 Hello. Good morning sir. Good morning all. Good morning. Please sir, you can start with the introduction sir. Good morning one and all present here for the NPTEL awareness online workshop in association with Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune. Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune is a multi-disciplinary, multi-state university, established by honorable founder Dr. Patan Raoji Kadamsaheb. Today's online workshop is hosted by Bharti Vidyapet Institute of Management, Kulapur. It is established in the year of 1994. Before 2005, it was affiliated to Sivaji University, Kulapur. From 2005 onwards, it is the constituent unit of Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune. It is a local chapter of NPTEL swim since December 2019, established under the guidance of Dr. Rajesh Kantesar, the director of the institute. Being spoke of the local chapter and in behalf of Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune and Bharti Vidyapet Institute of Management, Kulapur, I take this opportunity to welcome the expert team of NPTEL, Kamla madam, Preetar Sani madam, Dipya madam from IIT Madras, Bharti madam and her team from IIT Bombay. I would like to welcome the dignitaries of the university, Dr. Sivaji Rao Kadamsaheb, Chancellor of Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune, Dr. Biswajit Kadamsaheb, Pro Vice Chancellor of Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune, Dr. Vivek Saoji sir, Vice Chancellor of Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune, Dr. S.F. Patil sir, Dr. Kirti madam from IQSE cell Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune, Dr. Sachin Vailekar sir, Dean Management Studies Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune. I would like to welcome today's guest, Dr. K. Malaskar sir, Head of the Department of Computer Application, Bharti Vidyapet Institute of Management, Kulapur. He is a renowned academician and researcher. He has published various research publications and published various patents. Welcome you sir. I welcome the teaching faculty and students presented here through YouTube live session. Today's session is having following agenda that will cover establishment of local chapters in various institutes, courses offered by NPTEL under SWEM MOOC. Credit transfer policy as suggested by UGC, AICT and higher educational authority under NEP 2020. Credit deposition in academic bank of credit as suggested by NEP 2020. Moving ahead, I would like to invite Professor Dr. K. Malaskar sir to give a brief on BVDU Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune and the MOOC adoption policy at Bharti Vidyapet Dim University Pune. Dr. K. Malaskar sir, please. Madam, please unmute Dr. K. Malaskar sir. Yes. Good morning one and all. Let me welcome again the NPTEL team, local team as well as the guest from IIT Madras, guest from IIT Mumbai. Let me introduce about Bharti Vidyapet first. Bharti Vidyapet is founded by Dr. Patangravji Kadam. He founded this Bharti Vidyapet in 1964, 10th May 1964 at a place Pune where he has started English and mathematics courses. Just to make awareness to the, especially the students, those who are from the background of rural background especially. Then this seed of Bharti Vidyapet spread over all over India. We have a branch in Delhi, we have a branch in Mumbai, we have a branch in Pune, Kolapur, Solapur, Sangli, these are the management institutes. Apart from this, we are providing education, imparting education from pre-primary to post-graduation and PhD. More than 175 branches of Bharti Vidyapet spread all over India. Let me come down to Bharti Vidyapet Deemed University. It was established in 1996, 26th April 1996, UGC has accorded a status of Deemed University to our Bharti Vidyapet. Now we have 29 Constituent Units of Bharti Vidyapet Deemed University. Let me come down to our Bharti Vidyapet Deemed University Institute of Management Kadamwadi Kolapur, who is hosting today's NPTEL awareness of NPTEL courses. Let me thank first these people and let me thank to our coordinator, Professor Netpesh Kuk, because he has coordinated and he is working since last two, three years. Bharti Vidyapet Deemed University Institute of Management, we are offering MBA, MBA, BBA and BCA courses, more than 1200 students we have with us. The need of this NPTEL, let me clarify this. Last year, we started working on, since last year, based on the new education policy, NEP 2020, based on this. This year we introduced NEP 2020 for BBA, BCA, MBA and MCA. So for these courses, I think for the first semester, apart from the first semester, from the second semester itself, there are some courses, MOOC courses, which are introduced for all the courses. So student has to go for, this is my request to the students, especially the students from our institute and the students, those who are joining from other institutes also, it's the compulsory, their students. This lecture is definitely useful for we people, not only for the students, it will be useful for the faculty members also. Why it is necessary? Within few months, few years, you will find that now, last week only, we come to know that there are, UGC has given permission to the other universities, that means foreign universities. Within, after one or two years, you will find that there is no need of a class, there is no need of a college, there is no need of a university. Without university, after all, it is required, but physical existence, it is not necessary because online education will be provided and good universities and good institutions, they are providing such type of a courses. One of that, the IIT, which is which providing the government of India's, one of the renowned institutions, they are providing such type of facilities. Definitely, this will be useful for our students, they will go for, even during my lectures also, I'm impressing our students that go for new courses. We are teaching according to syllabus. What it is needed in the market, you will get online. Sometimes the courses are free of charge. Some courses, which you require to be paid, like NPTEL courses, you require to be attend course for three months, six months and you will require to be paid 1000 rupees fee only. So definitely this will be useful, very, very useful for our students and our faculty members. Again, welcome all the guests, those who are present who are here and your lecture will be definitely useful for us. Thank you, thank you very much. So now, I would like to invite the NPTEL local chapter team, IIT Bombay, under the guidance of IIT Madras team to move ahead and continue the session. So many of you may be familiar with this logo. This is the NPTEL logo. We'll start off with it. So NPTEL is today a lot of initiatives put together. It's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website, but we have certification, not just certification for one course, but it is also clubbing courses together to make it into a domain. For faculty, we have FDP courses which fetch you career points, then we have internship opportunity for students, we have soft skill training going on for local chapter students and so on. So this is what this presentation will talk about. Okay, so you might have all heard about these two terms, NPTEL and SWAYAM. So SWAYAM is a project of the ministry, the government of India and they created this in 2017 and said that all these agencies that you see below, right? IAM, Bangalore, UGC, CEC, NCRT, NITR, AICP, they all have to offer courses for certification under SWAYAM. So NPTEL is also a national coordinator under SWAYAM. We primarily offer courses in engineering, the UG level, the bachelor's level, the MTech ME level, some PhD level courses also. We have courses that are there in the management and humanities division inside IITs. We offer that also on NPTEL. NPTEL also coordinates with some institutes like the ISERS to offer, say, the physics, chemistry, mathematics courses. We work with the triple ITs, we work with national law school Bangalore, we work with some medical institutions to offer medical related courses. Maybe 90% of our courses will be engineering related humanities management and 10% is something else we help. So NPTEL comes under SWAYAM and we coordinate this primarily. There are other agencies also. So one thing to remember when you are going to SWAYAM.gov.in and you try to enroll to any course, so you try to join any course. Please check whether the national coordinator is NPTEL if you want to join the NPTEL course because if you just search for, say, a database management systems course. Maybe there is some other college also offering it with somebody else's coordinating. So the course name that we offer will also be database management system. There's will also be that possibly. So how do you actually differentiate if it's an NPTEL course? On every course card we will have a logo of NPTEL. I showed you when we come there, but you can check that and then you can join the course. Okay, that is something that you have to look out for. Okay, NPTEL started in 2003. The vision mission that we have had is to record the content that is being taught to IAT students and put it out for anybody to watch and view so that nobody can say, I didn't get a chance to prepare for IATs. I am not in the IATs today. I cannot get access to their knowledge to their teaching. Hence, you know, I'm denied this opportunity. Nobody can say that today. More than 2000 courses we have in our repository. You can go there and you can actually access the courses for free. You can just go there. You can scroll. You can watch all the videos. We have more than 50,000 hours of video in our website. You can access all that for free. There is no charge. There is no free fee at all to access our content. Okay, there's somebody who's asking is NPTEL useful for students of LLB. So National Law School Bangalore NLSIU is offering two courses. I think in Jan, I don't know if we have in July, we had two courses, I think, and more are coming in that so specific to law. We do have a couple of courses. IIT Kharagpur has a law department. So from there, we have some courses coming in. But otherwise, you can access the general courses that we have also say on management or English. Those might be useful to you. So whenever you think of a website, what really do you look out for? Say how many people access that website? How much content do we have? In a YouTube also, whenever we go to and watch a YouTube video or a YouTube channel, one of the things we look at is how many people have watched that video or how many subscribers are there in that channel. So this is the NPTEL statistics. We have more than 1.3 billion views of the NPTEL videos. Okay, so this is like huge, huge for a technical channel which has no entertainment. You can't call NPTEL videos as entertainment. There is no song and dance or something. It's all faculty from the IITs, IIC teaching, serious stuff there. And for that, we have more than 1.3 billion views. We have 37 lakh subscribers on our YouTube channel. So any of you has not subscribed to our channel today. I think I would say you're missing out on something. Go to our YouTube channel. Subscribe for our updates so that you get it. Go to our social media handles. Subscribe to our social media handles so that you get the latest updates from NPTEL. And this is where we are today as of NPTEL. So these are what we do at NPTEL today. And if you do an NPTEL course, what is the use of it? So the very first point is credit transfer. I was just talking to Dr. Satishals about it and said that maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer for the courses that you do from NPTEL. But yes, even if you don't get credit transfer, I think you get a lot of knowledge from NPTEL courses. For instance, say what are the kind of courses we have that we would recommend to students in your college, correct? So we will say that we have a lot of programming courses. So we have programming and C, C++, Python, Java programming and all that. So if you are, say, a BSE Physics student or a BA English student, maybe a BCOM student, as part of your program in the college, you would not be learning programming possibly. So you can go to NPTEL, you can learn the programming course, you can learn a bit of programming and also get that certificate along with your program. Wherever you go today to any company you want, they use some kind of a database, they will have some kind of coding that is there, they will have some kind of software they're using within their company. It's good for y'all to know at least something about it, okay? That is the first part. The other thing, okay, what are the other courses we have that is useful for you? If you're planning for higher education, you want to go in for a master's degree. Supposing you want to strengthen your fundamentals, your foundations, you want to maybe do some more courses from other institutes so that you're confident when you're attending interviews. Those courses will be available on NPTEL. So we have all the UG undergraduate courses. You can go through that. You don't even have to write the exam for each of these courses. You can just go through the videos, you can try solving problems. You can watch many videos, try to get knowledge from it and strengthen your foundation. So if you're going for higher education, I would say the courses are really useful. So first thing I'll say, try something like programming courses. When you go in for higher education, probably you want to try and strengthen your fundamentals. The third thing, try to learn something that is of interest to you, which you possibly cannot learn otherwise. For instance, we have courses on German language teaching you German, teaching you Japanese, teaching you Sanskrit. So if you want to learn any of these, you can come to NPTEL and learn. So for instance, German is taught only by maybe the Goethe Institute and maybe some other institutes. Here the same course is taught, but it is free for you. And if you want a certificate, you can write the exam, but otherwise too, you can learn the German language for free. Same thing, you can learn Japanese language. Why are these useful? Maybe you go to a company that has branches in Germany, Japan. They have opportunities for people to go there, but you need to know the language. So at that point, this becomes very useful for you. So you can try to learn other languages also through NPTEL courses. Okay, maybe you're technically very strong. You have good foundations. You have good knowledge in your particular program, but maybe your English is not very good. Hence, you're not confident about speaking. We have a lot of courses like soft skills development, soft skills enhancement, how to attend an interview, the body language that you have to have when attending an interview, interpersonal communication skills, leadership skills. So we have a lot of courses like this that you can also go through. It will give you a lot of tips on how to present yourself, how to ready yourself for such situations so that having the knowledge you can also be confident when you talk to somebody and you are presenting or being in an interview. So that's another set of NPTEL courses that we have as part of what we offer. So anybody who wants to learn, I think should be able to get at least two or three courses of their interest that they can join and learn. Joining is free, like I said, there is no fee at all. It is all completely free and you can watch it. There are no live classes. These are all recorded lectures. So you can watch at your convenience. If your college time is say 9am to 4pm or something, in the evening you have time, you can sit and watch NPTEL lectures. On Saturday, Sunday, you can watch it. There will be one assignment every week. You have to solve the assignment and you have to submit it. So that also you get 10 days of time. So you can watch the lectures. You can try solving the assignment. Maybe a couple of you friends are joining the same course. You can all sit together. You can learn from each other. You can solve together. Take help from your teachers and you can do the NPTEL courses. So there is no such thing as there will be live lectures. Maybe you will miss a few lectures because you have college or something. It is all video lectures along with assignment. So the first part is credit transfer and learning from our courses. Apart from it, if you do very well, maybe we should go to next slides. So this is the credit transfer. I don't want to discuss too much about this because I think your university doesn't have credit transfers. So I will skip this slide. So credit transfer just as a piece of information for maybe the faculty who are out here. IITs do do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. We do it at the BTEC level. We do it at the master's level for PhD working professionals for them to get credit transfer also we do it. So IITs also do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. It is not just the outside colleges that have to be ourselves do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. This is an important thing I would say. So we have a program by which the toppers in the courses actually get internship opportunity with the faculty in the IITs. So whoever has offered that course, they take it normally about two, three, five interns during summer or winter if you are a topper in the course. So if you do a course very well and you become a topper in the certification course, then we give you an opportunity to intern with the faculty. So we are trying to scale up these numbers COVID hit us also so we could not get them. But we hope it will be at least 200, 300 students who can intern at the IITs with the faculty. So this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and stay in the city, be in the IIT Madras or IIT Kanpur or IIT Kharagpur or IIT Bombay lab. You get to interact with the faculty members there you interact with their PhD scholars there. You can do all of this which will be wonderful if you're especially thinking about going for higher studies you'll get the idea of what is done in these institutes. I think it's a really good opportunity for students outside of the IITs to come in and experience the IITs here. So there is internship, then we also do soft skill training. So there are many colleges who provide it on their own, but there are also some colleges who do not have this training for the students. So if college students in local chapters, they participate in NPTEL courses, then for those students we are providing soft skill training. So this training is of two types. We do a one week training or we do a two week training depending on how much time the student can spare and the college also wants the students to do. So here we have group discussion practice, we ask you to write your resume and we give input on the resume. We ask you all to present about yourselves, give feedback about how you should talk, where you should look, your body language and so on. And there are also a one on one. Like every student will get half an hour with a trainer to discuss about how they should also do. So the right side photo you see is a one on one where we do mock interviews. We try to simulate an interview and see how you're responding and then give feedback on how you should do better in your interview. So we do soft skill training for students who do NPTEL courses. So this is something that we do from NPTEL again. If you look at numbers, we have finished soft skill training for more than 2000 students currently. And we are doing about 10 colleges a month and we hope to scale it up. So if you're, I don't know whether college has done it, but yes, we can extend it to y'all also and we can get it done. Okay. So there's a seven or 14 day training program that I was talking about next. Okay. So somebody was asking, will we get jobs with these NPTEL courses? How is it helpful to us? And so on. When we do surveys of NPTEL students and where they have gotten placed, these are the companies that they have gotten placed so far. This is like some of the companies are on. It's not all the companies that they've gotten placed for, but they have said that the NPTEL courses have really helped them when they went for the interviews. When they show a certificate to the interviewer and say, I did a course with the IITs. I got so much marks in that course. It really does help in the job interview. So those people also ask questions on that, assuming you've studied well and you can answer. It will definitely help you that outside of the college syllabus, you have done something more to learn and skill yourself. Also, companies approach us and ask us, do we have students in particular areas that we can send them their resumes? So we also collect resumes of students on our site. And if they're interested, we send these out to the companies and the companies call them for interviews, go through their levels of recruitment. And we have been able to place NPTEL students from our side also in some companies. So we are still working on it. I hope this will increase. We are talking with more companies on this front. But otherwise, even if you have like two or three courses from NPTEL and the certificates for it, I think it will be hugely useful because of the logos we put on the certificate. The next one, there are a lot of students, learners, faculty who do multiple courses with us. There are people who do the courses, maybe they do three courses in a semester, four courses in a semester. They are toppers into a three courses every semester. There are people who have done a lot of courses with us. I'll maybe show you the data in the next one. But this is another type of recognition we give to NPTEL learners. So you can go to NPTEL website. And at the top, we have a link called NPTEL stars. So click on that link, click on any of this. You will see how many people are actually doing multiple courses with us. So if students are thinking, oh, I don't have time and I'm so busy, I can't do it. You should just see these pages to see how come these people who are working professionals, who are students in colleges just like you or who are maybe, you know, studying or faculty or something. So are they able to get the time to do so many courses? If they can get the time, I think anybody can get the time, right? You just have to manage your time on when you're going to study and not waste time on something else that is not important, etc. So this page I would say, please go and see. So these are the kind of domain scholars, superstars, evangelists and all we have. We have more than about 3000 as I can just calculate on the flight that we are going to have these people doing multiple courses and they are NPTEL stars with us today. So there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last two years. So what is a domain, right? So a domain we have created just to club courses together and maybe about five or six courses we have put together. And we say that if you study this six courses and you get more than 60 in the course in each course, not just pass it by getting a 40, then you get a domain scholar certificate. So why is this important? This is important because it shows that you have specialized in a particular area. So for instance, we have a programming domain. So in the programming domain, we have courses such as C, C++, Python, database management course and then maybe cloud computing course and so on. So if you do a programming domain and you do all the six courses, it shows that you have a solid foundation in this particular area. So when you go for an interview and you actually show a domain certificate versus just one or two certificates from us that will make more of an impact on the interviewing person. So this is something we recommend. It is more just to guide students on what to study to become to become and specialize in one particular area. We found that many NPTEL learners do four or five courses, but they do random courses that are not connected to each other. So this domain will guide you in what to study if you want to specialize in a particular area. We have about 53 domains today in all branches of engineering, management, English and for faculty, we have a faculty domain basic and advanced also so that you can also go through that part of it. So you can go to our website. There are more details on domains there. You can, we can talk about it later too. Yeah, so these are some of the domains we have. So for you, it might be relevant the English studies we have a domain psychology we have a domain management we have it in marketing operations, patents and intellectual property and economics and of course engineering and all we have a couple of domains. So, if you're a general student, not an engineering student, I would recommend the programming domain for you if you want to try out something do the programming domain or do the management domain. That will be really useful for you. So if you're an engineering student, of course, you can try any of the domains relevant in your particular discipline of engineering or you can do a cross discipline. So for instance, I'm maybe mechanical engineer. I like electrical engineering. You can actually do the courses in electrical engineering and you can get a domain from there. So here, nobody stops you and says, Hey, you're in mechanical engineering department. You cannot study electrical engineering, say power systems course, power electronics course. You're not allowed to study that there is no such thing like that. Anybody can study any course as long as you can cope with it. So you can also do a cross department study by doing domains from any of what is listed here. This is what a domain certificate looks like. We give this, we list all the courses you have done and we assign it out of course from the specific IIT that we are giving it from. So how do we do lab courses? Is it online? Not really. We do it in the institutes. We do it in various institutes such as ISERS, IIT. You can come here. You can stay for a week at the institute. You can do the lab experiments. You can listen to faculty giving one or two lectures in the day and then do a lab exam and take a certificate. So what is the advantage of this? You will get to see really modern labs. You will get to see what the state of the art labs are in these institutes. You can see the equipment that is there, the modern equipment that is there. You can see the advanced research that is happening here. You can interact and get explained on all this equipment. So we had very successful labs being run at all these places. This is a wonderful opportunity. Again, if you do the theory course in NPTEL, those people, we will