 to swyam.gov.in URL as you can see here so first step is to sign in as you can see here it's on the right hand top corner so I'm clicking on the sign in button next step is for me to click on the Google button so it is asking me to login so I'm going to type my email ID so as you can see I have logged in now the email ID showing up here so the next step is for me to click on what you see as course catalog I'm going for the option all it is taking me to the swyam portal where all the courses are listed once again my target is to look for an NPTEL online course so I'm looking under the filters option and you can see as you can see there's a option called national coordinator you can click on the tiny arrow next to it and choose NPTEL on the right hand panel here all NPTEL courses that is offered this July semester will be listed you can scroll down and select any course that you want as you can see all the courses are listed here or if you know that you are looking for a particular discipline you can look under categories and select let's say aerospace engineering all aerospace engineering courses are listed on the right panel here so I'm going to enroll to the course called vibration and structural dynamics by professor Meera Mitra this course is offered by IIT Kharagpur it's an eight week course the start date is mentioned here and the exam date is also given here so I'm going to click on the course name here as you can see details about the course is available on this page there's also a intro video on the right hand side please watch the video so that you get a better understanding of the course I also want to see the course layout so I scroll down and see that it is listed here from week one to week eight some books and references are shown here a small bio of the instructor and some details about the course certificate etc everything is given here now that I've read everything I'm ready to join the course so I'm clicking on the join button that is shown on the right top corner on the right hand side here some details has to be filled here so my name mobile number email id age group in country etc now there's a question called are you part of a local chapter so local chapter is an initiative where NPTEL partners with colleges so if you already know you can say yes here and move on else if you want to check if your college is a local chapter you can click on this link and go search for for your course so I'm going to say yes here and then when I choose a state here so for example I'm going to choose Maharashtra and under Maharashtra all colleges that are partnering with NPTEL will be listed so I'm choosing one college here and next I'm mentioning my college my area my department etc and finally I'm saying I agree to the swam terms of service the honor code and finally I'm clicking on update profile and join course the process of joining the course is complete now as you can see there's a message that says here thank you for registering for the course and you will also receive an email notification saying confirming that you have joined the course so today we are going to see the contents that are available in a typical online certification course page so if you have already enrolled to a course you can click on go to course so this is a typical course page as you can see there are different tabs at the top such as announcements about the course ask a question progress and on the left hand side you can see all the modules or video lessons and assignments that are available for this particular course so let's see the first module one it has one two three three videos and you have a couple of assignments and a test also so if you click on the first one you can see the video is shown at the top of the page you can click on the video and watch the video and there are some questions that are given at the bottom of the page similarly if you let's say I click on quiz so the first quiz the questions are laid out here you have to click on the correct answer and at the bottom you will see if you scroll down there will be a submit button which you can click and submit the assignment the points are also shown here and a due date is also given here so this is what how a typical assignment will look like so every assignment will have a due date and the assignment questions will be based on the video that is given for that particular week video or videos so again for module two writing tasks again you can see couple of videos given here and a final quiz at the end so if you click on the first video here comprehending scientific passages you can see that the video again is displayed at the top and some questions for reference are also given at the bottom and the quiz at the end of module two is your assignment you have to answer these questions again the due date is shown here you have to submit at the end once the due date is over the correct answers will be again published here you can come and check how you did if you want to go back to the course you click on about the course again so you go back to the course page so I am again going to the course page again next I want to explore what we see as ask a question so I am clicking on ask a question it is what we call as a discussion forum so this is where you can post a question these questions will be answered by typically the TA or the teaching assistant of the course instructor or sometimes even the peers or the learners who have taken the same course and is studying the course along with you may also help you out so this is a typical chat box where you can say I have a doubt you can mention some title here you can even attach files here and then you can post the question so these questions will be answered most of the time at least within 24 hours and you will be able to go through answers posted by your other peers also in this forum now there are some other options like filters you can go through this and explore this when you have some time the last button here is called progress when you click on this it will show the date of enrollment your some of your details like name and mail id and also the marks that you have scored for each assignment so this is where you can keep a track of what you have been scoring for each and every assignment and you can also do a comparison of what the other learners have scored and this way you will get an idea as to where you stand when it comes to the learners of this particular course so these are some of the features that are available within the course page I urge all the learners to explore even more and write to us if you have any doubts thank you we will explore what features are available in local chapter portal so the local chapter ur list input dot ac dot in slash local chapter with l and c in caps on the right hand side you can see four boxes existing spark mentor new spark and interested to become local chapter if you are already in a spark that means your college is already added as a local chapter you can click on the box titled existing spark again you want more details about the mentor or you yourself is you are a mentor then you can click on the mentor tab for more details if you are a new spark and you need some guidelines as to how what is the next step how to go about you can click the tab new spark and if you are not a local chapter yet and you are interested in becoming a local chapter you can click on the interested to become local chapter tab so let us first click on the interest to become local chapter tab as you can see the sample request letter is shown here and there is a form that you have to fill so we say that you download the sample request letter fill all the details this letter has to be in the college letter form principal letter head make sure the principal signs seal is put there and then you once you fill the form you have to upload the request letter sign with the principal here we will go through the details that you had filled and then we will send a confirmation mail to you that you have become a local chapter so we are going into the existing spoc page this is where you sign in to log into your spoc account here again we have something called a quick reference link so this applies to spocs who are already local chapter with us so you can click on the first one called announcement forum so this is an announcement page where we publish all notifications announcements deadlines etc which we have sent out as mail to spocs this is for an spoc who's already working with us and who wants more details Balaji whenever you are ready we can one second up just close the door yeah you are live sir you can start the session yeah thanks so good morning one and all and Dr. Jay Krishnan from NPTEL IIT Madras so today we are going to have faculty awareness workshop on NPTEL and its various initiatives so NPTEL or national program for technology enhanced learning is a government of India project government of India project that aims for providing accessibility to technical education for millions of learners in India and we have been so this entire effort has started in 2003 as a self-learning platform so it was something like a course where that it initially started off as in 2003 we had created video resources and web courses which are delivered by professors from IITs and IAIC and from 2014 onwards this has now taken up the massive open online course mode or certification course mode in which through which we actually provide certification individual course certification to several learners before I proceed further on the NPTEL awareness so here