Academic Earth lectures

Academic Earth is another source of free learning. The website offers free online video lectures from a number of universities. The lectures aren’t overtly related to IA but you can study some of the academic fields that IA and UX draw from.

Some courses to consider

Introduction to psychology
Paul Bloom, Yale
“What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.”

Introduction to Copyright Law
Keith Winstein, MIT
“This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law; basics of legal research; legal citations; how to use LexisNexis; the 1976 Copyright Act; copyright as applied to music, computers, broadcasting, and education; fair use; Napster, Grokster, and Peer-to-Peer file-sharing; Library Access to Music Project; The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DVDs and encryption; software licensing; the GNU® General Public License and free software”

Danger: Designing Products With Your Customers
IDEO: Principles of Product Design

Categories to explore further

Entrepreneurship
Economics
Computer Science