When we started LearnOutLoud. Founded in by Tom Rollins, The Teaching Company records courses from top professors around the United States in a broad array of university-level disciplines. If you're a longtime fan of the Teaching Company you might recall Bach's Brandenburg Concerto that started each lecture and Tom Rollins giving this quote at the start of each course: "By listening for less than an hour a day you can finish even the longest course in just weeks!
These courses were developed for adult lifelong learners, and back in the early s when we started listening to them, they were available on audio cassettes, CDs, VHS tapes, and DVDs from their website or the local library. They've also made their courses available on audio download through Audible. Although they've re-branded and updated their service with the latest technology, The Great Courses still maintain the highest standards for their professors and production quality.
To introduce The Great Courses, they've uploaded over 70 free sample video lectures on their YouTube channel, and after watching many of them we've been reminded of just how great their offerings are.
Today we're featuring reviews of over 50 of these free lectures that we've watched. You subscribe to The Great Courses Plus, and you can then watch over great courses and over 8, video lectures as much as you want, whenever you want! It's amazing to be able to browse around and pick out lectures you're especially interested in to find out which course you want to watch.
Also a recent addition they've made to the iOS app for iPhone and iPad was the introduction of downloading and streaming lectures for audio-only listening, which was a feature we were really hoping for. Check it out if you haven't yet:. And we've updated our blog post that lays out The Great Courses Plus in more detail and lists all the current courses they offer:. Almost of the lectures featured below are being offered through The Great Courses Plus.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Investing. This course and over other courses can be accessed with a subscription to The Great Courses Plus.
In this introductory lecture from The Great Courses course Understanding Investments , Professor Connel Fullenkamp addresses some of the common concerns people have when they consider investing their money. He acknowledges that many people do not invest because they don't want to take the time to learn how to and above all they don't want to lose their money. He suggests that the basics of investing can be learned relatively quickly and then dispels many of the fears of losing money if one invests according to certain principles and doesn't react to the often volatile shifts in the market.
It's a pretty convincing opening argument for investing, in what sounds like a very informative course. The Robotics of Self-Driving Vehicles. That last part of the lecture he devotes to the impact self-driving vehicles will eventually have on the world including saving thousands of lives in accidents, allowing handicapped people to drive, and even speeding up the road ways by optimizing the ways cars function in traffic jams.
It's a fascinating lecture on this emerging technology. Can certain foods make you smarter? She addresses the difficulty with conducting good neuroscience studies on the effects of food because there is not much profit to made from studying foods like blueberries that can't be patented. But Professor Viskontas points to some studies done around fish oil, anti-oxidant foods, and supplements and the often scant evidence or mixed results that these studies have produced in regards to cognitive improvement.
She does point out that caffeine, exercise, and even fasting might aid in our cognitive abilities. She explodes the myth of sugar making kids crazy and also discusses the effects of popular drugs like Adderall and Ritalin for kids with ADHD.
After decades of study, Professor Viskontas says we aren't that far from the common sense wisdom that was already known, that good nutrition, a healthy diet, and exercise are good for mental performance. Siegel, Psy. In this free lecture provided by The Great Courses, psychiatrist Ronald Siegel outlines the havoc that comes about when we identify "I" or "me" as something separate from the rest of the world. As Siegel argues, mindfulness practice reveals "the self" as an impersonal series of sensations that form a consistent storyline of who we think we are.
But what if what you call "you" is actually not what you experience, but something deeper, and more interconnected with the rest of creation? As Eastern spiritual practices tell us, the path to happiness lies in transcending the suffering that comes as a result of identifying ourself as a separate individual. This 30 minute lecture is a good introduction as to why mindfulness meditation practices are becoming a more accepted therapeutic tool in mainstream psychiatric circles.
Fundamentals of Photography: Composition. With the advent of digital photography, most of us are now photographers to some extent.
Learn how to improve your photography with tips on composition from National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore. In this lecture from his course Fundamentals of Photography , Professor Sartore gives advice on how to turn even the most mundane settings into interesting photographic subjects.
He teaches about the rule of thirds and when to use vertical composition. While some of the concepts might only apply to those with professional cameras and lenses, many of the tips Professor Sartore gives can even be applied to the photos you take with your mobile phone.
He provides numerous examples of his own photographic experiments to illustrate his points. Train Yourself Like a Dog. Vishton, Ph. The human brain is very complex, but in this lecture Professor Peter M. Vishton first suggests that the mere act of writing down when you perform a bad habit is a good start to getting control of it.
He goes on to cite studies of positive and negative reinforcement for conquering bad habits and how effective they have been. He sums up the lecture by reminding us that most of the things we do during the day are habitual and as Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do". So we might as well try to get control of our habits instead letting them control us.
Why America Wrote the Declaration of Independence. To commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence years ago on July 4, , we're featuring this free lecture from The Great Courses. In this lecture, Professor Joseph F. Kobylka charts how the philosophy behind the American revolution changed as the conflict between the colonies and Great Britain heated up. When they slowly began to view the British government as abusive, their conciliatory stance began to shift into to a then innovative universal argument based on natural human rights.
In this crucial moment, a new, truly revolutionary philosophy was born out of the conflict; a philosophy that led to the Declaration of Independence, and gave birth to a new nation founded on an equal relationship between the government and the people.
Why You Stress. In this free lecture from The Great Courses, Professor Kimberlee Bethany Bonura starts with the equation that arousal plus your value judgment equals stress.
She emphasizes the importance of one's perception when it comes to stressing out under a given circumstance, and also points out many of the cultural and environmental factors that contribute to stress. She also points to studies where genetics and early life experience play a heavy role as to how you'll react to stress later in life. She places stress on a continuum, where very low stress can lead to boredom and poor performance, but too high of stress can lead to anxiety and poor performance as well.
In between these two extremes you can find an optimal level of aroused stress that leads to your best performance. Causes of The Great Recession. Nationalism taught by Professor Ramon P. DeGennaro, Ph. Learn about the many causes of The Great Recession which led to economic decline in the United States and world markets in the late s and early s. Professor Ramon P. Financial institutions in the s began taking enormous risks particularly in the housing market.
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A few years ago, X was a bad choice for any torrenting, since it was clunky to navigate and it posed a lot of security risks. Since then, it went through an entire site revamp , making it seamless to browse and safer. For shows and movies, you also have improved browsing functionalities, like searching by award nomination.
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Not to mention — any type of browsing options, like searching by album, artist or song would be greatly appreciated. Second, ad intrusion is minimal and the interface is beautiful. A: When you download a lecture, you save it to your computer.
It will take up disk space, but you will be able to access the lecture offline. When you stream via our website or apps, you are not saving anything to your computer. The lecture is playing directly from the website, so it requires an internet connection. Can you explain it another way? A: Sure! Think of streaming like the radio. When you turn on your radio, you can listen to a broadcast. Downloading is like making a cassette tape of your favorite radio program so you can listen to it again later.
You plan to enjoy your courses when you do not have internet access. You will always use the same device to enjoy your courses. Your smartphone or tablet data plan is limited.
See Streaming FAQ for more details. For optimal performance, we recommend an internet connection speed of 40 mpbs or higher. Follow the steps above to access your Digital Library and find the course you would like to download.
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You may also right-click on the downward arrow to download. In the window that pops up, you will be prompted to choose where you would like to save the file and what you would like to name it. We recommend choosing a location you will remember. It is also helpful to create a new folder to collect all the files for the course since each lecture will be a different file.
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