is a short quiz that I would want all of you to do so Divya how many people are watching the session right now in youtube only 30 members are watching sir okay so apparently 30 members are there so which is which is good enough so let's start the mentor poll okay yeah sir I'll share it so yeah so this is I mean like since this is the virtual workshop and we want to actually see how many of you are actually watching it how many of you are engaged with the content so we have something called as a Mentimeter poll that we do along with the session so I'll tell you the instruction of doing it I'll let my colleague Divya share the Mentimeter link with you Divya you can share the link yeah Mentimeter presentation yeah keep it on for couple of minutes don't do any timer as of now let more viewers come in so we'll have a lot more response to that first slide have you shared the menti link can you see my screen sir one second yeah now it is here yeah so how do you participate in this so this is the question yeah if you are using a computer go to this site called www.menti.com and use the code 92821 or if you have a mobile you can directly take a scan of this QR code and it will actually take you to the poll so yeah you can show the question Divya yeah so this is the question how familiar are you with NPTEL so before proceeding further I would want to know how many of you have heard of NPTEL what have you what have you done with NPTEL till now the instruction for polling is again given at the top of this slide you can see go to www.menti.com and use the code 92821 so you can take this in your browser in your browser type www.menti.com and a screen will appear in that you have it will ask for a code the code is 92821 so I see that there is a first response has come so three people have responded to the query yes the numbers are increasing so I believe most of you would have understood how to respond to the query eight people have responded 10 more people have responded Divya just let's wait for another minute okay so all all the people so you can see what this poll is doing right so I mean in a virtual scenario like this it actually helps us a lot to connect with you where we can hear from you and actually we can show you what kind of things what do you say what are the responses from participants who are joining this particular session via YouTube so even though you are you are from multiple places I think what this actually helps is connecting with all of you and giving that interaction so I know that there is a significant number of people who have joined this session now know about NPTEL and some have even written the exam so the number of people who have written the exam even though it is less but it is a significant number Divya you can take a countdown for 30 seconds now we have almost 17 responses and since the viewers were just 13 30 I think you will not get more than 20 okay Divya I think we can stop the poll for the time being so you can stop sharing your screen I'll start I'll start the screen share from my side okay yeah so what we have already discussed is the origin of NPTEL it started out in 2003 from 2014 it became a certification medium for certification from IITs and IIC of course it is a project which is funded by Ministry of Human Resources and Development which is now Ministry of Education so what has happened so the 2003 to 2014 version of it what we had we had and along with the other post 2014 courses so all together we have around 2200 courses that has been offered through NPTEL our all our videos are publicly available in YouTube and hence you can see the numbers that are associated with it and a lot of a significant amount of videos we do have subtitles transcripts etc I'll be detailing about it but to know more about NPTEL the website this website NPTEL dot ac dot n please make sure that you open it and bookmark and keep it with you okay so NPTEL online certification which has started since 2014 so we have a static website where we collect all the statistics and the details about the course in NPTEL dot ac dot n slash NOC and to enroll in courses and to take the courses live the portal is swyam dot gov dot in where which is swyam which is the national portal so that is what you see in the first first tab first image over here so this is what the swyam dot gov dot n would look like we have 506 courses that are coming up in January 2021 till now we have had more than 1.24 crore enrollments in our courses since 2014 and of which 11.24 lakh have written exams the exams will result in a e-verifiable certificate which is softly like this of course you will have the respective IITs logo along with NPTEL and swyam logos inside the certificate okay there are a lot more things in that but most importantly since you're all college faculty what would be interesting to know is that this this could be a good supplement or compliment to your regular regular face-to-face classrooms and if you look at the growth we started off with just three courses and across till in 2020 we have reached 809 courses and the numbers which were like 3000 exam registrations have increased to three lakh exam registrations what do you say three lakh registrations in that year which shows the popularity that NPTEL has gained over the period of past five years so what exactly would an NPTEL course contain it will contain pre-recorded video lectures and other multimedia resources as part of course content then there would be assignments related to the course content there will be text transcripts and lab demonstrations if the course is related to a lab then definitely some lab demonstrations would be there but again all this are part of video content now all this will be released on a scheduled day so for example we have our courses starting on Monday and by Monday 10 am you will have pre-recorded contents for that week okay so the there is no restriction that they have to come to a specific slot so like what you have been doing during your lockdown so there are slots scheduled for your students and students have to come in that slot join through Google Meet, WebEx, Zoom whatever the video conferencing software is there you will have to they will have to use it and join so that is what are typical online classes that many learners would have been familiar over the past six to seven months but unlike that there is no need of synchronous presence in NPTEL courses all the course content the assignments everything is pre-loaded and is available and released on a particular date in the learning management system that is SWIME of course there are synchronous sessions there will be monthly one synchronous live session it will be done through YouTube streaming like what you are seeing right now as what do you say as a to interact with students what we generally use is we will enable the chat YouTube chat and you can actually come to you can actually come and ask your questions through YouTube chat and that is how you can interact with the course faculty of course you can also interact with him using the discussion forum because the discussion forum it is an asynchronous medium we use Google groups as a discussion forum tool and what we will do is so you can post your questions your comments you can interact not just with faculty in the forum you can interact with your co-learners okay or peers in that course now what happens when such a thing is so generally if you look at a classroom students have their friends they interact more with the friends than with faculty right that's what typically happens now over here they have and the number of friends are very limited in a face-to-face classroom maybe 16 or maybe 17 depending on the class size but with a MOOC or a massive open online course you have thousands of learners who are joining along with them so we have seen excellent sharing of ideas contributions by students back to the course which faculty themselves appreciate faculty recognizes those faculty responds back to them queries getting clarified so it's not just the faculty who is part of the MOOC he has a team of teaching associates or TAs as we call them they will be manning the discussion forum and they'll be responding to you within 24 hours of your training so that is what we have been trying to do over the past five to six years and we have seen pretty good results across the course students appreciating our course due to various reasons primarily because of the response and the support that they get from the course now when I talk of what are the courses primarily we deal with engineering or core engineering subjects or technology subjects that is what you see as the basic and advanced but we also look at industry so if you look at the stakeholders we actually partner have regular interactions and partnerships with multiple stakeholders be it the government agencies like UGC AICT or industry who look for job related skills employability skills or even co-offering of courses may happen that bridges the industry academy industry academy and grid that divide that everyone says and since your faculty is something that is very crucial that we have seen over the past few years is the connect with the colleges across the country so we have what we call as NPTEL local chapters I'll be talking more about NPTEL local chapters in a couple of slides from now so we do have we do engage with local chapters and we are seeing a great number of people coming through NPTEL local chapter around 70 to 80 percentage of the NPTEL learners are coming from NPTEL local chapters which is