 Good afternoon all welcome to this workshop on domain certification and credit transfer. This was a special request we got from Fox to kind of explain and interact about this particular two aspects of NPTEL online courses that we are currently doing. So we thought we'll do the session. The way that we'll progress is we have a few slides on NPTEL domains so I'll give you kind of a brief explanation about that and then we'll also take questions after that on the domains and we'll go to credit transfer. We have an extensive document of the website and a few slides kind of explaining what we have and then we can interact on that also. I possibly expect this session to be about an hour, half an hour each of these two maybe with maybe 10-15 minutes for questions. So basically by about 3.45 I hope we will be done. So let's start with the first step. So let's first start with knowing who's on the particular session. We'd like you to just put in your name and what details have you asked for? Name, email and designation. No college. No. In the designation I can try the college. Okay so we just want to know who's attending the workshop so please go to this particular website menti.com and you can enter the code 1074202 there and the slide that you will see is it last year for your name, email ID and a designation. So in the designation you can also put in your college name so that we know from where you're joining. Okay so let's just pause for a minute or two here. Please go to menti.com use the code 1074202 and enter your details there your name, email ID and your designation. In the designation itself you can put in your college name also so that we just get an idea of who you are. So I hope all of you are doing that. So those who are watching on the YouTube also I see about 200 people watching on the YouTube you can either join the Cisco Webex Meet that we have so that you can interact with us through that or YouTube watching is fine. Please go to menti.com and enter these details. Okay thanks on those who have participated and given us the details I think the team is processing we'll see how many have submitted details here. Okay let's go to the next slide so this is just the title of what we are doing today. The topics covered today will be as I said domain certification and credit transfer so we'll go to this. Before that I'd just like to know how many of you have taken NPTEL exams are aware of NPTEL certification data itself the way we run certification courses anything on that if you can just fill up this slide for us as you can see the data coming in here about 27 30 I've said one exam 19 I've said 1 to 5 and 3 people have said more than 5 exams there's just to get an idea of how many of you are aware even of you know what NPTEL does and how we run courses so that whether I need to directly start about domain or whether you'd want a few lines about the NPTEL courses itself. Totally how many people do we have 236 on YouTube and in the mix okay so looks like out of 300 people around 100 or 105 are aware of NPTEL courses I will go with the assumption that the remaining 200 possibly are aware but not have not written any exams with us so just to describe the process very very quickly right so NPTEL is a project of MHRDA and we the base core committee comprises the older 780s and ISE we have been creating content and putting it up on our website NPTEL.ac.in since 2003 so for the last 19 years we the project has been alive and around and we have been creating content and been putting it up on the website since 2014 we have been running certification courses so what we do is we run it just like how you do in a college so all of you being faculty and college members it must be very easy you know understanding this we have a Jan semester we have a July semester similarly NPTEL offers courses in the Jan and July semesters currently this semester in Jan 2021 we are offering 506 courses that people can enroll to so these courses are across over I would say in 23-24 disciplines so when I say a discipline it is like mechanical engineering civil engineering electrical electronics computer science we also have some courses humanities management then we have courses in pertaining to law we have courses pertaining to health sciences and of course biotech metallurgical engineering and english maths physics chemistry so all of all these subjects get covered by us in the courses that we offered so we currently have 506 courses on offer in Jan 2021 semester the enrollments just closed yesterday and we have I think as of now 16 lakh enrollments for that about 65 courses are still open till February 15 that you can enroll to with that we close the enrollments for this particular semester so what happens you first join a course the joining the course is free the project is funded by MHID and there is no fee or anything to join a course on NPTEL so you go to swyem.gov.in that's where we run the courses that we offer NPTEL is the national coordinator for engineering in the UG and PG space under the swyem portal so technically we also manage the swyem portal the features on the portal are managed by the NPTEL office of IIT Madras so that's something that we do extra but we are the national coordinator for engineering on the portal so you can go to swyem.gov.in you can just join there is a page where we ask you for some basic details some profile information about you you fill in and you can join a course technically you can join any number of courses that you're interested in also all our courses they do have something called a prerequisite as a suggestion or a recommendation wherein we say if you know these prerequisites it'll be easy for you to do this course but there's nothing mandatory which says saying that you cannot try out our courses so even if say you're a computer science faculty you want to go in and do a course pertaining to law nothing stops you from doing that you can just go and you can see whether it interests you whether you want to learn from it and even go ahead and write the exam so all the courses are open to anybody who is interested and motivated in learning from NPTEL that's one thing the course duration itself is four weeks eight weeks and 12 weeks so we have courses of three types of duration the course is gone week after week with release content we have one assignment every week you can do all of this you can ask questions on the discussion forum clarify your doubts and you can say i'm very happy with learning from here i don't want to do anything more and you can get off the course if you want to certificate from NPTEL and the corresponding institute from where the course is offered then what you have to do is you have to register for the proctor examination that we conduct by proctor i mean you have to attend the exam in person at centers that we will designate to you so it is an in-person exam the final exam is an in-person exam the entire course you can do from anywhere from your college from your home from your hostel wherever you are you can do it with just a device an internet connection that is all completely online there is nothing live that goes on in the course also so it is just all asynchronous like we say there is nothing that you have to time your classes at four four o'clock i have some other engagement at four o'clock at two thirty are you giving a live lecture there is no such thing we put up videos that are recorded on mondays we put up the assignment whenever you have time be it early morning be it in the evening be it maybe between some two periods in your college be it at night you can watch at your convenience and you can study from the courses that we offer then you register for the exam if you want the exam has a fee of 1000 rupees that you have to pay because we use an exam partner in the country to conduct our exams so that is currently what we do we do have waivers for people belonging to sst categories and pwt categories it's a 50% waiver that we give them so you come to the exam you write the procter exam and based on the past criteria that we have you will be eligible for the certificate so you can check out all these details in every course on swine that we are offering we have put out all these details what are the parameters to get certified in their course so this is typically a course that we offer semester after semester this is how we normally do it one of the things that we observed was even as we see from the you know the graph here 47 people say they have done between one to five courses with NPTEL seven people say more than five courses so one of the things that we found was many many learners who start learning with NPTEL come back to do more courses with us they come back so they come back to do more courses with us and sometimes the courses that they do are across the areas discipline so we found that say some 50 people had done about say you know five courses with us then we started seeing okay are these guys getting an area of specialization if you do five courses we expect that you have an area of specialization right are you doing allied courses are you doing courses that are related to each other are you doing prerequisites first and kind of building on your expertise then we found that many of them are not doing that and that's when this idea of domains came up to us and we said that we have to possibly put out a list of courses that go along with each other and tell the learners that if you want to specialize in this particular area why don't you do these courses and the specialization area is helpful in many ways right one if you're going in for a PhD program you might want to build up your basics really well to go there if you're writing a gate exam you might want to build up on your fundamentals to write the gate exam well if you're going in abroad for your masters right you might want to do that you're working in a company in a particular area of focus say you're working in the automobile industry and possibly you're working in something related to the noise and how quiet and the vibrations of the particular car that you are designing or some such you'll have a few courses around that that you'll have to know so that area of expertise can be built by doing a certain set of NPTEL courses which are related to each other so we put in committees of faculty members from our various IITs and we showed them all the NPTEL courses we have and we said okay now what do we want to club together and what do we want to ally and bring together so that is what we call as an NPTEL domain to give you a broad parallel I would say these are something like the minors that you might have in college except that minors many times what you do is I will be majoring say in physics and I'll have a minor in chemistry which is like a totally different discipline that I have and I do possibly some courses there so here it is not like we have a minor in another discipline I mean it need not be related to yours the domains are basically created within disciplines of what we offer so within electrical engineering say we have five domains within computer science engineering we