 Sir, we are live now. Yeah, thank you. Okay. Very good morning to all of you. Today I'm here to talk about NPTEL awareness workshop. And my name is Balraju and I am part of the NPTEL industry associate team as part of NPTEL. We do various activities with respect to collaboration with companies and we also do soft speech training and we do various activities as part of NPTEL industry associate team. And coming back to today's, you know, I would say agenda, we are going to have a awareness as part of the session about NPTEL. So more about NPTEL, I'll take it forward and I'll discuss more about NPTEL today. So NPTEL stands for National Program and Technology Enhanced Learning. Some of you might be aware of NPTEL, but just for the interest of all the, I would say learners who are watching this session today, I want to actually, you know, explain little more in detail so that everybody is on the same page. And NPTEL started in 2003 and from 2003 till 2014, we have been creating content. We've been creating this content to create self-learning, I would say material and the purpose was to enable learners to learn on their own using these contents. And what we did as part of content creation is all the lectures that are available in IT campus, which is happening on campus and in-person lectures have been brought into digital format through web courses and video courses. And now what we are trying to do is from the last six years from 2014, we have started something called NPTEL Online Certification. And NPTEL Online Certification is very, very, I would say unique and it's very, very popular now. And I'll explain more about the certification from IITS and IAC before we get into the details of, you know, NPTEL and what we have done as part of content creation and what we are doing as part of NPTEL Online Certification. And I want to tell you there are seven IITS which are part of it who are coordinating NPTEL. So IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and then IIT Roorkee and IIC Bangalore. Then in addition to IITS being part of this and IIC being part of it, we also have Ministry of Education which is completely supporting this initiative. Earlier it's called MHRD and this is fully funded by MHRD or the current Ministry of Education from the last 18 years to actually run this platform called NPTEL and now NPTEL is part of a larger platform called SWIGAM. So I'll explain more about what we are doing as part of NPTEL going forward. Now, coming to what NPTEL has done with respect to creating infrastructure and NPTEL impact, the scale is very, very high but right now NPTEL has crossed more than 1 million views for all the YouTube videos available on the YouTube channels of NPTEL. Various channels are there on NPTEL and we also have more than 40,000 hours of video content available with subtitles in the public domain for free and to be specific number of hours is 44,000 plus hours and every year we'll be adding more content and in YouTube alone we have more than 3.1 million subscribers and till date we have offered more than 2600 plus unique courses as part of NPTEL as part of online certification. I'll explain more about what we do as part of NPTEL but I want to tell you this largest digital infrastructure in education is only possible because of the collaboration of all IITs and all other educational institutions in India to make NPTEL such a large educational initiative in the country and we can call post-independence this is one of the largest educational initiative in India which we can proudly say this is done by IITs and IISC in a way that can actually reach to all the rural students and all the learners in India who want to learn and who are passionate to learn and by the way this is all available for free and it's all available in public domain so that's the contribution to the nation from the IITs and the government so that all the learning that is taught in IITs are available for learners across the country and free of cost. So now I want to talk more about NPTEL online certification to give you a little more background about NPTEL online certification all of you are aware about NPTEL courses which are available on YouTube and public domain that you can learn on your own but from 2014 online certification has been started where students can actually take up these courses online and register for an in-person certification when they go actually to a center and write an exam and if they pass the exam they get a certification from the respective IIT offering the course and now I'll explain more about this a little more in detail so that everybody can understand why NPTEL online certification is very popular. So if you see till date till December 2020 the number of courses that are offered are 2467 courses that is 2467 courses have been offered till December 2020 only in Jan 2021 we have more than 500 plus courses being offered. Now look at the scale of enrollments we have for NPTEL we have till date 1.24 crore enrollments till date and we can see the order of magnitude in terms of enrollments the scale is very very big and it's not easy for a program like this to scale up at this large scale unless the participation of learners is there. So learners see a lot of value in take up this online certification courses I'll explain you why. See online certification courses are very similar to semester courses that you take in your campus very very similar but the way this is different is this is completely online it's offered in MOOCs format and as learners you will get an opportunity to do assignments and watch lectures to participate in discussion forum along with video recordings that are available in that particular subject and weekly contents are available and you can learn those subject videos and eventually you can actually opt for an in-person exam and this is what makes NPTEL online certification very very unique. So I'll explain you how this is very very unique so after you take up this course you enroll for it you will have an option to register for a in-person exam which is conducted across more than 150 cities across the country in various centers across India and you actually have a choice to write this in-person exam and there's an optional in-person exam that is available and whoever is interested to actually take this exam can take it up. Now going back to our discussion with respect to how this in-person exam is very very unique because it's an in-person proctored exam and you will write an exam in that particular subject and you will actually get a certificate from the respective IIT which is offering the course you will get a certificate from the IIT which is offering the course and you'll be able to showcase your knowledge in that particular subject and that is what makes it very very unique and if you pass the exam you get the certificate that makes it even more I would say reliable and this certificate is available in an e-verifiable format from the NPTEL website Now this makes it very very unique and this is an optional in-person exam so currently as of now 11.24 lakh exam registrations have happened till date and since it's an optional exam students who feel or learners who feel okay I want to take this certification and I want to get certified from the IITs we'll take it up so it's not mandatory that you actually you know take up this in-person exam but it's an optional certification exam that you can take and there is a nominal cost of rupees, 1000 rupees to take up this in-person certification exam and this is always optional and please remember you know this exam is what is motivating the lakhs of learners to take up NPTEL courses and those of them who feel they are confident to clear this exam will actually write an in-person exam if they feel they are not well