 Good morning, Father. Good morning to everybody present here. Team from local chapter NPTEL, Priyadarshani ma'am. Team from IIT Madras. Divya ma'am, I welcome you all on the behalf of Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur. Am I audible? Yes ma'am. Okay. So warm welcome and good morning to all the esteemed dignitaries present over here. I would like to start with Reverend Father Dr. Ereks Angelo, Principal Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur. I welcome you Father. I welcome Priyadarshani ma'am. Ma'am is the project manager for NPTEL. I also welcome Divya the ma'am who is the project officer. I also welcome Bharti ma'am who is going to be the speaker for the session. She is the senior project manager for NPTEL. I, Anjali Parik, on the behalf of entire Averian family, welcome you all for the NPTEL awareness program, which is organized by NPTEL in association with Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur Rajasthan. I have been working in this institute for the past 10 years and I have been working at the position of assistant professor in the department of business administration. Today I'm hosting this workshop as the SPOC, which is a single point of contact for NPTEL courses. Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur has a very glorious history. They started this institute in the year 2010 and since 2010 we have not looked back. In such a short span of 12 years, Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur is delivering its expertise in the field of higher education. Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur is a Jesuit institute and like other Jesuit institutes, it is keeping its flag high in the field of delivering and they are bounded to deliver the quality education in the field of higher education. Sanseviya Scholar Jaipur is working on the motive of building the character, the competence, the compassion. We are affiliated to University of Rajasthan. We have nine departments at present with three PG courses. We have a strength of around 3000 students at present. And today the purpose of this workshop is to generate the awareness for the NPTEL courses. NPTEL courses, NPTEL basically firstly stands for National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning, which is the flagship event, a flagship program of MHRD, initiative of Government of India, with this idea of promoting the education in the field of various fields, various disciplines. The idea of NPTEL courses is to enhance the learning just by sitting at your home anywhere, anytime from that is one of the motive of NPTEL courses. Many times students contribute a lot in their extracurricular activities. NPTEL courses promote the academic learning of the students just by clicking, the learning is just a click away for all the courses, for all the disciplines. Today the workshop aims to build a better understanding of the courses. What other aspects of NPTEL courses are touching upon? I mean, it just not only talks about the courses, but also talks about the domain certification, about the various fields which opens up in the field of job creation, in the field of learning the various other disciplines. It also talks about FTP certification, it also talks about soft skill training. Today's workshop would be focusing upon the domain certification, FTP certificates, soft learning, soft skills training workshop and also various other aspects of NPTEL courses. I would like to now invite Reverend Father Dr. Eric Angelo to start with this address to share the words of wisdom for us for this particular workshop. I welcome you Father. Father, your mic is not working. Can you hear me? Yes Father. Thank you. So good morning to all of you. Sorry for the technical snack. Dr. Priyadarshani, Dr. Divya and Dr. Bharathi and Dr. Anjali Parikh and the esteemed members of NPEL local chapter. It gives me immense pleasure to interact with you in this cold and shivering morning from Jaipur. I'm sure you must have heard about the Society of Jesus, which runs almost 300 universities all over the world because the Society of Jesus is 500 years old, started by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier, our great founders of this noble institution. For the last five centuries also, we have been educating millions of students all over the world with a clear-cutting motive of creating men and women for others. The motto of Saint Xavier is called Jaipur is competence, character and compassion. With this framework, we have been producing a lot of scholars all over the world irrespective of one's caste, color and creed. In general, all of our Jesuit institutions are producing global citizenship among the students, the future of this world. Since there are 300 universities all over the world, all the top universities in the US, Europe and other parts of the world, in India we have three universities and then 80 colleges, all of them well graded by NIRF and also by NAC, A plus or A double plus institutions. Saint Xavier's College Jaipur, Saint Xavier's Calcutta, Saint Xavier's Bombay, Loyola College Chennai, Saint Joseph's Bangalore, Saint Joseph's Trichy, and all these are well-known institutions serving the humanity with a singular devotion of promoting quality and value-oriented education. We have produced the eminent alumni like Dr. Abdul Kalam, Dr. Pranab Mukherjee and hundreds and hundreds of IAS officials, IPS people, plus several chief ministers like Sibu Suresh or Dr. Wayasar. But our greatest of glory, point of glory is creating men and women for others. For this purpose, I noticed that NPTEL has got a similar purpose of promoting quietly quality education. From the feedback I have received from our students here under the able guidance of Dr. Anjali Parikh, we have a very good response. We have 435 students enrolled with 10 faculties and then most of them have received their certificates and one student Vedant Lodha of first year received a top of certificate in the course International Business. Again, that was in July to December 2020, the beginning of COVID period. Again, the next year, January, April and July to December 2021, we have 350 students with 26 members of the staff enrolled. Again, in January, April and July December 2022, we have 660 students with 50 members of the faculty enrolled for this program. The feedback we get from them is excellent. Many of the students feel they are future ready thanks to these courses. They are able to get a lot of knowledge, information and also skills, which is the need of the hour. The many students have communicated to us that these courses are helpful for them for the preparation for net select set and other competitive exams. That makes me immensely happy because besides I was being an affiliated college, we are yet to become an autonomous on the university in future. Many students have told me that these programs are also helpful in creating an interest in research from the budding researchers. So I am very happy that NPTEL is doing a human service to the youth of this country and stalwarts like the organizers have done a wonderful job of motivating people. Otherwise, many of our youngsters unfortunately are spending their precious time for a screen, especially at night, unproductive socialization, chatting, wailing away, roaming about, etc. Whereas these courses motivate them, leave them away from their distractions and help them to get focused in their lives. I want to congratulate all of you for having brought in a new culture of learning, making use of the different available opportunities and the expertise from experts like you. My sincere appreciation to all of you. I wish this commendable service of yours should continue for many more years to come. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you father for such worthy words of wisdom for us. I would like to now hand over the mic to Madame Priyadarshani for playing the video for us and then we'll start with the session. Over to you ma'am. Yes ma'am. Okay, 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 a soft-skilled 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? I am 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 in CID 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. 