pretty important if you look at that volume that we were talking of 1 crore or 11 lakh 70 to 80 percentage is not a small number as you know and we have enough in our course catalog or the course repository to give each and every learner so like 506 courses I mean you will be spoiled for choices that's what I would say and the biggest benefit I think of the NPTEL NPTEL courses is that we have a proctored exam at the end of the course which lends credibility to the certificate that someone receives so proctored exam which means it's something like a GE gate or need which which are like the typical competitive exams that you see students will have to go to an examination center they will have to attend the course from there'll be computers over there they have to there'll be assigned role numbers there'll be scheduled question papers that will be loaded in the computer they have to answer in the computer that is this is a computer based exam that we conduct across across the country on select dates the dates can use everything is available so if you go to nptel.ac.in the guidelines for this semester is already available there please go and take a look over there yeah so yeah I was talking of a variety of courses please look at this pie chart it has it shows the different domains that are available so AE refers to aerospace agriculture architecture biotechnology chemical chemistry civil computer science design engineering electrical engineering humanities management mathematics mechanical metallurgy generic or interdisciplinary courses ocean engineering physics textile engineering so you name the branch we do have some representation of that over here around 21 to 23 branches 20 plus branches of domains up there with us and also the offering institutes IT Madras, IT Roorkee, IT Bombay, Delhi, IISC, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Guwahati and there are also other small institutes that partner with these IITs so the instructors come from these other institutes which are listed over there they are also premier institutes in their respective domains and disciplines that they are offering courses from so if you look at the learner profile motivation and results first I'll go for the results part of it because that is the most important everyone will say IIT course it's difficult to pass it's not worth attending it the examination attendance so I've told about more than 11 lakh exam registrations 90 percentage of them have come and returned the exam of which 70 percentage have actually passed so if you look at the past percentage so the number is slightly the exact number will be slightly more than 70 percent but you get the gist of it right a very significant number of people have passed and who are these learners we have of course 76 percentage of our learners are college students but most importantly if you look at it there is a significant proportion of faculty who come for this course primarily to strengthen the foundations explore new domains Imperial courses have been recognized as faculty development programs hence it is part of the continuous learning process and many actually want to offer a new course before offering a new course they do take up NPTEL courses and try to see what how teachers from IIT teach these courses so that is something that many have said so that's what this explore new domains is and you can see the various fraction of people every who come for the very same reasons I've talked about various disciplines that are there but something that is important both for you as a faculty and as well as for your students is the domain certificate that we have as part of NPTEL courses so what is a domain certificate it guides learners who wants a certification from us to specialize in an area specialization could be for higher education it could be for employability whatever be the reason how it is done so we have identified a set of four courses and elective courses from the standard set of courses that we are offering so if they complete these courses with a minimum score of 60 that means greater than or equal to 60 in each course and within three years so NPTEL courses are offered every semester so within a three-year time period if they complete the domain courses they will get something called a domain certificate so domain certificate the equivalent to a domain certificate if you are from AICT or UGC then you would have heard of this called minus right minus is a small specialization that you do along with your undergraduate so this is roughly equivalent to minus and we have 41 domains and so these are some of the important domains under each discipline computer science has artificial intelligence data science programming foundations of computing system so you look at these each of these disciplines and you can see the different kind of domains that are available and we have identified the courses after discussing a lot with a committee of faculty inside IIT also we have had interactions with industry because industry we whenever we interact with them they talk of certain set of skill sets or key strengths that that student they are looking for in an applicant and these all these domains are typically the other things have other additional things that I'll be talking about have come because of these kind of interactions as well so so I'm going to take a sample domain of flight mechanics under aerospace engineering you can see there are these so there is this minimum requirement of six courses of which there are four core courses and two elective courses that have to be completed so the four core courses can be taken from these six so there is a either or choice for course number three and course number four because almost similar concepts are covered in both these courses that have been offered from multiple institutes by multiple professors and you can see something similar over here multiple institutes multiple professors almost same almost similar set of content which are like core for flight mechanics domain under aerospace the specializations or electives that we that we talk of in domain electives it can help you to channel yourself in a very specific direction and you can select any two out of this five one of this this yet to be developed but yeah the other four are already there with us so if it is getting offered in the current semester you can take it and one important thing that you have to remember is the courses in our domain will be offered for the next three years for sure because since it is part of a domain we will continue offering it for the next three years so that at least once in the once a year in the next three years so that there is an opportunity for a student to take it either in the first or the January semester or in the July semester another important thing so the what we call as domain scholars will come under a flagship initiative that we have called NPTEL starts NPTEL stars are nothing but a recognition that if we have given learners who take large number of courses with us and also do really well so we have seven different stars badge or what we call NPTEL stars which includes domain scholars superstars evangelists motivated learners enthusiasts discipline stars and believers to know more about it please go to NPTEL.ac.in NPTEL starts index.html the important thing to note in this is that all these tasks have actually done multiple courses with us and have been performing very well in all these courses so for example NPTEL superstar somebody who has appeared in either four or five or six exams in a semester and topped in at least three so they have written so the maximum number of exams that one can write is six in a semester and they have actually written at most that much but a minimum of four they would have written and they have topped in at least three of them so this is see this is the kind of things that even companies or even the higher education institutions that look for doctoral candidates or PG students look at I mean what is the kind of academic performance what is the rigor what is how much of perseverance is there in the academic in the academic activities of the student that really tells them apart from the rest of the crowd and if you and I would seriously encourage for you to look at these in detail and then go and tell your students about NPTEL superstars because in the next few slides we'll be talking of what are the other things that we have for these stars because we know that they are doing really well and some of them would really need some additional support we have a lot of other initiatives based on these stars and this would actually help them not just in academics but also in terms of placements and other things so there are things like soft skill training mock interviews group discussions etc that we conduct a little bit more on it in these slides to come so now I'll be talking about local chapters so Divya do you want to do the mentee poll right now or after I talk about NPTEL local chapter yes sir by 11 o'clock we can do it okay so which which means half an hour more yes there is no intermediate mentee poll at this moment right yes sir yes okay so next we talk of NPTEL local chapters so NPTEL local chapters it is a connect it is meant as a connect between NPTEL and colleges it was started in March 2015 when a college called a college a professor from a college somewhere in remote Tamil Nadu just called us and told that yes many of our students are interested in to write NPTEL certification exams but your exam form requires what do you say banking