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A timely article in govtech.com today about just the point I was making. India has gotten into the open education arena with a project announced by NPTEL that shares courses which are designed for independent online learning. NPTEL is the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, and here is their description of the project from their site:
The main objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by IITs (Seven), IISc Bangalore and other premier institutions as a collaborative project. At IIT Madras, the project is evolving and it is our intent to provide learning materials, digitally taped classroom lectures, supplementary materials and links to state-of-the art research materials in every subject possible. Currently samples from approximately 70 courses offered by faculty in various departments and to students at all levels (B.Tech, M.Tech, M.S., M.Sc., Ph.D.) are given here. Approximately 140 courses are in various stages of preparation and distribution through internet.
This is a great illustration of how institutions with different focuses create OERs of different flavors. Most OCWs create sites containing materials for classroom-based instruction, but there are several great examples now of institutions with expertise in distance learning that are producing materials that support independent online learning–including OU UK’s OpenLearn project, UC Irvine’s OCW, and now NPTEL’s site.