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.gov.in and you try to enroll to any course or 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. 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 free fee at all to access our content. 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 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 to you. So whenever you think of a website, what really do you look out for? Say how many people access their website? How much content do we have? In 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, 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 also 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. 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 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 the 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. 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, we 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 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 in the city, be in the IAT Madras or IAT Kanpur or IAT Kharagpur 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's 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 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. We also 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. So 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, 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 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. 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 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 and economics and of course engineering and all we have a couple of domains. 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 or engineering or you can do a cross discipline. So for instance I'm a 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. 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 a swyam courses there will be some career progression points. But the actual logistics I am not sure you will have to check within your university. So that is something that is there. But we see that more than about 20-30 thousand 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 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 FTP course. You can do the FTP course online itself just like the students. You join for free on swyam portal. You go through the course submit assignments and then you pay the thousand 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 that too. That's all it takes to do an FTP course with us today. So this is very important for faculty. I hope this is clear. 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. 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 FTP of one week. An eight week NPTEL course is a full FTP of one week and a 12 week course is equivalent to one and a half weeks FTP equivalent. So this is the equivalent of it. Okay. Yes. The next thing I wanted to talk about was gate coaching. 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 face one is only over face two and face three. We will be coming up within the next six months. So keep watching this link on NPTEL website. If you are preparing for the gate exam. Okay. That is one new initiative. 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. 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. 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 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 Thomas background and 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. 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 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's what we have. 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 presidents, CEOs, CEOs of companies like IBM, Capgemini, 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 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. 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'll 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're 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... Okay? It has the NPTEL logo. This was... 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. Then the institutes of IIT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this foot, you can see IIT Madras logo there. IIT Madras, the name will be put there. Signatures from our site 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 1 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 if 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 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 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'll 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 and you can be a local chapter. You can be a local chapter. You can be a local chapter. You can be 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 SPOC 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. 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 the college. 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 they 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 SPOC can be directly shared with those who 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 a high as followed by Damnadu and of course we have these. Kalingana comes in maybe 7th position with 234 local chapters currently. Every semester we also we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries. 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, how many people have 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 efforts 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. These are other categories that we have based on faculty participation based on how local chapters improve semester after semester. There's a separate category for art, science colleges also. 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 Khareppur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Gaha, IIT Bombay, Delhi and ISE 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 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, 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 even five courses. You can join even 10 courses and you can try out week one videos. You can see what you're interested in and then shortlist it to maybe one or two courses, follow it up, see whether you're able to do assignments. Maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester but follow it till the end. Do all 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 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're all like very accomplished. They're all coming from highly studious background. Something like that. They're 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 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. The 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 okay your college degree is there apart from this what have you done. That is something that 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'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 that 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 enhanced 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 swimming courses and do it. Only the final exam has a thousand rupees fee. That also we are giving fee waivers if you're 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. Thank you ma'am for such a wonderful explanation. You have really explained it at such an exploratory level that every student whosoever had any single doubt they must have been cleared out by your session. Thank you so much. I would now like to share the local chapter impact in our college. I just have one presentation please. Is it visible? Yes ma'am. It's visible. So it has been my esteemed pleasure to share the local chapter impact in our college. Our college is an affiliated college to University of Rajasthan. So we use NPTEL soym courses as an add-on certification courses for those topics for those curriculum and all those aspects of curriculum which we cannot take which are not there in the syllabus and we wish students to join and to learn about such things which are there in their academics which could not be covered in the syllabus. So we started our journey of NPTEL courses in the year 2020 which was a COVID struck here and since then we have almost 1500 students who have enrolled for such courses. Most of them who have registered for the exam are able were able to get the certificate. We have also gained a lot of stoppers in various courses from different fields, from different different disciplines. I would like to share that we started our journey in 2020. We had in year 2020 we became local chapter in the July 2020 and you can see around 435 students out of the strength of 3000 students they opted for such courses. 