Following the lead of MIT, other top US universities, including Harvard and Yale, now also offer free online access to the video recordings of a wide range of their courses. And thanks to the efforts of more than 2,000 translation volunteers recruited by Taiwan's Fantasy Foundation, many of these lectures are currently available with Chinese sub

Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard's history.

Hundreds of students pack Harvard's Sanders Theater for Michael Sandel's "Justice" course.

For Taiwanese, they can listen to the class when clicking on the open course ware webpage set up by Fantasy Foundation.

Beginning in 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made its online courses available to all students via the Internet.

Ten years later, many top-tiered schools include Yale and Harvard have offered multimedia courses online too.

According to Internet celebrity, Lucifer Chu, Taiwanese universities, especially those which have been included in the Ministry of Education's Five Year, 50 Billion Project, should work toward the direction.

Currently, only Chiao-tung University is making similar efforts but the quality and the contents are far below its foreign counterparts.

Chu believes if the Kunqu Opera of National Taiwan University taught by established writer Bai Xian-yong is available for other colleges to use, this could raise the levels of general education courses.