prepared to write the exam they can choose to you know take a break and they may not write the exam this semester they can take up a course which is relevant in the same domain and actually write an exam so that makes it very very flexible for learners to take up whatever courses they are interested in if they are interested in getting a certification from IIT they can actually write an in-person exam get certification from IIT now I'll explain very very I would say in a very simple way why this is very very unique is the courses are completely offered online as part of the NPTEL online certification platform which is the MOOCs platform called SWIM and NPTEL courses are offered through SWIM platform though the courses are offered completely online the exam is in-person which makes the exam very very credible and that's what is you know making NPTEL very very popular and very very unique because once you clear the exam you get a certificate from IIT which is offering that particular course and that makes it very very unique on your resume and you know there are a lot of faculty development programs available a lot of facilities are there which makes the certificate very very useful in fact we have credit transfer policy as well I'll talk more about that maybe as we go further I'll explain you more but this makes it very very interesting for learners to take up NPTEL certification very seriously and just to share with you the statistics of NPTEL online certification courses statistics so in I would say in the first semester when we launched the NPTEL online courses which is actually in 2014 you see the number of courses that are offered are only three right now when we are doing the session so last year 2020 the number of courses that are offered in 2020 are 800 plus so you can see the scale at which this is you know reached and just to give you statistics the first three exams first three courses which are launched has 3000 plus exam registrations and now last year we have a total of almost 5 lakh plus registrations for exams so this shows the scale at which we are actually operating you know NPTEL online certification and the demand for it and I'll explain more about why there is a lot of interest so that you understand why many others are interested in NPTEL and why you should take advantage of NPTEL courses and next comes what are the components of MOOC I have actually briefly explained what we are doing as part of MOOC but I will give you little more details specifically what you know forms a MOOC massively online open course so now coming to video contents which is the first part of the MOOCs that means there are video lectures of a particular subject which are actually offered as part of NPTEL online certification course and after that you get assignments which are subjective or objective or programming type assignments where you need to submit your own assignments then there are text transcripts available and lab demos are also available for the courses and we also have live interactive sessions from the faculty who are offering the courses and that makes it you know very similar to a non-campus semester course that you take in a college and we also have a discussion forum for each course where you can post your queries and answer will be given by various you know participants from the course you know there are teaching students who are actually part of the course who are supporting the professor and the faculty who is offering the course and you will be able to get answers for your queries through this platform and you can actually interact a lot and learn a lot through discussion forum that way this course is completely online but it captures all the on-campus you know expectations that you have as a learner you are supposed to complete assignments you are supposed to write an exam which has a semester exam here and if you have queries you can actually ask your queries in the discussion forum and there is a live interaction with the faculty that makes it very very unique and now I want to share with you you know the type of courses that are available as part of NPTEL I am sure all of you would be interested to know we have 500 plus courses but what are we offering as part of this 500 plus courses so I want to just actually give you a gist of that a lot of courses I will not give you every course in detail but I will try to give you as many details as possible to give you a broader perspective of the type of courses that we have so humanities and management just to give you an example of general courses that are available e-business, sigma, business ethics spoken English various types of courses are available similarly there are a lot of job oriented and skill development courses that are available which is into machine learning, data analytics MATLAB programming, VLSI circuits and now we should understand NPTEL is trying to give all the relevant courses that a student requires from a learning perspective and you all should also remember NPTEL is there to bring you best of the faculty across the country through this platform so we have job oriented courses, we have general courses we have courses in you know core engineering branches like you know network engineering, mechanical, civil engineering there are some courses listed here these are only samples and reference but detailed list will have exhaustive set of basic courses which will be first year or second year of engineering but there are also advanced courses which will be third or fourth year of engineering or PG level courses which you can see actually and you know register based on your interest and based on your focus of learning so that way the courses are very exhaustive in nature and remember this is a project which has been built in the last 18 years as part of NPTEL we have been doing various things so NPTEL will bring you the best faculty available in the country through the best platform you know it is available through SWIM and you get you know the certification from IIT which is a dream for many learners to get an opportunity to study in IIT to get a certificate from IIT so that is something that NPTEL is giving you through this platform and to give you what makes it interesting or motivating for learners procted exam which I was mentioning for getting a credible certification now as I was telling you this certification is a measure of your performance in an in-person exam which is proctored it's like a similar exam that gate or JEE the way it is conducted it's like very much in a similar format to give you in one line except that you are writing only one subject where if you pass that particular subject for the online certification course you get a certificate from the respective IIT which is offering that particular course and similarly we work with more than 4000 plus colleges who are NPTEL local chapters and you all should remember this is a very very strong network and that's the reason you got to know about NPTEL and we are doing a session for you today and more importantly you all should remember that NPTEL works very closely with colleges where we try to collaborate with college and we try to work with them closely we try to give information about what our course are available we try to share as many details as possible and colleges also actively participate in this initiative by encouraging their learners to participate I'll give you more details about how colleges encourage their learners and we also actively engage with industry to do various initiatives in collaboration with industry I actually have a slide on that in detail I'll explain you more as we get there we work with policy making bodies like UGC or AACT trying to see how they can also benefit so in fact UGC and AACT has approved set a number of courses to