January 27, 2008...8:32 pm
Open Courseware from IITs
A joint venture by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), “National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning“ (NPTEL), funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, aims to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. To this cause, they have entered into an agreement with Google and YouTube for wider dissemination of the courses taught at IITs and IISc.
The NPTEL YouTube channel covering the courses hosts 13 courses right now and will cover 110 courses by March this year.
I think this is a great beginning towards open access academic content and research.
Pointer: Why India Needs Open Access? (Richard Poynder interviews Professor Subbiah Arunachalam).
1 Comment
April 5, 2008 at 11:54 pm
hhmm das Really Good..
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