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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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    If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
  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 :)