 Hello madam. Good morning sir. Good morning madam. Doctor Murli sir, can you hear me? Yes, yes, yes, just I ordered to say, Dean madam is she is on the way, she's got stuck somewhere, closer to the college. No issues sir, she will be joining soon. The book is a no issue, you can start with the introduction sir. Hello, good morning sir. Shalain. Yes sir, you can start. Good morning everyone who have joined this program online. It gives me great pressure to introduce about NPTEL. It's an agency which is funded by Ministry of Human Resources Development and which is providing you learning through online web and video courses in engineering, sciences, technology, management and humanities. This is a joint initiative by IITs of Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mitras, Guwahati and Roorkee and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. And also along with these institutions, premier institutions have also joined as associate partners in this endeavor. It is a program which is offered through online. Various courses are being provided through this and it is HRD's prestigious program to reach out to the masses, enable them to acquire knowledge and enable them to take part in their future endeavors in a more successful way. We are happy to be associated with this as a local chapter and with this small introduction I would like to invite our principal to talk a few words on this about the institution and about other aspects. Thank you. Very good morning. Namaste to the organizers and on behalf of the management staff and the IQAC members. It gives me great pleasure to be amidst the learned. I am Jane college, which is in Meenambakkam started in the year 1952. We are a 70 year old institution. And it comments in the year 1952. We were a men's college. And now, from the year 2003, we have converted ourselves into a co-education institution to cater to the need of the women population. The college has got 9,500 plus students and the NPTEL chapter was introduced at our campus on the 7th of September, 2022. And there are currently around 700 participants, both staff and students who are very enthusiastic in the way things are going. About our college. We are running both on the aided stream and in the self-financing stream. We have 13 courses, both UG and PG shift one, which is the aided stream and 27 courses in shift two, which is the self-financing stream. This initiative, which is done by the IAT is very useful for the students and for the staff members when their hybrid learning has been coming into existence right from COVID. And probably this gives us an opportunity to hear and to be part of many such prestigious programs, which was not otherwise available to the students and for the staff at various parts of the country. We are very proud that our institution is a local chapter and from the management and from the administration, we are here to be part of this prestigious group and we assure you that every single program that you organize will have maximum participation from our staff and students. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to be part of this today and I wish today's program grand success. Namaste. Thank you. Now, I think we can move on to the main part of the program. And before that, I think one small clarification is required. I think whether it is going to be presentation by the IAT Madras host, I would like to hand over it to co-host NPTEL local chapter. Thank you, sir. I'll hand 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 a soft-scale 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-MHRD, 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. But since we have courses that are there in the management and humanities division inside IATs, 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. So 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.dot.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, right? 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, theirs 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. That is something that you have to look out for. NPTEL started in 2003. The vision that we have had is to record the content that is being taught to IIT 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 IITs. I am not in the IITs today. I cannot get access to their knowledge, to their teaching. Hence, you know, I 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 fee at all to access our content. There is somebody who is 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 you 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. 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? Correct? 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, IAC 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. Okay? 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. Satish once 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 in 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 are using for 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. Then 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 say 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 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 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 solve 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 the next slide. 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 transfer. So, I will skip this slide. So, credit transfer just has a piece of information for maybe the faculty who are out here. IATs 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, IATs also do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. It is not just the outside colleges that have to do the ourselves do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. This is an important thing I would say. So, we have a program by which the topers in the courses actually get internship opportunity with the faculty in the IATs. So, whoever has offered that course, they take it normally about 2, 3, 5 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 IATs with the faculty. So, this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and stay you know in the city be in the IAT Madras, or IAT Kanpur, or IAT Kharakpur, or IAT 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 are especially thinking about going for higher studies. You will get the idea of what is done in these institutes. I think it is a really good opportunity for students outside of the IATs to come in and experience the IATs 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 look. 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 are 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 are, I don't know Pederpally College has done it, but yes, we can extend it to y'all also and we can get it done. Okay. So, this is a 7 of 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 are 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, okay? Yeah, 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, you know, 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, how 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 3,000, as I can just calculate on the fly, that we are going to have these people doing multiple courses and they are impedance stars with us today. So, there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last three 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 these 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, right 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 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, okay. 