Sunday, May 6, 2012

Quality education for all



   World is undergoing a sea change in providing quality education to any corner of the world.
There was a time when most of us dreamt of learning by eminent professors of the world.
But was quite not possible. Now, internet and willing initiatives of some has made it possible.
Now we have most of the science & technology, non-science fields such as history, literature, humanities etc.
lectures online. These lectures cover systematic syllabus of most of the colleges and universities of the world.
Here providing information regarding some of the well known sources:


  • Khan Academy - Systematic & easy learning and covering school and college syllabus.
  • Coursera - Initiative by Stanford, Princeton, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania
  • Academic Earth - Single source of lectures from well known professors
  • Most of the well known universities of the world have their channels on youtube and provide free class room lecture videos.
  • NPTEL -  NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. This contains lectures from eminent professors from institutes like IITs, IISc of India.
  • edX - Yet to come. An initiative from MIT and Harvard University.
  • NandToTetris -  Building a computer from first principles of computer science. Its a practical and integrated approach to teaching fundamentals of computer science.