be taken for credit transfer for I would say universities or colleges who want to implement credit transfer with Swayam platform and they can take up courses through NPTEL or Swayam and get credit transfer and this is very very useful I would say from a state to you get to do a course in NPTEL get certified from IITs and you get credit transfer for your university curriculum and that makes it even more beneficial for you because you learn online you get a certificate from IIT it also helps you to earn credits in your campus for your own campus degree and it's very very unique opportunity I would say 15 years back when I was studying I don't think I had the opportunity to actually do these courses and get certification from IIT or IAC it was not possible and now you have that unique opportunity and you also remember this is given completely free of cost except for the certification there is no cost that you need to spend that is also optional and it's also nominal in terms of the cost and so this is offered by the government completely free of cost and it's offered to you just to ensure that you actually learn and you actually get benefit and I'll actually share with you more about how we can benefit from taking from NPTEL courses and NPTEL certification and you will understand why you actually should register for NPTEL courses through Swahim platform and what you will get I'm going to share more about that as we go further and now I want to talk about how to enroll for NPTEL courses now you also remember the Swahim platform some of you who have actually used it you will know Swahim platform but otherwise Swahim.gov.in is a place that you need to go and register for courses you can actually go to Swahim.gov.in slash NPTEL and you can actually go to the link and actually list courses that are available in NPTEL you will be able to see the list of courses and you'll be able to see the course in detail along with the syllabus then you can fill the basic details like fill the form for registering for Facebook then actually join it it's as simple as creating a Facebook account and once you register you will be able to access the courses I would suggest remember the Swahim.gov.in portal go there and search for NPTEL courses there is NPTEL listed there you can actually click on it you'll be able to see courses in NPTEL and I'm sure a lot of you can look at this and then start exploring courses that are relevant for you and very important things to understand is what are the courses that are relevant for you and what are the courses that are important for you and you need to understand choose those courses and start registering for them and after you enroll for the courses through Swahim platform what should you do? You should start watching the videos ask queries in the discussion forum submit assignments in the given timeline and also participate in discussion forums that are available. So more importantly if you want to get certification I'm sure many of you will be interested in getting certification from IIT if you think that's your goal or that's your dream to get you should actually write these assignments sincerely and you should actually register for an in-person proctored exam which is the registration for certification exam then you should also see that you actually participate this course very actively and you actually participate in the discussion forum very actively and you should also see that you actually make some notes and see that you are well prepared for the in-person exam. So all that you need to know to write an exam which is of IIT standard through an in-person proctored enrollment is you have to be well prepared and that you have to be well prepared for the fundamentals in the subject that is taught in NPTEL it's not going to be very very tough the more you are prepared the higher the chances that you clear the exam. So given this background I'm sure many of you would be able to clear this exam if you take it seriously and if you prepare well. So I would like to tell you take it up very seriously if you want to clear the exam and there is a percentage of score also mentioned that you are actually scoring in the final in-person exam which is mentioned in the certificate so that you know it has a logo of the IIT offer in the course it has NPTEL coordinators signature and you have swam logo NPTEL logo with your name and photograph with a bat that you have been able to clear this course. So this is going to be very very important to understand that you know you get certified from NPTEL because you did well in the course so it gives you a lot of expertise in that particular subject once you clear an NPTEL exam and upon that you actually get a lot of confidence you know to be well prepared in your mind okay I am good at this topics because I am able to clear this exam which is conducted by NPTEL so that that confidence is very critical and that is what you will gain through this certification and definitely you will definitely improve your subject knowledge and skill in that particular area and now how to choose right courses there are more than 500 plus courses offered as part of January 2020 semester and I am sure many of you will be interested to register for some of the courses but how do you choose what courses are relevant for you so all that you need to do is you need to check with your university or college whether it is available for courses taken through NPTEL and this you can check it with the faculty spark if you have NPTEL spark in your college or university go and check with them whether you are able to take courses through credit transfer and I am sure you will be able to get an answer from them and based on that you can actually choose selected courses from the university that are allowed through NPTEL for credit transfer and actually you know take courses from NPTEL and get it through credit transfer and similarly you also have to ask your college either the college faculty or spark or principal whether elective courses that you are having in your campus as part of your program can be taken through NPTEL as part of credit you can do the similar approach in selecting courses of their electives similarly you also should remember NPTEL is not just about getting credit transfer alone it can definitely give you credit transfer in addition to it NPTEL is there to give you a lot of knowledge and not of skill with respect to various areas that you are looking at from an employment perspective or from a higher education perspective or if you are looking for even you know government jobs in technical area this is an area where you can develop your skill and it's very important to understand this is a platform which gives you all the advanced and latest courses that you are required to develop and I am sure you will have a good position to go to the next level after you do these courses you will do your knowledge and I am sure you will build your skills as well so I will explain more about that as we go further you need to do little research on the SWAM platform to understand what are the courses available what are the courses suitable for you and what are the courses of interest to you though you may be in you know mechanical engineering if you want to do a course in data science or AI you can do those courses so this doesn't prevent you from learning other subjects so that is what makes NPTEL very unique independent of your age background whatever maybe your you know area of your interest that is the driving factor that will actually make you learn through NPTEL's platform and since it's completely self-learning which I mean you only have to learn and you know you only have to write an in-person exam though NPTEL gives you a platform there is a certain level of expectation in