Media Inquiries
Members of the media may contact Academic Earth at: media@academicearth.org
Media Recognition
TIME.com - 50 Best Websites of 2009
PC Mag - Top 100 Websites
BusinessWeek - America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs & Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25
December 2011
"Academic Earth has cornered the market on free online education by making a smorgasbord of online course content – from prestigious universities such as Stanford and Princeton – accessible and free to anyone in the world."
March 2009
"These are not cut-up dumbed-down introductions made zippy for today's short attention spans, they are the full-length lectures that you would see if you were an undergraduate at Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton or Stanford."
February 2009
"It's been years since I was in school, and I've got few fond memories of going to class. But Academic Earth is unexpectedly irresistible. It's like Hulu, but for nerds."
January 2009
"On the new site Academic Earth you can watch lectures on physics from M.I.T., or catch a Yale history course on the origins of World War I, or see a U.C. Berkeley professor cradle a brain while she talks about human anatomy."
From the Blogs
All My Faves - "Even if you can’t nail down an admission into one of the Ivy League institutions you can still take advantage of the intellectual and professional (and free!) resources that many of these have to offer on their respective websites..."
Defining Chaos In Order - "I can only assume this will eat yet another chunk of my already severely shortened sleeping period. Oh, did I just hear the faint sound of coffee beans crushing?"
Open Culture - "What you’ll see here is an impressive early implementation of where Academic Earth plans to go. Take content-rich videos from universities, organize the videos well, make the visual experience attractive, add personal customization functionality and the ability to engage with the content, and you have a very useful service to bring to the world."
TechRepublic - "I’m optimistic that we will continue to realize the amazing potential of the Internet for doing good. What Academic Earth is trying to accomplish is one reason why I feel that way."
