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Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free

Posted by timothy on from the happy-music-too dept.

sas-dot writes "The most sought-after Indian institutions like IIT and IISc have put their course lectures on YouTube. The site is up from last December and is slowly gaining momentum in terms of lectures available online. This is India's own program similar to MIT's OpenCourseWare. Good to see the competition, and that students have many sources of knowledge for free."

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  1. Now... Will they be indexed... by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be nice if you find the particular lecture you want to refesh information you may have learned. Say for Computer Science go over the lectures on C++ Templates because you haven touched them in about a decade or so, but you found that you need them again. Or somehow use the to help with affordable degrees. Say read the lecures and take a couple of classes to upgrade a BA in Computer Science to a BS for about $200 or so. Or have some placement test to get out of taking some required courses.

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    1. Re:Now... Will they be indexed... by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well my University did. As computer science was part of the College of Arts and Sciences. The difference was an extra CS Class required and an extra Math Class. People who took the BA usually did so when they were in a Duel Major program Say Major in Music and Computer Science as not having to take 2 extra classes. Made getting both degrees possible.

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    2. Re:Now... Will they be indexed... by mikael · · Score: 2, Informative

      Have you tried second hand book stores or campus book sales? With the former, you can books at 10% of the retail price, while with the latter, you can get textbooks for less than 1 pound/dollar each. And they will have everything from architecture to biology, chemistry and zoology.

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    3. Re:Now... Will they be indexed... by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Interesting

      At Cambridge (the UK one) you get a BA in *science*. And it's still called Natural Science.

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  2. As a student from one of these institutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am just happy that some of the lectures are from those exceptional professors who are about to retire.

    Hopefully this will be a lot helpful to those who, like me, miss all the morning classes :)

  3. Why should it be seen as competition? by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would consider it to be complimentary, or supplemental. It adds to the knowledge base. The more the merrier. There's no need to "compete", or put down the other. Cooperation, not competition will bring about faster progress in most endeavors.

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  4. lectures from the edge of physics by sweetser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hello:

    I am a fringe physicist, which I define precisely as someone without an advanced degree in physic yet tries to make a contribution. I know that the majority of people with my background produce (how do we say this politely?) muddled duck dung. Our talks get slotted into the 8am slot at APS meetings, or put on the last day of a long meeting. Such is our station in research.

    The only other folks in the audience are other people giving presentations. Important people are too busy.

    My interest is to find out where I am wrong. If I can establish this, then instead of spending $900 to go to an APS meeting or $3k to go to an international meeting, that money can go into a 60" flat screen fund.

    With YouTube, my talks are on line, http://youtube.com/my_playlists?p=E602756BE43B04E4
    I'll be traveling to Brazil to see if I can find someone to puncture my balloon. If you are in Campinas Brazil next Thursday, then my talk is at 5:30 - the next to last day of ICCA 8. If not, I should be putting up the talk within a week.

    Later,
    Doug

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