 personal and professional growth. In this rapidly evolving world, acquiring new skills and upgrading your knowledge is crucial to stay in every competitive world. Each and every one of you to actively participate in this workshop, being interactive, engaged in meaningful discussions. On behalf of Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, part of SNR's charitable press, I express my gratitude to all the guests, speakers, participants for dressing this event with your presence. I also extend my heartfelt thanks to the organizing committee for their tireless efforts in putting together this workshop. Me, this workshop, inspire and empower each one of us to embark on a lifelong learning journey. On behalf of Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, now I would like to welcome Dr. S. Anila, HOD of ECE department, NIRF coordinator and audit coordinator to address the gathering. Thank you Varun. Am I audible? Yes ma'am. So good morning everybody, all the faculty members and the students who are all gathered here. Good morning everyone. As Mr. Varun said, NPTEL, National Programme on Technology and Learning, it's a joint venture of IITs and IISC and it's funded by Ministry of Education, Government of India and was introduced or launched in the year 2003. So this is a e-learning platform for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, subjects. And it incorporates the mode of self-learning and the students can get access to the lectures of IIT, IISC distinguished faculty. So once we register a course in NPTEL's Vahyam portal, we can access the full course contents that may be spanning to around four weeks, eight weeks at 12 weeks of courses. So three different modes of courses are there. It could be either a four week course or an eight week course at 12 week course. So once we register for a course, we can review and assess our own progress through the assignments. So assignments will be conducted weekly every Wednesday, I hope. So every Wednesday, we have to complete the assignments and immediately at the midnight 12 p.m., so 12 a.m., midnight 12 a.m., once the time is over, we can view our progress by checking the assignment marks. So there, we have an option of checking where we have gone wrong, how to go on with the assignments, how to proceed with the next assignment, how we can score good marks, so that we can review our own progress. And again, we have the facility of continuous assessment and interaction with the course faculty. So the course faculty can be approached at any time. Sometimes they may give a link and we can interact with them and we can clear our doubts, whatever we have with the technical subjects. And the benefits of NPTEL certificates are that it is very high value and it is recognized by the industries and also other academic institutions. Most of the autonomous institutions, they have made the NPTEL course as a mandatory course. Again, it is again a credited course. Sometimes the NPTEL course is recognized as a one credit course. So the students should complete the NPTEL course to get a credit of one credit or two credits depending on the curriculum formulation by the institution. Sometimes, like in 2022, Anna University has recognized NPTEL courses as an alternative course for the PhD scholars. So the PhD scholars, those are registering for the PhD degree. So they have an option of taking up the NPTEL courses to complete their course works. So again, it's a very good initiative by the university. So the research scholar get access to all the video modules, all the lectures, all the transcripts, all the assignments and all the contents that are being developed by the IIT, IISC distinguished professors. So like in addition to the online courses, NPTEL also provides additional resources like e-books, quizzes, assignments, transcripts and all these things. And these resources can be utilized to supplement the online courses and to provide additional materials for students to study. So again, all NPTEL online courses are SMIEM courses too. And NPTEL delivers only engineering content. SMIEM covers the wide section of educational contents like photography, videography, et cetera. So it's my humble request to all these students and faculty members who have assembled here to take up at least one course per semester. So to take up at least one course per semester, which means we have completed two courses in a year. So when we register for a course and when we do all the assignments, so definitely our knowledge will be enhanced because we are watching all the videos that are developed by the IIT professors. And when we take up the examination and we get good marks like a gold or silver and definitely it is a very, it's a great credit to the members who are competing that and all the institutions have already recognized this NPTEL courses. And even when we go for our self-appraisal, definitely our principal or the head of the institution will be asking for how many NPTEL courses were completed? What is the score? So like that, no. So it really gives a motivation to all the faculty members to take up at least one course per semester. So again, it is my humble request for all the students to take up these courses and get benefited. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you man. Thank you for your encouraging words. Now I would like to ask the experts to deliver the content. I respected Professor Anila, head of the department of the electronics department, Professor Varun, the SPS of the college. It is a very good morning to everyone who is connected to this program, whether online or offline, whatever it is. We really thank the college for coming forward and taking the initiative of, you can say organizing this program in association with NPTEL. Let me share my screen to forward. So today we are organizing this program in association with the Amakrishnan Institute of Technology of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. During the period of my talk, I will be covering the introduction of NPTEL and SOYAM as a whole. NPTEL online certification process right from the beginning to the end will have a hands-on session like how to enroll into the program. What are the other features of this? Great transfer mechanism as Ma'am has already pointed out that, yeah, great transfer is an important parameter here. Many of the universities are taking these courses for great transfer. Then other initiatives like how the students can actually get a focused expertise on a particular area, that is domain certification, the career advancement of the faculty members through the faculty development program, other initiatives that helps the holistic development of the students, particularly the student community through the internship program, soft skill training and so on. Particularly the people those who are interested for joining higher studies through the gate examination. This is a very, very important program here NPTEL has initiated a great gate portal. Then we'll also look at the SOYAM NPTEL local chapters. Another initiative is NPTEL class self-paced courses. If the time permits, we'll also talk a little more about, you can say IT Metas, initiated four years BSD program, which can be taken up by any learner who is already in a regular academic program in an institute where it's a faculty member, students or employed professionals. They can also pursue a four years BSD program in parallel to what they are doing from IT Metas. During the course of my talk, if there are any queries, we'll be very happy to take up the queries posted either in the chat box or the SPLC has got any query. We are most welcome to interrupt me and take the question. I'm ready to take the questions. So NPTEL, as it is known, is a national program on technology and understanding is a project of IITs and ISC Bangalore, which started in 2003 under the patronage of Ministry of Human Resource Development at that point of term. Now it's the Renewable Ministry of Education, Government of India. So we have already crossed 20 years of our journey together during which we have been offering the courses for the benefit of the learner communities not only in India, but across the globe. So from 2003 to 2014, we have been offering the courses, which are primarily recorded lectures from the classrooms of IITs or some web courses, which are basically a PDF format of the, so something like a book format with some sort of animation graphics, all the things were there and they're still existing in our NPTEL repository. From 2014, aligning with the Global Train, that online certification process, we started. At that point, we actually joined Niascom to offer the courses, which can reach the gap between what is needed by the industry and what is available from the academia. We understand that academia cannot change the syllabus on a very regular basis every two, three years. The way industry changes because of the implementation of newer technologies, we in academia cannot keep pace with that changing technologies and revise our syllabus. It may take about 8 to 10 years time to revise the syllabus. So there is always a gap between what is required by the industry and to make the people, those who are graduating from the colleges, some industry ready courses are to be offered so that they are better employable. And NPTEL is one of the platforms that can cater to the needs of or fill the gap of this portion. So during what started as a vision to provide high quality affordable education at a large scale, over the period of these 20 years, we developed about 3,000 past courses. These courses are made available to the learner communities across the globe through our YouTube channel, NPTEL HR. You can see the number of YouTube subscription is 4.5 million plus, not being an entertainment channel, but purely an academic content channel. This number speaks about the importance, you can say given by the learner community for the NPTEL courses. And we have more than 1.6 billion views in our YouTube. We are also providing the subtitles, English subtitles of many of our lectures and could compete about more than 62,000 hours of English subtitles for the videos that we have created against 3,000 past courses. We are also promoting, say working with the different colleges, particularly the autonomous colleges and universities for implementation of these courses in the credit transfer framework of the universities. This is in alignment with what has been approved by AICT and UTC, the higher education regulators who have approved 20 to 40 percent of their credits can be taken from these swiveling NPTEL courses. What are the benefits? Now, if we just ask anyone why you should do these courses, the question may be asked, why should I? I am already in a regular program, why should I do these additional courses? Now, if we just look at the, what are the carrier options available for a student perspective? First, a group of students might be opting for higher studies after going three or four years of graduate studies. And if they want to go for the higher studies, they will have to definitely crack some of the national level examination, say one of them to be gate, engineering service or whatever it is, they will have to crack all these examinations where you really need a strong fundamental concepts of whatever you have studied. Then some people might be going for say job market. And as we said that because of the implementation of industry 4.0, there is a continuous change in the industrial sector. So that is a supply, complete supply chain, the way it operates everywhere there is a change because of the implementation of industry 4.0 components. So, there is a gap. So, NPTEL what it offers, it offers the courses from the emerging areas so that the students are actually thus can develop the skills so that they are in a better position to grab the jobs which are available in the industry. Also, we know that okay for grabbing the jobs, once you face the interview, it's not only my domain knowledge, but also my body language, my communication skill, how do I present before the interview, all these things matters, and they carry substantial weightage in getting a job. So, we do offer some of the courses which are catered to the needs of those people who actually need to train on that, whether it's a soft skill or communication skill through different language courses, which will improve the confidence level of the students while before facing the interviews. We are also offering a lot of courses from the domain where say there is a group of learners who will be interested to start their own initiative, say entrepreneurship, they will start their own business. So, many of our curriculums, they do not cater to the needs of that particular that segment of people who would like to start their own startups. So, we are offering a large number of courses from that domain. So, whether you are looking for say cracking a national level competitive exam, where you need strong fundamentals, whether you want to get into a job where the technology is very advanced, we can offer courses which are from the emerging areas, you can improve on your soft skill language skills through NPTEL courses as well as get some sort of entrepreneurship training through our NPTEL courses. Then the courses that we offer, they carry a certificate from IITs or ISCs, they are offered by one of the finest teachers in the country. So, that improves your internship or job prospect because once you join in an industry, every time you can see after every four or five years, there will be a requirement to reskilling or upskilling of your domain knowledge. So, today you are working in an IT industry and you are working in a project, tomorrow if you are shifted from one project to another project, you will require to know maybe a different say programming language or something else. So, that time you will not have your teacher at hand who will be teaching you all this thing. So, you really need to learn how to learn it yourself from the beginning. So, it's a lifelong learning process, even in the 20 or 30 years of your journey in the industry, it is always essential that you will have to update yourself and NPTEL courses would really fit into that. You can learn many of the concepts through NPTEL, whether it is faculty members or the students or employed professionals. Then as per the UGC AICT curriculum guidelines, the credit transfer through NPTEL courses which are part of the SWAM program can definitely be taken from 20% to 40% or even AICT has given a mandate like, okay, if you complete 20% 20 extra credit points from NPTEL, then or you can say in general SWAM, then you either earn a BTEC honors degree or you can earn a minor degree in a particular area depending on the type of courses that you complete. As we said that those who are preparing for the gate examination, we have created a separate dedicated gate portal to help the students to in a focused way of learning. What is done in a coaching institute, that type of environment we have provided free of course to the learners. For the faculty members, they definitely need to do certain programs as part of their career advancement schemes and FDP is one of them. So, NPTEL has already tied up the AICT to recognize that okay, some of the courses, whether it's the elective course or some of the advanced level courses as faculty development program courses, okay. And the industry people, they definitely need a lifelong learning process to keep themselves updated with changing scenario in the industry and reskilling and ask upskilling jobs can be definitely done through the NPTEL courses which are aligned with that. Now we are saying that we are offering the NPTEL courses, which is the platform that we offer through which we offer the NPTEL courses. Ministry of Education, Government of India has initiated a program called SWAM, which is an acronym actually, study waves of active learning for the young aspiring minds. It's an umbrella body of multiple national coordinators who will be offering the online courses targeting a particular segment of learners. NIUS and NCRT, these are the two agencies who are national coordinators to offer the courses aligning with the requirement of the school children, K-12 education. For the out of school children, Indra Gandhi National Open University and NITPTR, they are the agencies who will be targeting courses for the out of school children. For the undergraduate and post graduate level, there are a few national coordinators who are common like NPTEL, AICTE, IAM, Bangalore, they offer the courses aligning with the say UG and PG level courses of engineering, teachers training in the engineering sector and management courses respectively. CEC offers the courses from non-engineering, non-management, UG level and UGC is for non-engineering, non-management, PG level courses. However, although NPTEL is mandated to offer engineering curricula, but since each IIT has got basic sciences, humanities, social sciences, management in some of the institutes we have got law faculties also, so we are also offering the courses across all these disciplines. Although started the Seven Older IITs and ISC Bangalore's logos are available in NPTEL, but we are actually taking the courses from the best faculties across other institutes also. Okay, we are working with more than 30 institution who are offering the courses across NPTEL. So, NPTEL started its journey in the new format that is online course level certification format in 2014. We are offering the courses in books format that is massive open online courses. The number of people who can enroll in a course is not limited by the big and moderate classroom in a regular university or a classroom structure. Here you can have 10, 100 or hundreds of thousands of students enrolling in a course. The courses are absolutely open. That means anyone who is having an interest, they should be able to access the courses without paying any fee. Courses are delivered that the delivery mechanism is online. That means if I have an interest and if I have an internet connectivity, I should be able to access the contents. C is for certificate, massive open online courses. So, these courses are actually structured in the same way a regular university structure follows. That means it has a start date, it has a set syllabus, it has a start date and end date. You have got weekly structure like how many hours of lectures to be delivered in a week, then what all other activities will take place. In a regular classroom, you have a face to face interaction. Some sort of interaction takes place here also. Then you'll be given supplementary study materials. Then you'll be having your, you can say, rate periodic assessment and at the end final exam. So, we regularly follow the exactly same structure, what is followed in our regular university or regular classroom structure. Only thing is that in a regular classroom, the faculty delivers the lecture in a face to face mode, whereas this is lecture is delivered in a recorded format. That's the only difference. But the major advantage is that anyone irrespective of his or her age, academic background, profession can take these courses from anywhere and can meet anytime whenever he or she is free. So, as we said, we follow a four-quart end approach. That is, we provide lectures, we possibly take the next slide more on this. The courses we offer are actually offered in two semesters during the year that is aligning with the semester systems of the universities. Either we offer the courses during January to June or July to December, precisely January to April or July to October. Okay. The platform is SOEM. Since all our courses are offered to the SOEM, so any regulation that says that the courses can be taken from SOEM, you can actually take the NPTEL courses, because all NPTEL courses are also considered as SOEM courses. The tentative course list and timelines are published ahead of time. That means whatever courses you offer, when do you start offering? When the course enrollment will start? When the course exam registration will start? What are the courses that will be offered in coming semesters? We can get an indication of that much ahead of time. Say today, if we want to see what are the courses forthcoming in January 2024, we can just click onto this link and possibly see what are the timelines and what are the courses available. As time passes, we will be adding that list with newer courses, but you will be getting some courses which are definitely coming in the coming semester. Say, we are running in the July 2023. We can definitely get the details here, but if you want to see January 2024, we can see the timelines when the courses will start, when the exam will be there, all this information is available here. Similarly, if I want to see say January run courses, some courses which are in a rerun mode are already available here. So, these all courses are already being shared. So, I get an indication like what are the forthcoming courses much ahead of when NPTEL actually starts the enrollment process. So, enrollments for these courses, if the course is being offered in July, we start the enrollment by middle of May. And for the January run courses, the courses which are offered during January to April, we start the enrollment process by mid of November. That means almost two months ahead of the time, we start the enrollment process. Anyone irrespective of what he or she is pursuing currently, they can enroll in not only one course, but they can enroll in multiple courses free of cost. Depending on their interest, they will be able to join any courses of their choice. Now, joining for the courses and learning it for, joining the courses for just for learning, that is, you go through the course contained, do all activities in the course, interact with the teacher, they come free of cost. You don't pay anything. But if you are interested to write the certification examination, then you'll have to go to a separate portal of NPTEL and registered by paying certain fees. We'll talk about this little later. Now, these courses what we offer, if you just see in terms of hours, they are of three formats, that is, 10 hours, 20 hours and 30 hours. But in terms of durations, they are equivalent to four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks. That is, we consider 2.5 hours of lecture per week. And 2.5 hours of lectures are not a single lecture. It is, say, you can say 5 or 6 or 7 lectures of 30 minutes or lower duration, so that it becomes easy for the learners to download the videos and study it their leisure time. Okay, we follow four quadrant approach that we discussed. One is a prerecorded lecture videos of about 30 minutes duration. Then, in view of face-to-face interaction that takes place in a class two, what we follow here is that since it is an online course, students are scattered across geographical locations. We actually take the questions of the learners to an best interactive forum, where the learners will be going and posting their queries and which will be addressed by the faculty and the set of teaching assistants. Periodically, as part of the face-to-face interaction, some sort of a data impact, the faculty will be also appearing in YouTube through a live session, what we are doing today. In a similar session, which would be publicized much beforehand, so that the learners can join the session and post their queries through the YouTube live chat box. Okay, we also utilize the services of PMRF scholars for conducting the problem-solving session on a regular basis. For all courses, every week, we conduct the problem-solving session to help the learners to follow the courses. Particularly, these are important, where you have a lot of numerical problems to be solved as part of the course assignment. Additionally, the faculty may give additional components like supplementary study materials, which can be PPD slides that the faculty might abuse. Some of these courses we have actually converted into a text transcript. It could be in English language, or it could be in different other regional languages. We'll show you where to find that. And some free web resources, which are non-copyrighted materials. So the faculty, depending on his or her choice, they may give additional supplementary study materials. At the end of these, we are also providing some sort of a, you can say, graded questions. That is, some questions about 10 to 20 questions will be given every week for self-assessment of the learners to what extent they have understood the concepts discussed within the week's video. Okay. Once they submit, they'll be given 10 days time to submit the assignment. That is, all these activities, that is, recorded lectures and assignments, supplementary study materials, they all will be released on every Monday. And from that day, 10 days time is given to the students to submit their assignment. That is, next week, Wednesday, 11.59 is the timeline. Within that timeline, they can actually submit the assignments as many times as they feel like. But the last assignment will be considered as the final and will be graded out of 100. A part of this mark will be taken into the final certification that we'll see in the later slides. Now the examination, I have gone through the course, I have entered into the course in Swam platform, gone through the course. Now, if I am interested for the optional certification exam, what are the features in that? It is, I can take the course from the comfort of my home, I can do it anytime. But for the examination, I have to come to the exam center and write in-person exam at the designated time. So exam centers are spread across the country at more than 150 to 200 centers. We conduct the exam. The exams are conducted primarily in online mode. There are a few courses where offline exams are also conducted. How online exam is means the questions and answers all are taken care of by the computer. Okay, questions will be appearing in the computer and I have to answer in the same computer only. Whereas in an offline mode, the questions will be appearing in the question, your computer, but I will be given paint papers or the papers where I will be writing the answers in a conventional the way we write it in the classroom or normal examination possible. Same paint paper model. Only difference is that questions are appearing in my screen. We'll be having two examination on each day. Whichever exam dates are given, we'll be having two exams in each day. You can write two exams, exams for two papers on a particular day. If you are looking for more number of courses to be taken in a semester for certification, you can actually register for two courses. You can select two courses whose exam dates are same. Okay, how are you going to write it? We'll be having examine two sessions and you'll be utilizing two sets of question paper of equal toughness level. So you'll be able to write one exam paper in the morning, another paper in the afternoon. Morning session is between 9 to 10, afternoon is between 2 to 5. Examination fee. For learning it is free, but examination fee is 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the duration of the course. That is whether it is four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks, the fee remains same. However, going as per the government regulation, we are giving a partial fee waiver for the SCST candidates and persons with disability of more than 40%. They will be given 50% fee waiver while registering for the examination. Once the examination is completed, you can expect that the results will be declared within 30 days from the date of examination. The certificates will be signed by the institute which is offering the course and the certificate will be a QR code so that the institute which is getting your certificate either for credit transfer or for say internship or job opportunity, they will be able to verify its authenticity by scanning the QR code and seeing the same copy of certificate from our server. Certification criteria is one. Say we are saying that okay, you'll be having weekly assignments. If it is a 12 week course, you'll be having 12 assignments or eight assignments for a 20 hour course and so on. So in addition to that, you'll be having a final exam. While in the certificate, the certification tradition will be done based on two components. While 75% weightage will be coming from your final examination, which will be over a full marks of 100. For eight weeks and 12 week courses, it will be for a full marks of 50 for four weeks courses. Okay, so whatever score you get there, 75% will be taken from there and 25% score from your assignment. Average assignment score will be taken and your final grade will be calculated based on this consolidated score of final exam and assignment score. Whereas for the programming courses, that is like Java, C, C++, Python, we'll be having an additional examination, which is non proctor programming test, which will be conducted before your final exam takes place. On a particular date, different slots will be given and the learners can will be able to take either in the day session or in the night session, the exam. Okay. And if they take both the session, whichever score is higher, that will be taken. So 50% in that programming courses, 50% weightage will be coming from your final exam. 25% each will be coming from non proctor programming test and from assignment. How will calculate the assignment score 25%? Say for a 12 week course, we will be considering the best date assignment. So we'll see if you have submitted eight assignments, what is your score out of 800? Take an average out of 100, what is the score and take up 25% from there and reflect it into the certificate directly. In case you have not submitted, say eight assignments. In that case, say we considered you have submitted only five assignments, then score out of 500 will be considered as score out of 800 and the average will be calculated accordingly. So proportionately, you find that if you put or if you submit lesser number of say assignments, your 25% marks falls considerably. However, you may say that okay, I have submitted only five. Am I eligible to write the exam? We say you have to check it yourself whether out of 25% that is 25% average score should not fall below 10 marks. You should get at least 40% in your assignment score, as well as you have to get 40% in your final examination to get a final certificate that is 10 out of 25 in assignment and 30 out of 75 in final examination is what is required to get a certificate from NPTEL. We have got five point ready, less than 40 marks, that's a consolidated marks. You are considered unsuccessful. 40 to 59 successfully completed. 60 to 100, we put a elite tag here on the certificate. This elite word will be written 75 to 89. In addition to this elite word, you'll be having a silver badge here. Okay, we call it elite silver. Similarly, for 90 to 100, we'll be having a gold badge. We call it elite gold. Additionally, if your score is very high, the certificate may also be embedded with a top or say that is you can be marked as top 1%, 2% or 5% based on your performance across the board. That is out of how many students have successfully completed, what is your position? Okay, this is how a sample certificate looks like. It carries your name, course name, your photograph, all distributed marks, your assignment score, programming score, final exam score, and consolidated score, everything will be reflected here. When the course was offered, how many candidates actually qualified in the course, your roll number, keyword code, everything is issued here. Okay, since this certificate is likely to be used for credit transfer purpose or for internship or job opportunities, would suggest a proper photograph will be uploaded in its during exam registration because many of the times you find something is not very aesthetically looking, that type of photographs are being uploaded that may be avoided by the learners. Now, the important points to remember during the enrollment or exam registration is that the students and faculty members who are part of the SOAM NPTEL local chapter, they may choose their college saying that they are part of the local chapter because at the end of the examination, once we calculate the results, after that we recognize the colleges who are top performing colleges. Okay, depending on the performance of the students from that college. So if you join through your local chapter, it becomes easy for the college to track your performance for the credit transfer purpose, get the certificate directly from the portal, as well as your performance can actually give some recognition, additional recognition to the college at the national level. NPTEL will be identifying each of the learners not by their name but by their unique email ID. So always carry the same email ID as long as you are learning through the NPTEL so that you carry forward what all courses you have done with you. If you change your email ID, all the data is lost. Okay, so important point is that if you are enrolling into the course using a particular email ID, the same email ID to be used for the exam registration also. Check examination dates before enrollment in any course for certification. You should not take, say, three courses whose exam dates are clashing on the same date because for two, on a particular date you will be able to take maximum two exams in two sessions, one afternoon. So you have to check the examination dates before enrolling into the courses. This is particularly important if you are looking for more number of courses to be enrolled in a particular semester. Upload a formal passport photograph, we have already discussed on that. Then the important point is that you will not be permitted to use physical calculators in the examination hall. You will be using an on-screen calculator. If any of your friend has already appeared for an exam, just check their hall tickets. You will be finding that the hall ticket will carry you can say links to the online calculator, on-screen calculator, which will be given a similar model in the TCS exam center. So you can actually practice this during the exam, say, weekly assignment stage so that you are thorough in that. If your college is taking these courses for transfer and you anticipate a large number of students will be writing the exam to help us in the logistic process, kindly inform beforehand that how many students from your college are likely to write the exam, maybe the date and the course that you are looking for so that we can we are better equipped. The MPTL is better equipped to handle that pressure. Check exam dates, exam registration dates carefully. This time just because 12-week courses are being taken in a large number for pre-transfer. So the 12-week exam registration for 12-week course registrations are more considering that this may actually shift the logistic issues. So we have put the exam registration dates aligned with the first set of four and eight-week courses that you have to carefully look into it. This is the timelines. The courses are starting from 24th of July. We have actually segregated the total 692 courses that are on offer at this point of time into three groups, that is four weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks. Out of the four weeks and eight-week courses, they are actually grouped into two sets. The first set of four weeks, first set of eight weeks and all 12-week courses will start from 24th of July and enrollment will close by 5 p.m. of 31st of July. Okay. The second set of four weeks and eight weeks will start from 21st of August and the enrollment will close on that same date. The exemption for the first set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks will be conducted on 24th of September in two sessions. The exam registration form will close by 14th of August for the first exam in September and 11th of September for other courses whose exams are scheduled on 28th and 29th of October, 2023. Okay. That is, by paying 1000 rupees, you will be able to complete the registration for the first set of courses by August 14th and second set of courses by 11th of September. However, by paying an additional, say, extra fee, you will be able to complete within 18th of August or 15th of September, as the case may be. There is a question I think I have completed. This is from Dr. Shikant. I have completed my PhD in electrical engineering stream. As per the AICT for getting eligibility to teach the computer science engineering students, how many credits are required? I really could not understand what you wanted to say. As per AICT for getting eligibility to teach computer science engineering students, how many credits are required? I think I am not getting your question properly. I am not really aware of what is the AICT guidelines in this respect. Maybe other faculty members who are connected with this program may kindly pitch in and help me in answering this particular question from Dr. Shikant. If any other faculty member can help me in this particular, who are aware of the AICT guidelines in this respect. So for joining the courses coming back to the presentation, so for joining the courses, first we need to see the course list. Where do I go? I can directly go to nptl.ac.in portal. Once I go to the portal, just scroll down. Here you will be finding the list of courses. What all things will be given here? You can see the discipline course ID, name, who is the faculty, then you have for the institute duration of the course, then the type of course. There are some new courses. There are a few rerun courses, start date, end date, examination date, enrollment date, examination registration date, registration ending date, whether the course is for the which level. It is a UG level, PG level, whether it is a core course or elective course, whether this course is for the faculty development program. All these information in a consolidated form is available here. Also, if this particular course is applicable for nptl domain certification, that will talk little later, which domain it applies to, that is also given. Additionally, the click, the joining link in the Swam platform is also provided in this. If the course is in a rerun mode, you will be able to see the course page when it was offered in the last time to take the statistics and all. So, old course you are also provided here. We have also already visited this particular link where you will be getting all the information on a semester basis. That is nptl semester information if it just starts, it will take you to this page. Now, if you are taking these courses for the first time, or you are actually recommending these courses for the new students, in that case, what we suggest is that you recommend a course which is maybe a easier course, a rerun course, so that the students get a chance to go through the videos before the courses are live or they are enrolled into the course. So, they will go through the video, they will be having access to the some of the weekly assignments which was offered in the last semester or last to last semester. So, they will have access to the course contents and they can take a decision whether they will be able to follow the course and what type of assignment questions that they will be able to experience beforehand. So, what do we do? We just go to nptl.ac.in portal, search for the course. Say, if it is a say aircraft stability and control, if this was a course which was offered earlier, then from this, we can see that okay, what all things are available, I can see that transcript is available, I can select the language, it is only available in English, then what is available? If these all transcripts have been combined and converted into a book. So, they will be able to download the English transcript book from here directly. If we just look for any other course, say, say, I take a popular course on cloud computing. In that case, why I am taking here, I will be able to show more features here. In the download section, not only you will be getting your weekly assignment, a previous assignment which was offered in 2020, NOC 20 means 2020, this was course was offered. That assignment copy you have. Additionally, what you have, you have got transcript and transcript language you can select. It is not only available in English, it is available in many other Indian languages. So, for the benefit of many of the learners, you can actually get the particular, you can say language transcripts downloaded from here. Also, you can download the complete book where the transcripts of every lecture has been combined and converted into a book from here. Okay, what are the additional things you can download the videos also from here. So, if you are actually recommending a course which is read and mode, you'll be able to see the previous videos, you'll be able to see assignments, get access to the transcripts in multiple regional languages. In many cases, you can download the whole thing in a book format and make use of that. Otherwise, if it is a new course, the course read contents will be released as and when the weekly structure, as per the weekly structure on every Monday during the runtime of the program. You go through the program, say, now for enrolling into the course, what I do, I go to the soym.off.in. How would I register into a course or enroll into a course? I can select all courses. It will take me to the list of courses that are coming or currently available for enrollment from multiple national coordinators. So, there's NPTEL, CEC, UTC, NCRT, all courses are available here. So, what I put? I put a field card here. If I'm looking for certain NPTEL courses, I can select the duration of that. Say, if I'm looking for an 8-week course, I can select the discipline. Say, I'm looking for, say, architecture and planning course, discipline. I can find what is available as 8-week course from NPTEL during July to October semester. Say, I am looking for architectural acoustics, this course. Here it gives these courses from, this course is being offered by this faculty, which institute NPTEL is offering is a 8-week course starting on 21st of August. This is the second set course. So, I click onto this course. It takes me to a course page where I get further details about the course and introductory video where the faculty might have thought about or talked about what is the learning outcome of the course. About this course in text format for the intended audience, if there is any prerequisite knowledge requirement to understand the concept, not for joining or understanding the concept, which are the industry bodies that will appreciate this particular knowledge that is written under industry support, then you have got a course layout, if there are any books and references, instructor biography, how the course certification will take place, the details is given. After seeing all these things, for joining, I have to click onto the join button. It will take me to the next enrollment page. Within multiple options, I will opt for the Google since I have a Gmail account, which I can carry forward. So, I will be using my Gmail account. It takes my name, mobile number, email from my Gmail. I can select my age from my dropdown. Right from you can see you have got 13 years to 100 years, all learners can join. Gender, country I am deciding, then the pin code. Based on the pin code, it will select the state and the city. Then profession I have to select whether it is a student, faculty, employer or other. If I am a student or faculty, definitely I am connected with the college. In that case, what will happen? I have to give an input like if my college is a local chapter. If I am faculty or student, I will be selecting my local chapter, my college is a local chapter. Otherwise, if I am an industry professional, still I will be asked to be whether I am an NIA, NPTEL, industry associate part of that. I can select appropriately. Then I can select, am I part of a local chapter? Yes, Tamil Nadu. Then I can select the college name that from the dropdown menu. All colleges of Tamil Nadu will be available here. I select the appropriate college. I give my roll number, degree I am pursuing, department I am associated with, not all departments that are available across different institutes are available here or listed here. So, select the discipline that closely matches with the available disciplines. This is just for our internal information. Then which year you are studying? Click on to this. I agree to the Swam Terms and Service and on our group and click on to the join button. It will give you a message that you have successfully enrolled into the course. So, thank you for registering for the course. Click the announcement tab for further information. This is a course page where every week if I am enrolling into the course, I will be coming time and again to this page for doing different activities. What all activities will be available? First, the course outline under this section, it will be week one, week two, week three, week four and so on. Every week contents will be provided under this. The videos will be available here. Once you click on to the video, video will open in a video here. Similarly, the assignment also will be available next to the videos and if there are supplementary study materials, that link will be provided. Additionally, what all things when the environment opens, what all announcement goes, say we are saying that, okay, this video has been released, assignment has been released, all this information will be posted in the assignment. You can see it here. Additionally, this information will also be conveyed to you through your email ID. So, if you check your regular emails, then you will also come to know when the assignments or videos are being released. Okay. I think at this point, I'll take a question like, this is from Dr. Nishant Matu. I have a question regarding ready transfer rules. What are the NPTEL norms university can follow if students fail to submit course competition certificate? Sir, I'll possibly take this course little later, once you talk about the inter, say, great transfer mechanism. It's requested to just wait for a while. Once you go to that particular slide, we'll talk more about that. Okay, sir. So, here we'll be getting the videos, the assignments and all. And in assignment, once I click the assignment, assignment will open here, I'll solve the problems here, submit it. And at the end of 10 days, I'll be able to see my performance here, assignment one, assignment two, all assignment name numbers will be there. And against that, I'll be sure that what is my score out of 100 in that particular assignment. Then, ask a question. After going through the videos, if I have got any doubt, I'll be able to post my queries to the faculty through this ask a question, this forum. Here, like someone might have written their interest to yourself, someone is asking what is happening. A particular question. Okay, so these questions will be answered by the faculty and the teaching assistants associated with the particular course. Additionally, if your college is actually alloting a faculty who will be acting as your mentor during the runtime activities as part of the runtime activities to support you in the college for any issues, as it is, he or she is the first level of escalation point. In that case, the faculty will join into the course, identifying that he or she is a faculty of the course. The SPOC of the college will put or identify this one or select this faculty as a mentor of this course. And once that part is done by the SPOC, the mentor under the mentor tag, you'll be able to see the name of the faculty from your college who will be supporting you for your learning process. Okay, and the mentor will be able to see your performance on a weekly basis, how much score you are getting in the assignment and support you if you are lagging behind. Okay. After completing all the regular activities that are required for completing the course for learning, if you are now looking for the exam registration, click onto the exam registration portal, link examform.nptl.ac.in. It will take you to the exam registration form where you will have to give your choice of exam centers, pay the fees and other things what you do. Okay, through this portal, you will be registering for the examination. All these links, the exam registration form is already open. And if you are decided to take the courses for grade transfer, it makes sense to write or register for the examination without further delay, so that nptl can take note of the numbers and make appropriate logistic arrangement to arrange your examination registration exam center closer to your place of residence or college. Now we'll just look at some of the statistics. So far we have offered, say 2014-2023, we have offered 5,372 courses with more than 2.3 learners joining into the course, 28.6 lakh learners registering for the exam and out of that, a large number, 18.8 lakh students or learners getting a e-verifiable certificate from nptl. This has been our journey, what started in 2004 just one course with three courses in a whole year with 1.1 lakh students enrolling and 3,000 people roughly registering for the exam. During the last semester we offered 665 courses with more than 24 lakhs people or the learners enrolling into the course and you can see more than 5 lakh people