NPTEL-Starting a new era of Online education in INDIA

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National programme on technical enhanced learning

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Introduction
The main objective of NPTEL program is 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. In the first phase of the project, supplementary content for 129 web courses in engineering/science and humanities have been developed. Each course contains materials that can be covered in depth in 40 or more lecture hours. In addition, 110 courses have been developed in video format, with each course comprising of approximately 40 or more one-hour lectures. In the next phase other premier institutions are also likely to participate in content creation.

Five major engineering disciplines have been covered in this project so far (NPTEL Phase I) at the undergraduate (B.E./B.Tech) level.
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
In addition, a number of core curriculum courses common to all engineering programmes such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, management, electronics, language etc. have also been included.

Students and teachers of Information Technology and Computer Applications will also find a number of courses from the above that are useful for their studies or for supplementing their lectures.

The project in its first phase (2003-2007) has been fully supported by a grant from the Ministry of Human Resource Development. For more details on the background to NPTEL, how and why it is important for all, please click the link "NPTEL Document" in the menu bar.




NPTEL LIST OF COURSES
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YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK
http://youtube.com/iit

But there are few hinderances as well with NPTEL
i have listed out them as in following quotes.


1) Each video is approximately 1 Hr long. So, its quite an achievement
for user with average internet connection to access it.

2) For students,the content are available for sale by NPTEL for a
price of Rs 500 for a course. A single course includes approximately
40 video lectures. So, the actual cost of each course including DVDs
and mailing need not be more that Rs 150. A single subject like mine
may consist of over 15 such courses, hence by the student pricing, it
will cost over Rs 7000 for all the videos.The price is too high for a
student to pay.

4) The NPTEL insists on IPR of its property. It doesn't allow
redistribution or sharing of its videos.

5) In case of a College being the customer, the Price may go as high
as 1 to 15 lakhs.

I found the courses quite helpful and of good quality. They are free, and ready reference for engineering students.
i hope the fellow members will find it helpful.
We have an orkut community to discuss the same.
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=54089634
However, this will be the appropriate place to continue the discussions and clear the doubts regarding NPTEL.