 Good morning, everyone, on behalf of AC Engineering College Central Library, I ask you to be a warm welcome to all the participants of the Christian NPTEL online workshop. I would like to ask you to have each one of you join with us today in this excite learning experience. Our AC Engineering College associated with the NPTEL since 2016 and has a number of studies in NPTEL. The national program on Technology Enhanced Engineering has provided site quality education and fostering a culture of continuous learning through engineering, science and technology domain. We are honored to be officiated with this serious initiative and this online workshop reflects our continuous commitment to cutting its knowledge. The session lined up for this workshop brings together an inverse faculty conference for two courses on immense wealth of knowledge and experience. The insights of it with our internship here on education are sure to create a productive environment for learning to do. I encourage you to all the faculty to participate and share your thoughts to see clarity on your doubts you may have. This workshop provides an excellent opportunity not only to gain a new knowledge but also to build network and collaboration that can shape your future endeavors. I would like to extend my heart to the faculty of NPTEL for pertaining with our college to organize this year. Your dedication to provide the accessible and quiet education is commendable and we are proud to be a part of this transformation journey. So all the participants from the state, students, and agencies throughout the workshop take advantage of the research and expertise by looking at the essence of the group as a person. Before I conclude, I extend my sincere thanks to our management trustee, our secretary sir, our professor sir, our principal sir, and organizers in NPTEL team from IIT Madras to ensure the success of this workshop. Special thanks to our professor Shriva Sathar Das for proceeding with this workshop. It made this NPTEL online workshop a remarkable and enriching experience for all of us. Thank you. Good morning to one and all, particularly the faculty members who are connected to this program and my dear students. Let me share my screen first then we proceed. Okay, this program, the Swayam NPTEL awareness workshop we are conducting today in association with KSA Engineering College Chennai. This will be a session for about it will continue till about 12 o'clock as scheduled. During this period will try to cover these are topics like what NPTEL is a little bit about the Swayam platform online certification, right from how to choose the course till enrollment to certification. Prajani will have an not only theoretical part but we also show you on hands on this is then what is credit transfer domain certification which is very important for the student communities. The internship opportunities that are available to NPTEL for the learners soft skill training, which will help the learners to build up what you can say to improve on the confidence how to face the interview. And then if you're planning to go for say higher studies or jobs in the public sector and the techniques, then definitely get is an important examination for you, and how NPTEL will help you in preparation better preparation of the gate examination. We'll also look into that. Additionally will for the faculty perspective faculty members for the career progression, they need certain faculty developing points, and how NPTEL courses can help them in that endeavor. We'll talk about many other initiatives, including NPTEL class self based courses, and we'll talk also about Swayam NPTEL local chapter. A separate question answer session but what I have written in the chat box also as we progress through the talk will also be taking the questions that are appearing in the chat box as and when it is possible. Okay, so do post your queries related to this workshop in the chat box so that this can be answered and it's not a one way affair that I am just talking there is no response from your end. So NPTEL what madam has already said, it's the national program on technology enhanced learning it is the largest multi institutional project one of the largest one, and it's running to the last 20 years. So you can just think that we started our journey in 2003 and we are in 2023. During this phase, a lot of changes has taken place in our operation, what started with the, you can say, with a vision to provide high quality affordable education at large scale. Initially, we recorded the content what is delivered by the faculty members to the students of IITs and make it available for the outside learners. Then from 2014 onwards, we have actually changed the mode to offer course level certification that means we offer the course. In addition to the video, we also offer certain other say components which are almost similar to how a course is offered in the regular classroom and provide an opportunity for the learners to write for the certification examination. And you get a certification from IITs or IISC. Okay, so during the 20 years of journey, we have created about more than 3000 unique courses that means you can just imagine that on an average 20 to 30 hours of lectures per week, so much huge volume of digital contents are available on diverse disciplines. If you see in terms of numbers, we have got more than 62,000 hours of video and many of these videos are with English subtitles. Once we say that we have created the contents and making it available for the outside learner community, the main platform through which we are disseminating this information is through YouTube. And the number of subscribers and the viewers will definitely is, you can say the number itself speaks how popular these courses are. Because to 4.5 million YouTube subscriptions and 1.6 billion viewership for a purely academic content channel, not an entertainment channel, speaks about its popularity. So what we started with just sharing in the video lectures recorded version, we are now offering online certifications and also conducting the workshops and other means to reach out to the colleges and universities for this adoption into credit transfer framework. These courses are now offered through the Indian MOOCs platform created by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in the form of Swayam, which is an acronym, study waves of active learning for the young aspiring minds. Under this there are different national coordinators, why we are telling these names. Many of the times once you go to the Swayam portal, you will come across these terminologies like NIOS, NCRT, NO, NITPTR, NPTL, AICT, CEC, EDC, IIM, Bangalore, all these terminologies will come across. Since there are learners who could be in the school or who could be a researcher, so the requirement of each segment of learners are different and there could not be, cannot be a single agency who will take care of the requirement of all learners. So accordingly there are few national