details to be shared many of our learners are first generation learners from the family and they don't have a bank account nor a debit or credit card so is there something like can we pay collect the money from students and pay on their behalf that's when we really understood that there is even though there is internet penetration there are other support other ways to support learners which we also need to look at so the largest the biggest entity that can help us in this this particular regard are the colleges where these learners go and they are regularly coming over there so this is what we started as NPTEL local chapter so this is a mechanism through which NPTEL and the college can direct interact and engage directly there are no financial commitments let me it's a very simple process there is there is no membership fee there is nothing like all your members have to write exam then only NPTEL local chapter will be created no nothing like that so the moment a college is tagged all it has to do is there needs to be a request letter that comes from the head of the institution and there should be a committed person inside the college it could be a faculty it could be a lab staff anyone but not a student it should be someone from the faculty or staff who will be willing to spend some time to disseminate about NPTEL in the college disseminate about whatever the new announcements are there and help the learners from the college to take up NPTEL courses and this small set of learners it could be it could be just one or two or it could be even thousands from your college right so that particular set of learners and this particular staff and also some other faculty whom we call as mentors so I'll come to that in a short while so this small group is what we call as a local chapter a local chapter it is associated with the college but a local chapter does not mean that it is the college okay local chapter is just like any other club that you have in a college it is it is a small entity but the primary purpose of this entity is working on or studying from NPTEL learning from NPTEL and supporting other NPTEL learners from that particular college of course NPTEL team also supports them so unlike a club which is very much located inside the college here you get support from our team so in your in our portal Swayam where the learning portal is and also the NPTEL website at the local chapter website is there we have a separate login for this faculty or staff who has been nominated from the college we call them him or her as a single point of contact and the single point of contact we provide all the information he or she is added to our google group we also add them to the relevant whatsapp group so for each state in the country we have a whatsapp group and we add them we give them the invitation link to that particular whatsapp group if they want to join we provide disseminate information through these multiple channels and we also hand hold these single point of contacts on how to use how to make it more effective through very specific sessions that are aimed for single point of contacts or stocks as we call them so if you look at it so this is the NPTEL office we form we connect so we are in direct contact with faculty at DAS from IITs or ISCs who are part of the course team we form connect with the SPOC from the college who is in turn connected with other faculty who can be nominated as mentors to these students so something that you would have realized with lockdown is that complete online education is also not so easy for the students and that is what we have also realized much earlier and hence what we recommend all colleges who are taking up NPTEL courses is to nominate certain faculty as the mentor for the students who can support them from that college so more of local help more local help than being so which which removes that feeling of loneliness in an online media so that is what something that we have been trying to set up and these local chapters are from various different disciplines if you look at it engineering arts and science management it could be universities deemed to be universities private universities medical colleges law colleges agricultural colleges there are other different disciplines that are associated with it I mean specializations so total we have 4025 so this is I think a couple of days back I think we would be having more than 4100 or 4200 by the end of this semester Jan to June semester that we are having right now and this is the numbers that I was talking about so as the number of local chapters have been increasing the awareness about NPTEL has reached out to a lot more people and we have a significant contribution from local chapters when it comes to exam registration and if you look at it so we initially started it for inside India and you can see the numbers so Tamil Nadu has 607 Maharashtra has 811 so these are like the big states okay Uttar Pradesh has 442 so all the big states there are sufficient number of local chapters but again the smaller states also have significant number of what do you say local chapter so if you look at Kerala Kerala is I mean so today's session is primarily targeted to the faculty from Kerala who are out there you can see we are not so far back right Kerala is not so far back it is it is at 249 which is actually a good number that many local chapters inside Kerala so we have so this is and this is what I told you I mean though it started off as an inside India initiative we have been receiving requests and we have started local chapters outside India there are 24 of them African countries like Khana, Mozambique then you have Malawi Mauritius around 16 17 African countries we also have a local chapter in Myanmar I'll have to look at the full list but the thing is that even even the with the number that you are seeing you are seeing people outside the country also coming and writing our courses taking courses from our professors and learning so that's that's something heartening for us to see we had conducted an internet based proctored exam last semester in December for some of the international students who wanted to write exams and it was around 350 exams we conducted around 290 people wrote the exams and it was predominantly successful there were some minor issues but this is like one or two out of 200 those issues we have handled and the entire internet based proctored exam were successfully done for candidates who are outside India so this is the kind of reach that we are having right now and this is how much yeah the local chapter the local chapter is getting people in that's that's what I would say making them aware of NPTEL courses and making them take part in NPTEL courses and that's for that I would say so if you are not part of a local chapter yet this would be the time to go back check with your institute see whether you are part of the local chapter you can actually go to our local chapter site nptel.ac.in slash local chapter a detailed list of local chapters available over there you can actually check whether your college you can do a statewide filter and then check whether your local chapter is available over there so I said that there is no financial commitment to a local chapter there is no financial agreement also we also do not pay the SPOC for the job that they do so what do we need them we acknowledge the effort through what we call as a recognition for local chapters as well as SPOC so at the end of the exam we have we come up with something called as the NPTEL local chapter rating and this will be based on the exam performance of learners from the local chapter and this is the formula elite silver gold I will not detail too much about it but essentially if you have good performance from your learners then you can see yourself placed very well higher above in the NPTEL local chapter rating the top 100 local chapters we provide them with a plaque with these kind of certificate of course the SPOC also gets a separate certificate from us we have the triple A double A and A ratings triple A is for the top 10 double A is for 11 to 50 and A is for 51 to 100 there is if you look at the local chapter ratings the same in the NPTEL local chapter page there is also the ratings are also provided so you can look at which all colleges have been doing it the last offering which was in 2019 these are the top 10 colleges so you can look at where they are coming from okay so these are these are the institutions who have been performing supremely well when it comes to local chapters of course the top 100 is available in the NPTEL local chapter page you can take a look at it over there and as you said the diversity of the regions that you are from we completely understand and that is why because this project has been developed inside India we have taken an additional care to look at regional language translations so we have around 7,650 hours of our NPTEL content translated into eight regional languages Bengali, Ujjrati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu we are in the process of converting another 6,800 more as I said in my initial video we have more than 44,000 hours of reading so I'm not sure how much we will be able to reach in the next one year's time but our aim is to reach that entire 44,000 but this is also a place where we have got a lot of help from local chapters particularly faculty from local chapters because they have the advantage of knowing the local language or the regional language as well as being aware of what the subject matter is so we have had