Is it along the lines of OCW (Open Courseware by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)?
The answer is yes and no. The goals are the same, but the processes are different. Open courseware project by the MIT (seen through its website http://ocw.mit.edu ) was a brilliant and painstaking effort by its former President Dr. Charles M. Vest, to make available the course materials by Professors of MIT freely to the rest of the world. There was a phenomenal degree of skepticism among MIT professors about the project when he made the announcement. Since then, the transformation of many of them has been remarkable indeed. The philosophy was and has been, to promote the creation of open resource material from some of the best faculty in the world and to encourage teachers and educators in the rest of the world to use them as reference materials without violating basic intellectual property rights. OCW also encourages self-learners. It is a laudable exercise no doubt and has recorded millions of visits by students and teachers all over the world. NPTEL also has proposed to provide ope
