Free Online Courses In Advanced Engineering Topics

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Post by StandardFuture » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 3:52 AM UTC

Free Online Courses In Advanced Engineering Topics
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Post by unreal37 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 4:26 AM UTC

There are some pretty advanced topics there. Interesting.

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Post by zhaphod » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 6:36 AM UTC

I am from India and I am really happy that IIT and IISc are putting these online. However, I have a feeling that American audience will be put off by the accent, speed, or just the teaching style. I saw some pretty awful comments for these videos some time ago. But then again what I saw may not be representative.

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Post by surana90 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 7:58 AM UTC

One of the most under advertised open course content on web. Glad to see this.

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Post by vnraju » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 8:21 AM UTC

You can order CDs for these courses (Indian Rs 200 per course) and they ship it for you. Don't know if they ship outside India. But you can contact them and find out.

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Post by rohitarondekar » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:18 AM UTC

I tried posting these to HN some time back but the submission didn't gain any traction. Glad to see it pop up on front page of HN today.

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Post by xmonkee » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:36 AM UTC

zhaphod wrote: post #3

I am from India and I am really happy that IIT and IISc are putting these online. However, I have a feeling that American audience will be put off by the accent, speed, or just the teaching style. I saw some pretty awful comments for these videos some time ago. But then again what I saw may not be representative.

Watching Prof. Kamala Krithivasan teaching Automata theory in full sari avatar was just mind blowing :) I think I'm gonna watch this course.

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Post by db42 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:49 AM UTC

A couple of these courses on physics and computer science were recorded when I was enrolled.

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Post by Omnipresent » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 2:02 PM UTC

So glad for this. Only problem is the constant buffering of videos.

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Post by VLM » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

Omnipresent wrote: post #9

So glad for this. Only problem is the constant buffering of videos.

Do the download links mostly work? I'm going to download a couple this evening. Streaming works a lot better when its over wired GB ethernet from my fileserver in the basement.

archive.org should be mirroring this, like many other university courses they already have copies of.

(Whoops, see: "The copyrights are owned jointly by the MHRD, IITs/IISc and the faculty." and "... likely to be distributed under a Creative Commons license in the future." So for licensing / copyright reasons the whole project is likely DOA, which is too bad.)