IIT Bombay's free online lectures
July 24, 2008 , Rediff News I magine sitting in the comfort of your home, brushing up on artificial intelligence or quantum physics. And by brushing up we don't mean flipping through a heavy tome that will have you dozing in no time, instead, you are watching a professor at IIT Bombay explain the intricacies of the subject complete with graphical presentations and visual aids. Sounds made up? Well, thanks to a unique initiative launched by IIT Bombay, IIT lectures have now been made available at the click of a mouse -- and for free! Anyone, anywhere in the world can visit the website www.cdeep.iitb.ac.in , check out the schedule and view any IIT lecture of their choice in real time. Set up by the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP), the aim is to make knowledge available, says Rahul Deshmukh , who is spearheading the programme. To find out just how the programme works and how students can sign up, Shifra Menezes caught up with Deshmukh at the Pow...