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...

[jellomizer]

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.

lectures from the edge of physics

[sweetser]

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

Won't change the fact IIT is an awful school

[axlr8or]

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 lectures online to make up for all the money I gave them for nothing.

Re:Can't understand them

[Anonymous Coward]

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 quickly, and involved a chalk board. Add that you've got pause & rewind, and I really don't think it's that much to ask you to learn an English accent that's a little heavy, but entirely without opaque localisms. It's just differences of pitch and rhythm.

You'll get it. You probably won't have to use pause and rewind much after the first one or two, if at all. And then you've got an increased skillset to get you through the rest, and whatever more opportunities the future brings.

I won't say it'll help you understand tech support though. I still find that opaque. Some of those guys (Linksys anyone?) really do seem to have rocks in their mouth. Or maybe it has something to do with I can't see them.

Re:Now... Will they be indexed...

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

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