coordinators who are targeting a particular group of learners. Now NPTL is one of them who is offering the courses through Swayam platform and we are also actually managing the technical aspect of the Swayam platform. NPTL is primarily responsible for offering engineering courses, engineering curricula based courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. However, we are also offering a large number of courses from Humanities Social Science, Basic Sciences and Management. These days we have also spread the horizon to include courses from Health Sciences sector as well as you can see some component of law courses are also offered. We are working with different other agencies to offer more and more diverse type of courses in the coming days. Now what started in 2014 as online certification program, we are offering the courses in MOOCs format that is massive open online courses. That means number of people who can enroll in a course are unlimited, massive. These courses are open. That means anyone who is interested to learn should be able to access the content and how to access the content is available online. That means they will need to have an internet connectivity and the courses are structured exactly same way how a regular semester system works in a university or college. Okay, that means it has a fixed syllabus, a start date, end date and in a week there are multiple activities like your delivery of the lecture, question answer session, physical interaction. Then you have got maybe periodically you'll be having test quizzes, then you could be having your supplementary study material provided by the faculty and at the end you'll be having an exam. And all these components are part of the MOOC structure. These courses we offer daily twice in a year, aligning with the semester systems of your universities. That is either we start from January or we start from July and if the courses are started from January, the enrollment process starts two months ahead of the course enrollment date, course start date. That is from November for January session and in May we open the enrollment for the July semester courses. Currently we end in the July 2023 semester. We'll see about the timelines and what are courses in the coming slides. Now these courses can be taken by anyone. Anyone can enroll into the course once we are offering the course and they can do the course from the comfort of their home or wherever they are and study at their own pace and time, their own convenience. And enrollment is absolutely free. If I want to learn something from NPTEL, not only the NPTEL online certification courses but what all repositories we have in the NPTEL, they are accessible absolutely free of cost. And how many courses you can enroll into this program is there unlimited. That means whether you want to enroll in one course or ten courses, it is possible and not only that, suppose you are studying civil engineering and you want to take some courses from mechanical engineering, electrical or computer science, a regular semester in your college may not give you that flexibility. But if you have the interest to learn something from cross discipline, the NPTEL platform is an excellent platform to brush up your knowledge on that particular area. So irrespective of what you are doing today, you can take unlimited number of courses from other areas that are of interest to you. And they are absolutely free. You don't have to pay any paisa to anyone because these are fully funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. However, after learning, if you feel that you want a certification which is an optional component, you need to register separately to NPTEL portal that we will see in detail in the later slides. Now if you look at the course feature, we are saying that it is similar to the course that is offered in a classroom. How it can be? Say in a regular semester also you have got a duration like the course is offered a period of say 3 months, 4 months, 5 months. Similarly, our courses are also spread across a particular timeline. That means we have got a full semester course which is equivalent to your 12 weeks duration. That is 3 months. Then you have got something like 8 weeks courses or equivalent to 20 hour courses or 10 hour courses offered over a period of 4 weeks. So these are the 3 variation of courses, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks. We will see how these courses are offered and when it is offered. And we follow a 4 quadrant approach. What are these 4 quadrants? One of them is definitely in a classroom, the faculty talks to you in a face-to-face interaction. That is if we record that content and make it available to you, that becomes the first quadrant. That means we are giving you a pre-recorded lecture. What is the duration of the lecture in a week? If you just see in a 4 weeks time you are completing 10 hours of lecture. That means on an average the weekly structure is 2.5 hours of video. And these 2.5 hours of videos are not a single video of 2.5 hours. They are multiple videos. The total duration could be 2.5 to 3 hours of timeline. They are of smaller duration, maybe up to maximum 30 minutes duration so that it becomes easy for you to download the video and study. So this becomes my first quadrant. Now in a classroom the teacher interacts with the faculty student or the student will be asking the positions if there is any doubt. So same feature is also available here in the form of a web-based interactive forum. Additionally, the faculty is also available for interaction with you the way how I am doing today. That means in a particular say every month that we one time one hour slot when the faculty will be coming on YouTube live session and interacting with the learners and answering to their queries. In addition to all these things, interaction to web and YouTube live session, we are also taking the help of PMRF scholars, Prime Minister Cesar Cuello, the PhD student who will be supporting in conducting live sessions, problems solving sessions for the learners, clearing their doubts. We will see more about it in the coming slides. The faculty may also give supplementary study materials. This could be in the form of PowerPoint slides the faculty have used or if it is a rerun course that means it was created earlier and it is being offered again. In that case, many of the times you will find the text transcript that is English transcript of the video lecture is made available. The faculty may also be free web resources and this links to free web resources or handwritten notes or whatever it is the priority of the faculty. After going through these all first three quadrants, the students are expected to submit or solve certain questions which are part of that each video. They are called weekly assignments. These assignment questions could be 10 to 20 in numbers and they could be, you can say for general courses it could be multiple choice questions, one correct option, multiple select questions with