 Good morning all. So, on behalf of Builders Engineering College, it's our pleasure to welcome you all for this NPTEL Awareness e-workshop in association with Rajasthi Shabu, Mahavidyalaya Latu Maharashtra. So, it's my pleasure to welcome our today's resource from NPTEL Team IIT Madras to give an awareness about this NPTEL course and its usage related with certifications for all the faculty and the students of the local chapter Builders Engineering College along with Rajasthi Shabu, Mahavidyalaya. I take this opportunity to welcome all the faculty, students and principal of Builders Engineering College as well as faculty, students and principal of Rajasthi Shabu, Mahavidyalaya, Latu, Maharashtra and this program is all about giving awareness related to this NPTEL course. I take the opportunity to welcome the team from IIT Madras to give an awareness about NPTEL and now I hand over the session to our beloved principal, Dr. Gopala Krishnan from Builders Engineering College. So, good morning to all. Good morning. So, first of all, I would like to thank Mahavidyalaya Shabu, IIT professors, NIT professors and all other professors who have prepared the NPTEL course material for the benefit of the students to fill the gap in such colleges like, updated colleges like us. Really, it is a worthwhile materials and also the government made separate arrangements to learn the content through FIAM or NPTEL out of which NPTEL has taken still a better effort to certify their learning level that I would like to thank. Thank you very much, IIT professors. Next, I would like to thank the organizers of the Drashree Shabu, Mahavidyalaya, Latu, Maharashtra for giving us this opportunity to create awareness among our students like your friends. Next, I would like to thank our workers chapter members for arranging this wonderful program. I hope definitely today's Chief guest will throw the light, the area of NPTEL course particularly after COVID, the online courses are supporting our students to develop their knowledge in their home or working places. So, I hope our students will get more benefit out of today's program. Thank you for the opportunity. Once again, I congratulate the Latu, Maharashtra institutions, our worker chapter coordinators for this wonderful program. Thank you very much. I request the team from IIT metros to take forward the session. Hello. Thank you, sir. Ma'am, could you please start that? Yes. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir, for your very enlightening words. Now, I request the vice principal of our college Rajasri Shahumavidyalaya Latu, professor Dr. Sadasu Shinde, sir, please. Good morning to all of you, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning to one and all. Good morning, sir. At the onset, I'd like to welcome to our heritage institution, Rajasri Shahumavidyalaya Autonomous Latu. I welcome all the dignitaries from Builders Engineering College, Aero, Tamil Nadu, Honorable Principal Dr. S. Gopal Krishnanji, Bharati Madam, Resource Person and Senior Project Manager, NPTEL IIT Madhura, Honorable 3A Darshani Madam, Project Manager, NPTEL IIT Madhura, Principal Dr. Gopal Krishnanji, Builders Engineering College, Aero, Tamil Nadu, Spoke Dr. Renuka Nude Madam from Rajasri Shahumavidyalaya Latu, and the Spoke from Builders Engineering College, Aero Aero, Dr. Savaar Saravanan, Builders Engineering College, our Honorable Principal and visionary leader, Dr. Amadya Gawadesa, our Inestitutions Head Honorable Dr. Gopal Raji Patil Sahib, Honorable Secretary Principal, Dadao Sir, Friends, previous welcome to our heritage institution and Paradise of Learning, Rajasri Shahumavidyalaya Autonomous Latu. Sir, it's my privilege to welcome all of you to this lecture, the workshop which is organized, joined to organized by Builders Engineering College and Rajasri Shahumavidyalaya Latu. Here, this is the NPTEL awareness e-workshop organized by these two colleges along with the IIT Madras. Sir, our institution is established in 1970, affiliated to Swami Ramananthi Muradwara University in Nanded. Students occupy top post-positioning majorities of university and board exams. When hard work and scheme work together, one can expect a masterpiece. Our results speaks a lot. We have impressive track record of results, ideal educational institution. And, sir, we have CPE status. We have best college, best college award. For your kind information, sir, because of our persistent efforts, hard work in the field of education, we have got two times best college award by the government of Maharashtra. Sir, we have got best principal award from our parent university. We have received two times best college award from our parent university. That is Swami Ramananthi Muradwara University. Because of our persistent efforts, hard work, here we have generated a pattern in education. Yes, that pattern, earlier it was known as the shout pattern in education. But later on, that pattern is known as the lateral pattern in education. Sir, we have transformed this city from the, you can say, one kind of hub into another kind of the hub. The earlier hub was the commercial hub, commercial city. We have transformed this commercial city into a educational hub. And the credit goes to Rajasheeshwamangalaya and Nathu. Sir, here we are working very hard because of which, every year more than 700 students are admitting to the government's MBBS colleges. More than 300 to 400 students are admitting to the engineering colleges, IITs. About 40 students every year are taking admissions to the reputed IITs. Sir, let me mention here the Indian Institutions of Technology. Because this is one of the privileged and prestigious institutions in India. There is no abroad. And our 40 students, about 40 students are taking admissions to these IITs, different types of IITs. In this regard, we are different from all others. Sir, not only the admissions to the medical colleges and engineering colleges, IITs, NITs, etc., we are performing better at every level. Even in the civil services examinations, you may have examples of UPSC and MPSC. We are performing very well. Let me add an example. Last year, about 300 students have been placed in the different prestigious institutions. 300 students. Sir, we can say the better placement may be affiliated to the professional colleges, professional colleges like engineering colleges, MBA colleges, etc., but this is a traditional college. And from this traditional college, more than 300 students every year, they are placed in the different prestigious institutions, places. Places like, you can say, the pro, places like the infancy, places like DCS, etc. And, sir, we have produced hundreds and hundreds of doctors, engineers, IITs, IITs, professionals, officials, advocates, entrepreneurs, social workers and so on. This is a modern educational institution in the intermission. That's why this begins to be a big pilgrimage in our area. Every year, sir, more than 10 to 20 teams are visiting this college from different states of the country. Not only from different states of the country, but from different countries also. Different kinds of the delegations are visiting this college. That's why this is one of the prestigious colleges so that our government of Maharashtra, Avaratay, the two times best college, Avaratay, sir. Sir, this is my privilege. For every semester, more than 1,000 students are registering for NPT courses, different types of NPT courses. Obviously, this is the era, 21st century is the era, era of technology. Obviously, we can say this is the era of computer science and all those things. In NPT years, IIT colleges, different types of the IIT institutions, here they are running one kind of the novel program that is called as the NPTEN. More than 1,000 students they are admitting for every semester. Sir, let me mention here, this is the only college from our region. We are performing very well at this level also. More than 800 students got success in the NPTL courses, sir. Sir, this is my privilege to welcome all of you in all regards. Let me express thanks, thanks once again, sir. Thank you. Madam, over to you. Renuka, madam, over to you. Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir, for your enlightened words. Pradasan, ma'am. I am, ma'am. Yeah. Yeah, thank you, ma'am. Ma'am. Yeah, okay, thank you. Okay, so many of you may be familiar with this logo. This is the NPTEN logo. We'll start off with it. So NPTEN 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. So skill training going on for local chapter students and so on. So this is what this presentation will talk about. Okay. So you might have all heard about these two terms NPTEL and Swayam. So Swayam is a project of the ministry, the government of India, and they created this in 2017 and said that all these agencies that you see below, right? I am Bangalore, UGC, CEC, NCRT, NITR, AICT, 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 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 to humanities management and 10% is something else we help. So NPTEL comes under Swayam and we coordinate this primarily. There are other agencies also. So one thing to remember, when you are going to Swayam.gov.in and you try to enroll to any course, so you try to join any course, please check whether the national coordinator is NPTEL if you want to join the NPTEL course. 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, I denied this opportunity. Nobody can say that today. More than 2,000 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? National Law School, Bangalore, NLSIU is offering two courses. I think in Jan, I don't know if we have. In July, we had two courses. More are coming in that. Specific to law, we do have a couple of courses. IIT Kharagpur has a law department. From there, we have some courses coming in. Otherwise, you can access the general courses that we have also. On management or English, those might be useful to you. Whenever you think of a website, what really do you look out for? How many people access that 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. This is the NPTEL statistics. We have more than 1.3 billion views of the NPTEL videos. This is huge for a technical channel which has no entertainment. You can't call NPTEL videos as entertainment. There is no song and dance or something. It's all faculty from the IITs, IIC teaching, serious stuff there. For that, we have more than 1.3 billion views. We have 37 lakh subscribers on our YouTube channel. Any of you have not subscribed to our channel today, I think I would say you are 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. This is where we are today as of NPTEL. These are what we do at NPTEL today. If you do an NPTEL course, what is the use of it? 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. Even if you don't get credit transfer, I think you get a lot of knowledge from NPTEL courses. For instance, what are the kind of courses we have that we would recommend to students in your college, correct? We will say that we have a lot of programming courses. We have programming in C, C++, Python, Java programming and all that. If you are a BSE Physics student or a BA, English student, maybe a B.Com student, as part of your program in the college, you would not be learning programming possibly. 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 within their company. It's good for you all to know at least something about it. That is the first part. What are the other courses we have that is useful for you? If you are 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 are confident when you are 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 stay in Germany, Japan. You 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. You have 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 take help from your teachers. And you can do the NPTEL courses. So there is no such thing as there will be live lectures. Maybe you will miss a few lectures because you have college or something. It is all video lectures along with assignment. So the first part is credit transfer and learning from our courses. Apart from it, if you do very well, maybe we should go to next slides. So this is the credit transfer. I don't want to discuss too much about this but I think your university doesn't have credit transfer. So I'll skip this slide. And 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're especially thinking about going for higher studies. You'll get the idea of what is done in these institutes. I think it's a really good opportunity for students outside of the 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. 