terms of your self-motivation which is required to complete the courses because we give you everything but you have to do it and you have to learn and you have to write the exam so that makes it very very you know personalized from your interest perspective and whatever you want to learn I'm sure you will learn through NPTEL it's possible except that you need to make it happen and I also want you to look at NPTEL website and see what are the written courses what are you know courses offered what is the scale at which they're having registration just to understand what are popular courses in NPTEL I'm sure you will be surprised with some of the courses which are available like you know programming courses and some of the courses and various I would say engineering disciplines are very very popular and I'm sure you will benefit a lot from these courses we have schools courses on soft skills and spoken English and those of you who think that's an area of interest for you to improve your knowledge or skill you can actually you know take up those courses so that way the variety of courses offered through NPTEL are very very high and we should know that the flexibility is also very high and that makes it very very unique for all of you to actually go through the course and just to give you a list of institutions that are part of NPTEL which are actually offering the courses as part of NPTEL are various IIT's you know offering these courses you can see the list of IIT's offering various number of courses number is given branch wise list is also given and we also have to recognize other IIT's and other national institutions which are part of this you know course creation as well as you know certification course format delivery is like your list of course of institutions offering the courses are given here IIT Rupa, IIT Mandi, IIT Patna, IIT Ganeshwar, IIT Jammu the list is fully you know NPTEL it goes up to NIRT and even industries offering these courses Google IBM Libre Pro and Texas Instruments and this makes it very very unique for all learners you know to participate in these courses which bring you the best faculty this slide I want to show you to you for only one reason you have the best teachers best faculty available in India through NPTEL platform giving you the best knowledge or the best skills that you are trying to improve for your you know growth or for your learning purpose and this is all available from NIRT platform and everything is given for you for free and in addition to just offering the learning there is a certification which is being offered and you can actually take up this certification and actually prove yourself whether you are the best person in that particular you know space or not and you will get a certification which says whether you are top or you know whether you have scored 50% 60% 70% there will be score given to you and that score is mentioned in the certificate it will actually tell you that you have passed the exam and it will also show you your expertise or level of knowledge you know through the score and that makes it very very unique you are learning from the best faculty you are also getting certification from the best institutions what more you want so if you want to learn something very seriously and you also want to you know prove yourself that you are capable of you know performing well and some of the national level institutions offering the courses this is an opportunity for you take advantage of it and this is the best format that you can get in India in terms of the best institutions and the best courses available and at no cost except for the certification which is very very nominal so I don't think we had this opportunity 15 years back if you want to learn like this and we didn't have an opportunity when I was studying at least so I would like to tell you that you should you know take advantage of this opportunity and make best use of it and do well and I'm sure you'll benefit and I'll explain you you know how many students have benefitted by taking up these NPTEL courses and how it has actually impacted in their employment so now I was mentioning to you whether a lot of learners were taking this courses 1.2 crore plus enrollment is happening why are they participating so I want to explain you about what is the learner type and why are they taking NPTEL courses and that makes it even more interesting for you to understand why people are taking NPTEL courses very seriously so 19% of our learners are faculty and if you see they want to take up these courses to strengthen their fundamentals and they're taking these courses to you know upgrade their knowledge I'm sure every faculty want to upgrade themselves in terms of knowledge and 76% of our learners are students and you should also remember that's definitely a good target group who will be interested in taking these courses but why are they taking this you should actually understand this little more detail so they're interested to learn for gate preparation campus recruitment and some of them are you know interested to take up these courses so that it helps in their jobs because most of the courses which are industry oriented courses have a lot of skills and knowledge required for on the job you know experience that you're expected to have so I'm sure a lot of these learners are interested to do that and more importantly we have 5% of learners who are from industries that we they're all working professionals interested to take up these courses so that it helps them in building their skills and it helps them in their job and it helps them handle their professional career in a better way so that they are well prepared to meet the requirements of the professional environment and now I want to talk about something interesting that NPTEL has launched recently this is called NPTEL domain certification till now we have understood that you can actually take NPTEL courses you can get certified in each of the courses if you pass the in-person certification exam now I'm going to talk about NPTEL domain certification which is giving you a specialized domain expertise certificate which means that you are an expert or if you are specialized in that area you'll be able to see yourself having this domain certification and how you will get it you will actually have to complete a set of core and elective courses in a particular domain for example computer science has artificial dense data science programming and foundation of computing systems I'm just giving you examples there are almost 41 plus domains that are available for you to get specialized and independent of your background you can actually select domains area of interest that matches your personal interest and it actually gives you an opportunity to choose whatever you want to learn and you want to build an expertise for yourself it gives you an opportunity so here I would say what we have is just a sample to show you what are the type of domains that we have just to give you an example electric engineering we have real estate design mechanical engineering we have product design so coming back to how do you get this domain certification you complete this set of I would say core and elective courses then you pass all these certification exams with an average score of 60 then you are eligible to get domain certification and you should complete this set of courses within three years of time and the moment you get this certificate I'm sure you will have a very good level of expertise in that I would say area or domain and I'll tell you you will be somebody who will be sought after in the industry or if you go for higher education or for research you will be somebody who will be respected and I'll give you some important insights about what makes this domain certification