A Facebook page once had thousands of supporters, and one of his hundreds of videotaped lectures posted on YouTube was downloaded more than 150,000 times.
For research purposes, he and Clark formed a small but committed reading club devoted to Das Kapital, much aided by the lectures posted online by NYU professor David Harvey.
Asked how she became a "good Muslim," one of the girls cited lectures posted on YouTube, which she said "helped me to become closer to Allah".
University lectures posted online have proved an excellent resource for intellectual self-starters and online platforms such as Wikipedia, wikiHow, and YouTube have allowed for lessons in pretty much anything you want albeit not without criticism.
In a lecture posted on YouTube, she speaks about the history of African American hairstyles and says she will describe "what happened to our hair here in America" when slavery meant certain kinds of styles were banned.
But it is also Ford who comes off as a "smug, contemptuous and cantankerous" First Worlder in the also star-studded global warming miniseries Years of Living Dangerously, as he lectures post-Suharto Indonesians about "inequity, illegality and corruption" as First Worlders deforest Indonesia to crisis.
For the hybrid section, instead of the in-class lecture, an online lecture was posted.
The pretests took place during introductory lectures and posttest a couple of weeks after finishing the section on thermodynamics.
Guest blogger James Sturtevant (@jamessturtevant) points to several methods of online learning that can help students adjust to lectures and ideas, but going at their own pace, including posting lectures on YouTube.
His first lecturing post was at the University of St Andrews (1964-72).