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 2,000 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, probably 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 7 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. 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 but outside of the college syllabus, you have done something more to learn and skill yourself. Also, companies approach us and ask us, do we have students in particular areas that we can send them their resumes? So we also collect resumes of students on our site and if they're interested, we send these out to the companies and the companies call them for interviews, go through their levels of recruitment and we have been able to place NPTEL students on our site also in some companies. So we are still working on it. I hope this will increase. We are talking with more companies on this front, but otherwise, even if you have like two or three courses from NPTEL and the certificates for it, I think it will be hugely useful because of the logos we put on the certificate. The next one, there are a lot of students, learners, faculty who do multiple courses with us. There are people who do the courses, maybe they do three courses in a semester, four courses in a semester. They are top us 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 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, et cetera. 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 NPTEL stars with us today. So there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last two years. So what is a domain, right? So a domain we have created just to club courses together and maybe about five or six courses we have put together. And we say that if you study this six courses and you get more than 60 in the course, in each course, not just pass it by getting a 40, then you get a domain scholar certificate. So why is this important? This is important because it shows that you have specialized in a particular area. So for instance, we have a programming domain. So in the programming domain, we have courses such as C, C++, Python, database management course, and then maybe cloud computing course and so on. So if you do a programming domain and you do all the six courses, it shows that you have a solid foundation in this particular area. So when you go for an interview and you actually show a domain certificate versus just one or two certificates from us, that will make more of an impact on the interviewing person. So this is something we recommend. It is more just to guide students on what to study to become 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. We can talk about it later too. So these are some of the domains we have. So for you, it might be relevant. The English studies, we have a domain. Psychology, we have a domain. Management, we have it in marketing, operations, patents and intellectual property and economics and of course engineering and all we have a couple of domains. So if you're a general student, not an engineering student, I would recommend the programming domain for you. If you want to try out something, do the programming domain or do the management domain that will be really useful for you. So if you're an engineering student, of course, you can try any of the domains relevant in your particular discipline or engineering or you can do a cross-discipline. So for instance, I'm maybe a 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 IAT 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, IAT. You can come here. You can stay for a week at the institute. You can do the lab experiments. You can listen to faculty giving one or two lectures in the day and then do a lab exam and take a certificate. So what is the advantage of this? You will get to see really modern labs. You will get to see what the state of the art labs are in these institutes. You can see the equipment that is there, the modern equipment that is there. You can see the advanced research that is happening here. You can interact and get explained on all this equipment. So we had very successful labs being run at all these places. This is a wonderful opportunity. Again, if you do the theory course in NPTEL, those people, we will permit that you can apply and come for these lab certification courses and you can do the workshops here. So that was the idea behind the question we asked you. What else do we do at NPTEL? This is for faculty in colleges. So faculty in colleges under the AICT scheme, we explicitly have an MOU with them where NPTEL advanced courses, if you do in 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 swyam courses, there will be some career progression points. But the actual logistics, I'm not sure you'll have to check within your university. So that is something that is there. But we see that more than about 20, 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 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, right? 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. 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 one is only over, phase two and phase 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. That is one new initiative we have come up with. The next initiative exams outside of India. So till 2020, we were doing exams only in India where you have to go to a center and you have to write it. And then we got a lot of requests from people outside of India saying they also study from NPTEL courses and they want to write exams with us. So now we help to do that also. People outside India can also write exams, NPTEL exams and get certificates from us. 