10 of the faculty members also opted for such courses. The certification 32 students along with the faculties were able to get the certificates. The registration rate was 41 and almost all the ones who have registered for the courses were able to get the certificate. I am very delighted to share that one of our student Vedant Loda he was in his first year when he opted for such course and he became the topper of such course at the India level. So this talks volumes about that when once a student is very much into these courses that person is able to crack that exam not only just crack the exam but also to become the topper of such course. We have many such laurels in this. In the year 2021 341 students along with the faculty members enrolled for such courses and whosoever registered for the course whosoever appeared for the course were able to get the certificate. Similar kind of scenario was been seen in 2022 and we are very hopeful that in 2023 this number of getting the certificates are more. These are some of the testimonials of those students who are toppers in the various courses. They say a lot about these courses how much they are benefitted by these courses. I have just tried to assimilate the toppers you know as in this slide. I have numerous such examples in terms of those students who have attained the elite certificate the silver certificates and they are very much satisfied they are very much contented by receiving certificates. One of my student in BBA he cracked and he became the topper of this course Business and Sustainable Development and he says that this course is not going to just add on a certificate add on something in his CV but also this certificate this particular curriculum this particular topic which we were not able to cover in the syllabus that is going to really help him out in doing the business in doing the job in the coming days. One of our student Nihar he opted for such courses he has been a regular you can say the student in terms of joining the NPTEL courses and almost all the courses which he became which he joined he came with the all flags high and most of the courses he became the topper one such courses literature studies this course he says is going to help him out in clearing the net in all these kind of comparative exams. One of our student by learning the NPTEL courses it is going to make an impact in the research journey which she has in the long run so NPTEL courses are not just only helping the students in learning the academics or the curriculum which they are studying so along with the course which they have opted but these courses also help students to learn something beyond their syllabus if somebody has an interest in learning the research learning the other dimension of the say for example a science student wishes to learn the computer course or a BBA student wishes to learn the science course and NPTEL gives us this opportunity so I can say this on the behalf of my students that they are very much benefited by such courses thank you over to you Pirdarshani ma'am do we have such any questions yes ma'am do you have any queries ma'am on this show hello ma'am yes ma'am we will solve the queries in the youtube live chat ma'am any other things we want to do from our side ma'am ma'am yes father Pirdarshani can I ask your question to you yes sir the incoming NEP 2020 where they talk about skills and inter departmental studies and then department research multiple entries and exercises and all that what do you think is the scope of NPTEL in future one second sir hello sir they are from NPTEL office yes sir so what was your query about I was asking a question on the incoming NEP 2020 where we talk a lot about skill development multiple entries and exercises and then sir what is that NEP 2020 you are referring to sir yeah national education policy ma'am new national education policy 2020 is going to be implemented very soon from the academic okay there they talk a lot about skill training and then multiple doing courses even entry of foreign universities Indian soil etc in that context what do you think is the future scope for NPTEL so let's see already we are doing some soft skill training sir so we offer soft skill courses as well as we are doing soft skill training for the local chapter students so like for the past one month of years we are doing this so like we already have started this like even before the NEP has started their policy so so this is like this has helped the local chapter students are way better so that helps the students to perform well in their interviews and we were making sure that they are ready for their interviews etc so soft skill we have like already done and internships also we are doing for the top of the local chapter students so they will come to the institute either they will come to the IT Madras or other IITs different sort of course they have done and they will have an opportunity to work with the professor so they will do some many projects something like that some projects with the course professors and then they just complete their internships so not only like we offer engineering or like hard sense courses we also develop the students skills they are providing skill related courses as well as we are providing soft skill training to them thank you thank you yeah Anjali mom so I guess like we are good to wind up the session so thank you sir and maybe you can start with the vote of thanks okay thank you so much I can say this on the behalf of entire civilian family so I would like to start on this worship's occasion that I have deemed to have a great honor and privilege to propose the vote of thanks so let me start giving glory to the almighty god for making today's session a resounding success I am very much grateful to Revvin father Dr. Erics Angelou since he was college chapter for his unstinted support for guiding us and showing the right path without his guidance and able leadership successful organizations cannot conduct event like this my sincere thanks to NPTL team for accepting the proposal of having this kind of workshop in our institute my sincere thanks to Bharti mom for delivering such exploratory explanation of the courses and not only just courses but the aspects of the NPTL like faculty development courses job oriented courses soft skills training programs and domain certification and yes NPTL stars as well I am sure our students and faculties who have joined of our college and other institutes also are benefitted by this session my sincere thanks to Divya the ma'am for her support in organizing this workshop I am very much grateful to Priyadarshani ma'am for smooth conduct of this workshop and the entire NPTL team for having this workshop with Senzaiva's college effort I would like to record my heartfelt thanks to my dedicated team members Rose ma'am Dr. Atika ma'am Mamta ma'am for the enthusiastic efforts and I also appreciate the dedicated efforts of our student Jaya Botra for our enthusiasm and commitment last but not the least my deep sense thanks and appreciation goes to all the students and all those faculties who attended the program with such great enthusiasm and who have made today's event a great success thank you that's all from Senzaiva's college effort thank you thank you ma'am thank you sir sorority we can stop the live stream shall we leave the meeting now yes ma'am yes okay thank you thank you once again thank you