very very unique so all of you want to specialize so that you get a very good job all of you want to specialize so that you will have a very good opportunity to study in a very good institution as part of your higher education so everywhere everybody expects you to be having knowledge and skill domain certification is an opportunity to build that expertise for yourself and it comes at almost no cost except that you have to do a set of NPTEL courses and write those NPTEL certification exams to pass them with a score then you get a certificate from NPTEL and this makes it very very I would say unique and this is a very unique offer because it's not just that you are doing NPTEL certificate but you're also specializing in a certain area and which I will call as a very very unique opportunity that students of this generation have and I would suggest all of you to actually take up these domain certifications very very seriously and I also want to tell you it's not just students of this generation learners of this generation anybody who wants to learn any minute of their age even if you are 40 plus 50 plus if you want domain certification you can do it so that way age is not a barrier to do NPTEL courses because you're not in an on campus college where you have to actually come to the college and learn even in the midnight at 3 o'clock you can watch the videos you can actually write your assignments you can learn only one day you have to come for an in-person exam and you can actually get certified from NPTEL and if you pass a set of courses in a domain you get certified from NPTEL as a domain certified scholar so I'll explain more about domain certification and NPTEL stars as we go further but I want to give you an example of like mechanics domain certification and here you can see students have to complete four core courses and two elective courses you can see list of courses which are available here in this slide I'm sure all of you will be able to understand each course will have or each domain will have set of courses that you need to complete which will be given in the domain webpage I'll show you that in little more detail you have to go into the domain scholars page to understand who are the kind of domain scholars who are able to become domain scholars as of today that they are listed in the website you can see yes today and you can see faculty you can see a working professional from Cochrane Railways is able to have a domain certification in power systems and power electronics and you can see faculty from various colleges have also completed the certification and this is a very very unique opportunity for learners to get certified from NPTEL and to get a unique recognition of this kind and just to give you a background about domain certification I want to tell you this is a very very unique opportunity and NPTEL has thought about it and they are able to create this wonderful platform for all of you and you should actually make use of such a platform and you can actually go to the NPTEL website go to the NPTEL courses, online certification courses and look for a domain certification page and you will be able to understand what we do as NPTEL students and this is where again you can actually go and understand what the domain scholars have been selected as domain scholars till date those of them who have got NPTEL domain certification have been listed here as domain scholars and there are other I would say learners who are listed as NPTEL superstars, NPTEL evangelists NPTEL motivated learners NPTEL enthusiasts, NPTEL disciplined stars and we have something called NPTEL believers and these are various ways in which learners are given their credit and view recognition just to ensure that learners who are very serious are given enough I would say recognition and enough encouragement through NPTEL they are all recognized and remember it's not easy to become a NPTEL star NPTEL star is a unique respect given to very very serious and very very motivated learners who are actually participating in NPTEL in various forms and they have performed very well so for example I will give you superstars in July 2019 means they have done at least 4-5 exams and have been top in at least 3 exams in a semester it's not easy so similarly NPTEL evangelists they would have done at least 18 exams in the last 4 years it's not easy again and similarly NPTEL motivated learners they would have at least appeared for 8 exams in the last 2 years and actually got 75% of course appeared and at least one exam in each of the 4 semesters they would have done which means they are very serious learners similarly NPTEL discipline star is also interesting where you are taking up set of courses in the same discipline and you have completed more than 50 weeks of learning in a particular discipline with a minimum score or average score of greater than or equal to 55% so it's not going to be easy to become NPTEL stars but all of you should remember this is a unique opportunity for all of you to learn and get recognized and if you are a very serious learner I am sure you will get recognized and we give some unique benefits to NPTEL stars we give them NPTEL soft skills training free of cost to ensure that they all will get jobs we are very keen to help them be ready for jobs so we do various activities to train them to be there in terms of reaching their goal of getting a good job and having a great career so more about NPTEL local chapters now I want to talk we have 4000 plus colleges that we work with out of that you can see we have more than 2400 plus engineering colleges more than 770 plus arts and science colleges then management is almost 230 plus and we have 260 plus universities who are part of NPTEL and we have 179 medical institutions who are partnering with NPTEL and the scale is very very high and you can see more than 80% of our registrations come through local chapter network and which means it's important that your college has a local chapter and if it has make the best use of it and each local chapter has a college spark where you have a faculty member who can help you and guide you with respect to NPTEL and he can be a single point of contact for both NPTEL and for you so that you your queries are answered and other important thing which I want to tell you is NPTEL is into translating these courses into regional languages you can see the hours of translation we have more than 7600 plus hours of content is translated till date and a lot of content going on in translation as of today and you will see that's a huge effort that's going on translating into 8 Indian languages which I'm sure is a great value for those of you who feel I want to learn in my own native language and you also have books created in English and various other languages of these transcripts of the courses of NPTEL and you can see the list of books here some of the samples are given here more about this is available in nptel.ac.n slash translation you can go into that and another important thing I want to share with you is there is something called NPTEL internship opportunity with faculty for course talks so if you are a topper in a particular NPTEL course you get a unique opportunity to do a internship with faculty from IIT which is offering that particular course and you will be able to do an internship if you are a topper you can apply for these internships and most of it is driven by faculty all of it remember if you are a topper and if faculty is interested in offering internships for the course stoppers in that particular course we will be able to notify you by email you can apply for the internship there are 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks you know internships available with the faculty based on the faculty's interest and