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 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 programming course in Hindi language. So only two or three we have, most are in English. We don't have too many other language courses. So that's something you can check. Let me take a question from the chat. There are one or two saying, I'm from Commerce background. I'm from BCOM. What courses we can take? So for BCOM students, we do have a lot of accounts related courses. You can check those out. Go to management department. I'll show you how to filter and learn from it. You can go there and you can see how to do it. So you can check out management related courses in which we have accounts related, commerce, economics related courses. That's something you can learn. Or if you're learning all that anyway in your college, right? I would strongly recommend programming courses for you all. Learn at least one programming language to know what is programming. How do people program? Whether you write the exam or not, I would say please write the exam. But yes, even if you don't write the exam, at least try a course, do the assignment, see whether you can do something about it. Or if you're not doing that, I would propose the English courses. I would propose the German language or the Japanese language course that you can learn from. Those are what we have. Quite a few for you to choose from. I would say more than 100 we would have for become level students at least. Okay? Yeah. So these are translation, how many courses we have in each language. So in Telugu we have 48 courses that are translated for now. So that's what we have, right? Okay. We have also something called special lecture series. So we also have industry people come in and present lectures. So these are again, free to watch very interesting topics, very, very distinguished people who come and present lectures. These are vice presidents, CEOs, CTOs 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, journalists 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. Maybe if you're doing a BSE, it's six into six, maybe 36 courses. Or if it's a BTEC also, if I say six courses per semester, it's about 48, so he's then 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, 8 exams with us. So maybe you should think about and plan for how you're going to study which courses you're going to do as you are in college. And every semester, try to do at least one or two NPTEL courses and finish with a certificate. That will be really nice that you can do that with your college, okay? This is something we wanted to say. Who are these people who are doing these courses? They are employed. They are faculty members. They are students. All people like you. So it's not like these people come suddenly from somewhere or they are also special. They are so privileged. Nothing like that. They are there in all towns, in all kinds of environment. They also have their constraints, but they are also studying from these courses and doing multiple courses, okay? This is what the certificate looks like. It has the Swayam logo and it has the, okay? It has the NPTEL logo. Then it has your photo on the certificate. It has, as you can see the elite tag, the gold medal. We've just put it here to say, if you fall under these categories, you can see all these coming on your certificate. Then the institute, so if 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 side will come and so on. So this is the way that you can see how the certificate looks. We had 20 lakh people who joined our courses in January semester. 20 lakhs who joined our July semester. And in 2021, we had 16 lakhs who joined the Jan semester. 16 lakhs who joined our July semester. So it's not 5,000. It's not 10,000. It's not one lakh like I'm seeing on the chat window here. But it is 16 lakhs who was our enrollment number last semester. Out of these exams, those who have written over the last five years, it is 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us. And they've gotten, so our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last seven years from when we are running this certification project. We have finished 3,500 courses almost and enrollment is 1.58 crores. 15 lakhs exam registration. That's the thing. So you can see how big NPTEL is. NPTEL is not something that we are doing 100, 200, 500 people or something like that. Every semester when we conduct exams in March and April, it's three lakh people who write our exams. So that's the level at which we do. We conduct exams all over the country. In about 170 cities, we conduct exams outside India like we said. So this is our data. So somebody tells you, okay, I haven't heard of NPTEL. You should really tell them saying that 15 lakh people enroll every semester and three lakh people write exams. How come you're missing out? That's the answer I will give them. Okay, you can see a lot of feedback about NPTEL on our social media handles. We keep regularly posting about it. We are present on Instagram, on Facebook, on YouTube community. And you can see all the feedback that we have posted there about people who have gotten jobs, people who have gotten through the soft skill training, who have done our courses, course feedback. Everything is available here. So do subscribe to our social media handles so that you can get updates from our site. Okay, I'll just give a brief on NPTEL local chapter because I don't know how many of you are faculty from different colleges who are not a local chapter with us. So NPTEL works with about 4,500 colleges today across the country. And we have coordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact or Sparks. And through them is how we are so successful. So thanks to all the local 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. There's somebody watching who's not at a local chapter. So to become an NPTEL local chapter, there is no money involved. There is no financial dealing. 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 action. 