Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free

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."

Now... Will they be indexed...

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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isn't the difference between a BA and a BS whether or not you've had Calculus? That seemed to be the difference at my school -- I knew a few people who got BS in English... of course, I have a BA in English and it was mostly B.S.

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No for my school the difference between a BS and a BA in computer science is weither you have taken Formal Languages and Atonoma and an additional upper level math course. As Calculus was required for any degree in computer sciecne.

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isn't the difference between a BA and a BS whether or not you've had Calculus?

Depends entirely on your school. Sayeth the wik [wikipedia.org]:

In the United States, many colleges (particularly what are known as "liberal arts colleges") and universities award the BA for

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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 biolo

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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 Mus

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Well a quick search shows lots of places. Including Yale.

When I received my BA in computer science (not from Yale) the dividing line was because my first major was mathematics (which could be granted as either a BS or BA -- depending on how much applied m

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

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Can I study Unnatural Science? That sounds fun.

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Sure. That would be Josephson [cam.ac.uk]'s group.

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What is the difference, most of the world education is based like that. The United States tends to be more project and skills building based, however there is still a lot of Memorize and regurgertate that is required to pass. But if I got my Degree in Ind

As a student from one of these institutes

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 :)

Why should it be seen as competition?

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.

Major misread

Did anyone else read that title as:

Indiana Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free

I was about to shed a tear of pride for the corn-producing hoosier state ;(

Did you know that both Orville Redenbacher and John Gotti came from there?

Can't understand them

I wish they had closed-captioning though. No offense, but the accents combined with poor Youtube/recording audio quality make it really hard to understand what they're saying. It's a shame, because the material covered is pretty good and broad.

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I wish they had closed-captioning though. No offense, but the accents combined with poor Youtube/recording audio quality make it really hard to understand what they're saying.

Also no offense: learn their accent.

The ones I've watched weren't paced too quick

Good for them!

Professors, teachers, please start recording your lectures and putting them online. It is invaluable for a student to be able to press pause, in order to think over a difficult point, or to rewind to see a difficult argument explained again. It is ineffi

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Do you believe we should abandon lectures entirely, and only use textbooks? If not, my point stands. In some ways, a lecture explanation is more clear than a book explanation. The teacher can point to an expression and say, "now this thing over here lo

Feynman in Second Life or enacting the lectures

Too ambitious to expect someone to have all three abilities:
1. understand the stuff well
2. know how to teach that stuff
3. know how to act well (drama, plays)

But, is there a shortage of geniuses?
I think not.

Or better still, get Feynman in Second Life to do

Well done ....

I for one am very glad that the IITs and IISc have decided on this path. This is definitely a step in the right direction. I used to watch some of the UGC programs in India when I was in high school. These seem to be better in quality and provides the on-d

lectures from the edge of physics

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 [youtube.com]
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

PK?

So do we get to learn Asok's forbidden telekinetic powers?

Won't change the fact IIT is an awful school

I attended it back in the mid 90's. All they were back then were money grubbers (not much different from today but) were completely blatant about it. There facility was awful and they really had some bad professors. I guess I'll try to get their lecture

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Oh really? How much did you pay? Because when I studied I paid 20,000 INR per semester (~300 € today - that's RIDICULOUSLY high!1!!) and IITs spent more than that on me.

See, I am no fan of IITs. My userid here is relic that I could have gotten rid of

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Wow, I am marked troll while you are the one throwing strawman arguments.

I have already said that each IIT spends more per student that they take. IITs are formed by central government directives and are heavily subsidized.

How does it matter how much money