have four domains within maths we have two domains so that is how we have created something so one of the questions you have asked is how many of these exams are from the same discipline that you've written so about 45 people have responded and 80 persons say that none of it is actually related just one course those who wrote just one course yeah just one course is not related so one to five they'll have to say that so that's the data that we are getting here more than five more than five is the red color so they are saying about more than six of their courses are from the same discipline yeah so more than six of their courses are from the same discipline that's what it kind of says but basically what the graph says is most of the courses that they've done is not really related to each other in some sense I think that's what we can read from this so this is some broad data that I have been talking about the last 10 minutes on the three last three years alone 4.5 lakh learners have completed the courses the exams with NP 10 and about 1.2 lakhs which is almost like 30 35 percent right have done more than two courses across various disciplines so let's see what is our domain so a domain is basically a group of courses in NPTEL that we have put together okay we have domains like I said in engineering management I'll also run through all the domains that we have currently we have about 49 domains more are coming more are being worked out also but what is publicly available is 49 domains in 12 disciplines and what do we mean by getting a domain certification right so every domain has a set of core courses and elective courses so every domain does not necessarily have only five or only six courses each domain and every discipline based on the recommendations of the committee some have like five courses some have seven courses some have six courses it depends on what they thought is the best for somebody to specialize in that particular area but every domain has a set of core courses and elective courses so these core and elective courses are defined there we have given which are the NPTEL courses that will come be counted as core we should be counted as elective inside our website so what does person have to do to qualify in a domain right they have to enroll to the courses like you would normally do on swine.gov.in you would follow the course you write the exam you completed you'd have to pass it our pass criteria today is 14 assignments and 14 final exam but for the domain certification we have up the criteria a little bit you have to get minimum 55 in each of the domain courses maintaining an average of 60 across all courses of the domain this is something that we said if somebody wants to get a domain certification it has to be a little more premium than just passing the course so that is the first point that you have to keep in mind here second one there is also a number of weeks that we have specified for every domain this we had to do because our courses are four weeks eight weeks and twelve weeks right so sometimes when you do the core in the elective based on the options that we have given you might just study for about 40 weeks and faculty felt that that was not enough to get a domain certification so for every domain we have also specified the number of weeks to be completed for this particular domain is 50 weeks or 60 weeks or 70 weeks there is a particular specification we have given for each and every domain so one thing you have to check is whether you have completed all the core in elective that we have put out second month do you have more than 55 in each course with an average of 60 in across the courses third point to check is by adding the duration of all the courses that you have completed are you matching the number of weeks that we have specified to get a domain certificate that is something that you will have to be aware of and the fourth condition we have just put saying a period of three years from starting the first course this is more like because some courses are like you know some domains are technology dependent so depending on how fast the technology is going to change the courses might get redundant right so in that case we might have to change the courses belonging to the domain so we have put out saying that the first course in the domain when you start you should kind of complete all the courses in the domain within a three-year period of this okay there's a lot of information we have put out on domains you can go to nptel.ac.in slash noc that's our online certification website and in that if you click on the link called domains this is the page that you will get so we have on what is the nptel domain some details about it then on the right side of course a small video we may just give you an intro and on the right side the domain nptel domain certification book if you click on the book we have put out all the details about the 49 domains we have you can download the book and use it as a quick reference for whatever you require you can circulate it you can use it for your own reference here so that's something that you can do when you do click here to know more about our domains and courses which is what i'm gonna do here right you actually come to the domains that are available with us so these are the just screen out okay so these are the kind of domains that we have in electrical engineering for instance so we have VLSI design we have communication and signal processing we have power systems and power electronics control and instrumentation photonics so in electrical engineering we have brought up five domains we have not necessarily split electrical into electronics and communications electronics and instrumentation electrical we've not done it that way broadly we have kept it as electrical engineering and we have made five domains in that again if you go to computer science engineering you can see that we have artificial intelligence domain data science domain we have a programming domain we have a computer systems domain again if you go to the biotechnology discipline of arts there are a couple of domains there i'll show you i'll go to the website possibly and show you some more but when you go to a particular domain right this is what you'll see so for instance let's see in electrical engineering you have five domains suppose i click on VLSI design what will i see inside i hope this screen is okay otherwise you can always go to the website and see the font is a little smaller but you can see that here we have listed the courses that will be the core and elective for this particular domain so you can see we have basic electrical circuits which is the core one then core two we have analog circuits and we have two places here okay i think this is a better page to probably see i'll show you from the website fine just give me a minute i'll load the website okay so this is nptel.ac.n slash noc and this is the tab called domain that you can click and you can go in and this is what we see here so when i click on click on our domains this lists all the domains that we have across the various disciplines so we have say aerospace engineering we have one thing the images are taking a bit of time to load here then in biotechnology bioscience we have four domains currently you can see we have biosciences bioengineering bioprocesses and computational biology in chemical engineering we have five domains civil engineering we have four computer science we have five all the images are taking a bit of time to load so you can technically go to this website and you can see it okay suppose i go to computer science engineering right and i go to say the data science domain a page like this will open so the first point to note is at the top you have data science minimum 60 weeks okay so this is the duration number of weeks duration that you have to complete to complete a data science domain there's a first point that you have to note on our page here second one it says you have to complete three core courses and what are the three core courses we have listed the core courses here so the first one if you can see it is python for data science it is by professor Raghunath Rangaswamy and it's the open now for enrollment that is there or you can do a pdsa python or professor Madan Mukul so we have listed a core course in which we also give you the options and the equivalences of that particular course so you have to do either professor Raghunath python for data science or pdsa python or Madan Mukul which will add to one core course for you in this particular domain again if you see the second course right it is a data analytics introduction course so we have three options given here you have to finish one of the three options to complete a core course second core course in this domain and the third one if you can see there is an introduction to machine learning that is there again there are two options here you have to finish one of the two to complete the third core course in this particular domain and as you can see for instance let's take the example of introduction to machine learning right an introduction to machine learning one course is eight weeks duration one course is 12 weeks duration that's why we have defined the total number of weeks that you have to complete in a particular domain together domain certificate because i might take a 12 week course my friend may take an 8 week course he might keep on doing 8 week courses and actually a true lesser number of weeks as compared to me in that sense then if you go down you have elective courses and as you can see here it says you have to complete three elective courses here so what are the elective courses for this particular data science domain there is something on deep learning in deep learning itself we have three offerings three different offerings from three different faculty one from IT Madras, IT Karaktur, IT Hyderabad you can do any one of them as an elective if you wish to learn then we have reinforcement learning we have AI in AI we have an option so every course that we have alternatives we give it with an OR here so you can do either that course or you can do this course if you do both we will not count it two times we will count it only once so that is something that you have to keep in mind so amongst say the eight options listed here in the electives you have to complete three electives for this data science domain so this is something that you have to keep in mind when you are going through any domain to make it easy for you to see whether any of your courses are counted towards the domain we have given the NOC IDs of the previous runs of the course so if you have done a certification say in deep learning you can check whether that particular course will be counted towards the domain certification so we have listed when all this course was offered by us and whether it will be counted in this particular domain that is one thing and second thing for ease of knowing whether any domain course is open for enrollment the enroll button is also given here so for instance say you're setting your mind all I want to complete data