you will be given some stipend to take care of your expenses if you are on campus so that you will be able to recover your expenses for your stay but you also should remember because of COVID we may not have on campus interviews for some on campus internships for some time but if there are any online internships available we will definitely reach out to you and we will see that you know you are given enough updates about this and if you are a topper in the course this is an opportunity which will be available based on the faculty's interest and this is a sample certificate of internship some of you are interested you can go back to the internship website available on NPTEL and actually look for more details about the internship and now I want to talk about the NPTEL industry associate program and here I want to share some interesting activities that we do with the industry as of today we have 49 plus industry partners now we have touched 50 and what we do as part of some of the companies which are interested to co-offer courses with us we do co-offer courses with companies like IBM, Google Glass Academy and we kind of have a faculty from IIT along with an expert from the industry to co-offer these courses and this course is jointly offered through NPTEL platform and this is a unique opportunity for you to learn because we are bringing best of the industry experts to co-offer courses in addition to this if companies are not able to give long enough time for co-offering courses we are actually working with companies to get special live sessions from them where they can actually talk about a technology or a career in that particular technology so that you get lot of insights about what industry is doing and what you should actually be prepared for with respect to your career and what is industry applying in terms of various knowledge that you are learning and how are they actually implementing certain technologies and how are they efficiently building some new products you get lot of insights through these live sessions and you also understand how a career in software engineering or how a career in data science or a career in AI is going to be and you should also understand various technologies and various speakers from various companies speaking to you is a very good opportunity to learn and understand what they are doing and this is a unique opportunity that we are trying to do through NPTEL we have completed more than 150 plus sessions till date through this industry associate program where we have institutions I would say companies participating in live sessions reactively to both technology career and software related topics are covered and we have seen very good response from learners because they are all offered through UT platform live and all of you who are you know able to see your emails from NPTEL you will get regular updates about these sessions and now coming back to another interesting initiative is the CSR support so what we do as part of CSR support is those of you who are writing NPTEL exams will know that you have to spend a nominal fee of 1000 for those of you who feel this 1000 rupees is a bit costly and from an economic and social costing perspective you feel you know you are not able to pay for this because you are from rural area or you are from urban area if your college recommends your name saying that you need financial support it's 50% exam waiver is given through CSR support from various CSR partners and you have to pay only 500 rupees so what you are supposed to do is maybe when you are registering for the course you will pay 1000 rupees and take up the course complete the certification and once you pass if you are eligible for fee waiver if you are applying through your college for fee waiver you will get 50% fee waiver from NPTEL that means you will get 100 rupees back as an encouragement from the CSR partner who is actually supporting us we give you back that money and basically the idea is to encourage you to take more courses in future and you get benefited and that's the purpose of the exam fee waiver initiative and we thank our sponsors who are actually helping us in this initiative through the CSR funds and another area where we are actually partnering with a lot of companies that we have listed here is we actually partner with companies to up skill and re-skill their workforce so a lot of companies want to re-skill and up skill their employees through NPTEL platform by registering for NPTEL courses and they are given a dashboard to monitor their employees learning and I'm sure a lot of companies are showing interest now to see that their employees use this platform for their learning because this gives all the latest courses that an employee requires and a lot of areas are there where they can use this opportunity to learn areas which are not familiar for them and with respect to companies time they may not need to invest any time in training they can just ask their employees to take up these courses and I'm sure once they complete their certification with IITs they will be able to prove that they have learned something through NPTEL and of late we have started something you know are NPTEL toppers with respect to recruitment support so what we are doing is we are trying to identify toppers who are not placed through our registration form we collect that information and their resume and we also talk to companies who are looking for actually recruiting some of the candidates for toppers and NPTEL courses and we can recommend their resumes to them and one of the recent examples is Infosys was having an opportunity with a software job profile and the salary is around 5 lakh per annum we shared around 800 plus resumes and we are happy to inform you that out of 800 plus resumes of toppers we have shared 57 have been selected and have been offered job the software profile the salary of 5 lakh per annum and it's a unique opportunity for learners to you know get into such profiles and NPTEL is bringing that unique opportunity and I also want to add one disclaimer here NPTEL is not here to give you jobs directly but we are very keen to facilitate jobs and we are talking to many companies so the feedback we are receiving from companies is they are anyway going to campus recruitment to recruit candidates they are also doing a lot of off campus recruitment so they are telling us when we go for recruitment we are going to ask for NPTEL certification and definitely while interviewing we will definitely talk about it but many times the requirements may not happen through NPTEL but whenever it happens we are going to notify you through email we will definitely facilitate whenever requirements come to us but in addition to that you should remember if you are certified through NPTEL and if you have built the conference to face the job interviews I am sure you will do well and that's what is very important for being successful in life as well in general and you also should know how to take advantage of NPTEL because NPTEL brings you best platform, best courses available and you get certified from best of the institutions in India and you know you are getting an opportunity to attend interviews as well if you have the certification I am sure in the opportunity that you get you will do well in the interview that you have and the moment you have NPTEL certification you have a lot of confidence to face the interviews or technical job assessment that are conducted by various companies and we also you know partnered with internship Shala with respect to internship opportunities and whenever companies have some requirement we also share that requirement to the students as well in addition to that through internship Shala you can actually apply for a lot of internship opportunities available