Academic Earth is a website launched on March 24, 2009, by Richard Ludlow and co-founders Chris Bruner and Liam Pisano,[1][2] which offers free online video courses and academic lectures from the world's top universities such as UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.[3] It is considered a search engine for full-text scholarly information, with video courses covering around 50 primary subject disciplines[4] ranging from Arts and Design, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Statistics.[5]
- ^ "Academic Earth Launches Website Offering Free Video Lectures from Leading Universities". Reuters. March 24, 2009. Archived from the original on September 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ Rao, Leena (2009-03-24). "Academic Earth Is The Hulu For Education". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ^ "Academic Earth: Universities". Archived from the original on 31 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ^ Li, Lili (2014). Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. p. 179. ISBN 9781843347637.
- ^ "Academic Earth: Subjects". Archived from the original on 2009-03-28. Retrieved 2009-03-26.