more than one correct options. It could be filling the plans, it could be true and false type. Even in some cases it could be say you have been asked to write something within a particular say word limit. All these four things formats could be there and each assignment there is a timeline that within 10 days time you have to submit the assignments and it will be graded. That means after 10 days you will be able to see what is your score out of 100 in each assignment. So assignments are usually automatic graded, computer graded, having multiple choice, multiple select, true and false type of questions. Or it could be numerical problems where the problem statement is given you have to just calculate the value and put it there. Such questions, 10 days timeline and each will be graded out of 100. Now you have joined into the course every week these four quadrants you are facing now you are interested to write the examination. For exam registration there is a timeline and if you are planning to write the exam naturally you have to register beforehand. Although you can enroll in the course free of cost and learn it from the comfort of your home. But for certification exam we really need to appear for an in-person proctored exam which is conducted in the exam centers of our exam partner. Exam partner is TCS so the students who are registering for the exam they will be selecting a particular city and in that city there could be few exam centers and it will be allocated one particular exam center. Where you have to go with the hall ticket and your photo identity card issued by the government agency and write the exam. The exam centers are spread across the country and more than 200 places you conduct the exam. Examination modes it could be online or it could be offline. In an online mode the exams are conducted in such a way that the questions appears on the screen and answers are also to be submitted in the screen itself. The way you will be mostly doing in the assignment stage. Whereas there could be some questions which are offline based that means the questions will be appearing in the computer. But for writing the answers will be given conventional answer states where you have to write and this will be manually evaluated by the package. In a semester which is spanned over a period of usually four months of time will be having three days of exam. Either in March and April or in September and October. On each day of the exam there will be two exam sessions one in the morning between 9 to 12 and second one in the afternoon between 2 to 5. So if you want you can actually have six sessions and you can write the examination for all six courses. Here it is said that examination is not fee. This is not fully funded by the ministry so we charge a fee of this 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the course duration. So whether you have taken a four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks duration course the fee remains same. However fee waiver is available for certain category of students like if the student is from SCST category or has got certain disability with more than 40%. Then on production of the class certificate and the medical relevant medical documents they can get a fee waiver to the extent of 50%. So for these candidates the fee is 500 rupees on submission of required documents. Now once we say that we have got fixed rate of exam exams are online or offline when do the results come out. Results are published within 30 days of time and as soon as the results are published we also publish the e-verifiable soft copy of the certificate in the portal. So these certificates are not so hard copies they are soft copies it is signed by the institute which is offering the course. Suppose you have taken a course which is offered by a faculty from IIT Kanpur. In that case the certificate will definitely be the logo of NPTEL and SWAM but it will be signed by the authorities of IIT Kanpur. And the certificates will be a QR code through which anyone will be able to verify the authenticity of the certificate on the portal. Now you have got two components. You have got every week there is an assignment which is graded out of 100 and there is a final exam. So how do the certification score is calculated? Certification score will be calculated taking some component from the assignment and some component from the final exam. For non-programming courses the components are like this that final exam will carry 75% weightage and the final exam will carry 25% weightage will be taken from the average assignment score. Kindly note it is average assignment score. Once we say average assignment score how many assignments are averaged? For a 12 week course the based 8 assignments scores are taken average of. Each of 100 marks for 8 weeks course we only consider the 6 best assignment scores and 3 assignment scores are calculated or taken into account for calculating the average assignment score for a 4 week course. Okay. For programming courses like Java, Python, C, C++ then very logs for such courses every week in addition to some component of multiple choice type of assignment position the students also will be exposed to certain programming assignments. And before the final exam there will be a non-proctored programming test. Non-proctored why it is said? It is said that because it will not be under the supervision of someone from IITs or someone from NPTEL. So you can take this test from your comfort of your office, school or from your home. This is conducted during 2 sessions one in the morning, one in the evening you can take both the sessions and whichever score is higher that is taken into account. And for programming courses the total 100 marks is freed in this way that 50% comes from the final exam. 25% weightage is given to the proctored non-proctored programming test and 25% comes from the assignment. For getting a certificate it is mandatory that you have to score at least 40% individually in each of these components. That means out of 75 in the final exam you should get 30 and out of 25 in programming test or assignment you should get at least 10. Depending on your consolidated score in final exam, assignment or final exam, programming test and assignment if the total score is less than 40 no certificates are issued to the candidates and it is considered the subsequent is unsuccessful. However if you score between 40 to 59 we call that you have successfully completed 60 to 100. If your total score is between 60 to 100 then the certificate will carry a allied word retained onto the certificate. If your score is between 75 to 89 you call it is allied silver that means in addition to allied word there will be a silver medal symbol printed onto the certificate. Similarly 90 to 100 is designated as allied gold where in addition to allied there will be a allied gold medal symbol printed onto the certificate. Further if your score is within say top 1% 2% or 5% of the successful candidates in the course the certificate will