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by nileshtrivedi 314 days ago
MOOCs are still going strong at India's NPTEL , which started distributing university-level video courses for engg in 2008:

- 5m subscribers, almost 2B views on youtube

- 30m enrollments

- 600+ courses every semester in 22 disciplines

Anyone from the world can signup. Proctored exams are optional and cost about $11 per course. Not taking VC funding and setting up local chapters for supporting students seems to have worked out well for them.

Website: https://nptel.ac.in/

ACM report about this from November 2022: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3550473

Former-director of IIT Madras has talked about how NPTEL came together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV-QoGegFLY