I am from India and I am really happy that IIT and IISc are putting these online. However, I have a feeling that American audience will be put off by the accent, speed, or just the teaching style. I saw some pretty awful comments for these videos some time ago. But then again what I saw may not be representative.
You can order CDs for these courses (Indian Rs 200 per course) and they ship it for you.
Don't know if they ship outside India.
But you can contact them and find out.
Do the download links mostly work? I'm going to download a couple this evening. Streaming works a lot better when its over wired GB ethernet from my fileserver in the basement.
archive.org should be mirroring this, like many other university courses they already have copies of.
(Whoops, see: "The copyrights are owned jointly by the MHRD, IITs/IISc and the faculty." and "... likely to be distributed under a Creative Commons license in the future." So for licensing / copyright reasons the whole project is likely DOA, which is too bad.)
Wow - great to see IIT taking the lead on this. This can dramatically advance the engineering education across India. Of course the limiting factor in MOOCs is student attention. You still need to put in the time to learn.
http://coursebuffet.com/s/0/0/nptel/0
Here are all the courses that are full courses. On NPTEL some of the courses are just notes. We went through it all so you don't have to.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 34.9 ms ] threadarchive.org should be mirroring this, like many other university courses they already have copies of.
(Whoops, see: "The copyrights are owned jointly by the MHRD, IITs/IISc and the faculty." and "... likely to be distributed under a Creative Commons license in the future." So for licensing / copyright reasons the whole project is likely DOA, which is too bad.)