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Title: Universities meet YouTube

Competencies: all that we support can be found multiple times at the website

Who benefits: everyone

Consultant Usage: research this site for your own professional development and marketing strategies and find helpful videos for your clients

What’s it about?  Are you ready to go back to school but don’t want to leave your chair.  Today’s post offers you the mother lode of video education.  The main site is YouTube’s EDU Channels Directory for University.  Go there now and click on your favorite University.

Or here below are a few direct links to some of the more prestigious names in education:

USC Business Videos – Business education, research and entrepreneurship; leadership interviews including Warren Bennis.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Videos – Social Innovation, Health Care, Social Entrepreneurship, Economic Development and more.

Harvard Business School Videos – Strategy, Innovation, Leadership, Managing People

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania – The latest in depth interviews from Knowledge@Wharton, including the very scary “Big Brother is Watching Your Browsing”.

Many of you already study remotely through the University of Phoenix.  UP streaming videos feature some big names in “The Phoenix Lecture Series”.

We also have devoted readers from countries far from our HQ in Southern California, so …

For Matt, Kate and our other readers in England, check out the unusual “Cambridge Ideas”, or “Transformational change” from Oxford University Saïd Business School, or even the videos from the London School of Economics public lectures. 

For loyal supporter Mercedes and others in Spain, consider some of the 442 videos from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid UAM.

For Fil and friends in Australia, check out the Public Lectures by the University of South Australia or computer course videos at The University of New South Wales.

So what does it all mean?  It means that several hundred learning institutions are putting out 10s of 1,000s YouTube videos.  Some our self-serving, trying to attract new students or position themselves favorably in their community – nothing wrong with that.  But it also means that some of the great minds of the world are sharing their thoughts to a worldwide audience.  You may have to invest some time exploring – and exploring can be part of the fun – but there are some gems to be found no matter what your area of interest. 

Catch you later.

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.