[Ict4devwg] IITM lecture on finite elemen analysis the most popular video lecture on YouTube

[Vern Weitzel]

Subject: 	[bytesforall_readers] IITM lecture on finite elemen analysis
the most popular video lecture on YouTube
Date: 	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:10:58 +0530
From: 	Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	bytesforall_readers at yahoogroups.com

Friends:

A number of open course ware courses from different universities are now
available on YouTube. The most popular lecture video is from IIT Madras
(NPTEL programme). It is on Advanced Finite Element Analysis. About
19,000 viewers so far. Congrats IITM. For more information on NPTEL,
please write to Prof. Mangala Sunder Krishnan of IIT Madras. Or visit
<http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/> <http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/>.


Subbiah Arunachalam



  From Open Access News


*YouTube creates a section on higher ed
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/youtube-creates-section-on-higher-ed.html>*

Jeffrey Young, YouTube Creates New Section to Highlight College Content
<http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3684>, /Wired Campus/,
March 27, 2009.

     More than 100 colleges have set up channels on YouTube, and this
     week the popular video service unveiled a new section that brings
     together all of that campus content in one area.

     It had been difficult to find college lectures on YouTube, since
     they are generally far less popular than the site’s humorous and
     outrageous clips, and so they do not show up in lists of the most
     viewed videos on the site. Although YouTube has long had
     an education category, <http://www.youtube.com/browse?c=27> it
     relies on users who post videos to decide whether to categorize
     their videos as educational, and as a result the definition of
     education is very broad. The new YouTube EDU
     <http://www.youtube.com/edu> page includes only material submitted
     by colleges and universities....

     The new section makes it possible to find out which college-produced
     video is most popular. The winner so far is an interview with a
     University of Minnesota professor discussing the science behind the
     new movie /Watchmen./
     <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmj1rpzDRZ0> That video has been
     viewed about 1.5 million times. The most popular lecture video on
     YouTube is from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, on the
     subject of “Advanced Finite Elements Analysis” (which has been
     viewed about 19,000 times).

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Subbiah Arunachalam