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 economics and of course engineering and all we have couple of domains. So, if you are 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 are an engineering student of course you can try any of the domains in your particular discipline or engineering or you can do a cross discipline. So, for instance I am 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 are in mechanical engineering department you cannot study electrical engineering say power systems course power electronics course you are not allowed to study 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 sign it out of course from the specific IIT that we are doing it from. So, how do we do lag 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 model 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 ok. 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 FTP 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 swiom courses there will be some career progression points but the actual logistics I am not sure you will have to check within your sorry university. So, that is something that is there but we see that more than about 20, 30,000 faculty write our exams every semester and most of them apply for the FTP certificates also. This is very very useful for faculty I will say because you do not have to spend money you do not have to take leave you do not have to miss your college work and go to some institute stay for a week or stay for 10 days and then do an FTP course you can do the FTP course online itself just like the students you join for free on swiom 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 FTP certificate to us and get back to that is all it takes to do an FTP course with us today. So, this is very important for faculty I hope this is what the FTP 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 AICT logo is there. So, this you can present when you are going in for your promotion interviews right. The conversion that they do is a 4 week NPTEL course is equivalent to half FTP of 1 week. An 8 week NPTEL course is a full FTP of 1 week and a 12 week course is equivalent to 1 and a half weeks FTP equivalent. So, this is the equivalent subject. 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 gate. So, we will be coming up phase 1 is only over phase 2 and phase 3 we will be coming up within the next 6 months. So, keep watching this link on NPTEL website. If you are preparing for the gate exam 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 request 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. 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 8 languages. So, we do Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi. So, that is the languages that we are translating it into. So, Telugu we have a lot of transcripts that are translated into Telugu language. So, 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 can 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 are 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 learning course in Hindi language. So, only two or three we have most are in English. We do not have too many other language courses. So, that is something you can check. Let me take a question from the chat. There are one or two saying I am from commerce background I am 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 and 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 is something you can learn or if you are 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 do not write the exam at least do the course, do the assignment see whether you can do something about it or if you are 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 100 we would have for BCOM level students at least. 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 is what we have right. 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, Camp Germany Infosys that we have 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 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 will be some topic to talk about also when somebody asks you something it will widen your knowledge base okay this is something that you can see and if you are 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 will do there I don't know maybe if you are doing a BSE it's 6 into 6 maybe 36 courses or if it's a BTEC also if I say 6 courses per semester it's about 48 so it's an equivalent to that okay so there is one learner who has done 47 exams 34 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 2 exams 48000 doing 3 and if you look up to 10 exams even right lot of them are doing 10 exams 8 exams with us so maybe you should think about and plan for how you are going to study which courses you are going to do as you are in college and every semester try to do at least 1 or 2 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 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 svayam logo and it has the okay it has the NPTEL logo this means then it has your photo on the certificate it has as you can see the elite tag the gold medal we just put it here to say if you fall under these categories you can see all these coming on your certificate then the institutes of IT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this book 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 is not 5000 it is not 10000 it is not 1 lakh like I am 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 5 years it is 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us and they have gotten so our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last 7 years from when we are running this certification project we have finished 3500 courses almost and enrollment is 1.58 crores 15 lakhs exam registration that is 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 semester when we conduct exams in March and April it is 3 lakh people who write our exams so that is 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 have not heard of NPTEL you should really tell them saying that 15 lakh people enroll every semester and 3 lakh people write exams how come you are missing out you know 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 have gotten jobs people have gotten through the soft skill training courses course feedback everything is available there so do subscribe to our social media handles so that you can get updates from ourselves okay I will 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 local chapter with us so NPTEL works with about 4500 colleges today across the country and we have co-ordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact of Sparks and through them is how we are so successful so thanks to all the local chapter 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 in a local chapter so to become an NPTEL local chapter there is no money involved there is no financial dealing you just need to send us an email saying that you want to become a local chapter there's a google form and the website fill it up and we need a co-ordinator in your college who will be our local champions to 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 on so will be the single point of contact for NPTEL and that's all once we receive the email we will 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 of 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 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 to local chapters so if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds if you are doing NPTEL courses writing exams once they pass it we will refund 50% 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 NVM 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 do these are local chapters that we have this is the statewide distribution I think Maharashtra is the highest followed by Tamil Nadu and of course we have these telling Anna maybe 7th position with 234 local chapters currently okay every semester we also