science domain next time how do you easily identify the courses that are there come to this page how do you know whether that courses are being open for enrollment whichever courses are there for enrollment open it'll show an enroll now button the dash that we show here they will all come up possibly in the July term so in July term you'll see that these hyphens that we put here will all become enroll now while some other courses will actually not be offered hence they will have a dad so an easy way to enroll to domain courses come to the domain page and go out from that particular site so this is something that you can keep in mind right so we can see how this page is loaded now you can see everything in electrical engineering we have five domains in faculty discipline we have two domains so for new faculty and for experienced faculty I think this is a very interesting set of courses that colleges can recommend to your faculty of course we are aware that niter has put out eight modules that also are training for faculty but this is a different flavor from our side I would say for instance from the IIT Bombay Education Department we have quite a few courses on learning analytics on how to design moves making MOOCs offering very effective in this age of online learning probably those are nice courses to be done by your faculty members so these are mostly all IP related courses on you know NAAC accreditation and NB accreditation we have some courses on that we have some courses on leadership that you would require for experienced faculty as you'll get into say hod positions dean positions and so on there are some leadership courses summer courses on the law side of it that you need to know possibly on patent drafting on IP there are some like that so I think this is a really nice domain that you need to explore for your faculty members the for the new faculty there is a set we have suggested for experienced faculty there is a set that has been suggested and for arts and science colleges that are there on this session with us on English also we have two domains so there's one on English studies there's one more we're working on for linguistics that will come out very soon psychology is again another domain that's there management you can see we have seven domains currently there is marketing operations pay tens economics and all that so any of this can be done based on your interests mathematics for those of you very interested in mathematics for the bse math students msc math students who are out there or faculty members you can do these foundations of mathematics and algebra we are coming out with at least three or four more domains in mathematics should be out soon mechanical nine domains are out here the 10th is also there robotics might be something you want to look at if people are interested product design is very popular if you're getting into the manufacturing industry manufacturing processes and technologies is something that again you can think of energy systems it's a hot area today so that's possibly something that you can also look at and the other ones are core courses in mechanical engineering propulsion is more related to your a little bit of flavor of aerospace and you know what you're doing in the heat transfer the propulsion site that's there metallurgical we have two domains so these are all the domains that we have it's listed here you click on each of these domains like I showed you the data science page right a similar page will open and you can see all the courses that are listed there so that's something that you can go through and you can see whether it's relevant to you whether you're interested in doing it and then check on what you want to do about it right so this is on the domain page so who can do a domain right you I don't know sometimes people have this misconception that this is all for students right so one of the things that we have learned in our last five years is that NPTEL is an across age across role across anything kind of a learning platform I think we've cut across all boundaries we did intended to be for college students but 20 percent of her audience is faculty members in colleges and that's something that has grown over the years especially because of our FTP program with the ICT that we have so we do have a huge faculty base also with us we have a student base we have a professional working professionals in the industry they are also learning from us so who can do a domain anybody can do a domain right and a domain is very nice for interdisciplinary learning interdisciplinary expertise that you want to get so supposing you say you're a mechanical engineer you've always wanted to learn programming be proficient in it or probably your PhD work requires you to know a lot of programming and computation that you want to do right but where are you going to go and learn this so it's easy to do a programming domain from us and kind of get skilled in it for instance I can show you the domain scholars that we have these are the people who completed domain certifications with us till 2019 December for the 2020 year we are computing our domain scholars it should be published by next week we are hoping but if you see the student right our very first student who got a domain certification Paam Hir Roy I think we've mentioned him a lot of time so far but a story worth repeating right so he's a student from nearest Arunachal Pradesh he's actually a mechanical engineering student and his aim or his ambition is to work in the field of robotics or you know some kind of where he wants to mix up artificial intelligence along with automobiles and all that but where would he go and study AI courses where would he study ML courses and all that that's not regularly offered in the mechanical engineering discipline as such right so what he did was he did these courses from NPTEL and completed the domain certification in artificial intelligence so a mechanical engineering student especially in Arunachal Pradesh completing an AI domain it's a perfect match right of what you can do from an open learning platform like NPTEL so he has that particular expertise here if you see the next person Mohini Prasad Misha he's a faculty member who has completed the programming domain again you can see a student from RCC Institute has completed data science domain there's one more who has completed there's one more from Konkan Railways if you see the one below second row the left most he is from Konkan Railways he has finished the power systems and power electronics domain he's working with the railway division and working professional but has finished it again there are faculty members who have finished multiple domains so this is something that's very interesting for faculty members especially and say that it gives you an area of expertise especially new faculty who are getting into a college right if you're doing seven or eight courses in a particular area you give you all a lot of expertise in teaching that course in delivering courses in that area you can offer a new course that course is already not being offered in your college especially if you're going in for say a PhD program or something you can look at the courses from here to get the foundations required for it so that is something that we would strongly recommend for faculty members in any kind of a college that you want to learn or cross kill yourself right like I said a mechanical engineer faculty wants to do programming most welcome please go ahead learn from us and you can do it for students we would recommend that they also do a particular domain it's very important to gain an area of expertise that they can get a domain certification and then go in for placements it'll be a huge plus for them and they go in for placements not with one NPTEL certificate but assume they go in with six NPTEL certificates courses in a particular area and they're very sure about what they want to work on right so that's a guidance that you can give students to actually go in with that so maybe I'll come back to the PPT at this point in time to show you all some things on that so yes this is what I was saying you can get technical expertise in the area you can get multidisciplinary expertise outside of the area also you can get something and there is a training in a short period of time for instance if our domains are about say five or six courses technically you can finish a domain in one semester also if the courses are available and the exam dates are not overlapping you can do it in one semester I wouldn't say the best of ways to study but yes there are people who do it that way so maybe spreading it over two or three semesters you can easily finish a domain from NPTEL so while students are in college in their four years of engineering or three years of VSE they can easily plan and complete one domain from us that they can do so this is just a repeat this is what an domain certificate looks like we give an additional certificate for those who complete domains there is no extra charge for this there is no extra fees to be paid for a domain certification completion we give the details of the courses taken along with of course the name of the student and the credentials this domain certification will also come to you all in your local chapter within your logins you can see that data and what you can do is you can probably publicize domain certification amongst your learners which is what we are trying to tell you here that you can do this you can offer projects for instance some of the university officials we spoke to we spoke to a couple of VCs at least 10 university VCs we had meetings in the last four or five months and one of the things that we were telling them was we provide all the theory courses right in a domain but providing hands-on experience or practical projects may be very difficult because of the volume of learners that we have but the college can do this so if somebody completes a domain certification you can give them a project opportunity based on that and give additional certificates on top of NPTEL domain certificate that's something that you can do the NPTEL domain can be adopted as a minor in your academic program if it suits your needs you can even go in with a VTEC with honors degree if such a domain is completed because it's six courses from NPTEL with a minimum number of weeks with at least average of 60 marks so it's not easy in some sense so you can possibly offer a honors degree adopt a NPTEL domain as a minor that you can do and of course if at all it is in your kind of authority and power you try to see that the NPTEL exams can be given by your students and faculty without a clash with the institute activities so that's something that you can do there was one slide Divyaan how they can take the domain courses yes just one yeah so this is just some pathways that we have given here just to ease out and give you all an idea of how students can possibly plan and complete a domain right because when you think of say six NPTEL courses it looks like a lot to many people have done say just one course right but if you look at it