Faculties offer courses and lectures freely

The University of Washington, the Computer Science & Engineering department —as other faculties like MIT and Stanford with programs like MIT OpenCourseWare and Stanford Engineering Everywhere— offers videos recordings of selected lectures and course materials. This is great for those interested in learning and further improvement.

For example, recently (October 21, 2008) Joe Duffy from Microsoft gave a talk about Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform: Applied Research in a Product Setting. The video recording is freely available.