S. Vishnu Sharma
NPTEL has launched new courses on Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy, Design for IoT, Business and Sustainable Development, for the July 2021 Semester through the SWAYAM platform.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a joint initiative of IITs and IISC.
The courses offered by NPTEL give an opportunity for students to learn from the comfort of their home.
The enrolments for July – Dec 2021 Semester have already commenced.
The Last Date to enroll for the first set of NPTEL courses is 2 August 2021. Who teach the courses offered by NPTEL?
Faculty from IITs and IISC would teach the courses. Learners can enroll for NPTEL courses through ‘https://swayam.gov.in/NPTEL’
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NPTEL offers more than 500 courses completely free of cost to learners across the country in online mode.
The possibility for anyone to learn anywhere and anytime has made the teaching-learning process more student-centered and innovative.
Professor Vignesh Muthuvijayan, NPTEL Coordinator at IIT Madras spoke about unique aspects of the platform.
SWAYAM-NPTEL is currently working with more than 4,000 educational institutions in engineering, arts, science, commerce, and management across the country, said Professor Vignesh.
‘Students and faculty from these institutions take up the courses to upgrade their knowledge and skills.’
Some of the popular courses on NPTEL platform include Data Science for Engineers, courses on programming in Python, C, C++, Introduction to Machine Learning, Soft skills, Project Planning and Control, among others, he said speaking about unique aspects of the platform.
The platform offers certification courses through the MOOCs format.
Learners must watch videos online, submit assignments on a weekly/monthly basis and can register for an optional proctored final exam.
There is a nominal fee charged towards the in-person proctored exam for the certification.
Students can request for transfer of credits once they clear the certification exam, if it is approved by the educational institute they are affiliated with.
A wide variety of courses are available on this platform across Engineering, Humanities, Basic Sciences, and Management, etc.
The organization has received more than 1.4 crore enrolments till date.
The videos have received more than one billion views so far and NPTEL channels on YouTube have more than 3.1 million subscribers.
In order to streamline the efforts of learners and to guide them to obtain expertise in an area, the organisation has initiated the concept of ‘Domain Certification.’
A domain comprises a set of core and elective NPTEL courses.
There are no additional charges/fees involved in obtaining domain certification.
There are 51 domains across 12 disciplines available now and 85 learners have completed domain certification from NPTEL till date.
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Age has never been a barrier for taking up courses through this platform.
Mr. Harshwardhan Patil, a 15-year-old student from Savitribai Phule High School, Nanded, Maharashtra, is one of the youngest learners and has completed five certification courses through NPTEL, namely Effective Writing, Soft Skills Development, Stress Management, Biochemistry and English Language for Competitive Exams.
Ms. Singam Nirmala Devi, an NPTEL learner from Kadapa of Andhra Pradesh said the knowledge I gained through the course, ‘The joy of computing using python’ was very much helpful in getting a job as a software engineer in an MNC.
Through the courses, I was able to understand concepts of python easily and was able to answer questions asked in the interview, said Nirmala Devi.
NPTEL was initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003.
The platform is the largest provider of MOOCs in India today, with a credible proctored certification exam that clearly qualifies and differentiates the learners who do these courses.
About IIT Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) was established in 1959 by the Government of India as an ‘Institute of National Importance.’
The activities of the Institute in various fields of Science and Technology are carried out in 16 academic departments and several advanced interdisciplinary research academic centres.
The Institute offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes leading to B.Tech., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.Tech., M.S., and Ph.D., degrees in a variety of specialisations.
IITM is a residential institute with more than 580 faculty and 9,500 students. Students from 18 countries are enrolled here. IITM fosters an active entrepreneurial culture with strong curricular support and through the IITM Incubation Cell.