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IITs, IIS Course Material Available Online; Poor Usability

By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:47 PM PST

Looks like the MITs OpenCourseWare initiative has found takers in India: As a part of a Rs. 110 crore government project, the seven Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science plan will offer their course material online, reports Mint. Rs 20.5 crore has been invested in Phase I, with 240 courses developed for five streams - civil, computer science, electronics and communication, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. The National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is believed to have signed deals with service providers, including, for making text and videos available online, though Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India has declined to comment. As with most government initiatives, the interface, navigation and usability are awful. Try clicking on the HTML links in the page here: the popup window is too small to display anything but a fraction of the page. What a waste. Anybody remember Sakshat?

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