Previous |
Next |
May 28, 2008, 01:56 PM ET
Indian Universities Create Free Collection of Lecture Videos That Rivals MIT's
A group of seven technical universities in India have teamed up to create a free YouTube library of engineering courses. There are more than 50 courses online already—with all of the lectures delivered in English.
The Open Culture blog notes that the collection rivals that of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which for years has been creating free collections of its course materials. “Suddenly MIT is not the only tech powerhouse getting into the business of providing free educational resources,” says the blog’s author Dan Colman, director and associate dean of Stanford University’s continuing-studies program. The project is called the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, and it is a joint effort of campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.
MIT’s collection features far more courses—about 1,800 of them. But many of MIT’s course Web sites provide only written lecture notes, rather than video recordings of lectures.
So far the most popular lecture in the Indian YouTube collection is one on basic electronics, which has been viewed more than 32,000 times.—Jeffrey R. Young
Categories: Teaching
Add Your Comment
Commenting is closed.