also carry a top or seal identifying what is your position whether it is within top 1% 2% or 5%. This is how a sample certificate looks like it carries your photograph name, course name, individual components score, assignment, top or exam, consolidated score. When this course was offered how many students actually have been successfully completed this course. If you are a course stopper then here you will be having a top or seal also then the institute name, the signatories and you have got a QR code your roll number all these informations are available in the certificate. Now important point to remember is that all NPTEL courses are offered through the SWAM courses, SWAM portal so all NPTEL courses which are offered through SWAM portal are also SWAM courses. As far as the NPTEL is concerned we only identify you by your unique email ID. So as long as you are in the learning phase in NPTEL try to use the same email ID for course enrollment and exam registration so that whenever you register whenever you enroll in the course you'll be able to see what all other courses you have completed. Okay if you change your email ID then all data which are carrying forward with a single email ID is lost. Before enrolled in enrollment into the course please ensure to check what is the exam date. This is important because if you are planning to take more than two or three exams in a semester you should ensure that you are not choosing more than two courses whose exam dates are same. Up to two exam dates two courses whose exam dates are same is manageable because you can write one exam in the morning another exam in the afternoon. Okay it's important that many of the courses that you are enrolling into the NPTEL may require the use of calculators for different numerical problem solving. And please understand that you may use numeric physical calculators in the say learning phase but in the final exam you will not be permitted to carry forward your physical calculators. So it makes sense that if you start using the on-screen calculator and have enough practice so that in the examination hall you do not face any difficulty. For this you can actually visit the tcsiron.com this link that I have shown and if you click here it will take you to the calculator that will be available in your exam portal in the tcsiron centers. Okay so try to make best use of this then comes your timelines we are saying broadly that we are offering the course from January or July but there should be a specific date when do the courses start. Now we have got three basket of courses like four weeks, eight weeks and twelve weeks what we do the first four weeks and eight weeks the total courses are split into two groups. One set of four weeks and another one set of eight weeks are started in the beginning from July and the second set starts exactly one month later. So during January or July this is the trend that will fall for July run the first set of four weeks first set of eight weeks and all 12 weeks of courses have started from 24th of July and they are in the second week of their run. So two weeks of videos, two weeks of assignments have already been released but on demand there are a lot of colleges they were requesting to extend the timeline to comply to the request we have extended the course enrollment date from 31st July to extended to 7th of August you can just imagine hardly there are two three days left out so if you are planning to join into any of these courses without any delay join into this and start learning the week one week two content and submit the assignment within the timeline. Okay, now four weeks course will be completed within a month's time eight week course will be completed within two months time. So the first exam for these two set of courses will be conducted on 24th of September. And exam for the remaining courses that is all 12 weeks courses, four weeks, eight weeks courses will be conducted on 28th and 29th of April sorry October 2023. So the exam dates are fixed. Now comes your, what is called your exam registration. Exam registration forms were opened from June 20th, but exam registration closes for first set of four weeks first set of eight weeks and all 12 week courses very soon by 14th of August with normal fee. And with late fees, you'll be able to register within a period of 18th of August for the second set of courses which will start from, say 21st of August. The exam registration form will close on 15th of September. So these are the timelines. So as we have saved the first set of 601 courses current in this semester we are offering about 690 courses out of which 601 courses will have enrollment. In the extended time until about 7th of August by 5pm the enrollment will close. So do not miss the enrollment just explore the type of courses that are on offer and you'll definitely find some courses which are of interest to you and without further delay please join to the course. Now if you want to join into the course first thing you may ask okay where do I see where what are the type of courses what's the list of courses that I should explore. Now here you go to nptl.sc.in this link here if you just click here it will take you to nptl portal okay just scroll down and you will find the list of courses tab is there if you click here it will open Excel sheet with all timelines here you can see and this is downloadable. Here all the 690 courses that are on offer they are arranged discipline wise that is whether aerospace architecture agriculture biotechnology civil engineering chemical engineering it's a discipline wise courses are arranged. Then what else you have got here you have got the name of the course with the faculty. Additionally you have got the which institute is offering the course what is the duration of the course whether this course is new course or it was created earlier offered earlier again it is being re offered that you call the rerun okay we'll talk more about the rerun course because in a rerun course all the contents are available in the portal. And if you are planning to take the rerun course in a semester it's always advisable to start learning from much before the course actually starts. Then the course start dates all important timelines start date end date enrollment course update exam registration date all dates are even here. Additionally what you get you get an information like with the level of the course so that's a core course or elective course and whether it's for the undergraduate level or postgraduate level. Further we'll see later that okay there is something called a domain certification in that case whether these course fits into any of the domain. That is also mentioned and as we have said that NPTEL courses are also used by the faculty to want the equivalent faculty development points and some of the courses particularly the elective courses and some advanced level courses are actually part of the. So that is also mentioned whether this particular course is related to the MVP program or not and