Video Lectures

The Internet has changed the world and now for getting quality education, you don't need to pay a high amount of tution fee  or crack a tough competitive exam.Now information is increasingly free and keeping this in find, today in FreeKaaMaal's Best of web section, we are presenting you India's top websites which offers video lectures from top-tier university absolutely free of cost. Watching these free video lectures won’t earn you a degree, but it will give you a great deal of knowledge and understanding which is a very  powerful thing. 

1.NPTEL: Elearning courses from IITs and IISc

This is by far the best video course website I have seen and if you are a student from Engineer or Humanities stream this is website you should bookmark first.NPTEL was a project funded by HRD ministry to impart high quality education to students of science, engineering and management across the country. Started in June 2003, this website is having 260 courses covered which includes 125 web and 135 video courses.These video lectures are not just recording of class room but special tools and softwares have been used to give viewers the classroom experience. Each video lecture is of approximately 40 minutes and after that you will get quiz, problems and assignments just like a normal lecture.

This website is gaining popularity in not just India but across the world, recent stats shows than close to 20% off traffic to NPTEL website is coming from western country. Currently NPTEL programme has covered 2 phases and contain 4900+ hours of videos.There are multiple ways to learn from NPTEL, you can watch lectures on YouTube or just download these in 3gp format and play them on your mobile or there is even option to get audio version from Itunes, so now get high quality learning everywhere and everytime.

Check out NPTEL India @ www.nptel.iitm.ac.in

2.FreeVideoLectures.com: Best online lectures/courses aggregator

There are many top universities in US and UK which offers free course ware but going through each and every website to find content is really a time consuming and painful task, to make life easy there arewebsites that aggregate the best online courses.One of such type of aggregator is FreeVideoLectures having collection of more than 740+ courses, 18,000+ video lectures from more than 20 top universities.All courses are categorized by Subjects and Universities. Most of the videos are down-loadable in various formats and updated almost everyday. This is a great tool for people who just want to sit back and learns without the distractions of a clunky website.

Key Benefits :

• Free; no registration required
• View video lectures by subject and university 
• 8,000+ video Courses Available
• Download video (MP4, FLV, or 3GP)
• Subscribe to RSS
• lots of courses for Indian students

Check out FreeVideoLectures.com @ www.freevideolectures.com

3.KhanAcademy.org : Free world-class education for anyone anywhere

The Khan Academy is Gates and Google funded non profit organization  having only one goal of providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.This website supplies a free online collection of nearly 2,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.While most of the online course ware target college students, Khan Academy covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics.The teaching methodology on these videos are also nice and easy to understand.

Key Benefits :

• Video library (over 2,310 videos and counting )
• Watch video on YouTube Channel
• Automated exercises with continuous assessment 
• Track your progress with some wonderful metrics.
• Teachers can make groups for students and track their progress 

Check out Khan Academy @ www.khanacademy.org

If you know any other place to access free online video courses, or any study related website then do share by commenting below  so that we all can benefit.