this way every semester let the student do one single course from NPTEL on top of whatever they are doing right so the path one if you see semester two they do one course semester three they do one course semester four they do one course it's just one course they're studying on top of their college activities which should not be too much of a time load they should be able to manage it and semester six and seven they do one or two electives then you'll be able to easily complete the domain by the time you're going in for placements you'll be very very prepared with the domain certificate for that a little shorter path we have shown in path two wherein in five semesters you can complete it and the shortest could be path three wherein you do two plus two plus three courses possibly there are seven of course some only have five courses like i told you so it can just be two plus two plus one and like i said one table which we probably not to care is the shortest path possible in one semester you hit your five courses six courses and complete the domain certification so that's also possible and that's something that you can explore here right so i think this is all we had for domains and i think this time from the rough data we saw i'm not putting this out as sure data but i think we have about maybe 15 or so domain scholars from just 2020 alone those are completed courses and who we are going to announce and give certificates to but we will put out the final data probably next week like i said so before we go to credit transfer can we take some questions here any questions on the webex yeah webex that are there yeah participants can raise their hand in webex just so that or type out your questions on the track yeah type it out on the chat so then we can come to you and so there's a question here which says students from arts and commerce colleges are they eligible for domain certificates anybody is eligible for a domain certificate there is no prerequisite there is nothing that stops you from taking like i said right if you're interested in say a domain in management or domain in drop or a bse maybe a physics student is interested in getting a domain certification in electrical engineering right one of the vls i design or something totally all right you can just do the courses and we do we are not looking at what your background is to get a domain certification from us it is just that you can do the courses that are related to domain you complete it and you get a domain certification that's all there is to it uh there's another question which says is it compulsory to all three credits every year for students okay i'm not very sure on what that is there is nothing to do with credits and the domain basically domain is a collection of courses and possibly those courses if you complete like i showed you that is all that is required together domain certificate is it mandatory that one course has to be done every semester no not really required it's not like you do one course every semester you can do two courses this semester take a break next semester then you can come back and do some more courses the semester after so there is no problem at all how can we go through enrollment and domain course just go to any particular domain on our page click on that domain the courses will come enroll now button will be there but as of yesterday we have closed enrollment to 445 courses so most of them may not work now you may not see the join button so in that case it will not work the 65 courses that are open those alone you can possibly enroll to now okay and uh there's a question on architecture okay domain for architecture soon okay we will ping and see because it rookie has been offering most of the courses and architecture i think we haven't yet uh we have not yet explored architecture as a domain so probably we take it up and we work on it this semester let's see whether we can put it up next semester we don't have it currently yes any other questions before we go on to credit transfer for the course for classes and payments management of human resources course starts from 17th February when will be the notification for classes and payments the okay if you're referring to an NPTEL course Mr. Srinivasan then the exam form is already open you can go and pay for the exam notification for classes of 17th February is when the course starts then that day the first week's content will be released and every Monday thereafter the content will get released on that you will get an email about it or you can go to the portal and check on the course it's at saying whether the content has been released or not so that's something you can do but the exam form is already open in fact for the March exams the form will close on February 12th and for April exams if you close on March 12th so those are the closing dates of the exam form where can you see the full chat there's a full chat okay for certain courses marked as elective course in two different domains will it be counted exclusively in both the domains uh we will not count it in both the domains once a course is claimed in a particular domain we will only take it as completion in the other domain but for the number of weeks that you have to kind of you know complete right we'll have to do some extra electives from that particular domain for instance if you take the example of AI and data science domains right there will be a lot of courses that are overlapping here for instance some core electives there some electives are there in both so if you have done one course and you have claimed it for the data science domain certificate you cannot use it for the AI domain certificate so if it's a core course we will accept that okay you have done the core course as a completion parameter we will accept it but then you'll have to do another 12 week course which will cater to your week completion requirements there so that is something that you have to do Vinod Balaji enrollment date is already over how can I join in the domain course now so whatever courses are available now only those can be joined you cannot join for courses for which the enrollment is closed you'll have to wait till next semester for it so there's nothing we can do uh in this respect here because we are already into week three of the course runs hence we cannot open the courses for enrollment a domain course for pharmacy students we don't have an exclusive domain in pharmacy currently we in fact don't even have courses and pharmacy I would say except for maybe two courses from cdsa or health sciences we have some HR of course or some such but we don't have any pharmacy related courses but of course if your students want to do say a management related course or a course in biotechnology biosciences they can do that nothing stops them from doing then that is perfectly alright but yeah we don't have a pharmacy domain related course is there an overall okay is there an overall exam finally for domain certification uh no you don't have another exam for domain certification you have to just complete all the core and elective we have given for a particular domain and with the conditions that we had specified more than 55 marks in every course final total score should be there average of 60 across courses you have to maintain you have to complete the number of weeks specified for that particular domain automatically you will be domain certified if you have completed all that for a particular domain there's no another exam for the domain certification how domain certificate can help for placement see this is again something like I had said right one NPTEL certificate is okay but say you have six NPTEL certificates in a particular area where all six courses are from IITs ISE you have maintained an average of 60 marks and above in each course I think that's a huge plus for any company that sees it it so shows a lot of self-initiative it shows your interest in that particular area that you want to do it shows that you're capable of uh lasting it out and studying six courses outside of the curriculum it shows a lot of things when we see six certificates outside and on top of what the curriculum demands I think that itself will provide a boost for your placements that are there and if you're going in for a area in which you're interested say supposing I'm interested in uh uh uh let's say manufacturing industry right I want to end up with a placement in a manufacturing company and you do the manufacturing domain that we have the processes it shows that you are very focused you are clear about where you want to land and you have done your homework for that right you have done the particular domain for that you have skilled yourself in that uh details and you're going for a job with that I think that's like a paka thing for anybody to do is any internship provided based on credits within the course okay I'm not sure on credits within the course but for domain certified people and the other NPTEL stars that we have we normally are providing soft skill training definitely now and we are working with some companies who are coming back to us with some uh employment opportunities so in that cases we recommend the domain certified candidates first and NPTEL stars first and then we recommend the NPTEL candidates with one or two courses that they have done with us so that's something that we try to showcase from our side the domain certified do get a preference in soft skill training and in employment opportunities if at all they are right okay we have any domain course related to journalism or media studies film studies not currently English we have only that English uh studies related thing I don't think it has any journalism related courses uh that's not there what to do if total number of beats completed unless then specified criteria you have to do another one course from that particular domain so the number of electives will normally be more than what is uh required you'll have to do one more elective to complete the number of weeks required for that particular domain will you offer a single ebook the ebook is what is there on the uh website please go to NPTEL you can type that out NPTEL dot ac dot n slash NOC slash domain if you go to the right side which I showed you is actually an ebook that we have uh let me go back to that uh site so this uh book that you can see here NPTEL domain certification book if you click here you will get a PDF that you can download it has details about the 49 domains and what comes in a particular domain what is the way to do a domain you can definitely take this up you can uh take that book and you can use it for okay I think uh we'll probably uh stop here will IIT provide NPTEL courses in Hindi in the future we have just about one course for now I don't think we have all courses in Hindi Hindi the transcripts are being translated into Hindi though you can go to our website and you can check uh about 120 hundred and or 140 courses the English transcripts are translated into Hindi so we are hoping that people who have a problem with understanding English completely can go through these Hindi transcripts