in the market internship list them and we have seen thousands of students getting benefited through internship Shala job portal the internship portal which can give you a lot of opportunities that are available in the internship space through the platform and those of you who are interested should take advantage of that and awfully we have started NPTEL I know soft skills training for NPTEL conference I will talk more further and we are also you know doing various other initiatives I want to list along with soft skills training we are doing gate portal we are also doing international procted exams for students we have done in the last semester in December we have done for 200 plus candidates across 25 countries and that's something we have done very very you know recently and very interesting update because as of now NPTEL has been more into India in terms of procted exams slowly we are trying to do international and we see very good traction there and this is a slide which talks about live sessions by various course instructors I am sure those of you who feel live sessions are going to help you please take advantage of live sessions by course instructors and sure you will benefit from these live sessions and these are some of the lab workshops organized I want you to go to some of these details in the NPTEL website I am sure you will understand this is a lab workshop as well it is done exclusively for NPTEL toppers and more about NPTEL soft skills training what we do we offer free soft skills training for NPTEL stars or NPTEL toppers so that they are ready for job interviews and what do we do as part of this we offer employee assessment we do live video sessions on various topics of soft skills and we also conduct online interactive sessions and mock interviews I will explain more about it but why are we doing this we want to help our learners to be ready for job interviews and we want our learners to get very good jobs we want our learners to be settled very well in their career and very good salaries we expect our learners are very good in their technical knowledge we feel that they should actually get very good salaries that is our expectation but those of you who feel I want to improve my soft skills and I am not well prepared to face an interview I have little fear of approaching the interviewer or participating in an interview we are there to help you they are there to give you some more training to be ready to face the interviews and we also discourage learners who already got jobs not to attend this soft skills training because we feel students who need support should attend and take advantage of this training available from NPTEL we also discourage students from top institutions and there are colleges where they have access to such quality to not to register for this training and anybody who feels you deserve this training and you need support feel free to register and this is exclusively for NPTEL toppers and NPTEL stars and coming back to what do we do as part of NPTEL soft skills training you need to register for it like I mentioned it is exclusively for NPTEL toppers and NPTEL stars and we collect database of learners who want to be part of this and we give them live sessions on various topics of soft skills training, then we conduct a private assessment similar to a benchmarking test or a screening test conducted by various companies as part of job recruitment we conduct a practice exam that followed by that we do an online interactive session and I will explain more about what we do as part of live sessions so effective resume writing is one of the live session we have conducted and how to be an effective communicator is another live session and what NPTEL having it and it is a live session conducted by Kavjami HR director that is very very popular in the YouTube and this is a live session which received more than 8000 plus live learners watching this session so I want to tell you we are bringing best experts to give you soft skills training especially the live sessions and I feel this is a unique opportunity for all of you to take advantage of this live sessions and we do something called online interactive session similar to a group discussion but this is very very unique because it is all online because of COVID we had to innovate this concept and almost 10 students participate in a Google Hangout this is there for an hour and all the participants get equal opportunity to speak and we have a group of 10 students or learners along with you and you have a mentor or moderator who is an expert and who will actually help you or guide you through the session and various topics are discussed through the session and there is a lot of discussion on your job experiences in terms of interview experiences, job search experiences or a lot of questions on how do you handle interview, what are the HR questions as an interview and more importantly importance of resume is discussed here and many of you forget to understand resume is very very important for interview and more of I would say most of you may not take it very seriously and you know most number of students I feel would give enough attention to the resume and don't highlight certain things that they have done as part of NPTEL in the resume and sometimes it may not help you because if you don't showcase your strength how will interviewer know what you are and it's important to understand yourself better and this session helps you to highlight what you have done in NPTEL and what you have learned and that you are to actually ask relevant patients based on your resume and I am sure once they ask you questions which are relevant you will do well and followed by the online interactive session you have a quick interview where it's a typical experience of a real time interview and it's done one on one with an expert that's for 20 to 25 minutes and you have to share your resume with the expert based on your resume, expert will conduct a typical interview and once the interview is over we will get personalized feedback that will help you a lot and we have a lot of feedback that they build confidence as part of attending this interview because it's a very good experience and you will really be prepared and you will attend a second interview your comfort level is very high and this is the summary of the count in the last nine months we have done with respect to soft skills training we have done more than 10,000 plus collaborative assessments we have done 1400 plus interactive sessions in terms of students and we have done 700 plus mock interviews so this you will see a decreasing number the reason is there is a count which is decreasing the only reason is people who complete employee assessment will be allowed for interactive session and only who complete interactive session will be allowed for mock interview that means you have to be you have to stay motivated to complete each level and to complete I would say interactive session to be ready for mock interview then you have to complete mock interview then we actually recommend that you are done with soft skills training and we also try to see if there is any requirement from any company we also try to share opportunities and most of the time we feel those of them who are ready with the NPTEL courses if you are a top in NPTEL course and if you are an NPTEL star you will already have a lot of opportunities with respect to interviews and I am sure you will need support from us with respect to opportunities and many of you will be able to crack it and wherever you need support you can always come back to us saying I am not able to find and this is where I am struggling we try to help you again if required with additional level of training and coming to we did some kind of survey on what is the