these contributions from faculty from local chapters in translating this content into regional language in fact we have just gone beyond just providing PDFs of translated we have compiled a lot of these translations together as a book so if you go to the NPTEL.ac.in slash translation which is our translation team's website you can see all these so these what I show you are the Hindi translations but we have the books in multiple regional languages and we offer them as a single companion book that the student can refer to if while they are studying from the videos so if they feel that video the language of the instructor is not really understandable then this is something that we can take up and learn from later so this is another important thing for all the faculty who are enrolled in NPTEL courses or who are planning to enroll in NPTEL courses we have had an MOU with AICT through which the some of the courses so around all the UG electives TG core and electives are approved as FDP courses so out of the 506 courses that we have for JAN 2021 semester 480 will provide you FDP points so we have three types of courses four week eight week and twelve week a four week course completion so it's when I say that it's course completion you should also complete the exam you should come learn from the course get a sufficient do sufficient number of assignments and then write our exam and you get a certificate you can apply for an FDP certificate at the time of exam registration itself and if you successfully complete the course that means you get more than 40 both in online assessments as well as in the written proctored exam then you also get along with the NPTEL certificate you get NPTEL AICT certificate which will be countered towards your FDP points so a four week course will gain you half points that you get if you're attending a week long FDP if it is a eight week course you will get a full one week FDP the points worth full one week FDP and if you take a 12 week course you will get a one and a half FDP points one and a half of one week FDP is what they count so this is about faculty we also have internship opportunities for students who are toppers in our course so I talked about doing well in the course so one of it was NPTEL STARS now there is these toppers in individual courses toppers in individual courses if the faculty is available and they have some projects in their hand we also provide them with a request to check for internship from toppers of the NPTEL courses that they just offered so if the faculty says yes we will reach out to these toppers they have to give us their resume and college grade sheets which we will forward to the faculty and then faculty will take a call they will shortlist and inform us whom they have shortlisted the duration of internship could be two weeks four weeks six weeks or eight weeks the internships happen in summer May June July or in winter which is November December and January this is extendable on special requests but we take it generally this is the duration the accommodation part of internship NPTEL will try for accommodation but you know the current times I don't know what kind of restrictions are going to come even inside IIT with regards to accommodating outside people so as far as possible we will try but what we also do is a stipend of rupees 5000 is provided for a four weeks of internship that will help these toppers to find some suitable accommodation and survive that month with minimal infrastructure what do you say financial support from parents or by other means so that is also something that we look at this is an internship certificate that we provide at the completion of the internship give ya I think it would be a good time now to uh will it be a good time now to uh take the mentee poll yeah sir I'll share it yeah so before I'm uh going to talk about in NPTEL industry associate program uh we have a short mentee poll that is going to be given by uh my colleague Divya over here so uh Divya what are the counts in youtube right now uh give me a second sir so it is 50 50 okay so we have 50 more people who have uh come in uh so I expect so we can keep this poll open for two minutes uh so here is something that I want all of you to look at yeah Divya you can share your screen now so there are 20 more people who joined after the last uh I think so can you show the instruction once I think yeah so if you are new to this uh device or this application called minty meter what I want you to do is go to www.mentee.com you have to enter the code 92821 you can use either your mobile or your computer a laptop you can open it in a new tab absolutely not a problem or if you have your mobile along with you just scan this QR code it will directly take you to the question yeah uh just show the question Divya what are the three things that you remember uh till now about NPTEL okay so the question is what are the three things that you remember till now about NPTEL uh so you will see three uh text boxes in your mobile or computer wherever you have opened the minty meter just type in uh three things that you remember it can be one word one one or two words uh for each thing so it could be I mean what do you remember about NPTEL so NPTEL in itself is a single word so like that you have to give top three things that you remember uh so we have uh we started this presentation 15 minutes back I've been talking about various activities to provide you awareness about NPTEL uh we just want you to uh list down top three things that you remember uh so if you are not knowing what to do IIT certification yeah so I believe all of you know what uh what has to be done so the size of that word that you type that it means actually that many number of people have said it so it is the frequency uh that you would have said so FDP course FDP for faculty internship yeah if you write a single word then it will be visible more clearly uh so go ahead please around five people have uh have given their uh responses I encourage the remaining 45 to put up their thoughts till what about what they the three things that they remember till now I see a lot more things a lot more people responding to it we have around 11 people responded till now come on there are 50 people viewing this so I expect a little bit more uh Divya why don't we just do a countdown uh so there is uh if you go to bottom there's something called countdown uh let's start a countdown for a minute yeah so the fastest fingers the next one minute uh whoever provides the answers it will be visible over here so let's see who all uh how many numbers we can increase from 12 uh in this one minute 45 seconds more okay the numbers are increasing 20 seconds more final 10 seconds 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 oh my god the voting has closed okay so let's look at it so what people really uh said about uh the last 40 45 minutes everyone understood local chapter that is that is a big thing for us uh they understood that there is certification MOOC internship so internship is almost as popular as certification I think uh yes uh FDP I see various versions of FDP over here so I think FDP has also registered in your mind local chapter is pretty strongly uh registered I guess because I see uh local chapters how to become local chapter uh and also I think the local chapter in itself uh Spock so Spock is associated with local chapter so that that also has been uh listed in the in the mentee yeah thanks Divya so you can stop sharing uh yeah so uh another important thing if you note right now is uh we have also enabled the youtube chat okay so in your youtube screen you can start posting your comments your questions etc uh over there which I will take so I'll ask Divya to read up some important questions from the youtube link so that I can respond to them uh towards the end of the session so we'll have another 10 15 minutes of slides that I want to present after that uh I'll take up the Q&A from uh the youtube chat okay so let me share my presentation Divya my presentation is visible right yes sir okay so this we were talking of internship and other opportunities that are available with NPTEL when it comes to uh our other uh support activities uh another important activity that we have uh is the NPTEL industry associate program so I've already talked to you that uh industry is also an important stakeholder with us we actually engage we have a very uh specific team uh inside uh NPTEL that actually engages with industry so we call it the NPTEL industry associate program or NIA in short uh the team engages with industry and we get the support uh in various ways uh some industry we have they are ready to co-offer courses some are ready to provide CSR support uh some use NPTEL courses itself uh to upskill or re-skill the current workforce uh some are even ready to recruit from NPTEL toppers and we have seen it couple of times in the past they want to really look at these uh consistent performers so that's something uh that is uh we are seeing uh some are also ready to offer internships uh but yeah the talks are still ongoing because of I mean we were making some headway before COVID-19 lockdown but uh this COVID-19 lockdown and the work from home uh have seriously affected this particular internship part of it uh so we will be slowly picking up uh once uh now that the vaccine is out hopefully in the next few months we would have uh uh better uh uh what do you say better uh progress in terms of working uh the better understanding of how work happens etc so we are hoping to pick it up from