SAN FRANCISCO - Online video is now no longer just for fun and games: You may really learn something out of it. The University of California at Berkeley informed that it uses Google Video to deliver college courses, including lectures and other symposia, free of charge, the first university to have its own featured page on Google Video.

The site is at http://video.google.com/ucberkeley, Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and campus officials said in a statement.

As a first offering, the university has put up an amazing library for more than 250 hours of video for public viewing. Most of it was not available online previously, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement.

Google Online Video is a comprehensive index of free and paid, user-generated and also professional video content. And also will be available on range of public events and academic symposia on topics ranging from climate change to synthetic biology. The campus is set for adding more material to the Google Video site in coming months, it said.

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