There are many great thinkers out there. With the help of technology, it would be great to learn from all these great scholars via recorded online videos. Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.

Currently there are over fifteen hundred videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.  And there are more new videos added every day. Some of these videos are grouped into courses, which each contain anywhere from 4 to 50 lectures. The great news with these videos is they are all downloadable. You may download when the “Download to iPod” option appears you can download a QuickTime version of the lecture.  Just right click on the “Download to iPod” link and select “Save Target As…” or the equivalent for your browser.

As per Academic Earth website :

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.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

Academic Earth : Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars