Comments on: Many great free textbooks from India http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/04/06/many-great-free-textbooks-from-india/ Random stuff that I think matters. Int'l politics, linguistics, China, int'l development, society&tech, culture... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:35:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Free texbooks from NCERT, on web | Hindi on the Web http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/04/06/many-great-free-textbooks-from-india/#comment-17534 Free texbooks from NCERT, on web | Hindi on the Web Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:07:16 +0000 http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/04/06/many-great-free-textbooks-from-india/#comment-17534 [...] Stian, who blogs on education, was delighted to find free course ware of NCERT on the web in English, Hindi and Urdu. The material is available in PDF format. Stian opines : There are all kinds of reasons to applaud this. As a student of Hindi, I love reading the readers made for the initial grades (with beautiful illustrations!), and as I move up, I can use the texts in parallel, reading the Hindi and checking with the English that I understood. Just like I suggested that the huge amount of Open Course Ware films of classroom lectures from all around the world, especially China and India, might be a gigantic boon to a comparative curriculum researcher, these text books would also be great for someone studying curriculum and pedagogics in India.   [...] [...] Stian, who blogs on education, was delighted to find free course ware of NCERT on the web in English, Hindi and Urdu. The material is available in PDF format. Stian opines : There are all kinds of reasons to applaud this. As a student of Hindi, I love reading the readers made for the initial grades (with beautiful illustrations!), and as I move up, I can use the texts in parallel, reading the Hindi and checking with the English that I understood. Just like I suggested that the huge amount of Open Course Ware films of classroom lectures from all around the world, especially China and India, might be a gigantic boon to a comparative curriculum researcher, these text books would also be great for someone studying curriculum and pedagogics in India.   [...]

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