there uh another thing that industry supports us is in soft skins training for NPTEL toppers I'll detail it a little bit more uh but I'll also talk about the other initiatives that we are having uh in the past six months uh so the soft skins and opportunities of internships and jobs of course I've told but we are also I already told you that we have done uh internet based proctored exam outside India we are looking at expanding it and doing it a little bit more this semester we have to look at all enroll and what kind of exam registrations we get so we'll be able to offer them in the subsequent semesters as well we are also looking at developing a gate portal through which we have received CSR funds for it and they we are preparing a portal for helping learners who do not have the financial needs to afford something like a coaching or those kind of things and learn exclusively from the NPTEL content uh uh and of course many other in things are in uh the annual we want to really uh I mean the first phase first of all is providing relevant content uh the as per the jade syllabi that's something that is uh underway right now so this is something that we have done uh we have done soft skill training uh at multiple stages so we first identified the toppers we have sent out emails to all toppers across all our courses and first we have done an employability assessment to around 10,000 participants uh out of this 10,000 we found that certain people uh require a little bit more help uh so we uh we had done an online interactive group discussion session with them around 1441 and out of this 1441 we further did HR mock interviews uh one-on-one interviews mock interviews with 716 people and out of the 716 who were required we have given a spoken English test apart from the mock interview for 52 more students so this is uh we also had a live session with experts with topics uh like effective resume writing how to be a effective communicator and what companies expect while hiring a candidate uh this uh is uh what we have done and we reached out to local chapters to understand how these NPTEL toppers are performing in campus placement and off campus uh placements and we see that uh big number are doing really good uh in terms of uh the performance 43 are doing excellent whereas 44 45 percent are doing good which is which is actually really positive so that uh small percentage of toppers who are not doing in campus placements we understand that some of them do not have uh some have not appeared it also depends on their domains and the companies that come in uh for some of us they don't have uh data so there is a significant number like that small proportion of that but relatively the toppers are doing really well and this is the message that I want uh you to convey to uh uh your students uh that uh it's it's not just uh about doing one course uh with NPTEL it is about doing really well in an NPTEL course and doing and that perseverance to do a little more uh to learn from uh continuously learn from different media that actually companies look uh look at and that's why these toppers are doing really well so it's not just sufficient to score just pass or let's say 60 marks in uh in an NPTEL course if you do really well then obviously your placement opportunities etc would also increase this is a message that I would want you to convey to your students okay so let me go back to the presentation yeah uh so this is uh another important aspect that as faculty that you could do we already talked of mentoring our students we know that this is an online course and they need a lot of help uh majority of students require a lot of uh support uh locally uh to help them uh tide over uh learn from it and do well in exams so these are some of the things that you could do uh uh when you become you your college becomes an NPTEL local chapter the single point of contact can nominate mentors faculty as mentors to students and students can then go on and select the faculty so this is something that we uh do uh and what we recommend mentors to do is uh do uh alert your remind your students about due dates that is something that every student and everyone in fact are slightly what do you say uh pretty uh I mean they feel that everything will go uh so there is something called chalta hai attitude right and you yeah it's a due date it will be there I can ask uh extension from faculty so unfortunately none of the NPTEL assignments are extended unless and until there is a very severe reason like uh floods uh national emergency these kind of things are the only things due to which the due dates get extended otherwise the date in which which has been given in the course so typically uh 10 days later that means the course opens on a Monday then on the venice day evening or venice day night the due uh the assignments have to be submitted if they don't submit the assessments then they will get zero marks in that online assessment so this has to be reminded to the students another thing that we actually tell mentors to do is take a periodic session in your college where you can do doubt clearance sessions you could do provide a lab for them to complete assignments I mean while ensuring that they're not copying or not doing any uh I mean malpractices you can you could still engage them you could you could try to make collaborations even use social media things like a whatsapp or other kind of so we have now whatsapp telegram signal facebook so a lot of media are there to make them collaborate so that could also be another thing that you would want to look at so some tips for faculty so this till this time I was talking gently about learners and the only point that I talked about faculty was the fdp but there are certain tips that would we would recommend to faculty when they are taking courses from NPTEL as you saw around 19 percentage of our learners are faculty uh so something that we have seen uh faculty just enroll uh in the courses that they have taught okay that is something that we regularly see uh though it is good I am not denying that it is not a bad practice to start off from such a familiar uh area what I would recommend is uh uh do that only for the initial period maybe one semester two semester uh but uh by second semester what I would encourage is look at the pattern and difficulty and enroll in other multidisciplinary courses as well because this is an opportunity for you to get uh learning from uh top professors from top institutes uh something that you could your college in your college you could not have done because you are bound by the syllabi you are bound by the curriculum uh and so if you're a and there are very limited uh elective opportunities that you get uh another thing that you will uh be I would recommend is completed domain course uh the six courses for three or four core courses and uh two to three electives that uh pattern uh that is something that we would recommend uh another important thing learn along with your students this is I've found it really enjoyable a lot of faculty also echo my response when you learn along with someone you you gain a lot and particularly when you become a mentor that means along with learning you are teaching someone uh the same subjects whatever you are understood you are able to provide that particular understanding to another person and this is a fantastic learning opportunity and this is something that I would recommend all of you to do uh also look at the teaching style uh the pattern in which they give uh the professors give assignments the various variety in example problems or the example situations that are being discussed by the faculty inside the course uh this is something that you can uh imbibe and you can take back to your own course your own teaching practice okay so that is something that you can actually look at from an NPTEL uh and these are some tips that I would give faculty uh when they take up NPTEL courses uh what you shouldn't do uh register for exams in courses that you are learning for the first time uh yes I agree uh we encourage participation we encourage multidisciplinary participation but uh unless and until you are familiar with the NPTEL question pattern or NPTEL course pattern uh do not register for multidisciplinary courses when you are writing the exam so for example you are an electrical engineering professor you like computer science you've taken around three different courses in computer science as part of broadening your understanding uh I would say maybe write one just to get an understanding of how difficult it is don't write all three of them okay that is the second point register for exams in more than one course from multiple degrees this is something that we will not recommend I mean of course if you think that you can do well there is absolutely nothing to stop you from but why I'm saying is more from a practical point of view because you are already have some semester workload when it comes to uh when it comes to the faculty role that you are playing inside your college so maybe you may not get enough time to prepare well I mean you may get time to prepare but you you may not it may not be the best preparation that comes out uh of uh that could that you could have done for that exam uh and another thing is register for exams of only those courses that you've already taught uh first semester I understand the first NPTEL exam I completely understand you writing something that you're familiar with after that this is a time for you to explore I mean in no other place would you get a chance