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Reply #1 - 2009 February 01, 3:17 pm
iSoron Member
From: Canada Registered: 2008-03-24 Posts: 490

As Wikipedia defines it, "OpenCourseWare, or OCW, is a term applied to course materials created by universities and shared freely with the world via the internet."

Now the good news is that a number of Japanese universities have OCW projects, meaning you can watch full lectures (in Japanese) about many subjects. Here's Toudai's course list, for example. You can find others on Google.

Did you guys already know about this?

Reply #2 - 2009 February 01, 3:49 pm
yukkuri_kame Member
From: Florida US Registered: 2008-05-30 Posts: 185

すごい!　始めた．Great!  First time I've seen it.  Until my Japanese is more advanced, I won't be able to make much sense of it, I suppose.  But the podcasts will, at least, make for good background listening.

Last edited by yukkuri_kame (2009 February 01, 3:52 pm)

Reply #3 - 2009 February 01, 3:57 pm
mystes Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-04-08 Posts: 99

The best thing on the Toudai OCW site is the podcasts which have good mpeg4 video. Unfortunately these are totally disorganized and aren't integrated with the rest of the site.

Edit: also, in this case "podcast" just means that there's some sort of rss feed and it's in mpeg4 and not realplayer format; I think I'm actually subscribed to the feed but I don't believe that they update it in a way that actually makes it consumable as a podcast (by uploading episodes individually or on a regular schedule).

Last edited by mystes (2009 February 01, 4:01 pm)

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Reply #4 - 2009 February 01, 4:31 pm
stehr Member
From: california Registered: 2007-09-25 Posts: 281

sweet, thanks for this.

Reply #5 - 2009 February 01, 4:39 pm
playadom Member
Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 468

I didn't know that OCW had classes in Japanese!

Reply #6 - 2009 February 01, 5:21 pm
shakkun Member
Registered: 2007-11-23 Posts: 173

That is really cool, thanks.

Reply #7 - 2009 February 01, 7:30 pm
Diana Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-01-22 Posts: 70

Wow, seriously awesome and just what I needed!

Reply #8 - 2009 February 01, 8:26 pm
stoked Member
From: Switzerland Registered: 2009-01-09 Posts: 378 Website

Bookmarked. Thanks for sharing!

Reply #9 - 2009 February 01, 8:57 pm
nest0r Member
Registered: 2007-10-19 Posts: 5236 Website

Cool, I didn't realize there were Japanese versions of this.

Reply #10 - 2009 February 01, 10:06 pm
stoked Member
From: Switzerland Registered: 2009-01-09 Posts: 378 Website

Guys, it's also worth to scan MIT, Notre Dame & other universities that are part of this...

You'll find cool stuff like this:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Langu … /index.htm

MIT has some more offers for Japan and even language courses!   wink

Last edited by stoked (2009 February 01, 10:06 pm)

Reply #11 - 2010 May 09, 4:12 pm
Surreal Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2009-05-18 Posts: 325

This is super awesome and I am (fist)bumping this thread.

All of toudai's videos are in realmedia format, is it possible to play them without realplayer, or are there any realplayer copycat programs? I installed realplayer and it well, it WORKS, but it's just so bloated and I really don't like it.

Thank you very much for posting about this here.

Reply #12 - 2010 May 09, 5:05 pm
Blahah Member
From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

There are also loads of courses from Japanese universities free on iTunes U (it's in the iTunes store). This is in fact what iTunes U is all about - free content from universities.

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