IITs and IISC together have created a wonderful NPTEL program i.e. National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. There are tons of recorded lectures for almost all the engineering streams. A very good resource for the 4 year engineering and also for many competitive exams like GATE.
Apart from that, they have started the MOOC courses (Massive Open Online Courses) that have a scheduled duration about 6-8 weeks. Each week few lectures are released and there is a assignment at the end of each week. There is a final computer based exam. The assignment and the final exam both have a weight-age of 50% towards your final score. The final exam has a nominal cost. It's needed only if you are looking to achieve the certificate from IIT or IISC. The rest of the course is free.
As there are lot of students taking part in the courses, there is a vibrant community to discuss/solve problems that you get stuck at. There is a google-group for each course and you are free to start a Google-Hangout with anyone. I really see the use of technology for education now.
I have taken one such nptel course Introduction to Programming in C that was conducted by IIT Kanpur and completed it successfully. The final exam was a pure coding challenge. 4 problem in 3 hours.
You can checkout the result here :) http://nptel.ac.in/noc/topscorers.php?id=complete.
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