uh but I don't think we will be possibly dubbing our videos and offering a course in Hindi also may not be too much because the faculty also has to be coming up but I don't think it will be too many that uh we are going to put out from our side okay so let's go to uh credit transfer if you have any questions regarding domains we'll come back to that uh okay before we get on to uh talking of credit transfer there is a question here that we have are you aware of credit transfer guidelines given by your university wherever your college is affiliated if it's autonomous it's deemed or it's affiliated to a university are you aware of the credit transfer guidelines that your university prescribes how the coursework is there for your students in the UGNPG whether NPTEL courses can be credited swine courses can be credited what do you have as core professional elective general electives uh discipline electives in whatever ways they characterize and categorize all the uh courses whether you are aware of that right me and there on the web page 120 around 110 okay in youtube it's 266 can we get more responses I thought for uh 260 who are watching youtube and for the people in the web page the responses we are getting is very less 16 plus 10 26 35 responses you can give a response yeah so please go to menti.com scan this code and uh you can enter your answer there or you can enter this code 1074202 on menti.com and put in your response there saying are you aware of the credit transfer guidelines that your college uses be your college and affiliated college affiliated to university autonomous or whether it is a deemed university are you aware of the credit transfer guidelines okay so 34 have said yes and uh many more have said that they do not know the credit transfer guidelines or they do not know what credit transfer is okay um wanted to walk through the yeah I will go to that document so I think I'll walk through a document that we have that might be better I think for explaining what this is I need to increase the size I think right okay I hope this might be clear to you when you are seeing the screen so this is actually a document that we have prepared from NPTEL as guidelines for our local chapters or any university any college which is trying to adopt NPTEL courses for credit transfer where can you find this document you go to NPTEL.ac.in slash local chapter yeah so you can go to this website and go to this local chapter portal of ours on top you have something called quick reference links and once you click on the this page will come we have a main heading called credit transfer and the document under that the first document NPTEL recommendations for credit transfer this is the document that I've opened and I wanted to discuss today so if you want to read it more in-depth you can actually go there and possibly see that yes so this is the document that we have it's a 13 page document two pages are just the first page and the index so 11 page document so this is what we have let me come down to it so basically for those who are not aware of credit transfer right so previously there used to be courses and you had to complete all the courses in a program with a certain set of marks and you get your degree and after that they started categorizing courses based on the number of hours of learning that every course requires and typically 15 hours of learning in a course they said it is equivalent to one credit so basically a credit is a unit of learning that you can think of and you can say okay how many credits is a course right you can have a one credit course you can have a two credit course you must have heard these terminologies a lot so one credit course means you can assume okay every week you have a 12 week semester then the class happens only once a week possibly it's so it's a shorter term course or maybe it's like a lighter course we can call it or something like that while if I say that I'm doing a four credit course what does it mean when I have a 12 week or a 14 week semester every week normally there will be four classes for that course so it's typically something like that that we can say so a credit is a unit of learning and the unit is equivalent to about 15 hours of learning in a particular course right so how does NPTEL characterize its courses as the four and eight and 12 week courses that we have how do we assign credits to it right so NPTEL say typically every week we put out about two and a half to three hours of video content and we put out one assignment right this is something that all of you must be knowing so suppose we calculate what is the number of hours a learner should spend if they enroll to an NPTEL course so you have to watch all the videos that are put out every week suppose I say it is three hours for one time viewing I just play every video once so then it is about three hours that is required and then have to solve an assignment for that particular week right that is one hour so it is four hours so what happens totally for videos and assignment I get totally four hours so if you take a four week course right in four weeks every week you require four hours of effort the total hours of effort in a four week course counting only videos and assignment is about 16 hours like I said 15 hours of learning is about one credit so that's why NPTEL recommends one credit for a four week course same way for an eight week course every week it is four hours of learning if you say 8 into 4 32 15 hours is one unit or one credit so we assign recommend two credits for a eight week course for a 12 week course we recommend three credits but in an online course whatever you are the learning that you put in is not just the videos not just the assignment right there are multiple flavors to it one thing one side only one time if I watch all the NPTEL videos definitely that's not enough for me to study from the course right I might have to watch it two times at least or I have to stop it pause it make notes in which case if I'm watching two and half hours of video and I stop pause make notes stop pause make notes it might take me even five hours to actually study from the NPTEL videos the second one if you have seen any of our programming courses and all that we have at least four or five programming assignments per week if you have seen all our engineering assignments there are problems to be worked out so one hour of assignment time is definitely not enough many times you require two or three hours of time given to the assignment and third we have a discussion forum we have text transcripts we have additional reading material that is there there are a lot more components apart from just the videos and the assignments so what we have recommended in our certificates that you've seen on our website and all that you see is right if you count the additional time required for watching videos for doing assignments for going through discussion forum text transcripts that might come to possibly another 15 hours in the total course time in which case you can assign one more additional credit if you include these as learning components so that is what we say here university taking the courses for credit transfer can decide how they calculate learner engagement and they can take the courses for the credits we recommend which is one two three credits or they can add one more additional credit and make it two three four credits if they want one thing I'd like to emphasize your NPTEL is an course offering organization we offer a course we conduct the exam we give you the marks okay there is nothing called as we give you credits the university or the college has to take courses for credits here that is something that you have to do so the academic council right or the governing body of the institution has to actually say how they are going to take say swine courses or NPTEL courses or courses from anywhere else right if your student goes abroad you have a semester exchange program and you're going to take maybe credits from there how are you going to take it all these have to be put in as policies by the universities academic council autonomous institutions academic council deemed universities academic council they have to frame it and say how they will permit it which courses will be permitted whether it will come into free elective general elective whether it is compulsory for all students whether it is optional for them how many credits they will assign to these courses whether these courses will be counted towards your total average gpa that you call it right your progressive average or your total average of courses that you have gotten overall in the program or only the credits will be counted all these are decisions that the university's academic council has to make NPTEL normally does not do anything many times you get a lot of mails which says will you give me credit will you do this can NPTEL decide our policy can NPTEL tell my university this i'm sorry but we cannot do it we are just a course offering body we offer a course we conduct exam we give the university back the marks they have to decide how they are going to handle it for instance some universities can say we'll take the course from NPTEL and swayam we'll take the assignment marks from there but i will conduct my own exams and that will be taken for credit transfer some universities can say please take the course from NPTEL write their exam come back to me with the certificate and the same one two three credits i will transfer into our program some universities say it is to be taken as a compulsory mandatory course as part of the curriculum itself and without passing the NPTEL course you cannot graduate that is more stringent more strict but that is also done in some universities what they have said is if you do 20 credits from NPTEL we will give you a BTEC honours right so in that case it is optional a student who wants to do a regular BTEC only from that particular university does not have to do NPTEL courses if they want to get a BTEC honours they do the 20 additional credits from NPTEL so that is something that some universities say some universities which facilitate internship for their students say you are giving a six month internship period for your student student is on on site with some company and working there how will they attend your college classes it's not possible right so that particular semester some universities say you can do NPTEL courses you can credit it back to us and we will take it from there so that is not a problem right so there are various ways in which these courses can be accommodated into your curriculum in a flexible manner in a stringent manner in whatever way but this has to be done by the academic council of the university and when university affiliating colleges passes a rule it normally is applicable to all affiliated colleges okay autonomous colleges can make their own rules though right I mean everybody knows what the difference is but I'm just emphasizing it here so autonomous colleges can make their own rules in terms of which courses can be credited and so on so that they can do but if yours is an