registering for the examination. This semester we are offering 692 courses and the enrolment and exam process is continuing. Just because the courses are coming from nptl or i80s, we not only focus on the courses from the engineering discipline, but we also have the courses from a large number of courses you can see from the humanities social science. You can see the biological sciences, multi-disciplinary courses, physics, mathematics, economics, even psychology courses are available. So whether it is a core courses which are targeted towards the usual level students or a very selective specialized courses for the PhD students, we also offer courses irrespective of whether it will attract a very small registration enrolment or large number of students will be opting for it. We are offering multiple courses. The exam registration percentage has been quite consistently around 90% over the years and if you see the past percentage it used to be 80 to 90% earlier. In the post-COVID scenario we are finding a slight deep. One of the reasons that are cited by the learners once we interact with the colleges that they find there are a lot of numerical problems in the final exam. The final exam paper does not contain exact same questions that are available in the assignment. So let me tell you that the questions that are available that will be asked in the final exam will never be exactly same as that of the assignment question. It may be similar type but the questions will be tweaked. Either the data will be tweaked or the question will be slightly changed just to check the students who have done the problem in the assignment stage. If they have understood the problem and solved it themselves there should not be any issue if a similar problem is asked in the final exam mission. Okay so you cannot expect exactly same assignment questions in the final exam and also final exam which is certificate which is coming from IIT is definitely to improve your level. So you can definitely expect some numerical problem for certain courses and similar questions will also be reflected in your assignments and the PMRF scholars are there to support you in solving those problems. They'll guide you how to solve all these issues. Okay so take the help of that and just do not blame that okay questions are little tricky little different that is the reason or the failure rate is high. Consistently we find that 40 or 40 to 60 is the gender distribution which is pretty healthy. You can say that particularly the girls students from remote accessible regions also find it very comfortable to learn the learn it themselves without going away from their home. They can learn the concept from their home. There is a question from Professor Asha. I am from Management Institute of Somaya with Mr. Mumbai. I want to launch four week certification program in economics. Can you explain process of collaborating with NPTEL to launch? Professor Asha see NPTEL is primarily catering taking the courses from you can say IITs, IIS, SC, Bangalore or centrally funded institutions. If you are from other institute then one of the way you can actually offer these courses. I'm not very sure whether this is under a this comes under your CEC or UGC or not. If it is a non-management, since it's an economic school you can possibly approach CEC or UGC depending on whether it is your UG level course or PG level course. Otherwise if you want to offer the course through NPTEL one of the option is that you have to try up with some faculty from IITs who will be taking the responsibility because we have put strict timelines and quality checks. In that case if you are from other institute someone has to take the responsibility that you will be meeting all the criteria. So it is essential that you have to try up with some faculty from other institute, other IITs. Okay I hope you have answered your question. Now looking forward why the people they take these courses. As we said there are many reasons why people are taking these courses either for the job opportunities, for IS studies or credit transfer. This is reflected here in the feedback also. Say the larger block is telling that we are taking these courses for credits as mandated by the university or autonomous colleges. Also a large number of people are taking these courses for getting a job or internship opportunity or updating their knowledge in a particular field. What we call is your re-skilling or upscaling. Additionally there are some learners who are taking this for better preparation for competitive exam like GATE or for research purposes. Many of the researchers across different institutes they are being asked to do certain courses where the faculty may not be available. Say like one of the courses research methodology. So these courses most sought after by all researchers across different academic institutions who take these courses from NPT. Okay so we offer courses which are targeted towards the researchers also. And if you just see the enrollment or registration wise how many which are the courses which are very popular. Yes enrollment and registration wise we find those courses quite popular which are targeted towards the job market. Particularly since there is a you can say opportunity in the data science, AI, machine learning, Python, Java all these areas. So you will be finding more and more number of people enrolling in such courses cutting across different disciplines. Also the exam registration is also a reflection of the similar trend here. The main challenge before NPTL is that we find suddenly a large number of students who find are enrolling for exam on a particular date in a particular semester. Since the exams are conducted through your TCS our exam partner. So they have a limitation on number of notes that they can be offered in a particular day in a particular city. We can definitely work with them to manage more number of seats provided we have an idea about the number of students who are likely to be writing the exam on a particular day. So this is only possible if the learners registered for the exam much ahead of time. We ensure the book the exam center at least one year in advance which not only we all exam registered all examinee say exam coordinators who are taking exam on a national white basis they will be booking the centers at least one year in advance with some estimate. And if suddenly there is a quantum jump in the total number of candidates it becomes difficult logistically to arrange the say number of computers or number of notes in different centers. So these are the 20 centers we are having the largest examination registration maybe it would be good if you are taking these courses for transfer if you can indicate beforehand how many students will be writing from for the exam from your college. Then there as we say that we are utilizing the services of PMRF scholars to help the learners in problem solving approaches and all this was started initiative just you can say in 2020 with 81 courses but as we are progressing every semester we are including more and more PMRF scholars to support the learning initiative of the students. So in January 2023 we are we had about 4756 sessions by about 466 scholars these sessions are conducted every week on two days not days as it's from friday we stay every week from the course start date the session timings will be specifying later in the course announcement page we also send the reminders to the WhatsApp messages the recorded session the whole session is recorded and made available to the learners through portal so that if someone has missed the session they have an opportunity to go through the recorded version the feedback for the PMRF sessions are extremely encouraging that is the reason with more and more PMRF scholars are being added to support the you can say this initiative in the coming years. Roll wise if you see how many people are enrolling if you say 5.1 lakh candidates enrolled for the or rather say 24 lakh people enrolled into the course and 5.1 lakh or 1.8 lakhs people registered for the exam and the distribution if you just look at it you will find almost 24 23 percent people you can say enrolled candidates exam registration candidates were from the student category almost 20 percent where faculty members 7.74 percent were employed and 5.64 percent were other so this is the number that says that it's not only the students but faculty members are also taking these courses in very large number we're not getting any questions from YouTube chair box except one or two questions maybe if you have got any doubt whatever it is related to NPT or similar activities you can definitely ask me the questions in the chat box for this for my response now the NPT starts now we find that many of the students are taking the courses in an arbitrary manner without thinking that whether the learning will be focused or not now if the students are actually targeting okay they want to pursue their area say career in a particular path what they want to pursue their career in a particular say go for high studies in a particular area in that case we have actually created a domain concept where we are specifying that okay if you do certain courses certain core and elective courses from a particular area you can say that you have got adequate knowledge from that particular domain okay just to help the students in a focused way of learning we have specified certain courses for 12 disciplines we have created 51 domains I'll just talk little more about it in the next slide additionally we are also recognizing the efforts of the learners who are continuously in say enrolling and registering for the exam semester after semester if a student enrolls or registers for four five or six exams in a semester and in proper in at least three exams then we mark the student as NPTEL superstars other candidates who are continuously in NPTEL portal for learning purpose and getting certification depending on how long they are with us whether it is continuous or maybe periodically they are breaking up taking a break how many courses they have taken how many courses they have cleared or how many courses they are topper based on these we are also say recognizing the students or marking them as NPTEL evangelist motivated learners enthusiasts discipline stars and believers NPTEL domain as we said is a focused way of learning to get an expertise or foundation strong foundation in a particular area of interest you gain mastery to pursue higher education in a particular area become more employable for jobs in your opted area these are the focus what you do you complete the core and electric courses specified for that particular area with an average score of 60% with individual score not falling below 55 marks okay the course completion time is starting to end should not cross more than three years so three years is the timeline complete the minimum number of weeks it's not only that okay you complete say six courses seven courses you are also to mention that it's mentioned that okay 60 weeks of learning is required so you have to see if you've taken say eight weeks course maybe you'll be required to take additional courses more number of courses if you want to see in detail just click onto the NPTEL dot hc dot in slash domain it will take you the NPTEL domain page you can just say you can see the domain browser uh brochure or you can also see see domain here you can see the domain brochure you can also see what are the domains say we are talking about say data science domain on the computer science and engineering so for the data science domain you need minimum 60 weeks of learning they have got three core courses the core courses are listed here some of the courses which are currently open for enrollment are marked as enrolled now if you just click here it will directly take the course enrollment wage in soym then you have got three elective courses the elective courses which are currently available for enrollment are also listed here so once you complete these courses will be tracking your performance in the courses and as soon as you complete the course we will be notifying that you are eligible to get a domain certificate okay this tracking is done by update so for 12 domains 12 disciplines we have created 51 domains that includes all branches of engineering as well as you can see faculty domains which are one is foundation level