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Free Online Courses In Advanced Engineering Topics

87 points by StandardFuture 13y ago

unreal37 13y ago
There are some pretty advanced topics there. Interesting.
zhaphod 13y ago
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.
- xmonkee 13y ago
  Watching Prof. Kamala Krithivasan teaching Automata theory in full sari avatar was just mind blowing :) I think I'm gonna watch this course.
surana90 13y ago
One of the most under advertised open course content on web. Glad to see this.
vnraju 13y ago
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.
rohitarondekar 13y ago
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.
db42 13y ago
A couple of these courses on physics and computer science were recorded when I was enrolled.
Omnipresent 13y ago
So glad for this. Only problem is the constant buffering of videos.
- VLM 13y ago
  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.)
- waldrews 13y ago
  Try the YouTube version.
mathattack 13y ago
Wow - great to see IIT taking the lead on this. This can dramatically advance the engineering education across India. Of course the limiting factor in MOOCs is student attention. You still need to put in the time to learn.
jero25 13y ago
To know more about free online engineering courses . http://www.freeitonlinecourses.com/online-engineering-degree/ http://www.freeitonlinecourses.com/online-engineering-degree...
bruceb 13y ago
http://coursebuffet.com/s/0/0/nptel/0 http://coursebuffet.com/s/0/0/nptel/0 Here are all the courses that are full courses. On NPTEL some of the courses are just notes. We went through it all so you don't have to.

There are some pretty advanced topics there. Interesting.

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.

xmonkee 13y ago
Watching Prof. Kamala Krithivasan teaching Automata theory in full sari avatar was just mind blowing :) I think I'm gonna watch this course.

surana90 13y ago

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

vnraju 13y ago

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.

rohitarondekar 13y ago

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.

db42 13y ago

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

Omnipresent 13y ago

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

VLM 13y ago
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.)
waldrews 13y ago
Try the YouTube version.

mathattack 13y ago

Wow - great to see IIT taking the lead on this. This can dramatically advance the engineering education across India. Of course the limiting factor in MOOCs is student attention. You still need to put in the time to learn.

jero25 13y ago

To know more about free online engineering courses . http://www.freeitonlinecourses.com/online-engineering-degree/ http://www.freeitonlinecourses.com/online-engineering-degree...

bruceb 13y ago

http://coursebuffet.com/s/0/0/nptel/0 http://coursebuffet.com/s/0/0/nptel/0 Here are all the courses that are full courses. On NPTEL some of the courses are just notes. We went through it all so you don't have to.