NPTEL, India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, has developed over the past two years an enormous group (Uploads=4361, as of 7 March 2010) of online, advanced leaning video lectures.
They are aimed to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore as a collaborative project.
Each is about one hour and requires a basic understanding of the terms used, an ability to listen and understand the lecturer, almost always a noted Indian lecturer with a distinct accent (to Western ears), and a willingness to persist through some basic lecture techniques that can be as limited as a speaker facing the camera with minimum of visual aids (whiteboard, blackboard).
Here is a sample video, Lecture-3 on Discrete Time Signal and Systems (one of the top rated in the country) by Prof.T.K.Basu, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India.
Top Ten Video Lectures
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- Lecture-5-Electro Static Potential, 94,229 views (2 years ago)
- Lecture – 1 Introduction to computer graphics, 93,380 views (2 years ago)
- Lecture 1 – Digital Signal Processing Introduction, 85,523 views (1 year ago)
Some people may be turned off by the Indian style of speaking and/or the simplicity of the presentations, but to their loss. These are, in my view, exceptional educational resources and FREE!
Most smart people, again in my view, who desire to get ahead in a technical field, or reboot themselves in specialized areas, or just learn technology, will jump at these and similar resources for online education.
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