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India and OCW
Livemint.com is suggesting OCW as a solution to the talent crunch in India. Freeman Murray writes:
I gave a talk on open-source education and pointed to a variety of examples such as MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu and the Digital Studyhall Project http://dsh.cs.washington.edu, in which videos of expert teachers are freely distributed to the global community. I believe this model of open source education is the only scalable solution to the talent crunch facing the technology sector in India, as evidenced by the much talked about exodus of Riya.com from India because of the difficulty and expense of finding quality senior software developers.
Unlike China, India has yet to start sharing its own courseware widely, which is too bad, because the IITs would be a great addition to the worldwide body of opencourseware. Like China, India faces tremendous connectivity challenges as well, with no mirror site or other similar program so far that I am aware of.
