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AcademicEarth is dedicated to breaking down the barriers to a "world class education.'' College-level video classes and supplemental materials are available from universities such as Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale. They are listed by subject, university, or instructor, and are also available as Playlists, themetic collections of lectures picked by the AcademicEarth editors.

Therefore, the critical questions for America today have to be how we deploy more ultra-high-speed networks and applications in university towns to invent more high-value-added services and manufactured goods and how we educate more workers to do these jobs - the only way we can maintain a middle class.

A University of Michigan initiative.  From the site:  Our mission is to raise the standard for classroom teaching practice by transforming how teachers are prepared and supported.

Study skills and tips from Emory University - available in PDFs

"active engagement is the key"