Nigerian engineering students’ favorite teachers are Indian YouTubers
The NPTEL videos are a major public good.<p>It is a shame that for the longest time, MIT OCW&#x27;s CS &amp; Math lectures were the only high-quality course-videos on the internet. Leveraging the IIT system to get 100% course coverage over every possible engineering course is genius. It has democratized education better and earlier than any unicorn. (Coursera, Udacity, etc.). Everything from assignments to<p>It is an indictment of American universities that despite having the funding, resources and technology to do this a lot earlier, it was eventually a 3rd world country that pulled it off. All without any profit motive. &quot;Non-profit universities&quot;?, yeah right. Just take a look at the courses on offer - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nptel.ac.in&#x2F;courses" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nptel.ac.in&#x2F;courses</a> . Every imaginable engineering specialization is on offer, down to the most obscure.<p>University classrooms do not seem to have caught up to just how easy it is to access this information. Most professors do not have the same caliber or flair to do better than the best NPTEL video. I would like to new coursework designed around integrating video lectures of this sort as integral part of engineering instruction, with the in-person professor taking on the role or assistance and disambiguation, rather than 
 being an inferior repeater of the same information.