{"id":174,"date":"2008-09-09T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-09-10T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T13:19:57","slug":"learning-with-nptel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Learning  with  NPTEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nptel.iitm.ac.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">The national program of technology enhanced learning <\/a>(NPTEL) is\u00a0 an initiative of the Government of India to provide quality educational material to engineering students . The site has several video tutorials for various engineering subjects.\u00a0 However, the site is not very popular among Indian students. I have been trying to promote it among my students and colleagues for quite some time as\u00a0 a source of quality material. But, the response is not very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The videos are hosted on youtube. \u00a0 The complete <a href=\"http:\/\/in.youtube.com\/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd\" target=\"_blank\">playlist is here<\/a>.\u00a0 There are several course\u00a0 suitable for electronics \/computer science\u00a0 students. Some of the so called &#8220;difficult&#8221; subjects are lucidly explained by senior professors.\u00a0 I have recomended\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/in.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=9567DFCA3A66F299\" target=\"_blank\">digital signal processing <\/a>course by Prof. S C Dutta Roy as supplimentary\u00a0 material to my students.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to view the courses offline, you can download it form youtube using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrakis.es\/~rggi3\/youtube-dl\/\">youtube-dl<\/a>. The youtube\u00a0 videos are in flash (.flv) format. Softwares such as ffpeg can be used to convert them to your favorite format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national program of technology enhanced learning (NPTEL) is\u00a0 an initiative of the Government of India to provide quality educational material to engineering students . The site has several video tutorials for various engineering subjects.\u00a0 However, the site is not very popular among Indian students. I have been trying to promote it among my students&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning  with  NPTEL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}