You should definitely watch this : Ivy League education free on the web (BBC Click, 15 May 2012)
- Udacity (computer science students should be particularly interested)
(more details here : « University 2.0 » – a really interesting, and moving, talk by Sebastian Thrun; an article in the New York Times about Thrun’s project)
- Khan Academy (3,200 educational videos on nearly every subject, with interactive transcripts; click « Watch » to see the list of subjects)
(Salman Khan’s TED Talk : « Let’s use video to reinvent education » TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. All talks with interactive transcript)