Today Yale launched its Open Yale Courses project with seven complete online courses in Astronomy, English, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religious Studies.
According to their FAQ, “each course includes a full set of class lectures” as downloadable videos or audio-only files with searchable transcripts and includes other materials such as “syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. ”
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog post about the project also noted that the project’s scope is intended to be international, with lectures broadcast over Chinese television and an Indian satellite network.
Under the project’s Terms of Use, “Most of the lectures and other course material within Open Yale Courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.”