Yesterday I drew attention to Utah's publicly-funded open courseware. Today I learned that India also has a publicly-funded OCW project in the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). NPTEL is jointly sponsored by the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). It started offering free online courses in June 2006 and by June 2007 expects to have 4,600 hour-long streaming video lectures for 110 courses. (Thanks to K. Mangala Sunder.)
Unlike other OCW projects, NPTEL offers teacher-student interaction through course-specific workshops and threaded discussion lists.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/04/2007 05:07:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
