-----Original Message----- From: ilugc-bounces@ae.iitm.ac.in [mailto:ilugc-bounces@ae.iitm.ac.in] On Behalf Of Balu manyam Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:52 PM To: ILUG-C Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [OT] IIT offers video lectures on youtube

Several IIT lectures are available for free on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd

Topics range over a wide variety of engineering disciplines.

Personally, I'm very happy to see our Indian institutions also doing this.

• Raja

I didn't know this. Thanks for sending this. IITs are a product of Nehru's vision. Thinking about this I had jumped from techonology to economics. Did see a networking course and was impressive.

Though lot of people have criticism on Nehru's socialist vision : The fact is that the IIT's (and all the recognition they and their alumnus get) are an outcome of just those policies, "ensuring highest-quality education regardless of economic status"

This kind of high quality education - regardless of economic status is a very important need to today ...especially primary education - there are attempts to privatise and derail this - this will not do us good -

this is also an important example of what is possible when government can work keenly on community initiatives.