also you have got the link to join the course okay all this information is available from this excel sheet you can download it and see which course you have to take. If you want to see whether what course is coming in the next semester that is also possible you go to the semester information click on to the say January 2024 you'll be able to see the timeline in January 2024 when the courses will start. Further if you want to see that okay what are the courses that will be forthcoming in January we can take beforehand a decision like okay these are the courses which are scheduled. But this is the tentative list this will be augmented with more and more courses as it gets up to okay so tentatively this will be periodically update. All this information you are getting from here. Okay, now if you are planning to take a rerun course then what all things you can get before you start the course say you are taking a course on Python. I'll just take a popular course because here all the features can be shown. Python say joy of computing is using Python this course is open for enrollment current. If you are planning to take this course what is there in that portal here you can definitely get say this course was decided that it will be offered from July 24. Now, if you have already decided that I'll be taking this course from July run, you could actually start learning much ahead of time because the videos, which will be used during this phase also they are already available in the portal. Additionally, under the download section you'll be able to access one set of assignment questions which was offered previously that means it will give you some idea like what type of assignment questions are expected on the course. Okay, this is just to give you an idea new assignment new set of assignments will be very different from this. Okay, this will not be you will not be expecting that same assignment questions will be coming here so you can actually download any of the assignment and see how each assignment looks like okay. It's taking little more time. So here we can see assignment question is given. So this will give you some idea how to prepare for this particular course. What else information is available from this page. Here, if you just see under the download section you get transcript that means the text transcript of the videos and it is not available in only English language. You could get see in addition to English you have got this transcript made available into many other Indian languages. Okay, say you are interested in the Tamil version of this particular language. In that case you can download the text transcript in Tamil so that it helps you in the learning process. Okay, further if I just go down and there is a book section here the complete say lecture materials have been combined into a book format and that is also available in say your Tamil language. So you can download the text transcript of the book format what has been taught as part of the joy of competing in Python by the same faculty and study from here. So all these things are available additionally what is available say I open a course you see here if I play the video you get the video. All these things are written here how you can you can see the text transcript in English you can see in Tamil directly you can see all the components here. Now for the read and courses you have got all the details now you want to enroll into a course how the endowment takes place go to swam.gov.in. Take it here if you know the course name you can directly say I want to join into a course called cloud computing. I can directly click here and it will open the courses which are named with cloud computing I can directly click here and start the enrollment process. If I do not know that course name in that case I will just click here all courses it will list out all the courses that are currently available in the swam books platform for enrollment and this could be from multiple agencies NPTEL CCPC and all. So what you do you put a filter here put NPTEL filter then if you want that course duration should be 12 weeks put the filter there then. Which discipline you are from engineering discipline select engineering if you are looking for course from civil engineering select civil engineering all 12 week courses which are on offer from civil engineering discipline during this semester are available here. So now I want to enroll into a course called finite element methods and computational something I want to end all here the important timelines are given just click on to this link. It will take me to the course page here I will be getting a detail about this what this faculty has provided a two to five minutes video saying that what would be the course content on what is the learning outcome what we learn. Here you will find all important timelines the credit equivalency whether this is from which discipline which faculty which you can say domain it leads to all this information plus this is important that will talk later this is an ACT up to paper because. Under the intended audience it is written that who is targeted audience pdp is it a penny to understand the course not for enrollment for understanding the course then industry support means which are the industries that will appreciate this particular course knowledge. Then the course syllabus the books and references all other information that provided after going through this if you have decided to enroll into the course click on to the join button. It will take me to course enrollment section I have got multiple options but if I have got my Gmail account I'll use that Gmail account because I can carry forward as long as I am interested in say enrollment process. So, otherwise, let me take it to say take my this ID. So, it has taken something from here then which age group I belong to select from here my gender country pin code all this I have to fill it up. Then automatically based on the pin code it will take which state and which city I belong to then under this section profession you have to select whether you are a student faculty employed rather depending on your position you have to select. If you are a student or faculty additionally if you last are you part of the swimming that sorry if you are say I select student, it will ask, are you part of the swim local chapter because students are faculties are supposed to be connected to an academic institution, which could be part of NPTL local chapter. So, that is the question will be asked, but for industries, some of the industries that will talk later are connected with NPTL as colleges are connected as a local chapter industry people are connected with us as industry associate. So, if you select here, employed, it will ask, are you part of the NPTL a swim industry associate program. Okay, say I am selecting here student year of graduation and highest qualification that I can select from here year of graduation say I will be graduating in C 2026. I select from here academic bank of