Every Autodidact’s Dream: World Lecture Hall

Their website says it best:
“ Welcome to World Lecture Hall, your entry point to free online course materials from around the world. Please browse, search, learn and enjoy.”
Enjoy!? I typed in “art history” and got the following results (the beginning of 30 pages worth of the same):
| Frontier Heritage Tom Bacig | University of Minnesota at Duluth | May, 2000 |
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| History and heritage of the North American frontier in music, art, literature and film. | |
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Design and Persuasion Miodrag Mitrasinovic | University of Texas at Austin | May, 2000 |
| Semiotics of design. | |
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Design and Persuasion Miodrag Mitrasinovic | University of Texas at Austin | May, 2000 |
| Semiotics of design. | |
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Art History Survey I Marleen Hoover | San Antonio College | November, 2001 |
| Art History Survey I explores art from its beginnings in the Paleolithic era to the early Gothic era. Non-western art is thoroughly integrated into this course, completely delivered over the Internet. | |
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Western Art Since 1500 Andrea Pappas | University of Southern California | December, 2001 |
| Painting, sculpture, architecture and photography in Europe and the United States from the Counter-Reformation to the present. Freshman-level. | |
It allows for searching in various language and by type of media (e.g. audio, video, lecture notes, assignments).
I’m smitten.