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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by kobiguru on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:04AM (#27675218)
I am so happy that NPTEL NOC[1] and NPTEl Lectures [2] and Swayam[3] exists. These are indian government funded Moocs on almost everything engineering

[1] https://nptel.ac.in/noc/noc_course.html [2] https://nptel.ac.in/course.html [3] https://swayam.gov.in/explorer

Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by Arun2009 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:38PM (#27679961)
I have surveyed these, but in general, they simply don't come anywhere close in quality to that of courses offered by edX.

An example that readily comes to mind are the courses on manufacturing processes offered by both MITx and NPTEL. The MITx course was clearly a class apart - you actually got to see the processes in question and how they were applied in the real world factories. When speaking about how a product was made, the lecturer actually bothered to bring samples of those products, sometimes dismantled them, and showed us how they could have been put together. I only audited this a few months ago, and to this day I remember the concepts vividly.

On the other hand, in the videos I watched, the NPTEL course lecturer simply read out from powerpoint slides, which he prepared from a standard textbook. You were better off reading the textbook directly than watching the video alternating between the slides and the lecturer's face. It was a very uninspiring, depressing experience.

Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by xNeil on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:51PM (#27680125)
Second this. They're genuinely amazing, with IIT professors teaching their subjects (for engineering).

It's basically Indian OCW.