Soon, free online lessons from IIT professors

Now, poor students aspiring to join the IITs will get free online lessons from the prestigious institutes' professors.

The IITs have agreed to a government proposal for professor-assisted learning, which will be called IITPAL.

"We want to break the stranglehold of coaching centres," a senior government official said.
Former IIT Bombay director Ashok Misra has been put in charge of creating the IITPAL portal.

The interactive portal will have uploaded lectures by IIT professors on physics, chemistry and mathematics. Questions and answers from the IITs' Joint Entrance Examination of the past 50 years will also be uploaded 

Enrolments in online courses may see surge from tier-2 cities

Online education and skill enhancement is likely to see a significant uptrend this year and high number enrolments are expected from major tier-2 cities, a survey showed.

According to a study by Talentedge (an interactive education company), media/entertainment and IT/ITES have been identified as two industries that will constantly seek skill development in 2016.
Some of the factors propelling the growth graph of online education in the country include easy accessibility to world class institutes at affordable prices, ease of learning while earning, dynamic and fast-paced domain growth and desirable promotions or job changes.