affiliated college the university's main rules will apply to students in your particular college so that's something that you have to keep in mind okay so we have something here you can look at this chart it's very very perceptive here so we have NPTEL recommended credits which are already there like I said it's one two or three credits for a four or eight or twelve week course and then you have university sanctioned credits like I said you can take it for one two three you can take it for two three four we've even gotten paperwork which says some colleges take our twelve week courses for five credits so that is something that they can take what credits are assigned is done by the university again so university sanctioned credits that goes into the students mark transcript right or the other thing that can happen is they take the marks from us and they can put their own credit grading system for instance in our NPTEL system supposing you get more than 90 is when you normally you get a gold medal equivalent on the certificate a student who gets 70 say in the same course does not get any of it right you get an le tag but that's all there is but probably the 70 mark student is the highest in a particular college of a university system taking NPTEL course the university can decide that I will give an a grade to the student because he is the top in the university in an NPTEL course taken amongst all students so even whether you want to scale up the marks whether you want to convert it into number grades you want to convert it into letter grades and all can be decided by the university what we do is we give you the raw marks gotten by the student in the assignment and the final exam this comes inside the SPOC login we also are enabling a university login these days a university that affiliates colleges we also have a university login we have enabled it for multiple universities a representative from the university will get data of all colleges affiliated to them they can take out the student information so this login you can take the information from there directly give it to your college do whatever system of crediting is acceptable by your particular system and then take it into the students mark transcript okay yeah this is whatever saying you can take it for the credits fee recommend or you can do a credits plus one or you can do your own system nothing stops you from doing your own system also learn engagement I already spoke about this recommended credits that is there this is our current pass criteria it is 40 out of 100 in the assignment score and 40 out of 100 in the proctored exam score so this is something based on which an NPTEL certificate will be given again I want to give you another example here right for instance only if you pass in these two will be given NPTEL certificate but if the university says give me the marks and suppose somebody has gotten say 17 assignment and 30 in the proctored examination and the university thinks no maybe this person also should be passed and given credits for this particular course they can go ahead and do it it is up to the university's academic council rules and regulations to permit such a thing to happen the only thing that will not happen is if you say bring an NPTEL certificate for that marks where they have gotten 30 out of 100 and not passed as per our norms we will not give it but if the university says I will accept 30 marks and make the student pass and giving credits entirely up to the university to do it they can completely go with that right okay so how do you plan and choose courses for credit transfers so you can choose courses from core elective multi-disciplinary you can do that we have published our tentative calendars for the next three semesters July 2021 Jan 2022 July 2022 in fact we are finalizing our calendars definitely six months ahead of the start of the semester so that's something that you can keep in mind and if the academic council meets regularly they can go through a set of courses and they can definitely see what is applicable what is the most appropriate for their students and kind of put it into their system okay so some quick options to do courses for credit transfer domain certification courses you can recommend you can put it as a minor that we already talked about credits can be given to us an honors degree like we said you can make NPTEL course as mandatory if you want though I think NPTEL would not be in favor of making an NPTEL course mandatory at any level the whole philosophy of online learning and offering online courses is that students should be free to learn what they want to learn right you can recommend job oriented courses you can tell the students this is a better course to take it will improve your chances at many things but at the end of the day I think it's left to the student to see what they are interested in doing so maybe not making it mandatory and at another level I think we would also not hesitate in saying NPTEL courses may not be for each and every student in the college at least the same course right say you're looking at electromagnetic theory from NPTEL it is really difficult electromagnetic theory course itself is not very easy but on top of it the way that IIT is treated it'll be full of problems mathematics and also students don't have the foundations they're gonna really struggle and if this is good as a mandatory course they have to pass I I'm not sure if students are doing well because we have seen this across courses semester after semester for the last couple of years so if you're making NPTEL courses mandatory might be nice to say that the students who are really interested let them take that kind of courses and maybe some students can do some courses like soft skills or German one German two we have a Japanese course that is happening there are English courses that are happening management courses that are happening maybe that is their interest right they can take whatever they are interested in rather than say this particular course should be taken by all students which we are seeing is not suiting all students who are kind of being asked to take that course NPTEL assignments can be taken for internal marks like I said you can do the course from us it's completely free MHRD sponsoring the project take the assignment marks from that conduct your own exam and you can go ahead and give the credits for that okay uh yes this is already we spoke about so you have a final in person proctored exam that we conduct and we give all the marks within your spoc login the university login also and uh you can go through it for transferring credit some examples for those of you who are here on how uh credit transfer has been implemented uh Kerala Kerala Technical University Technological University which is now Abdul Kalam Technological University Kerala they have given activity points through NPTEL courses I think they're also considering some domains as minors they're also looking at Abidek honors through ours there is a whole document on that that has recently come up please go through that you can get more details if there are any people from Kerala here uh AKTU Lucknow right which is in UP they also actually take NPTEL courses for free PhD courses they also have the 20 credits from NPTEL and Abidek honors that you can get that has also been implemented in AKTU that is happening there uh Gujarat Technological University currently its activity points can be gained but they're also looking at credit transfer from NPTEL courses I think the policy is underway it's probably not been published yet uh there are other uh uh examples given here but many of them have taken our courses for credit transfer in multiple ways more details given on our website you can go through that completely okay okay some things which I would like to emphasize here on what not to do I think I'll go back to the document for this particular way so in our document we have given clearly on what are the steps involved in NPTEL certification what you should do to do credit transfer so how does a course run uh how you write exams uh in the NPTEL courses how do you get the marks how do you get the NPTEL certificate what is the pass criteria we have here then how to choose uh courses for credit transfer that's something that is there and we have given recommendations also which is what we talked about in the slides that you can do domains you can do uh plain credit transfer you can make it mandatory you can make it optional these are there so you can go through this right uh some things that we wanted to just kind of emphasize as to how NPTEL is different most of you must know it but I would like to just bring it up here so courses that NPTEL offers are largely based on the AICT curriculum so it will be very very strongly aligned to whatever your college syllabus is of course with more emphasis on the research aspects of it which the faculty also do here so the topics will be current the content that is being put out will also be current that is something that is happening here the instructors who teach these courses know about our students they know from what background these people come what they learn in 11th and 12th standard what they would learn in a particular college uh curriculum and then they cater the content accordingly so there'll be a little more localization of teaching happening when the instructors are from India and they're offering courses on NPTEL we are doing an in-person proctor examination just like universities conduct exams where students come in person and write we do the same thing in fact last semester we had about 2.5 lakh candidates write exams NPTEL exams so that's what we do across India so this is something as a biggest usp we will say the other MOOC portals do not give you in-person proctored exam we can exactly tell you how our students have done who has come to write the exam so that's something when you take for credit transfer that's a big plus I think for us assignments every semester we change assignments for our courses even if the course is being reoffered every semester we change assignments we do not repeat the same assignments semester after semester that's something that we have we have an e-certificate that has a QR code you can scan it and you can validate the certificate from our site that's there local chapters like we said we have 4000 plus local chapters we share scores with each in every college that is the most authentic form that you can take from us of the marks you don't have to ask every student to submit everything you don't have to go running around seeing what the student has credited or something like that NPTEL will give you the marks and details of all students who have done courses with us of course if they have agreed to share the marks with you based on privacy we also do that particular thing right yeah there is also a section in our document on how to approve courses in academic council for better implementation for instance we have given certain examples also here on how to keep it flexible how to keep it you know uh approachable for the students for instance