credit if you are taking the courses from multiple national co-ordinators and swim definitely have to create your academic bank of credits for your digital occur and make use of it. So that what all courses you do this can be actually carried forward, but as far as NPTL is concerned, we are actually identifying or tracking your progress through your NPTL ID on NPTL registered email ID. Okay. Then you select okay you are part of a local chapter ES say local chapter state I select it is Tamil Nadu. Then which college it is say SA Engineering College. I think dot is not there. Something is there okay SA Polytechnic College say let's this is my college I'll select it from my drop down menu. Then I have to give my college roll number degree. What is the number is important we have to say one two three four I'm giving degree I am pursuing say I'm be department I have to select say I am chemical engineering department study here I have been the first year. I select all these things then I checkbox these two checkboxes I select that means I agree that I will be following the owner code of NPTL and. terms and service of soil then click here it will take me to the course page now live course page with an indication that I have successfully enrolled into the course. Now this course already is in its second so here on your left hand side if you're first timer into this program there are a number of videos provided here how to do different activities in the portal. Okay, so you can just go to find some time to explore these videos so this will be very helpful for you to understand what all activities are to be done and how it is to be done. Then here under week one and week two you will find the contents say that we are saying about 2.5 hours of lecture there could be about five lectures and there is one assignment. If I open this particular course introduction to some period scientific computation the course opens here and also you have got the text transcript okay available here. Right. And here it is written that in this lecture what are the key concept that has been discussed so I can read this video. Additionally, if I have got any doubt I'll click on to the ask the question button and post my queries here. Here I can post my queries like me if there are 1000 students who are enrolled into the course everyone will posting their queries here and this will be answered by either a fellow student or it could be answered by the faculty. Faculty will primarily be interface point because we are raising the queries to the faculty but if there are suppose you know the answer. You can also practically start responding if there is a mistake in that the faculty will definitely correct you. Okay, so this is the way how you'll be interacting with a peer learner groups maybe who are spread geographically across the country or from abroad. Okay. Then comes we say that there is an assignment say if I look at the assignment it could be a multiple choice multiple select how many questions are there. There are about 12 questions and each has got some points 1020 something points is that just calculate the total points the total point is equal to 100 marks. So you can based on that you can find out what is that individual question marks and you have to solve this problem and answer. Later on you submit it and each assignment has got a due date as we said it is 10 days timeline is given so due date is given here after this due date on the you'll be able to see your scope out of one date in this particular assignment here. So assignment one once you submit an on expiry of the timeline will be able to see your score here. Assignment one assignment. It's not that as soon as you submit your assignment you get your score. You have to wait till the end of assignment submission deadline expiry time. Okay. Okay. What else you get if your college has provided the support of the faculty will be acting as a mentor first level of escalation point to support you in your learning initiative. In that case you'll be able to see the name of the faculty under the mentor tag for to become a mentor the faculty has to enroll into the course identify that the faculty or she is a faculty by profession. Then identify the name of the college from the drop down menu and then the SPOC has got a role to play to say approve the faculty as a mentor for these the faculty the SPOC will go to the dashboard provided in the Swam portal and approve this faculty as a mentor. Then only in the third stage that is first the faculty involves second the approval comes from the SPOC the single point of contact of the NPTL local chapter will approve the mentor faculty through the Swam dashboard and then the name of the faculty appears here. Now the student has to select that faculty to get the mentorship support. Okay. So these are the things what all things you can say takes place in the portal like when we release the video of the week we release the assignment for after 10 days we release the say assignment solution all these informations are posted into the announcement section. And these information will also be passed on to you through your registered email ID. So if you follow your email ID, check your mails regularly you'll be able to get an update what is going on the NPTL form. So this is all about portal after going through all weekly structure now you have decided that you want to write the examination for this you have to go to examform.nptl.ac.in and use your the same email ID that you have used for enrollment course page to register for the exam form. So what all things you have to select the courses that you want to write that you have to select city you have to select that three choices are to be given. So first choice, second choice, third choice it is not exam center it is only city say Chennai city will be given but within Chennai. Which are the exam center that will be decided data and we reflect it in your hall ticket that will be released about four, five days or maybe one week in advance to the examination and on that examination day you have to go to the particular exam center. Okay, we try to provide you the first choice of city provided we have got some information from the college like how many people are likely to register for the exam from a particular college. This becomes easy otherwise, since the exams are conducted in a proper manner to our exam partner we really need to book the centers. Okay. And pay the fees here pay fomenties 1000 rupees for normal candidates for certain category of students they have to submit the relevant documents and get a fee waiver. Okay. Now, we have talked about how NPTEL works. Just to look at the statistics so far we have offered about 5372 courses. More than 2.3 crore learners have enrolled into the programs and 28.6 lakhs class learners have registered for the exam out of which more than 18.8 lakhs people have actually got a certificate which are very valuable. During the current time we are offering 690 courses but again, as we said we are