reason for attending soft skills training with us with respect to learners so we understood that a lot of learners are interested to get a good job in a company that they are preparing for computer exams and this is very common for all learners they want to do well in their career that is the reason they are taking NPTEL courses and that is the reason they are doing NPTEL soft skills training so this is an interesting data I want to share with you so we did a survey with colleges to understand the impact of NPTEL courses on employability of students so this is a survey result I want to share with you one reason I want to share this is every student has a doubt why should I do NPTEL course what will I get if I do a course if I study online get a certificate from NPTEL what will I get so here is a survey result I want to share with you more than 80 to 99% see that NPTEL course as an impact on employability of the students I am talking about colleges where we have local chapter partnership and they are seeing that there is an impact and we went further in terms of this conversation and understood and asked them are NPTEL courses helping students to become more confident to face technical interviews or technical assessments you can see the responses 94% of them say yes it is helping students to be more confident I will give you simple logic if you have done NPTEL courses through IITS and got a certificate after writing an in-person exam the confidence level will be very high naturally you will do well when you write actually a technical job interview or an exam when you participate you will actually do well so this is very important to validate your knowledge and validate your skill and you get a third-party validation like NPTEL and IIT system validating you that are good in particular subject and that gives you a lot of confidence when you attend interviews from any students and you also ask little more detail to understand how are NPTEL topers performing in campus and off campus placements because NPTEL topers are more serious learners and they are performing very well with respect to their academic performance and we want to understand how are they doing so response has been very good and good so which means if you are a topper in NPTEL course chances that you will get placed are very very high you can see here 80% of them say topers are doing very well which means if you are trying to do NPTEL courses through SMAM platform and get certified please try to be a topper and once you are a topper I am sure your chances of placements will be very high we show all the best I think with this I am kind of done with my session from my side you can post your queries there is a Google form given in the description of the YouTube link that you are watching the session that you are watching there is a description in the YouTube link please post your feedback and queries in the Google form which is given the description and I will try to analyze those queries and give you response with this I would want to wish all of you all the best and I would like all of you to do NPTEL courses get certified and get a very good job and have a great career thank you I will just take a few minutes to analyze the feedback and the queries then we will talk about each of them in detail and there are any specific queries I will be happy to answer your queries I am seeing some responses we have more than 13 plus learners who have posted their responses so I would say a good number of them are saying they have already seen some of the NPTEL courses and some of them are saying they are ready to search the relevant courses which are suitable for them for the JAN 21 semester I suggest all of you to look at that and some of them say their college is not a NPTEL local chapter I would suggest you to go back to college and talk to your principal and there are your HOD and recommend that you should actually become a local chapter so that you get a lot of benefits by becoming a local chapter and some of you said they haven't enrolled yet and I suggest all of you to go and search in the SWIM NPTEL platform and look for courses that are very relevant for you so I will wait few more minutes for all of you to post your queries yeah so I will try to I am seeing a lot of responses from learners I will try to share some of the responses and feedback that users are giving and till now we have got good number of students to respond for the feedback form and the queries a lot of them are ready to search relevant courses and I suggest all of you to search for courses immediately and start posting your I would say queries if you have anything in this form as well otherwise I would suggest all of you to write to us and talk to your single point of contact in your college and find out more about what courses will be suitable for you maybe if your college is already you know NPTEL local chapter your spark will be able to guide you what courses will be more suitable for you for your college and if your college is not a local chapter yet with NPTEL I suggest you to talk to your principal and HOD and recommend them to become local chapters and as of now we have our own ICB Tech students students from BCOM and students from Masters of Science MSC, Computer Science being part of this and we see very good participation and many of them are very keen to attend this session I see a lot of interest and learners actively participating in this session and some of them are not able to watch this presentation fully those of you who are not able to watch the presentation this video is available on YouTube all the time so though you are not able to watch it live the video will be available so you can watch it offline later and those of you who watched I see a lot of interest in them to take up this NPTEL courses and to make best use of the opportunity available and many of them want to take these courses because they are interesting and they feel these lectures will be useful to improve their knowledge and I would say many of them have understood the importance of NPTEL and they are very keen to take and with this session I would like to encourage all of you and wish that all of you should take up NPTEL and I am sure all of you will benefit and there is a lot of interest in the internship there is a lot of interest in domain courses and many learners are happy about the survey with respect to employability after taking NPTEL courses and I feel you all should take benefit from these courses and you will get a lot of advantage if you complete these courses and you get certificate so from IIT sorry NPTEL so it is a fantastic opportunity that you should make use of it and I suggest all of you to take these courses very seriously so that you can actually get benefited and first step right now I will give you 3-4 steps to do right now one is to start searching on the SWAN platform for the courses that are available to you then talk to your SPOC if your SPOC is already there as part of NPTEL chapter understand more about what courses you should actually take talk to your seniors then you also should analyze after the second courses what is of interest to you personally to learn and that should actually motivate you to decide a set of courses register for it and I am sure you will actually do very well in your career with this I would like to thank you for taking this opportunity and I would also like to congratulate all of you for taking this session very seriously and you are all attending from your respective homes and I would like to tell you this is a unique opportunity please don't miss it and wish you all the best wish you great success with NPTEL courses in your career and I would like all of you to get very good jobs with great studies thank you all the best thanks a lot