another is advanced level in humanities you can see uh you have got English studies psychology in the management under management you have got economics finance property intellectual property rights patents and all these things you can get more much more details from the domain page this is how a domain certificate will look like it will carry your photographs student name the domain certificate that you have got which domain it is the courses that you have completed the scores everything will be given with keyword for verification of the authenticity Dr. Ramakrishna is asking can a specific university engineering and management college start NPTEL course or only through other SOAM platform sir if I understood correctly that you are asking that okay you want to offer the course or you want to say either offer the course through NPTEL or input these courses in your say trade transfer framework if you can kindly clarify on that if you want to take these courses for credit transfer you can definitely do it through NPTEL but if you are planning to offer the course if you are thinking that okay offering a course to NPTEL as I responded for Professor Asha also that you cannot directly offer the course without being a part of IIT or any central funded technical institution through NPTEL because the certificate will be issued by NPTEL say I offer a course and I say that you give a certificate for that course from your institute possibly there will be an issue because you will not your university will not agree to issue a certificate whose course has not been offered by that university officials okay so that's what I'm saying if you want to offer a course suppose I want to offer a course I am not part of your university but I want to offer a course in that case if I offer the course will your university give a certificate for that course to the learners possibly not because they will ask okay if I have to give the certificate there must be someone from my university who is vetting it same goes with NPTEL NPTEL certificates are signed by NPTEL coordinators and without knowing the person they cannot issue a certificate for a course which is offered by any other institution so it is mandatory that you offer the course either through any of the say collaborating with any of the faculty member from IITs that you know otherwise this is not possible for the reason that I am saying because certificate cannot be issued by NPTEL which is not offered by NPTEL that's what see there are certain cases like Gautam Buddha University have rightly said in that case some faculty member from IIT has actually taken the responsibility of the quality the timelines that we look for all those things are to be vetted by some IIT faculty until and unless that is done NPTEL will never accept that one because once you offer the course if something goes wrong with the course since it is going under the brand name of NPTEL someone from NPTEL banner has to take the responsibility and if you are from other university will take the responsibility for that so that is the reason it is essential that it must be vetted by some faculty from IIT I hope I make my point clear to you so okay so number of domains it's not that people are doing only one domain there there are you can see there are multiple domains are being cleared by number of learners we could actually get access to four learners who have completed three domains two domains have been completed by 32 learners and 571 scholars have completed at least one domain now this is the initiative new initiative the new incentive for the NPTEL star is that we are now permitting NPTEL learners who are actually in star category to attend the courses in from IIT Madras campus okay so if you are a star learner in that case you have a choice to come to IIT Madras and attend the course okay in IIT Madras for this you have to pay certain fees and you'll also be given a transcript for this if you complete the course okay Dr Amrishnan you were saying that what about other SWAM platforms yes there are other platforms particularly if you are talking about UVG and PG level courses if it is a non-management non-engineering course you can definitely approach CEC for UVG level courses or UGC for PG level courses or IIM Bangalore could be for management courses but each one will be having their own criteria because every course has to be approved by the particular say every course will require for offering you need a budget and that for giving the budget by the SWAM board they will need a waiting by the regulator whether it is CEC or UGC or NPTEL or IIT IIM Bangalore so you have to go through any of this platform depending on which say what is your targeted audience if it is target audience is UGPG level students of non-engineering basic arts and colleges you can definitely approach CEC or UGC also okay Mr Tanwai good morning all dream from 15 years come through to all engineering courses at one go plan to do all 606 courses in the next 10 years the most well comes and we happy to see someone doing yes we have got some good learners who have done at least up to 35 38 courses so far many such learners actually attended the SPOS workshop recently conducted in IIT Madras yes Dr. Ramakrishna CEC for UG and UGC is for PG and IIM Bangalore for management courses you are right so most popular courses among the industries are definitely Python electric vehicles or renewable energy like of things data science artificial intelligence machine learning six sigma internet of things electric vehicles all such courses are extremely popular amongst the industry professionals so the students who are graduating maybe encouraged to take some of these courses if they can for better job opportunities or internship so some of the initiatives other than offering certain courses are pretty pretty transfer is that okay UGC and ACT has already up to that 20 to 40 percent credits can be taken for this what we suggest is that do not ask the students who are in the first semester to take these courses let them settle down in the university in a new environment then from second second semester you can actually ask them to take certain courses but also to start with you can possibly request them to take some courses which are easy maybe on the say communication skill development or soft skill development some courses so that they go through the course without much pressure and they understand what how a books platform works okay then from third and fourth year say third semester onwards you can ask them to take certain courses on the skill development or programming language or from the emerging areas or courses which are having you can say strong mathematical background depending on whether the students fit into that or more because many of the times it has been observed that there is a huge failure rate the faculties have actually identified certain courses without taking into consideration the background level of the learners and that resulted in a huge failure and there was no maintaining also so they could not be even provided support type on the college also during the runtime and this was in a real transfer so to avoid that the learners background may be checked before referring the course and that is always feasible if you are taking say courses from the rerun mode so that you have fair idea like what is the level of that course and select that particular course appropriate NPTEL has already signed an agreement with AICT that certain courses in the swam course page you will see that okay under this tag that course page you'll find this is an AICT approved course so certain courses which are elective course or advanced level courses will be marked as the AICT approved FPP course if some faculty members interested to get the FPP certification then they have to enroll into the course complete the course with certification then if they are looking for a certificate apply separately by filling the fee of 100 rupees sorry okay a four week course will be considered as a happy KPP eight weeks is fully full FPP of one week 12 week course is one and a half FPP that is how AICT has given the regulation this is the sample FPP certificate how it will look like as we said that faculties are registering for the exam in large number is almost 17 to 20 percent is the number that fluctuates every semester additionally we know that SPOCs are the torch bearer of the NPTEL program they take a lot of you say support they provide lot of support to popularize to motivate the learners and whenever the students are in need they provide support connect with the faculties all these activities are done by the SPOCs okay now to help us to the SPOCs in their career initiative what we support is that we provide some sort of a financial assistance to the SPOCs if they are attending a conference where maybe their papers have been accepted in IITs, IISG, ISRs or any other institute there are NITs there are few listed institutions there are few listed institutions where such programs are conducted okay so if any of your paper has been accepted for these conferences every month we actually keep 10 days open leaving 1 to 10 the total remains open where you can apply for say reimbursement of your expenses what all expenses you know reimburse if your registration fee your expenses towards your lodging boarding travel all these expenses are you can say reimburse to the limit of 25,000 if you are not utilizing this benefit maybe you can request any of your faculty member other faculty member who are taking interest in this program can utilize that okay many of the time we find that this you can say their applications are rejected because we categorically say that what are the institutes where if you attend the say conference it will be reimbursed if it is does not match with that then it will not be considered for reimbursement or it will not be up to then for the gate examination we have taken carefully provided a lot of support to the you can say students who are aspiring to do well in the gate examination first thing is that syllabus mapping that is if you are looking for writing the examination a gate exam then you select your discipline then for that particular discipline which are the topics you are supposed to study and for each topic which are the video lectures from NPTEL that covers that relevant say foundation level knowledge we give an idea about that so that is syllabus mapping then you also provide a video solution the previous question papers if you want to see the video solution will provide that solutions okay additionally we also provide you the support for mock test that means you can actually attend mock test what is done by and any private engineering or private coaching centers the similar three words mock test you give at the end you get a score what is your performance score we also provide live mentoring support sessions to help the learners if they have got any say queries that can be addressed by the mentors so all these four supports are provided to the gate portal we have done git syllabus mapping for the 10 disciplines the listed disciplines are given here we also mock test are available for certain disciplines this is the gate portal if you just go into the gate portal it may give you a little more idea about that see here you go to the gate dot nptl dot lc dot in here you have got gates syllabus mapping say if you are looking for mechanical engineering select say heat transfer I am looking for then I have to select which topic then this topic is connected with these all video lectures multiple video lectures are provided so if you want to get finer details or in-depth knowledge about the heat transfer processes you can refer to these videos additionally if you want to see the previous video solutions previous semester video solutions then you can actually go to this portal say mechanical engineering I can select either on a year basis I select say 2017 say to one I can see the video solutions of this question also I can go through the practice test that is a mock test as well as live mentoring sessions so this is a consult consolidated platform which gives enough exposure for the learners to prepare better for the gate examination nptl pass is a new platform whereby say you have got other platforms where you can you are given an option to attend to this program as and when you want but nptl currently is