offering the courses in online certification more from 2014. What was our status in 2014 we just offer three courses. We had a total enrollment of about 1.1 lakhs and exam registration was little more than 3000. Now see how we have grown the popularity. During 2022 that's the last year. If we take the two semesters, we had about 1213 courses offerings drawing an enrollment number of 40.5 lakhs and more than 7.5 lakhs people registering for the examination. The number grew further in the last semester when we offered 665 courses during January to April 2023. Growing our learner base of 24.1 lakhs and more than 5.1 lakh people turning up for registering for the examination. These numbers are further being escalated this time since the enrollment has not been closed so we can't say the numbers as of now. But definitely the number is more than what we had last semester. So during this semester we are offering 690 courses out of which 601 courses the enrollment will close by 5pm on 7th of August. So do not delay any more just go into the course page and enroll. If you see that okay what are the type of courses that we offer. Yes these are coming from IITs naturally the courses will be more aligned towards the engineering and technology. But yes we are also offering the courses from other disciplines like Humanities, Social Science, Management, Basic Sciences and you can see the numbers. Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Electronics. They are almost at part of the Humanities Science courses, Social Science courses, Management courses. Okay and here we are not only offering the courses that will draw maybe in a MOOCs format as we say massive that means it will draw few thousand students. There could be some courses which are primarily focused for the researcher. There you may have actually made 100 or few hundreds on you. But still since this program is supported by the Ministry of Education Government of India for free learning purpose and there is no commercial interest involved in that. So irrespective of what number could be the learner numbers could be in a particular course we are offering the courses. Not only from these all areas even if you say you want to learn kinetic music we have a course. Language as far as the language is concerned we are offering the courses from English, German, Japanese, Sanskrit all these courses. We are offering courses from skill based courses many of the skill based courses from emerging area courses we are offering. Okay so irrespective of how popular these courses could be we are offering courses. And the number of people who registered for the exam you just see how many of them turn up for that at the exam center you find there are more than 90% people usually turn up in the examination center. Okay and if you see the past percentage past percentage used to be about 80% plus but now after the implementation of 40% past criteria in both assignment and the final exam. The past person has taken slightly but still it is around 68 to 70% it's pretty good. The gender basis if you see the number of learners from different genders it is between 40 to 60 for the female to male ratio. And that is quite healthy if you compare that there are almost 5000 colleges we are connected to out of that a large number of them are engineering courses where you may not have too many people on particular areas, particularly the girls students. Now the benefits if you see okay what are the benefits associated with these courses. First of all these courses are taught by the faculty members from IITs and they try to follow the curriculum what they teach it to the IIT students. So that will be having a strong sorry. So these courses will definitely cover a strong fundamentals on the particular subject. So if you are planning to say go for the job market or for the higher studies you really need to brush up your fundamentals and these courses can add excellent resource for your learning purposes. Okay, we are also offering some industry daily courses from the emerging areas. We know that because of the implementation of industry 4.0 different components of industry 4.0. Industry the way they operate right from production to supply chain management everywhere there are changes now. And these changes are occurring a very frequently and you can say that the academics cannot really cope up with the pace with which the industry atmosphere is changing. So there is always a gap between what academics is offering and what industries what skill sets is required by the industry. So we are already offering some courses from the engineering area which you can actually use it for brushing up your skills on the newer areas which are relevant for the industries. We understand that people may know they have got very good understanding of the particular subject knowledge but once they are appearing for the industry they have to express themselves. Certain questions are asked they have to tell the answers also. So they have a lot of other activities to express that means other factors will play a role in getting the upper chair job. What are these? These are primary communication skill and soft skills which is a part of the communication skills field is part of the soft skill learning. So there are some courses which are offered by N2TL to improve on your soft skill or language say proficiency to improve your confidence to face the interview. And definitely the certificates if you write the certification examination these certificates are coming from IITS and IISC which will definitely improve the quality of the resume. Put a lot of weightage on a resume that you have done something which was not mandated maybe not mandated by the college or university and the industry will see you that you have an interest to learn it yourself. So definitely it will improve your prospect of getting an internship or job. AICT and MGC has already given the framework that certain percentage of courses can be taken in a semester from Swam link courses. So since NPTEL courses are part of Swam so they are also Swam courses and some credits can be taken by through this you can say through this courses. Additionally, AICT has given a mandate like if you complete about 20 extra credit points they can earn a BTEC honors degree. Many of the universities in India as well as many of the autonomous colleges have taken this path and to provide or to offer a BTEC honors degree to their students who can complete these courses. Then we have got a gate portal which will help you to prepare better for the gate examination. The faculty development programs will help the faculty members to earn equivalent faculty development points by doing certain courses from NPTEL. And the people those who are in the industry will definitely get an opportunity to do this skill and up skill through the NPTEL courses. And if you see the learner base, it's about 20, 70 to 20% learners of the faculty category, about 6 to 8% are from the working professionals and the remaining