permit that you can apply and come for these lab certification courses and you can do the workshops here. So that was the idea behind the question we asked you. What else do we do at NPTEL? This is for faculty in colleges. So faculty in colleges under the AICT scheme, we explicitly have an MOU with them where NPTEL advanced courses, if you do and pass, you will get an AICT approved FDP certificate. So that is for faculty in AICT colleges. For those under the UGC scheme, they have given a broad guideline that if you do swyme courses, there will be some career progression points. But the actual logistics, I'm not sure you'll have to check within your university. So that is something that is there. But we see that more than about 20,000, 30,000 faculty write our exams every semester and most of them apply for the FDP certificates also. This is very, very useful for faculty, I will say, because you don't have to spend money. You don't have to take leave. You don't have to miss your college work and go to some institute, stay for a week or stay for 10 days and then do an FDP course. You can do the FDP course online itself just like the students. You join for free on swyme portal. You go through the course submit assignments and then you pay the 1000 rupees and attend the final exam and get your certificate. Once you get your certificate, you can apply for the FDP certificate to us and get that too. That's all it takes to do an FDP course with us today. So this is very important for faculty. I hope this is clear. This is what the FDP certificate looks like. You can see that it has the signature of the director from AICT also. There is a regulation under which they have approved this, the AICT logo is there. So this you can present when you are going in for your promotion interviews. The conversion that they do is a four week NPTEL course is equivalent to half FDP of one week. An eight week NPTEL course is a full FDP of one week and a 12 week course is equivalent to one and a half weeks FDP equivalent. So this is the equivalence of it. Okay. Yes. The next thing I wanted to talk about was gate coaching. So we have started a new link on our website and somebody has given us CSR money for developing this and providing whatever. I wouldn't call it coaching but yes gate preparation, whatever we can help students with to have and prepare for gate exams free again. We are trying to do from our side. So you can go here and we have given solutions to all the previous gate questions. We have given videos solving those questions. We have extra questions that are coming up practice questions that will be coming up small courses linking all the videos that are relevant to date. So we will be coming up phase one is only over phase two and phase three. We will be coming up within the next six months. So if you are watching this link on NPTEL website, if you are preparing for the gate exam. Okay. That is one new initiative we have come up with the next initiative exams outside of India. So till 2020 we were doing exams only in India where you have to go to a center and you have to write it. And then we got a lot of requests from people outside of India saying they also study from NPTEL courses and they want to write exams with us. So now we help to do that also people outside India can also write exams NPTEL exams and get certificates from us. Okay. Yeah. So translation is the next effort. So for people who are asking in what languages do we offer courses the faculty teach only in English for now. But the English transcripts we translate into eight languages. So we do Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi. So that's the languages that we are translating it into. So Telugu we have a lot of transcripts that are translated into Telugu language. The faculty will talk in English but you can also read what we have translated in Telugu or Tamil or Hindi whatever is your language and you can understand it better. We are keeping the videos in English so that you also learn English because when you go to work somewhere English will be the primary language you have to communicate in. So this is something we're doing one or two courses we are getting in regional language. For instance, this time in January, we are doing a machine learning course in Tamil language. The faculty is going to teach in Tamil language. There is a signals and systems course that is coming out in Hindi language. In July semester we are getting an R programming course in Hindi language. So only two or three we have most are in English. We don't have too many other language courses. So that's something you can check. Let me take a question from the chat. There are one or two saying I'm from commerce background. I'm from BCOM what courses we can take. So for BCOM students we do have a lot of accounts related courses. You can check those out. Go to management department. I'll show you how to filter and learn from it. You can go there and you can see how to do it. So you can check out management related courses in which we have accounts related commerce economics related courses. That's something you can learn or if you're learning all that anyway in your college, right? I would strongly recommend programming courses for you all. Learn at least one programming language to know what is programming. How do people program whether you write the exam or not. I would say please write the exam. But yes, even if you don't write the exam, at least try a course. Do the assignment, see whether you can do something about it. Or if you're not doing that, I would propose the English courses. I would propose the German language or the Japanese language course that you can learn from. Those are what we have. Quite a few for you to choose from. I would say more than a hundred we would have for BCOM level students at least. Okay. Yeah. So these are translation. How many courses we have in each language? So in Telugu we have 48 courses that are translated for now. So that's what we have, right? Okay. We have also something called special lecture series. So we also have industry people come in and present lectures. So these are again free to watch. Very interesting topics. Very, very distinguished people who come and present lectures. These are vice president, CEO, CTOs of companies like IBM, CapGermany, Infosys that we've had in the past. IAS officers who have come and spoken to us, film directors who's come and spoken to us. Journalist in the Hindu, a director at Hindu entrepreneurs. So I would really say you should go and watch these lectures when you have time. Even if you missed it last year, it's okay. But listening to such people is very inspirational. You know what they have done, how