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 without belonging to a local chapter. But having a local chapter in a college is a big advantage. There are logins on 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. All of this is given to the SPOC directly that they can actually see and they can share with their management. Also, the other benefits are if we don't have a center in your particular city, you can request for that. If they have more than 200 people writing exams, we can facilitate centers in your particular city. Faculty can become mentors. You can follow the progress of your students in the colleges that you can do. Another important thing I will say is we have CSR support from companies who also give us money to help students from economically weaker backgrounds to write exams. So this fee waiver we give only to local chapters. So if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds to write courses, writing exams, once they pass it, we will refund 50% of the fee to them based on the colleges' recommendation. So that is something that you can do. Also, all this data that we give to the SPOC can be directly shared with bodies such as NAC and NBF when they come for accreditation and you can say that we are showing this data inside your dashboard that has also been very helpful for colleges is what we came to know. These are local chapters that we have in the distribution. I think Maharashtra is followed by Temanu and of course we have these. Telling Ana comes in maybe 4, 7th position with 234 local chapters currently. 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 and have become toppers 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 and yes like I said we rate it and we give recognition to the Spock 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 Spock 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 for four years that's something that we have done that's it as a presentation that we had today so I hope you learned about NPTEL about what we do here the NPTEL office the head office is in IIT Madras we have our head office here about 70 people work in NPTEL office in IIT Madras we have smaller offices in IIT Kanpur IIT Kharagpur IIT Roorkee IIT Guwahati 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 2,000 courses that we have today that's what we want to say so my suggestion and you can say maybe I'm old enough to advise all the young students out here also is try out NPTEL courses today go and go to Swayam website drawing 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 ten courses and you can see what you're interested in and then shortlist it to maybe one or two courses follow it up see where they are able to do assignments maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester but follow it till the end do all the assignments watch all the videos register for the exam do the exam and become a talker in it I think that's something that is very very doable I hope you were able to get that message as we presented in the last one and a half 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 high 80s 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 two days before the NPTEL exam let me study the certificate every week you have to watch videos every week you have to do the assignment then you can definitely get a certificate so you need hard work and it will pay off but it is not like I cannot do it there is no such thing as I cannot do an NPTEL course anybody can do an NPTEL course we showed you people from age 86 years doing NPTEL courses we showed you people from all nook and corners of the country doing NPTEL courses there is local language translation support that will help you understand the subject better your faculty are there to help you if you do not understand something your friends are there to help you if you all join a course together discussion forum is there ask questions ask doubts if you have something there but try out and learn something which is outside of your college curriculum today when companies are looking of a recruitment one of the things they see is okay your college degree is there apart from this what have you done that is something that all of them are you able to study outside of college curriculum are you picking up any skills that are relevant for any job you might be trying for this is something that companies do look out for it's not just a resume saying BSE with this VA with this that might be one thing but then we look at okay what else what else what else that is something that all of us look out for when we are recruiting people so it might be good to have a few certifications to at least get your skills enhanced to learn and to try and explore new opportunities that are there it is free there is no fee to learn you can download and watch the videos you can download and do the courses you can enroll in swim courses 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 Rainu Kamam please start oh yeah Rainu Kamam you can share the please start yeah okay thank you ma'am okay hello please listen ma'am is it visible yeah ma'am it's visible okay thank you thank you good morning all of you I'm Dr. Rainu Kalonde Spock NPTEL local chapter ID 860 Rajesh Rishabhumma Vidyalaya Autonomous Latour I'm here to speak about the impact of NPTEL at our college our college has established a NPTEL local chapter in the month of January 2017 impact of LC is very positive and helpful to our students and the college for updating their knowledge in as well as the because of the NPTEL local chapter placement rate is also increased so this is the web page that is available on the NPTEL website and it is very privileged it is very prestigious for us this page of our college is available on the national level website that is the NPTEL IIT Madras website our our local chapter is constantly active local chapter from its establishment this is the statistical data of our college on the NPTEL website any assessment and accreditation agency of the college can access this data online from the from the NPTEL website because of this page it is very easy to maintain all the records of registered students course completed students and the NPTEL star students of our college in addition to this every detail of local chapter is available in Spock's login so we can access that data as per their requirement so I would like to say all the Spock all the local chapters there is no need to maintain the separate record everything of the the NPTEL local chapter number of registered students number of enrolled all the kids results everything is available in the Spock's login as we are autonomous college our academic council of our college given the