we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries they are 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 topers how many people have written exams how many people have 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 centers as our representatives faculty can help in translation effect efforts and yes like I said we rate it and we give recognition to the Sparks and the college also every semester so these are certificates that we give them based on the formula that we have with the college and the Sparks 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 for art science colleges also yeah star LC who have been in the top 10 or top 100 over the last 4 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 8 institutes come together to work on this project and kind of run it without a break and to kind of offer 2000 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 drawing a few courses learn from it sample the videos there you may or 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 even 5 courses you can join even 10 courses and you can try out week 1 videos see what you are interested in and then shortlist it to maybe 1 or 2 courses follow it up see whether you are able to do assignments maybe it even comes down to 1 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 topper 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 that don't be afraid that these courses are from IITs I cannot do it it will 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 background 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 2 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 ok 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 support of 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 for recruitment one of the things they see is ok your college degree is there apart from this what have you done all of them are looking at 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 is not just a resume saying BSE with this VA with this that might be one thing but then we look at ok what else what else what else there is something that all of us look out for when we are recruiting people so it might be good to have a few certifications to at least get your skills and hands to learn what you are 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 so and courses and do it only the final exam has a thousand 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 get your exam done pass the course we will be able to help you with fee waivers on that 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 Ramiya ma'am you can share here yeah is my presentation visible everyone yes ma'am right good morning everyone thank you Ms. Priyadarshani Dr. Murli IQAC coordinator of AMJN and Ms. Rekha the Spock for AMJN local chapter NPTEL local chapter for arranging this awareness workshop I know we've initiated this local chapter at AMJN this year with the support of IQAC at AMJN thanks for pushing it up very hard Dr. Murli among the students and the faculty now I'm here to just present a quick impact of NPTEL local chapter because we've just initiated a couple of months back passing on the information among students about the courses about the benefits of taking up courses under NPTEL taking up certifications through NPTEL so the information has already reached but however we just wanted to push it even more because right now if you see the enrollments among the students and faculty students about 559 students have already registered and 50 faculty have registered for various NPTEL courses across multiple disciplines so this is a good sign and we don't want to be satisfied with the number we still wanted to minimum triple the number of enrollments at AMJN so the reason behind conducting this awareness workshop is to create motivation among students to improve the enrollments here the second thing among teaching faculty all these NPTEL and SWIM courses after introducing it to faculty we have asked these faculty to incorporate it in their respective courses as well so the departments have been asked to identify courses that aligns very closely with any one of the NPTEL course and that has been recommended among students however we have not made it mandatory because this is the first time that we have initiated so we have not made it mandatory but most of the departments have incorporated all these NPTEL SWIM courses as a part of one of their assessments so either the course completion can be considered as one assignment or a few topics in an NPTEL or SWIM course can be considered for assignments or seminar so once they complete an assessment it can be considered as one assessment or few topics they are asked to learn from an NPTEL course and then a quiz or a group discussion is conducted inside the classroom so teaching pedagogies we have initiated bringing in NPTEL courses as modules in the existing curriculum based course then for faculty to motivate them faculty incentives are announced when they complete NPTEL and SWIM courses and once they complete they also can be considered as mentors for these courses when the students take up these courses with respect to infrastructure we are coming up with Wi-Fi enabled campus the work is over because Wi-Fi is mandatory when we promote all such online learning the work is almost complete and from February we should have the campus completely enabled with Wi-Fi this is one and we are also improving upon the ICT enabled classrooms which is a little low at present we are trying to improve upon making almost all the classrooms to have some or other ICT facilities so this is about the impact that we have made with a very you know, within a very short duration since we incepted this local chapter and we still wish to grow further thank you Miss Rekha, I guess your audio is not clear yes ma'am hello ma'am my audio now your audio yes sir students who are all watching YouTube yes students Miss Rekha I think your audio is not clear yes ma'am yes that's true ma'am my audio is not clear yes ma'am I can hear you ma'am I think we have we have not received any worries ma'am so I have posted feedback form just get to the traffic can you word of thanks ma'am I can come if you are not ready so your audio is not clear can you word of thanks ma'am yes sir can you sir word of thanks sir Rekha ma'am voice is not clear Rekha Darshi ma'am yes ma'am yes ma'am have you shared the feedback ma'am yes ma'am yes ma'am a very good morning one and all on behalf of our agar chen manual jane college I am glad to be standing here to express my word of thanks Rekha Darshi ma'am am I audible yes ma'am you are audible yes sir a very good morning one and all on behalf of our agar chen manual jane college I am glad to be standing here I am glad to be standing here as NPTEL Spock to express my word of thanks special thanks to our resource person Mrs. Bharati from IIT Madras for the inspired speech who motivated our students to enroll the NPTEL courses which will pave a way for happy learning I cordially thank our management Dr. N. Venkataramanand the principal Dr. M. M. Ramya the dean Dr. B. S. Morali the IQAC coordinator and his IQAC team the estate team Mr. Ivaraj the technical team Ms. Priya Darshani from IIT Madras and Kishore third B.C.A. student for supporting this e-workshop to make a grand success last but not least I would also like to thank members and students of AMJ college for being here and making this day a wonderful and learnable one thank you once again thank you one and all thank you Rakhamam thank you Murli sir thank you Ramya ma'am it's a pleasure ma'am thank you we can wind up the session okay thank you we can wind up the session so you can leave the meeting studio team from IIT Madras you can stop streaming