to learn as well as test yourself to along with the thousands of learners to see where you uh where you stand how much you know all this comes through uh and this is a wonderful golden opportunity don't miss out on it and write only exact courses that you or you have taught uh that is I mean that really does not come I mean it is not aligned to the philosophy of massive open online course right I mean it is massive it is open all the materials are open for learning uh so I mean and it is online I mean it is flexible so anytime anywhere you can learn only thing is that due dates have to be taken care in terms of assessment otherwise you have an entire week to study and learn from these courses so this is something that we would want uh uh you to do as part of the uh process uh with this I come to the end of this session and we have a Q&A uh right now uh Divya so uh can you read out a few questions from the youtube chat that I can take up at this point and Divya are you able to hear me yes sir you can provide me the youtube link maybe I'll also look uh look at questions from here put it in the chat sir sure sure so uh what are the numbers now in youtube uh 64 are watching now 64 are watching now so this uh this uh is something uh that okay let me just uh open it okay so I'm I'm able to see the um questions so there is somebody from uh okay uh when India how can NGO be part of SWAM so uh currently we don't have a mechanism for uh NGOs to be part of SWAM directly but what I think uh okay if there are no commercials involved then becoming a local chapter would be the first way to go but uh I mean we'll have to discuss this a little bit more uh so when India please look out for our email address uh uh let me just share that email address also with you so the email address that you should be looking at is local chapter at the rake nptel.itm.ac.n why don't you drop an email uh we'll we'll actually look at how this could I mean uh mention what all you want to do uh what are your intentions see if it is about just sharing the information uh with uh people around you nptel is absolutely uh open you don't need uh I mean you can just give the nptel website at swam.gov.com you can just sensitize them about nptel resources and that should be it uh but if you want something more uh please write to us we'll look at what all uh what all are the possibilities and then take it up so there is uh someone trojan zero p of course I don't know your name but yeah there's a question free heck yeah so uh trojan if you are still listening to it uh all the nptel courses are free to learn I mean there is absolutely no financial uh commitment when it comes to learning however if you have to write the exam there is a fees uh the exam registration fees is thousand uh rupees uh okay when I am now seeing what you want to do we want to offer swine courses to our NGO members what is the procedure uh when uh India currently we don't have a standard modality for this uh NGOs being partnering current nptel does definitely does not have it so we have what we call as national coordinators when it comes to uh the swime effort uh and uh each national coordinator looks up at a specific uh vertical uh so if it is self-paced courses and other offerings I think AICTE uh would be the agency that you would want to write to uh go and look at swam.gov.com there's something called national coordinators from there you can look at AICT you can send out an email to AICT support team they will be able to support you much better uh really sorry that we couldn't do too much uh when it comes to offering our courses but yeah local chapter and other things please feel free to write to us uh utkar shyadav how to get nptel internship you have to be a topper in a course and then and also that course instructor should be available for internship uh some Sundar Sundar Raj and a mechanical background have 10 years of experience I would like to study artificial intelligence is it possible absolutely so uh our first domain scholar Parmer Roy is a mechanical engineering student uh who is into second year of mechanical engineering and he achieved a domain uh scholar domain certificate in artificial intelligence and he wants to further study in mechatronics he wants to specialize in mechatronics and other areas where he wants to use uh the power of artificial intelligence to deliver much better uh what do you say engineering solutions that is something that he had said when we had uh when we reached out uh Heyman PCM can we give our exam from home or should we have to go to any please or exam so you cannot do exams from home if you are in India you have to go to an examination center the list of examination center possibly it would be there in a city near you there are around 150 cities across the country where NPTEL conduct their exams uh Hindi language please Hindi language we had a session last week for Hindi language uh I think yesterday also was a session uh with Hindi language uh you can ask your queries in Hindi language uh we'll definitely respond back uh okay Dhananjay Patra is asking NPTEL course credit can I add in our PhD coursework or any university or college courses I have done five credit from NPTEL uh so Dhananjay uh it really depends on the university where you are doing your PhD uh different university so this is something called as credit transfer uh you will have to reach out to your university to know more about it uh that is something that uh yeah I mean we have provided the guidelines of course NPTEL credits are transferable but it is the credit transfer modalities are completely governed by the respective university uh you are doing a diploma right now in civil department after diploma can I get a job so if you're talking about just with the NPTEL courses and diploma can you get a job you it will be I mean uh see a job requires a specific set of skillset and what you achieve as certification is a testament for that skillset but having said that there will be other processes like soft skills uh other skillset soft skills discussions etc that you have to engage in you need to have a whole holistic personality for the company to hire you right so rational indian our examination sanitize center sanitize on regular basis yes all the standard government norms are maintained and the social distancing is kept and yeah if you uh so if there are scenarios where this is uh I mean if there are any violations do let us know but as far as uh I know so we we send the NPTEL representatives to these centers as well so they confirm that there are uh proper social distancing and COVID related guidelines in place CP Sharma as I already told uh there is absolutely no free uh no fees for NPTEL courses the enrollment dates are however uh very I mean it is I think the enrollment ends on 25th of this month for a certain set of courses another set it will be February 1st week so please look at the guidelines and timelines uh available in NPTEL dot ac dot n credit transfer in IIT PHD coursework Dhananjay Patra yes certain IITs have policies uh so IIT Kharagpur for one I know that they encourage uh NPTEL credits for uh I think working professionals and part-time PHDs I have to look at that uh page for that uh but again you will have to so it's not us you should be talking to you should be talking to the respective IIT uh where you are part of uh to know more about credit transfer the academic's office will know it uh any university be it IIT or any other state or private university this credit transfer uh rules and guidelines have to be passed through their respective academy senate so it's a long process uh if you're if the university has done it then it will be available in the university website because it will be a notice or a guideline that they would put up in their website uh Hemant uh in pandemic why it is not possible primarily because the home networks are not reliable okay and uh the reason we have seen that uh when we conducted the internet-based proctored exam so uh last semester we had conducted internet-based proctored exam uh for uh students both inside India as well as outside India students inside India who uh who have taken more than four uh more than eight exams with us because we had only four days which means we could conduct only eight in-centre exams and we had provided them an opportunity to write 12 exams so all those people who wrote 9 10 11 and 12 uh we provided them a home uh related exam uh it requires software uh I mean none of these exams cannot be uh none of these exams can be done through mobile that is the first and most important point you need a laptop there are minimum software requirements like windows 7 10 uh the examination software should run there should be stable internet and electricity connection uh this we have seen is the biggest roadblock for conducting home exams and uh let me tell you a fact uh companies uh uh companies who take up people uh a major reason for them to take up imperial course examinees is because the process of examination is proctored and in-center which is far more reliable than an internet-based proctored exam there are practically no solutions available which are completely cool proof when it comes to internet-based exam taken at home so you tell any uh any uh software any company all of them have restrictions and the moment we go for okay the maximum possible uh secure systems the cost uh significantly goes up so for example for certain while we were discussing with exam partners we see that uh the cost can go as high as 3000 rupees per student per