approval for the credit transfer of NPTEL courses this credit transfer is available for the elective courses skill announcement courses as well as additional credits are also transferred to the students to the students as we all know that the NIRF and the NAC these are the two important agencies that assist our colleges and these two agencies ask us for ask us some questions like details of online courses number of students offered online courses which have transferred to the transcript total number of online courses which have credit transfer to the transcript as well as number of value added courses for imparting transferable life skills offered during last five years these questions are asked by the NIRF and NAC to each and every college for the assessment so our I'm happy to share here our college can put the good answer good values or good numbers and good answer for all these questions to solve to fulfill the data for all these questions number of students offered online courses which are credit transfer total according to me it's a good impact of our local chapter at our college this slide shows you the NPTEL discipline stars as Bharti Maam said there are the different ways of course our local chapter has also received these two NPTEL stars Mr. Uday Bhanu Sardesh Mook it is a faculty from our college and it is a student from our college both are the discipline stars as well as Uday Bhanu Sardesh Mook is also encouraged by NPTEL as a motivated learner as well as some mentors are also received top performing mentor certificate and as told by the Bharti Maam this certificate our faculty development certificates are also important for the teachers for their promotions so what are the motivations of learners of our college for the NPTEL courses the job opportunities are available with the NPTEL courses and it's a good example for students from our college Mr. Ashish Dakey he is a student from our college and in the third year he got the job from the job in the TCS and he received this job from the NPTEL course he did number of NPTEL courses and among of that one he did the course that is called as a database management system and he scored more than 10 percentage marks in that course and according to that course TCS directly send her mail to his mail for the interview she cannot he did not given any aptitude test for the TCS directly TCS given her opportunity to attend the interview as well as some programming courses are there and some students are not from the computer science background but they are interested to do the programming as well as some students are from the computer science background and they want to do the advanced programming at that time they also register for these courses soft skill and personality development courses are also available and our students enrolls courses and they take the benefit and because of these courses the placement is possible for them courses related to research are also available in NPTL our faculty or research scholars enrolled for these courses for example if someone is doing the research in digital image processing or signal processing the such type of courses that is the tensor flow and it was very important for the machine learning and that course is did by our number of faculties and students as well as FDP courses are available in NPTL our number of faculties enrolls every semester for the FDPs and they receive the certificate multidisciplinary courses are also available and our college advanced students or advanced learners just enroll courses according to their choice and they can they completed the number of NPTL courses as I mentioned I would like to mention here if from the 2017 to July 2022 July to December 2022 more than 800 students completed the successfully completed the courses that is run by the NPTL from our local chapter thank you thank you very much this is from my side thank you mom so any doubts sir any ma'am or any doubts no sir from no ma'am from my side there is no doubt can we can we take the questions from the chat box yeah okay ma'am please unmute and speak just wait Shinde sir I am audible Haroon Shinde sir can you read one by one questions from the chat box from YouTube Ritesh ma'am please give the answer to these questions yeah is there any questions sir from YouTube ma'am in the chat box they have no questions they only post the name on college details okay okay so can I proceed for auto thanks ma'am yeah ma'am you can proceed okay thank you ma'am okay so there is no any question in the chat box respected professor Sadashu Shinde sir vice principal Rajeshri Shahumavidya Latur Dr. S. Gopal Krishnan principal builders engineering college Tamil Nadu Priyadarshini ma'am project manager IIT Madras then the spark from builders engineering college Tamil Nadu it's my immense pleasure to propose auto thanks on this NPTEL awareness e-workshop I extend a very hearty auto thanks to today's today's guest Dr. S. Gopal Krishnan and professor Sadashu Shinde sir Rajeshri Shahumavidya Latur for gracing important work and sharing your NPTEL experiences a big thank you to Miss Bharti ma'am senior project manager IIT Madras and whole NPTEL team for delivering a presentation which covered the topics like introduction to NPTEL what are the domain certificates from NPTEL faculty development programs soft skill workshops and many more I mention our deep sense of thanks to Priyadarshini ma'am project manager IIT Madras for the arrangement of this workshop also I express my heartfelt gratitude to spark Dr. S. Mahadeva for their presence finally I would like to take this opportunity to place on record our hearty thanks to Dr. Mahadeva Gowanesar principal Rajesh Rishabh Mahavidya Latur Maharashtra for the perfect logistics support and guidance he has extended for the organization of this workshop I must thank all the participants for making this workshop successful at the end I express my thanks to all on the screen and off the screen staff to make this a grand success thank you thank you very much thank you so much ma'am thank you sir ma'am shall we wind up the beat yes ma'am yes we can end thank you ma'am thank you studio team could you please switch on the live stream