if the university specifies that x y z course by this instructor of this institute alone is uproot for credit transfer right for the next three years and maybe for some reason that instructor is not reoffering the course it becomes a problem because that course then is kind of redundant in your academic council guidelines so what would be kind of good to approve is generic course titles in fact a bokeh of courses is what we will suggest approve like maybe 10 courses 20 courses in mechanical engineering civil engineering and all that and say any of these can be taken for credit transfer you can have internal mechanisms for your faculty to approve what they are taking which year is taking which course and all that can be done internally but basically academic council can kind of approve it uh you know in a generic basis the other thing we are adding about 100 courses every semester new courses so if the academic council meets a little more often it'll be nice because then they can also update their list constantly and see which courses to add which courses to remove the third thing we'll say is all the statistics of our courses are public on our website you can go in and see which course how many students did what was the pass mark how much what was the average marks how many passed how many failed and all you'll get a good idea of how difficult that course is the videos are published on our website assignments are available you can also take a look at that see whether that particular course you're recommending is appropriate for your students whether they have the foundations to do it whether it would be of interest to them right and then these courses can be recommended so I think that is something very very important that faculty can do this ground homework you know on selecting the courses from the NPTEL find it courses seeing what is required for their students and then going with that because we have seen in many instances very very difficult offbeat even PG level courses almost are recommended for UG level and the students have really really struggled many of them have not passed they are in graduating semesters they get stuck because of the NPTEL course the way that the framework is done it's a mandatory course for graduation and it does not really happen you know and then students are disappointed and they are kind of depressed they are anxious the faculty in their college are anxious they are also anxious because there's huge pressure on us saying that can you conduct a supplementary exam can you do this can you pass them and we don't do supplementary exams we do 500 courses every semester we do pan india exams like I said a two and a half lakhs supplementary exams are impossible for us to conduct at this point in time we already do two sessions of the exam so we don't do supplementary the idea that we give is if somebody has failed in an NPTEL course the college or the university again in its academic guidelines can have something that supplementary exam will be done by the university and all the assignments are available publicly even if you put together questions from that and make the student right if they know at least that and you can pass them on that basis that would be a better way to do it but supplementary exams from NPTEL currently are not happening so it becomes a real bottleneck when students are in the graduating semester so that's something that you might have to keep in mind when you know taking courses for credit transfer so these examples we have given here saying on how the wordings can be more generate you know rather than make it very very specific and certain courses like say the programming courses python cc plus plus data science courses and all across disciplines we suggest that it be recommended because today if you look at it programming courses some at least you know some kind of programming some kind of data science some kind of analytics is required for each and every person getting into the industry because whatever their whatever job they are going to do that is one aspect that they're all going to use so maybe that is a recommendation that we would give that these can be recommended to all students of the college that they can take it from NPTEL that is something that is there and also decide on how you'll want to incorporate the courses we would suggest open electives and general electives so that the core comes from the colleges and also the discipline electives from comes from the colleges open and general electives are a little more flexible according to curriculum that's nicer to take from NPTEL courses so I think that is something that should be done and normally we recommend that first year students do very light courses don't put them on the heavy NPTEL courses don't put first semester students on to NPTEL courses also let them come into college let them settle down let them first get used to the college environment from second semester they can possibly start an NPTEL course then also give them something like soft skills or English or maybe a lighter course and then get them on to heavier discipline wise courses that would be a recommendation again do not include graduating semesters into our courses do not say an eight semester student has to do this course and then only the graduate it becomes a huge bottleneck for everybody in the system if that is done so probably we can stop at seven semester and still it can be a general elective or an open elective at that level right so we have also given to be avoided again these are our suggestions our recommendations the university knows best the university knows its own colleges its own students so I think they will do it in the best interest of everybody but based on our experience based on working with universities across India colleges across India seeing the thousands of mails we have gotten over the last couple of years these are our recommendations so the results that you want to incorporate right it takes us some time to release results of 500 courses it takes us at least a month right so if you'll have an urgency to release your results we may not be able to give it in time so take that into effect that is there we don't conduct supplementary exams the course schedules have to match your schedule NPTEL publishes its calendar at least one and a half years ahead if you go to our website our calendar for 2020-22 January and July semesters are already published our exam dates are available our start and end dates are available you can see whether it matches your system and then you can possibly take it for the you know a credit transfer so yeah ambiguous and broad recommendations are better then alternative mechanisms that we need those are there then how to incorporate NPTEL course marks into the university grading system I think I already spoke about this that is there then how universities and colleges can convert it also there is some recommendations on that how you can do it and providing allowance for NPTEL exam fees whether the college can bear it whether the university can bear it that is also something that the university can think of whether they will reimburse if somebody does an NPTEL exam and actually passes and faculty members we have just given a general recommendation that for FPP they can take it with AICT we have an MOU and AICT faculty they can take our advanced courses for FPP courses there's some information on local chapters also here that you can go through this basically this is our 11 page document like I said it's available on nptel.ac.in slash local chapter go to the quick link reference quick reference links tab in that under credit transfer the first document is given so I think that's all we had to say about NPTEL courses for credit transfer we would take questions now maybe 10 minutes and we close I know I'm overshot from what I said initially but probably this was required so we go ahead and take questions if you have any questions okay okay is there an e-gaming developer course in NPTEL not really currently but I don't think we have that so yeah can you check any other course any other questions that we have I'm checking the YouTube questions my colleague is checking the questions on Webex so you can check both university doesn't recognize NPTEL credits yes the Mumbai University Academy Council has not yet brought it into their system there is a background work happening but it takes a lot of time for universities to kind of change these guidelines so whenever it happens it happens but even if it's not there for credit transfer I would say NPTEL courses are a huge plus for anybody outside of the IITs because you do get certificates from the IITs for the course that you have studied so I think that is something that you can possibly you know kind of take yeah there is a this question is related to domain you want to take that question JK I am shocked from my college my college is affiliated to AKT you know what I have to do as a spark to transfer credit for any student see as I say as we said earlier it really depends on what all you what all courses have been approved by the university for credit transfer and so you have to first look at the guidelines provided by the university regarding which all courses go under credit transfer once you have it I think it is just like how you provide your results to the university the same process there will be a section within the university academic body which looks at which looks at this point of credit transfer at this point since I'm not getting any questions in Webex for all those people who are logged in so I have a small quiz for all of you and if you have not already filled up that form where I have asked you what your name your designation is please provide the name and designation right now we'll have a short two three minutes quiz as we are answering the question okay let me now look at other chat questions so there's a question on domain certificate will courses get added in future under domain or is it finalized I mean there will be courses that I mean we may renew the domains regularly based on whether that subject or the new courses relevant for the domain so please our domain list will definitely get updated every semester so every semester as we get new courses we also see whether it fits into domain so either we or it with a course or it money like I'm saying a core course can be one two or three right so there's a new course that is similar to that we also added to that saying if you do this also I will come back or we add it as an electric that is continuously happening every semester we're doing that okay so for all those people who are still logged into Webex or in youtube the instruction is go to this site enter mnt.com 1074202 or use the qr code that we are seeing what we are planning to do is we are going to do a short quiz I mean we spent almost 2000 domains and we just want to know how much you have learned from this so what you will see in front of your screen is yes a lot of people are giving names I see around 27 people logged in so what you have to do is give a nickname and all these people will now