they have worked, how they have brought up new companies, how they've started a company. Where did they get their idea from? These are all really interesting to listen to. I would say please go back and listen to some of these lectures. It will give you a tremendous amount of information, knowledge, and maybe there'll be some topic to talk about also when somebody asks you something, it will widen your knowledge base. This is something that you can see. And if you're wondering saying how many students study, how many courses, right? Maybe you think some students study only one or two courses and that's all we can do. That's what is useful, right? Look at this. There is one learner who has done 47 NPTEL exams with us. That's as good as a degree program or more than the degree program that all of you are doing. How many courses you'll do there? I don't know. Maybe if you're doing a BSE, it's six into six, maybe 36 courses. Or if it's a BTEC also, if I say six courses per semester, it's about 48. So you're just equivalent to that. Okay. So there is one learner who's done 47 exams, 34 exams, 33 exams, 32 exams and so on. So you can see maximum people. Yes, 5.6 lakhs do one exam. But there are 1.4 lakhs who are doing two exams, 48,000 doing three. And if you look up to 10 exams even, right? A lot of them are doing 10 exams, eight exams with us. So maybe you should think about and plan for how you're going to study, which courses you're going to do as you are in college. And every semester try to do at least one or two NPTEL courses and finish with a certificate. That will be really nice that you can do that with your college. Okay. This is something we wanted to say. Who are these people who are doing these courses? They are employed. They are faculty members. They are students. All people like you. So it's not like these people come suddenly from somewhere or they are also special. They are so privileged. Nothing like that. They are there in all towns, in all kinds of environment. They also have their constraints. But they are also studying from these courses and doing multiple courses. Okay. This is what the certificate looks like. It has the Swyam logo and it has the NPTEL logo. Then it has your photo on the certificate. It has, as you can see the elite tag, the gold medal. We've just put it here to say, if you fall under these categories, you can see all these coming on your certificate. The institutes of IT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this foot, you can see IT Madras logo there. IT Madras, the name will be put there. Signatures from our side will come and so on. So this is the way that you can see how the certificate looks. We had 20 lakh people who joined our courses in January semester. 20 lakhs who joined our July semester. And in 2021, we had 16 lakhs who joined the Jan semester. 16 lakhs who joined our July semester. So it's not 5,000. It's not 10,000. It's not one lakh like I'm seeing on the chat window here. But it is 16 lakhs who was our enrollment number last semester. Out of these exams, those who have written over the last five years, it is 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us. And they've gotten. So our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last seven years from when we are running this certification project. We have finished 3,500 courses almost. And enrollment is 1.58 crores, 15 lakhs exam registration. That's the thing. So you can see how big NPTEL is. NPTEL is not something that we are doing 100, 200, 500 people or something like that. Every semester when we conduct exams in March and April, it's three lakh people who write our exams. So that's the level at which we do. We conduct exams all over the country in about 170 cities. We conduct exams outside India like we said. So this is our data. So somebody tells you, okay, I haven't heard of NPTEL. You should really tell them saying that 15 lakh people enroll every semester and three lakh people write exams. How come you're missing out? That's the answer I will give them. Okay. You can see a lot of feedback about NPTEL on our social media handles. We keep regularly posting about it. We are present on Instagram, on Facebook, on YouTube community. And you can see all the feedback that we have posted there about people who have gotten jobs, people who have gotten through the soft skill training, who have done our courses, course feedback, everything is available here. So do subscribe to our social media handles so that you can get updates from our site. Okay. I'll just give a brief on NPTEL local chapter because I don't know how many of you are faculty from different colleges who are not a local chapter with us. So NPTEL works with about 4,500 colleges today across the country. And we have coordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact or Sparks. And through them is how we are so successful. So thanks to all the local chapters, Sparks, whoever is watching this workshop today was not watching the workshop today, whoever is anywhere. They are the champions for NPTEL within the colleges without them. I don't think NPTEL would have grown so much. So thanks to all the Sparks of the local chapters. And I would like to just briefly say how you can become a local chapter if there's somebody watching who's not at a local chapter. So to become an NPTEL local chapter, there is no money involved. There is no financial dealing. We just need to send us an email saying that you want to become a local chapter. There's a Google form in the website, fill it up. And we need a coordinator in your college who will be our local champion. So the head of the institution, the director, the principal, whoever has to send an email saying that we would like to become a local chapter. And so and so will be the single point of contact for NPTEL. And that's all. Once we receive the email, we verify some details and we will make you a local chapter. So why should you become a local chapter? Can students and faculty from colleges who are not local chapters participate in NPTEL? Yes, totally. You can participate. You can be a free learner. You can learn from our courses without belonging to a local chapter. But having a local chapter in a college is a big advantage. There are logins that the single point of contact to the Sparks has. One is a login on svayam portal. One is a login on our NPTEL website. And here they get information related to enrollment, exam registration, the marks, the transcripts, the certificates. All of this is given to the Sparks directly that they can actually see and they can share with their management. Also, the other benefits are if we don't have a center in your particular city, you can request