Harvard University has joined the fast-growing ranks of institutions offering courses as podcasts. The university’s Extension School has started to post online video and audio recordings of weekly lectures from one of its entry-level courses, "Understanding Computers and the Internet."
A number of colleges have chosen to restrict their coursecasts to registered students, but the Harvard lectures are available at no cost to Web users.



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