Berkeley launches YouTube channel

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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Campus launches YouTube channel </p>

<p>By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations | 03 October 2007</p>

<p>BERKELEY – Further expanding public access to its intellectual riches through the most popular Web destinations, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 3) that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube. </p>

<p>UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to "Physics for Future Presidents," the title of a popular campus course. Building on its initial offerings, UC Berkeley will continue to expand the catalog of videos available on YouTube. </p>

<p>"UC Berkeley on YouTube will provide a public window into university life - academics, events and athletics - which will build on our rich tradition of open educational content for the larger community," said Christina Maslach, UC Berkeley's vice provost for undergraduate education.</p>

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<p>That's pretty cool. Are they just uploading the webcasts onto an "official" account?</p>

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<p>^ I guess so. Man, you can watch a full O-Chem class... brings back memories.</p>

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<p>O god, not PFFP. Muller's everywhere!</p>

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<p>That's what it sounds like they're doing. Woo-pee. Now you can watch already available webcasts on another website.</p>

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<p>One newspaper calls Berkeley "The Legendary California University" :)</p>

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<p>Physics! Now I can watch it on a bigger screen :)</p>

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<p>I think it's fantastic that UC Berkeley is giving the general public access to academic lectures of this great university. This is one of the best examples of an elite institution acting in a non-elitist fashion and it will likely increase the university's prestige in the eyes of the public. Bravo!</p>

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<p>Thank you, fellow Bruin :)</p>