for that. If they have more than 200 people writing exams, we can facilitate centers in your particular city. Faculty can become mentors. You can follow the progress of your students in the colleges that you can do. Another important thing I will say is we have CSR support from companies who also give us money to help students from economically weaker backgrounds to write exams. So this fee waiver, we give only two local chapters. So if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds, if they are doing NPTEL courses, writing exams, once they pass it, we will refund 30% of the fee to them based on the college's recommendation. So that is something that you can do. Also, all this data that we give to the Sparks can be directly shared with bodies such as NAC and NBF and they come for accreditation and you can say that we are showing this data inside your dashboard. That has also been very helpful for colleges is what we came to know. These are local chapters that we have. This is a state-wise distribution. I think Maharashtra is the highest followed by Tamil Nadu and of course we have these. Telangana comes in maybe fourth, seventh position with 234 local chapters currently. Every semester we also, we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries. They're not very active, but yes, they do keep using our courses as they can. We also rate local chapters every semester based on the participation from their side in the particular semester. So how many people have become toppers? How many people have written exams? You know, done well. Based on it, we also rank and rate the college local chapters and we publish this list publicly on our website every semester. Other interactions with local chapter people, we do soft skill training like I already spoke about it. We take help of people here to go to exam centres as our representatives. Faculty can help in translation effects and yes, like I said, we rate it and we give recognition to the spark and the college also every semester. So these are certificates that we give them based on the formula that we have to the college and the spark. Yeah, these are other categories that we have on based on faculty participation, based on how local chapters improve semester after semester. There's a separate category part, science colleges also. Yeah, star LC who have been in the top 10 or top 100 over the last four years. That's something that we have done. That's it as a presentation that we had today. So I hope you learned about NPTEL about what we do here. The NPTEL office, the head office is in IIT Madras. We have our head office here about 70 people work in NPTEL office in IIT Madras. We have smaller offices in IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Gahati Bombay, Delhi and IAC Bangalore also and we all work together to keep this project going. It's one of the most successful inter institutional project that eight institutes come together to work on this project and kind of run it without a break and to kind of offer 2,000 courses that we have today. That's what we want to say. So my suggestion and you can say, maybe I'm old enough to advise all the young students out here also is try out NPTEL courses today. Go and go to Swayam website, join a few courses, learn from it, sample the videos there. You may or may not be able to follow certain videos. You may not like certain courses. Maybe some courses are difficult. It's okay. You can drop off. It is not like a college course that once you join a course, you have to be in that course. You have to complete that course. Otherwise somebody will think something. Somebody will ask you something or maybe a paid fees that will get wasted. There is nothing like that in an NPTEL course. So you can join in five courses. You can join in 10 courses and you can try out NPTEL videos. You can see what you're interested in and then shortlist it to maybe one or two courses, follow it up, see where they are able to do assignments. Maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester, but follow it till the end, do all the assignments, watch all the videos, register for the exam, do the exam and become a talker in it. I think that's something that is very, very doable. I hope you were able to get that message as we presented in the last one and a half hours. That is what we were trying to tell you today that these courses are from IITs. I cannot do it. It would be very difficult. There are 15 lakh people who have written exams with us so far. It is not like all of them are coming out from IITs or they are all like very well accomplished. They are all coming from highly studious backgrounds. Something like that. They are also students just like you in any college. What you need is the interest to study. What you need is the motivation. You have to put out time. It is not like two days before the NPTEL exam, let me study and get a certificate. You will not get a certificate. Every week you have to watch videos. Every week you have to do the assignment. Then you can definitely get a certificate. So you need hard work and it will pay off. But it is not like I cannot do it. There is no such thing as I cannot do an NPTEL course. Anybody can do an NPTEL course. We showed you people from age 86 years doing NPTEL courses. We showed you people from all nook and corners of the country doing NPTEL courses. There is local language translation and transcripts in some courses that will help you understand the subject better. Your faculty are there to help you if you do not understand something. Your friends are there to help you if you all join a course together. Discussion forum is there. Ask questions. Ask doubts if you have something there. But try out and learn something which is outside of your college curriculum. Today when companies are looking of a recruitment one of the things they see is okay your college curriculum. Are you able to learn on your own? Are you able to study outside of college curriculum? Are you picking up any skills that are relevant for any job you might be trying for? This is something that companies do look out for. It's not just a resume saying BSE with this, VA with this. That might be one thing. But then we look at okay what else? What else? What else? That is something that all of us look out for when we are recruiting people. We are looking for job opportunities to learn what you're interested in. To try and explore new opportunities that are there. It is free. There is no fee to learn. You can download and watch the videos. You can download and do the courses. You can enroll in swim courses. Only the final exam has 1000 rupees fee. That also we are giving fee waivers if you are a local chapter so you