YouTube University

Techdirt is running an interesting article and links to more interesting articles on open courseware and free video lectures on the Internet. Personally I have always been a big fan of lifelong learning and find that some of these video lectures to be particularly useful for picking new knowledge on the side without having to be there at MIT or UC Berkeley or Carnegie Mellon. In fact there are databases of more of these: Online Education Database and OER Commons. Legal scholars trying to pick up statistical skills might find something useful there.