in audio recordings and videos, but most only provide the syllabus, the topic of each meeting, and schedule of activities during the lecture course. This is still informative for you – you who are wondering what are used in the classroom one of the best universities in the world can now know.

Still want to learn more? You can also do it in the iTunes U program run by Apple. The iTunes U is a collection of various free educational materials, such as college lecturers or seminars with guest speakers from various universities carried out by Apple. Here the choice is much more diverse universities: Stanford, Yale, to Cambridge University. So did his courses choices: from architecture, engineering, until the study of film and Japanese kanji. To browse the available courses, you need to run iTunes on your computer and open this link. A collection of lectures from different universities can also be found in the Academic Earth. What makes it different from others is all material existing on the site are videos and can watch the stream directly.

However, you may ask, what’s all this for me? Google and Wikipedia is enough to answer my curiosity. Indeed, for short and quick information you can rely on the site. You may be able to know what genome is, what the mesoderm is, or how the CPU circuit works. But did you know the importance of examining the genome? What is the importance of studying the mesoderm? You can look it up again of course, on Google and Wikipedia, but in the end you get is a collection of facts – facts which are sometimes difficult to put together into one complete story. This is the advantage to follow lectures – lecture: the context of the story intact. To understand one issue, you need to understand it as a whole, not just a piece or two pieces of the facts only.

By listening to the experts – experts in respective fields deliver lectures, you will get the context of the story more easily. Just try to compare you to browse the internet for an hour looking for information on prokaryotic gene expression control or you listen to lectures on the same topic for an hour.

In addition, you also have more freedom with this way of learning. If you have a portable audio or video player, you can take lectures – lectures on top wherever you go. A bit like carrying a book, but you do not have to worry about a heavy luggage. You can listen in the car when the traffic jams, or when you are on campus waiting for your friend to come. Easy is not it?

Well, wait no more. All materials are free. All you need is the willingness (and an adequate internet connection of course).

Since the mid-January, EI (Educational International) has regular contact with members of the Executive Office CNEH to assess the impact of disasters in schools, teachers and students to determine what the best way for EI (Educational International)  and cooperating partners to help reduce the impact of a huge humanitarian crisis.

A delegation attending the conference CNEH IE to North America and the Caribbean, organized by the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) and Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers’ Organization (TTUTA) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 25 and February 26, 2010. Regional conference marked an opportunity for EI and members of organizations involved in working groups for support in Haiti to meet with representatives from CNEH to discuss a project to support the unity and teacher (s) affected (e) s. They identified two main priorities include the rehabilitation of the structure of union organizations at all levels (federal and Federation) and to strengthen its contribution to the reconstruction of Haiti’s educational system.

After the summit and meetings of national associations and the Executive NECH Company, the union has prepared a short term project will be funded by contributions received from many members of the organization by the Special Funds for Haiti and IE CUT. This project includes support for the organizational structure, allow the professional to the level of trade union federation in the pre-convention, campaign, organization of work, the investigation status and needs of the school teacher (s), participation in UN CNEH groups for education and policy development for public education unions.

Visits to the representation (s) EI, and the CUT in Port-au-Prince is scheduled for mid-June to complete CNEH needs assessment and the general situation in this country, and to guide the planning of short-term employment with the Confederacy. This mission is the beginning of a more important political task of IE, CNEH to coincide with the Congress in September.