offered during two runs that is between January to April and July to October but if you are looking for a certification on a particular program in between you cannot really take the course from nptl there's a problem particularly this is important for the learners from the industry they want to do the certification as and when they have time and as per their convenience so instead of taking the course it will be course and competing within 12 weeks if I want to if I have the capability I should be able to compete it within a 10 days or two weeks time nptl platform nptl pass platform is targeted for that so if you have if you are interested to do certain courses where you want to do the certification as and when you want instead of those two regular semester in nptl you can come to nptl pass here the courses are not only some of the courses of nptl are available here but also we have got not curriculum based nptl courses are actually which are senate approved course these are offered by faculty members from IITs but nptl pass platform you have got a lot of courses coming from industry experts and they are not only courses but there are a lot of skill based say training programs workshops which spans from maybe two hours to about a year time so these are not a limited duration one it can be very small as small as two or four hours duration who continue up to one year maybe on the weekends so all such courses are available but here it comes with a cost for accessing the content in nptl you don't pay anything but here for accessing the content you have to pay certain charges also for writing the examination whenever you want you will be conducting the exam you have to pay additional charge instead of 1000 rupees in nptl you have to pay 1500 rupees in nptl also there is a weekly assignment here but the weekly assignment score should not be more that should not be less than 50 here so the bar is a little higher here okay this is the nptl pass platform so the difference as I have said these are not four eight or 12 week courses as it is in nptl it could be self-paced live blended that means recorded something in a high bid mode it will be offered for our studio months period offered any time of the year every time if you just go to the portal you'll find some other program is being offered at this point okay this is an important program for the students who are doing well in the program nptl courses if any of the student is at top per in nptl courses we do provide some facility for the learners to undergo training or internship under the same faculty in whose course you are the top per for this what we do we just get in touch with the faculty get a consent from him then ask for willingness from the students the concerned students if they give an willingness that okay they are interested we connect the students with the faculty and the faculty selects the student based on the their resume statement of a pass last two semester grade sheet in the college and definitely the and also if they have identified an area or project where the interns are supposed to come whether the intern has got the interest to work in that area or not so taking the project feed and other criteria's certain students are given selected and they undergo training or internship program that ranges between say up to 12 weeks okay during this period they're going to the particular IIT attending the program connecting with the PR groups researchers and IITs get a lot of exposure on that and also at the end they will be getting a certificate and reimbursement of stipend the stipend is 5000 rupees is paid to the learners for a four weeks program okay for eight weeks it is to a 10,000 rupees is paid Texas Instruments has already agreed to offer internship opportunity for learners if they have completed certain courses within a particular period the courses I would request you to go through the nptl.ac.in slash ti you get the details of rest of courses by which semester you are supposed to complete it and apply for the internship under the ti program we are also looking not only say improving the foundation level of the students but also we want that okay they should be employable so for the holistic development of the students we are also providing a soft-screen training for the learners that improves employability assessment online interactive sessions mock interviews and all here the duration is for say four weeks sorry either it is one week program or two weeks program seven days or 15 days program during this time they are given trainings on your communication skills how to write a good resume how to utilize social media handles like say LinkedIn for finding the jobs all these trainings are given they have got online mock internet one to one mock interviews are given to them exposure is given to say I indicate what are the shortcomings in that so that they can improve on that so we do provide soft-screen training for the learners particularly from the TR to TR3 colleges where they do not have such facilities the impact of soft-screen training has been phenomenal as have been reported by the learners who have undergone such training from nptl we are also interacting with the industry partners we are tying up with a large number of industries primarily for two three reasons one is that they are invited to offer courses along with IIT faculties we have offered the past courses from say Glass Institute then we have got offered courses with IBM in blockchain area so they offered to offer the courses along with our IIT faculties they also support the CSR initiative through the CSR initiative they support us our needy students who cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees as example for them whatever fee waiver we provide that comes from the industry associate CSR program additionally we also invite them to provide specialized lecture for the learners okay so you can see there are 79 organizations who are connected both from the private as well as government sector from different segment of the consumer electronics education power transmission IT sector for all areas these are available and they are providing live sessions also this is what we talked about the CSR initiative based on the recommendation of your college we do provide fee waiver for the learners the learners who have received say you can say 1.4 lakh students from TR2 to TR3 cities have received the exam fee waiver support with support from the CSR initiative of different industry partners this is some of the feedbacks that we have received from the beneficiaries some are farmers they cannot really afford to pay 1000 rupees and this CSR initiative or the fee waiver scheme support was extremely helpful for the students to do well in the examination translation is an effort that we have shown in a cloud computing course that okay the course trans the videos are translated into English first and they are converted into multiple Indian regional languages we are looking for faculty members from different local chapter colleges or other colleges who are having some knowledge about particular area say particular video lecture of NPTEL and they have a good understanding or they have good strength on their particular local languages so if you are interested you can join hands with NPTEL in our translation activity and convert some of the lectures which have been transcribed into English into different other languages this is a paid service you can connect you can write back to us to NPTEL so that we can assign the job to you without your support this cannot be actually complete because NPTEL office does not have the expertise on different languages as well as the courses we have say transcribed these courses the video courses into multiple languages you can see the different languages that we have already done certain courses Hindi has got the highest then Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil has got quite a good number 153 we whatever actions we do we are available in our social media handles so there's a LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube we are available there we provide different inspiring stories provided by the learners sent to the learner sent by the learners what feedback we receive from them these are the NPTEL stars who receive statement in the form of t-shirts and all which they proudly show it to the outsiders we also provide a lab workshop facility for the learners even which for a period of one week a group of students maybe 40-50 students are taken to a particular institute they work from Monday to Friday and undergo some theory courses then do some two experiments per day followed by an examination they attend all Saturday after completion of that they get a certificate which can be taken as a one credit course and for this they pay 200 rupees plus the costs that are involved in the accommodation and food expenses usually in an IIT if they are accommodating the hostel the judges could be 300 to 400 rupees per day that they have to pay along the fees and food expenses and to NPTEL they'll be paying 200 rupees then we have got local chapters spread across the country we are connected with more than now 5500 local chapters here based on the performance of the local chapters students we read the local chapters with a top 100 and facilitate them felicitate them in different workshops that fund different regions we have local chapters which are outside India also local chapter participation in the NPTEL program whether it's for enrollment or for example registration over around 90 percent at this point of time a local chapter will be considered as an active the active tag will be put if there are at least 25 students right in the example of that center and at least 13 students are qualified to get the certificate that is how we mentioned that active local chapter team you can see the spread of the exam registration and enrollment across different regions statewide enrollment is also not uniform some states have actually proactively taking steps to encourage more and more students and that is evident or reflected in the this data what is available before you suggestion as you have said that maybe first semester don't encourage the student second semester onwards encourage the students to take skill or English courses particularly the rerun courses then slowly ask them to take the programming courses or skill based courses from AI machine learning data science all these courses maybe during the four years period they may be encouraged to take all complete certain courses from the domain so that they get a domain certification which will be helpful for them they may be encouraged to take or utilize make best use of the gate exam portal and give us feedback if they need something else initially we say that rerun courses to be choose only thing we suggest that if your portfolio is taking these courses for credit transfer we discourage or we say that okay please do not encourage the students were in the final year or particularly in the final semester to take the courses from NPTA because in case they fail in that if they are not successful it completely jeopardizes their prospect of joining or internship learning for job or internship okay one of the option is that since we are not conducting say a supplementary exam either you don't recommend the students in the final semester to take these courses or else if they fail maybe you can think of this course is available in NPTA class platform take that path and complete the course otherwise the institute or the university has to take their own make make their own mechanism to take supplementary exam rating for the mentors as you say the mentoring process I have discussed based on the performance of your student the mentor certificate is given to the faculty if you score at least 10 mentorship points depending on where the student what is the performance if the student is a topper then he gets say 20 20 points silver elite silver eight and it go something like this some points are given so based on that you get some mentoring points and if your total mentoring points is 10 at least you get a mentor certificate if you will be considered top performing mentor if your student is a topper or board medalist feedbacks are available on different channels that we have seen someone is asking in certificate of NPTEL course at the bottom it is written