can use that also. You have to pay first. front also. So don't let money be a barrier, don't let anything else be a barrier. Put in your time, put in your effort, learn from NPTEL, get skilled and I hope you do much much better. Till then, all the best and I hope that all of you do enroll to a course. Thank you. Thank you. It was a nice session. Now I'll continue the impact of being a local chapter of NPTEL at our institute. I'm setting the slide. We have established the local chapter of NPTEL in December 2019. From that date, this is the start with the involvement of NPTEL. Total enrollment is around 1500, 1477. Student registered for examination, 103, passed and received certificates, 32, although students have completed their assignments on time. Mentorship certificate, we have received at our center, that is 3. Faculty FDP certificate, Faculty Development Program, we have received the certificate 8. Spoke appreciation certificate, we have received 1. This semester, as far as January, April is concerned, we are doing the registration of the students at our local chapter. More than 200 students has been registered till today for the different different courses as Bharti Vidya Peet Deem to be University has adopted MOOC and we found NPTEL being local chapter is comparatively easy since I am associated with NPTEL being local chapter from last three years. So, the execution being a part of NPTEL is comparatively easy and helpful for the institution, faculty members, mentors, as well as students because students can view their performance during the course anytime. And second thing, the course is mostly discipline. So, whatever the date, date line are given, the results are published, the assignments are submitted and this is a good platform. And there are some feedback as a local chapter. We are having the feedback from faculty. We are having the feedback from students. So, one of our faculty, Dr. Savana Mehman has completed six FDP certificate, course completion certificate, as well as FDP from NPTEL local chapter. So, this is the feedback from the faculty. The another faculty, Dr. Deepali Gala has also completed certain courses from NPTEL and I am sharing the feedback with all the people. We are having the practice to provide the course with mentorship to the students. So, there are certain feedback from students. They have completed the course like Python for Data Science for the course. They found the course are easy, understandable, the materials provided, the content provided by the subject experts are really helpful for them. The courses build the confidence inside the students. They are adopting the area of the subject, whatever knowledge they have gain. They are ready to prepare for interview on the basis of the outcome of that course that is the learning from that material provided by NPTEL. So, we found being a part of NPTEL, the implementation of MOOC as the motive of the swim is education anywhere at very low cost. You can say that no cost for every student. I feel very proud to be a part of NPTEL as a local chapter. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Now, moving forward, this is the question, answer round session. People will have certain queries regarding establishment of local chapter although Bharti Madan had covered very details about how to establish a local chapter. It is very simple process to establish a local chapter. Once the local chapter is established, the spoke can observe the progress as a local chapter on the dashboard. Now, I open the house for the question, answer session. Faculty members, the authority of the various institutes who are interested to establish the local chapter, they can raise the question. Then faculty members, if they are having the question, they can ask students if you are having any question, you can clear your doubts during the question and answer session. Hello, sir. I think there is no queries in the YouTube chat. One of the faculty has messaged. See, we are finding the courses on NPTEL is very good. But the NPTEL courses are targeted to postgraduate undergraduate diploma courses. Faculty members who have started their career, they have performed the PhD degree, they are enrolling the PhD degree. So, some of the faculty members had asked or you can say, suggest that if NPTEL can prepare or provide a domain on pre-PSD course work related to somehow research methodology and all, it will be helpful for the new starting teachers. As a faculty member. I think there are no more queries, sir. You can continue with our vote of thanks. Audience, if you have any query, you can write or we can start with the vote of thanks. Observing on YouTube, live chat, there is no question there. So, now I'll call Professor Vairba Desai, madam to give vote of thanks. Good morning all. It's my privilege to propose vote of thanks for this NPTEL session. It was really worth for all of us along with the students to attend the session. NPTEL is now become a need of an hour. As per the guidelines of AICT and UGC, all the students, all the faculty members, they have to undergo a course like MOOC and that too offered through NPTEL. So, once again, we are proud to have a NPTEL spoke at the Institute and I start proposing the vote of thanks for the today's session. I'm privileged to propose the vote of thanks. I'm Dr. Vairba Desai, representing Bharti Vidyapur Institute of Management, Kadambari, Kulapur. I sincerely thank Bharti, madam, today's speaker for briefing us about NPTEL. I'm sure it's a true inspiration to listen about the importance of NPTEL courses from your side. I thank Ms. Kamla, madam, Ms. Pradarshani, madam and Ms. Divya, madam from NPTEL team. I would especially thank Bharti Vidyapur dignitaries, Chancellor, Dr. Shivajri Avkadam sir, Secretary, Dr. Vishwajit Kadam sir, Vice Chancellor, Dr. Vivek Saoji sir, Dr. S.F. Patil sir, Dr. Kirti Gupta madam, Dr. Sachin Velnagar sir, Dean of Faculty of Management Studies. I thank Director of the Institute, Dr. Rajesh Khande sir, HOD, Dr. K. M. Alaskar sir and Professor Nipesh Kumar Nrip sir to organize this session for all of us. Once again I thank yes and not to forget last but the least but they are the most important are the students and all the listeners for today's session, all the attendants of today's session. I once again thank all of you and with the permission of chair I declare the session is over. Thank you so much. Thank you ma'am. Thank you sir. We can wind up the session sir. Nipesh sir. Yes madam. Shall we wind up the session sir? Yes, yes, yes. We can wind up the session. Thank you team NPTEL again. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Studiating. You can stop lying. Studiating. You can stop lying.