The Indian Institutes of Technology have agreed to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Consortium, enabling anyone to access online the course content of the elite engineering schools, reports The Times of India. The Indian universities’ lectures will also soon be available on Apple’s iTunes platform, and the institutions set up a YouTube channel for their courses. When MIT first invited the Indian Institutes of Technology to join the OpenCourseWare effort in 2007, the institutions declined because they felt their online resources were not mature enough, the newspaper reports.


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