that recommended KD 3 or 4 for 12 week course which KD is to be considered 3 or 4 NPTEL recommends if you see the 30 hour courses as 3 credit 40 hour 20 hour courses as 2 credit and 10 hour courses as 1 credit however if you see the swim guidelines that is the guidelines which has been given by AICT and they say that universities and autonomous colleges were taking these courses for credit transfer has got the final say on that whether they want to increase it by one or two points so many of the universities who have taken these 3 credit courses as recommended by NPTEL for 30 hour courses they have actually taken it as 4 credit or in some cases 5 credit also since they consider it is not only the lecture there are many other components they have to spend certain amount of time in solving the problem going through the say supplementary study material interacting with faculty through forum so considering all these activities they add one or two extra credit points but it is a prerogative of the academic council of the institute that is taking these courses for the credit transfer so the academic council takes the decision whether 3 credits as recommended by NPTEL should be 3 4 or 5 okay I just maybe two slides will complete this part we have already completed the NPTEL NPTEL has already started or not yet item address has started two new initiatives one is the BS program in data science and application another is in electronic system these are four years program entry is not linked to JEE advanced but through a separate qualifier process if you are interested to pursue a degree whether you are just a say student who has just passed the school education 10 plus 2 you are in a college if you want to pursue these course along with your regular curriculum you are most welcome to do that there is a flexibility if you are enrolled into the course you can complete the course within a maximum period of four years in a flexible manner that means the four years is the timeline but you can complete it within the eight years since it is entry is not directly linked to IIT JEE advanced exam so what we do there is a separate qualifier process once you join into the program or enroll into this program you'll be given four weeks of content every week after you go through the contents you have to submit an assignment you submit four assignments and then based on the performance you will be permitted to write the examination at the end of four weeks if you qualify through that you get a cut off marks above cut off marks then you will be enrolled in any of this program for data science and application the qualification requirement is that at the tenth level on the ssc level you should have studies english and mathematics for the electronic system you should have studied physics and mathematics at the tenth plus two level okay so once you qualify go through the qualifier process and you are given approval for joining the main program then based on your capability or your performance in the final qualifier exam you will be recommended whether you can take full semester courses or you'll be taking impartial one course two course and all so there is a semester fee you pay for the courses say if the course fee is say 16000 for four courses then in that case if you are taking only one course or two courses you'll be paying proportionate so the fee is also depending on how many courses you are taking you have got multiple entry points there are four layers in the first program data science program first is the foundation level first year second year you have got two verticals programming and data science two verticals you complete both the verticals you can quit you can complete one and quit on completion of two verticals programming domains you can go to the bsc level bsc in data science then after completion of the third you can also quit or go further and complete the bsc program during the after you complete the bsc program you will be considered as an alumni of item address and the usual internship and say placement supports are being organized once you complete the degree level okay from the diploma level we are trying to provide the internship opportunities but definitely after the degree level you will be getting a placement assistance from item address as a regular student of item address gets so admission processes you log in and apply study four weeks of qualified content pass the examination and join the foundation level after foundation level either you go to diploma level then either in between you follow the bsc level for the you can say data science program or you directly go to the bsc level of the electronic system in an electronic system additional component is that okay in addition to the contents that you receive every week there will be for both the courses there will be regular on a daily basis there will be you can say doubt clearing session every day additional for the electronic systems during your semester break you will have to come to iit madras and do hands-on practical session here in iit madras okay so that is an additional component where you will have exposure of interacting with the faculties of item address this is the fee structure and different career options available for the learners they also the students also visit iit madras periodically to interact with the faculties and attain different social and say cultural activities as is done by e-tampus students with this i'll stop here if there are any questions we take that i think there is one question from from dr amokrishnan is that can the local chapter or university college conduct supplementary exam with the same syllabus and award credits based on the student's performance in supplementary exam as a alternative for the students yes sir you are right there are few universities we know that k they have taken these courses for credits first thing if the students are unfortunate not to clear the exam in nptl please what in that in that case what do you say that if any of the faculty member can enroll into the course they will have access to the complete weekly assignments and in that case based on the assignments they know what type of questions they have been asked in the assignment they can select a set of questions or prepare a select question in the outline of given in the assignments and take an exam at the local level okay and if university approves this score can be actually mapped to do the credit framework there are a few universities who have actually adopted this model for the cases where students might have not cleared the exam directly from nptl so this is very much possible then there is another question maya karmukar can i do ms in this institution ms program is a different program it has got a separate entry is it criteria until unless you fulfill that one you cannot do this directly through nptl or through the bs program once you complete the bs program you can definitely apply for the master's program in any say Indian universities be it iat madras or any other institution okay but directly from here with this i think if there are no what is a maximum number of sys available in it madras bs program so there is no limit to that currently there are about uh say around 20 000 students are in the bs program of data science which started initially since it is an open program so there is no limit to how many students can enroll only the students must qualify through the qualifier process okay if you are qualified in that then whatever be the number they will be admitted in the program and you'd be surprised to know that a large number of students who are enrolling into the course they they are actually sprayed across the spectrum of say 17 18 years old to 55 56 years old who are in the industry also the footprint of the learners in this program are not only limited within the country there are a large number of students who are doing this course from abroad okay so you both are available so there is no limitation of sys as such with this if there are no other questions maybe i'll hand over the stage to uh professor valu take over over to professor valu sir thank you sir thank you for your detailed representation it covers almost all the topics top to bottom from the inception till the ms program thank you for your time and the participants if you have any doubts just drop your questions in the chat box so that we can answer i think almost all the questions were answered i'll just proceed with the impact of NPTEL with SRID this NPTEL awareness e workshop institute of technology coin battle and so i am NPTEL so a small introduction about Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology SRID was started in the year of 2002 it's an autonomous institutions and granted autonomous by UGC it's an nba accredited institution the institution is re-accredited by NAC with agrid agrid we are providing five UG programs this NPTEL has created a huge impact at SRID some of the impacts are first thing it can be accessible and free learning students can take the course from anywhere first the ma'am said here at SRID we are offering the great transfer for the student also so that the student can access the course content and they can learn the contents from everywhere it offers wide range of courses student can select any domain or if they want to do a multidisciplinary projects or multidisciplinary courses they can take it from NPTEL expert faculty and course content as the professor said the course contents were developed and prepared by the professors from IIT's and IIC's so the student can get the expert knowledge from these courses flexible learning experience as I said as the courses are provided only its student can allot a flexible learning time the courses are certified the similar to all the more courses NPTEL offers certificates in different domains and different categories NPTEL stores NPTEL enthusiastic NPTEL domain courses LA category gold categories silver category so the student based on the knowledge they can get certificate and based on the knowledge the students can be recognized also these certificates are very much helpful for the students to be get placed in the repeated companies so no loss but not least these courses are bridging the gap between the industry and academia process so the impact of NPTEL at SRIT is NPTEL SRIT is being partnered with NPTEL from 2014 during 2014 first certification is only one only one candidate got certified from NPTEL now as of july june 2023 status we have 61 LA certifications 25 LA with silver certifications and 58 students successfully completed their certificate so this is the database this the statistics of certifications at SRIT through NPTEL starting from jan june 2017 as you can see the number of enrollments is keep on increasing the registrations also keep on increasing the certificate number of students get certified is also keep on increasing this graph shows the impact of NPTEL the the curve actually is in the upper trend because of the COVID there's a small amount of dip during 2019 and 2020 now you can see the number of students get certified is keep on increasing from 80 to 95 to last semester we have received 144 certifications from NPTEL so these are the different categories of certificates during the last three years jan april 2022 july december 2022 and jan april 2020 visible that students are interested to go for online certifications during jan april 2023 sessions the number of participants is increased number of certificates increased number of elite categories number of silver categories and number of successful candidates also keep on increasing so NPTEL SRIT SRIT offers the student can register for four online courses instead of open electives students are permitted to register for online courses for maximum of 12 credits that all the credits which the students earn can be accounted for their course completion certificate and enrollment so far for the july december 2023 sessions as of now we have 441 plus enrollments which includes 265 members all the 265 members have selected courses from 80 plus courses we are hoping that the count will get increased during the upcoming days thank you thank you all yes sir thank you thank you Arun sir thank you Das sir thank you for the session and okay sir shall we wind up the sessions sir yes please okay yes to the team please 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