exam now this is something that we want to ask now is this what every learner in the country would be is it affordable for every learner in the country I don't think so even for thousand rupees people are saying is there tender beavers and other things so we have to understand the reality I mean whatever we talk of atman arbar than other things there are pockets there are significant areas where uh reliability of internet and electricity is still a big problem and unless those kind of infrastructure is ready uh doing these kind of things uh in at home exams and all those things is going to be a problem okay so we'll we'll have the last five minutes of this session so this session have and we told that and we have to wind up the session at 11 30 so I'll take up the final three or four questions now from youtube chat please post them right now again for people who do not know what NPTEL is go to NPTEL.ac.in and look at our templates and guidelines look at because we have 506 courses coming up in this semester which have already started the courses started from this Monday 18th of January the last date of enrollment is 25th of January uh please make sure that you enroll before that the exam registration window is also pretty close uh make sure if you I have already enrolled uh if you think the course content is something that is doable by you please register for the exam at the earliest because of uh because of uh the covid lockdown and other things we have to give the list of examinees very well in advance to our exam partner and we have to ensure that things go as planned for the exams to happen in March and April uh Dhananjay as I said uh the internships is with the respective faculty who have offered the courses uh if the faculty is available then definitely internships are on we will reach out to the toppers of that course not to everyone it is only to the toppers of that course that internships are going to be open and here also a filtering will be done by the faculty not by us we will ask the toppers to give us their resumes uh and uh course great sheets from the college uh about what all they have completed the marks that they got in the previous semesters we will give this to the faculty and then faculty will decide whom to filter for in lunch okay uh K Lalitha why NPTEL has stopped sending hard copies uh it is our go green initiative it is a government of India uh guideline also to avoid paper as far as possible the digital India uh what we call so when we are running an online course why not an online certificate uh of course it does not stop so it does not stop local chapter or a college to print uh the NPTEL certificate we have shared the format of NPTEL certificate printing the lamination size the paper thickness and we have also provided the possible printers who could do that for our regular printers who could do that for them uh so in this era even though yes hard copy certificate is a big thing uh many companies many agencies still would prefer uh what do you say uh online or a e-certificate compared to a hard the bulky hard copy it can be saved in your drive easy to carry around uh that is much more uh what do you say faster right even now many uh government agencies are also taking up these e-certificates right you have something called as digital locker in fact there is something called national academy uh NAD I think where all the certificates all your certificates could be uploaded to NAD and uh it can be retrieved from there so a lot of things are going digital uh same reason why uh NPTEL certificates are also not given in hard copies uh so I think I have answered Lalitha's query uh so Deepa is asking there is uh during COVID yes we had given an assignment certificate I mean a certificate using the assignments course uh it is valid I mean it really depends on what you use it for and who the recognizing agency is we have written out to all universities to recognize it uh but if it is used for job or employment then uh compared to an NPTEL certificate actual exam certificate the online assessments see at the end of the day online assessment is not proper so the credibility will be questioned by the employer uh in terms of okay did you do it what are what is the proof that you alone did it uh I mean not to demean the certificate yes it is a valuable thing it shows that you have done I mean it shows your persistence throughout the course but beyond that I don't know how much value they would give had it been an compared with an NPTEL exam certificate on the same course uh for the same time period so that is something that you have to look at uh can we prepare for gate through these videos absolutely so if you if the topic is related to gate yes you can prepare for gate using the videos Anukriti Jain is credit transfer possible from NPTEL to CMI uh very important question uh I do not have an answer to this of course uh the would-be director of CMI Professor Madhavan Mukun uh has been offering a lot of courses uh I mean couple of very popular courses in NPTEL and I'm hoping that yes CMI will soon permit credit transfer from NPTEL if it is not already done uh you may want to reach out to CMI office to uh uh to uh what do you say uh whether they accept uh NPTEL credits I don't see a I mean I don't see them saying no unless there is a very uh very clear rule which says online is not allowed or something like that because uh a government notification has come out both UGC and AICT has recognized uh um what do you call as the Swayam credit transfer initially they allowed 20 percent now they are allowing more than 40 percent that that notification is yet to come uh 40 percentage of credits can come through Swayam is something uh uh that need look at uh location for that question uh this is not the right forum uh to discuss that uh there are a lot of debates uh let's uh you can look at social media you can look at uh newspaper articles why employability is low uh because good marks alone does not uh I mean yeah this is something that I can say just because you get good marks that alone does not talk about the other skill sets that are required as far as an employer is concerned uh can we do the same course twice yes you can yeah so the best mark will be considered for a NPTEL discipline star certification uh if there are more than one mark the best will be considered uh so I won't be able to help you out in the other general placement queries Divyanshu uh uh because I don't have a very specific answer to it because the definitions like uh decent IIT uh I mean so to get into IIT you have to write a gate exam gate exam is the only qualifier uh when it comes to IIT so it doesn't look at previous academic performance okay um yeah so that's that's all that I know the other part of decent or not decent uh I mean it is very subjective and yeah I will not venture into that line so uh Dhananjay so I am Dr Jay Krishnan from NPTEL IIT Madras I am a senior scientist over here so I've been with NPTEL for the past two years uh so that's uh that's all about me and I think with this uh we'll close because it's already uh 11 30 and my team is telling me that we have to close the session so thanks a lot for all those people who have joined this session this session uh you can see that this NPTEL awareness online workshop is being done both for students and faculty for the past two uh two weeks now so a lot of our sessions me other colleagues from my office it would be available uh in youtube just look at the NPTEL HRD channel and uh you will be able to see so that's all from NPTEL IIT Madras today for the faculty awareness session uh thanks a lot for all those 60 people who have joined in uh Divya do you want to do another Mentimeter poll uh it's a last pressure yeah so before you uh go off please take a look at this Mentimeter call you can share your screen Divya okay so again use the code menti.com uh the code uh that you have to enter as 9 to 8 to 1 if you have not uh done the menti poll earlier this is the code that you have to do or you can scan the QR code uh you can now show the question Divya uh the question is which of the below is true about NPTEL so we I've been talking one and half hours about NPTEL uh so these are four options so go ahead uh enter your answer in as a poll so that you you will also let us know what all you understood finally about NPTEL okay which of the below statement there are four statements over there uh which of those statement you think is true about NPTEL please uh enter your answer to that and uh Divya we can put a one minute timer for this poll so I have the first answer I see around 60 people uh and uh watching the youtube live right now so you have one minute to answer you just have to select whichever is the correct option uh so studio team uh at IT Madras you can stop the live youtube live interaction after one minute okay seven people have responded till now so there is only 15 more seconds left I encourage all others who have been listening to us and I've been asking queries to go to menti.com uh put in your vote which of the below is true okay so we have eight responses from uh this uh poll uh yeah the answer that you have given is correct with NPTEL you can learn anytime anywhere uh so that's what we are working on and learning is absolutely free that is let me tell you again learning is absolutely free so uh with this we come to the end of this awareness session uh thanks a lot for your participation uh studio team at IT Madras we can now close the session we are we are winding up the session right now thank you