IIT lectures, course material to go online
Students and faculty will be able to access lecture videos and course material by logging on to a search engine
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IITs have decided to open their content in form of videos ,text etc.This 110 crore project will make sure that anybody with a decent internet connection can watch these lectures,solve classroom assignments or get text based notes.The project is in lines of MIT OCW which opened their entire courseware including lectures in video formats, text based material few years back.Its not just IITs but Universia which is a consortium of latin american and spanish universities who are moving towards open content based on the same model.
By 2020,I think any educational organization with closed copyright content wil die due to the availability of alternate high quality ,adaptive open content.
I see raised eyebrows when I tell tutoring and education companies in Asia to open their content if they want to gain leadership positions for global exams like GMAT,SAT or local exams like CAT or IIT JEE
kapil