be shown so where is entering their nickname we you can see all these people have been have collected over here so I'm just going to start around 30 people have logged in more number of people are logging in 40 people so let me start the question okay so the moment you are able to answer fast it is you will get the points programming data structures and algorithms using python is an 8p course offered by NPTEL so what is the NPTEL recommended credit for this course let's see how many of you are able to answer it times up 19 people are saying it was option two and yes option two is correct so 19 people are correct let me see who the fastest guy is okay so we have who are is anthogracious is the fastest 928 points I hope anthogracious can see the accolades coming in on your screen so yes pdsa it's an 8v course as we said in credit transfer eight weeks is equivalent to two credits so these two credits actually is what NPTEL recommends so it is not the university recommended it is the NPTEL recommended harshan is asking so in the meantime I'll also take a question so don't go away I have another question for you a follow up question for all of you who are who have never seen what the quiz is so let me now go to the next question so this is question two out of the four questions that I have for you so the question number two is so we talked about pdsa the board of studies of university looks at its curriculum and sees that pdsa is a four credit codes what should be the next thing that the board of studies or university should be doing so there are three options which one to give three two one okay so this is regarding the policy of credit transfer assume that you the NPTEL recommended credit and the university recommended credits are different okay what should the university's policy making do the ideal thing is not to give three credits or four credits we have something called learning effort which is the fundamental for credit as far as NPTEL is concerned look at this learning effort and see whether the university has a policy regarding learning effort at their end I mean will they calculate credits based on learning efforts so that is something that you can actually do at this end I'm not going to show the leaderboard but those people who have done this answer you can see people who gave answer number three that is the correct answer okay let me go to okay now as most of you said correctly the board of studies now has a committee and they have appointed to look at equivalence of courses so they look at what is the learning effort of the equivalent course to the one which has been provided in NPTEL assume that the committee found that the learning effort for calculation in their curriculum is also the same but the number of credits offered by university is one more the one than given by NPTEL so for example NPTEL has one two three but the university has two three four so the equivalence of PDSA course is three credits in the university curriculum so I hope all of you understood this part of it so I can see a lot of reaction 37 38 people and another thing that the board of studies looks at is all the affiliated colleges of the university is a local chapter with NPTEL so local chapter is one partnership where the results everything will be available to the local chapters single point of contact now the question for all of you is question number three of four viewers wants three credits to be given to PDSA which of the below will you recommend to board of studies should they make a rule that university credit equal to NPTEL credit plus one at one credit based on mentorship done at LC reject the course from credit transfer list which of this should be done okay so this question the ideal solution yes since all courses are NPTEL credit plus one they could have actually given either the rule that university credit is equal to NPTEL credit plus one however what we would also recommend is since all the institute all the affiliated colleges are local chapters there is one credit that you can actually give if as part of mentorship and this mentorship provides more evidence whether the learners actually learned so the university can actually mandate mentorship that okay if you do mentorship then you get one additional become a mentee under the faculty that will be counter towards the credits even that is also a valid answer rejecting the course just because the credits are different is not ideal but yeah so this is something that if you are part of board of studies or if you know someone who is part of board of studies you could tell them that all these options are available with NPTEL courses so suppose everything went fine board of studies agreed to the rules everything happened 600 students from the affiliated colleges in the university took the exam 450 passed and sorry it's not 50 150 failed it's not 50 150 pardon for that typo 150 students failed the exam okay very much possible so the next question for all of you is what should university ideally do for those 150 students should they not accept the credit transfer should them should they provide a makeup exam maybe at a lower weight and use that for credit transfer take the assignment scores alone okay not accept the credit transfer that seems a really harsh decision that's why it is not marked as a correct answer we do not recommend to directly take an assignment scores when there is a final proctored exam okay if the assignment scores have to be taken a small percentage of it has to be taken and it has to be severely weighted down but the best solution at this point is to provide a makeup exam at a lower weight so you can say if somebody passes NPTEL exam they get x percentage and somebody passes the makeup exam they may get us 0.75 of x okay so that makeup exam can be of a lower weight and this could be given to the students so the essentially the idea that we want to tell you is there's a lot of flexibility in the hands of the university to look at several different scenarios and formulate credit transfer policies and I hope this would have clarified a lot of your questions that regarding credit transfer let me just see if there are any questions in the webx so I don't see any questions coming up so if this if there are any further questions on domains or credit transfer please feel free to post it right now we'll be closing down the chat and live session in next couple of minutes I don't see so most of the questions that came in youtube chat has been answered by us from now so please post your queries related to either domains or credit transfer in the webx chat not or the youtube chat we'll be happy to take them so there is after each course there is exam or semester wise so each each of our courses chronal it runs in a semester so as soon as the exams get over there is a I mean courses get over there is an exam on a schedule date please go to npital.ac.in to understand the current semester schedule Umakshi Sharma is asking ma'am if we only take course certificate there is no problem but you will not get a domain certificate I assume that the question is related to domain but is the percentage required in domain certificate we have already said overall average should be greater than 60 55 more than 55 marks for at least two subjects so at least two subjects you can go below 60 but overall average has to be greater than 60 please include nate course in domain for faculty experience yes it is being added it is actually being added to both experienced and if I'm not mistaken even to the novice faculty because it is related to outcome based education we recently had a query so this is a course by professor N.J. Rao on outcome based education I think nate course I believe that's the course that you are talking of how to make flexible policy to credit transfer if students do courses through other platform follow roughly follow the same thing ask them other platforms what is the learning effort get a document from them ensure that they conduct a very stringent high quality exam as the final one and that is what you should use for credit transfer okay let me let me just see whether nate is not okay so city library cv I'll just check whether it is also assigned to experience faculty also yeah mentorship credit transfer can take place see as I told you mentorship is associated with local chapter so if any university is going to go about in terms of credit transfer ideally it should have most of its I mean a large majority of its college put in as NPTEL swam local chapters and the thing over here is the single point of contact of the local chapter can assign mentors faculty mentors for students for taking exams or courses from NPTEL with these people you could get a direct feedback about and the NPTEL courses how much effort done by each student so it's exactly like how internals and externals work in a regular university system the local chapter or the local college or affiliated college will provide inputs regarding what they did locally this can be counted for that one credit what is the minimum requirement for that one credit can be devised by the university Niranjan SP I think this was answered by Parthi earlier if you complete the courses for domain but does not complete the minimum week criteria ideally you should do one more elective course such that the weeks criteria is also satisfied should first year student fill the enrollment now most of the enrollments are over see for the first year students we recommend that they start practice but do not mandate it if they are really motivated really interested provide them with the courses yeah so Pushpangala Mishra is clarifying that NAT is already there in the faculty domain so Pushpangala Mishra I think the query was it is not there for experienced faculty let me let me just check with the team over here I believe for both not just for one again I am assuming that NAT is the course which is for outcome-based education and I'm hoping that it is the same one is there any certificate for this workshop are we providing certificates no so this is just an awareness session there is no certificate for this session again it is not a workshop it is just a session so I hope we are we have answered most of your queries and I think let me stop sharing my screen so thank you thanks to all of you there are around 119 watching youtube another 70 people logged in through Webex I hope all of you got an idea of what domain courses and what credit transfer is hopefully we'll have more awareness among faculty regarding these two things and which will then percolate to the students so we are hoping for more number of people getting appointed to domain courses and more number of enrollments in domain courses as well as we are hoping that many universities will start putting up favorable policies for credit transfer in the days to come so with that I think we will conclude this session studio team you can now stop the youtube live thank you all thank you all for attending this session being patient attendees participating in the interactive activities we hope we were able to clarify most of your queries so until another opportunity