Greetings,
   An interesting approach to educational courses delivered over the web 
through not a university or college but a national policy-driven effort. 
Not much documentation of sources and/or resources, not much interaction, 
but not much IT bother (you must have X software, hardware) either. 
Navigation is a bit iffy, in that it is not entirely clear whether you are 
looking at a course, or a module within a course.
   I also looked briefly at the Cultural Studies course, and the idea of 
pulling out relevant concepts, and even defining the concept of Concept 
was notable.
   I didn't look at the video courses.

  This is not a site review, but a friendly poke to look at this one if 
web-based courses are of interest.

   The site does appear to be an interesting approach to web-based 
education via national education policy and a national 
consortium/committee/task force and universities.

   The emphasis seems to be undergraduate education. Not a lot of depth, 
but it's a start on understanding basic Big ideas for the young folks.

   --gw


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Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA           [log in to unmask]
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SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:54:59 -0400
From: anup kumar das <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [SIGMETRICS] A web-based course [windows-1252] ?Science,
     Technology & Society?  developed by IIT Guwahati/ NPTEL is now freely
     available

Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html

A web-based course* “*Science, Technology & Society” (
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/109103024/), developed by IIT Guwahati
under the Indian National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL), is now freely available to lifelong learners.

This course contains eight modules, namely:

    - Science as Culture Social Context of the Production of Scientific
    Knowledge
    - Organisation of Production of Scientific Knowledge and
    Professionalisation of Science
    - Society and Culture: Resources and Legitimation of Knowledge
    - Perspectives on Science-Technology Relationship
    - Science in Colonial and Post-colonial India
    - Emerging Technologies
    - New Ethical Codes for New Technologies: Responses of the Civil Society
    Discussion and Forum
    - Science: From Public Resource to Intellectual Property

Further Details: *“*Science, Technology & Society” (
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/109103024/)