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The negative of this site is you have to have iTunes software, but that's so very outweighed by the positives: this is where you can download lectures, interviews, even sports from Stanford University. You can even "subscribe" to get particular categories of interest. It's astounding, really, that this is such a special thing: surely all great universities should offer such a service! And indeed, some others do, including:
California Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tufts University Utah State University Outside the U.S.:
Various Chinese universities ParisTech OpenCourseWare project Portal page for Japanese universities (Keio University, Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University, University of Tokyo, Waseda University) From This is True for 8 January 2006
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