This discovery just in:
“Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.”URL: http://open.yale.edu/courses/index.html
Wow, ok this is impressive. The few course sessions I looked at included MP3 audio downloads, streaming video, video downloads (hi and lo bandwidth), and HTML transcripts. I haven’t looked at the quality of the video yet, but George Siemens indicates they have “Great video quality …

Via Mashable (“The United Nations Goes Green–Streams Climate Summit Online“):
“The United Nations is going green in an appropriate manner for its Climate Summit, which is being nicknamed the Virtual Bali Conference due to its green efforts–the organization will be streaming the Climate Summit live, beginning tomorrow and through December 14th. This is part of the United Nations’ efforts to emphasize the importance of the global plight by encouraging participants to view the conference online instead of flying in for the events.”
I’m seriously impressed with the web presence the UN has …