people come from the students. So that is also reflected here in reason for taking the online courses. You find the majority of the people they are taking these courses for your credit transfer. A large number of them are taking for getting a job on internship as well as risk killing or up skilling purpose. Some are taking these courses for preparation of getting a competitive examination or for the research purposes. Just look at the top 20 enrollment and registration number wise courses. Yes, there are courses which are primarily from the possibly computer science which has got these days you can say link to the job market more. So people try to take certain courses which will possibly equip them to get jobs in the IT sector. That's what they are possibly aspiring to get. So you find a lot of courses from the data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, certain programming language like CC++, Java, Python. All these courses are quite popular as per the enrollment and exam registration is concerned. Additionally, you will also find there are courses like soft skill and personality, communication skill. These courses are also equally important for the learners. Otherwise, you can say ethical hacking, cyber security, cloud computing, Internet of Things. These courses are also very popular amongst the learners. The main challenge before us as I said that in a particular city on a particular date, you could have number of examinees which will be outnumbering the number of capacity of that particular city on a particular day. That is the reason we say that's the challenge. If your college is taking these courses for great transfer, it is always advisable that you allow MPTL before and so that MPTL is ready to add additional notes from different centers and ensure that you get a center of your choice. Okay, we talked earlier that in addition to what you get, way best interaction with the faculty and periodically live session conducted by the faculty to YouTube. You have a chance to interact with the research scholars who are conducting the live sessions every week. Okay, there are three days of the weeks you can say, sorry, from Friday till Tuesday. All these days between 6 to 9 and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. During this thought, additional sessions are conducted on live interactive. That means the students can join the session and if they have any doubt about the course, they will be able to get their doubts through the PMRF scholars, the research scholars, as well as the scholars will be helping you to understand. They will be solving you some previous assignment questions, then how to solve numerical problems because we know that in a classroom that in your MOOCs class, the recorded lecture may contain the theoretical concept and little bit of problem solving things may be touched upon. But most of the problems will be expected in the assignment and the final exam. So the students are expected to know how to solve the problems, individual problems. So those tricks will be taught as part of the live session conducted by the PhD scholar. So it is always advisable that if you are in a course, look for the PMRF scholar session and take benefit of it. If you are missing this session in a live MOOC, these sessions are also recorded, kindly go through the session for your benefit. And the students who have done this session, they, you can just see some of the comments before you who said very pleasantly about this, that they are extremely beneficial from the PMRF sessions. Now we are conducting, you can see many of the courses after 692 courses, we are offering, engaging a large number of faculty, PhD scholars to support the students in many of these courses. Just look for that. Now comes NPTEL start that we really are very keen to know because this shows that how different learner groups are associated with NPTEL. The task for them are, you can say they are interested to gain knowledge in different areas. So based on how they, they are actually learning based, you can say how many courses they are doing in a semester or over a period of time. And what is the performance in that particular examinations? We read certain category of students as NPTEL starts. We'll talk more about the NPTEL domains for a later, where we are saying that we have identified, say initially we have seen that students are taking the courses from multiple groups without any focused approach. But now if they are planning to go for a job market or say higher studies in a particular area, it makes sense that if you can give them a direction. Like, okay, if you're planning to say study in the area of data science, which are the courses you should do from NPTEL to get inner depth knowledge about that particular area. I'm saying as an example of data science, but there are about 51 domains, which will tell you that, okay, if you want to build your career in that particular domain, these are the courses in NPTEL, which will give you a strong fundamentals on that. So that we'll talk later. The critical superstars are those people who are very, very enthusiastic because they are taking about four to six courses in a semester and proper in at least three examinations. NPTEL evangelists are those people who are present in 18 examinations in four years or eight semesters and have completed at least 2000 of the courses appeared motivated learners and enthusiasts are actually going to say over a full period of four semesters, they're completing eight examinations and passing in at least 75% of the courses. Now in NPTEL motivated learners, we have seen the content that without any break they are completing the courses whereas in case of NPTEL enthusiasts they might have taken a break. That's a basic difference. Those people, if they have taken some courses from a particular area, which might have they have actually learned about 50 weeks of learning with an average score of 55 marks in those subjects, then we call them NPTEL discipline stars. NPTEL believers are that they have completed at least four to six exam, they're present and at least four exam they have completed. So these are the NPTEL stars category. Particularly important for the students is the domain scholar. They said micro-specialization that I talked about that if you are planning to go for jobs in a particular segment or getting a specialized knowledge in a particular area, then we have identified certain pole courses and elective courses which you have to complete within a period of three years with an average score of 60. Now for NPTEL, if you get 40% marks, you pass that and get certificate. But to get a domain scholar, you have to complete that course with an average score of 60. If there are say six or seven courses, that means average score should be 60, but individual course in say one or two courses, you may have a minimum marks of 55, not below that. That is what is needed. Now, if we just look at, okay, what are the domains? We are saying that there are 12 disciplines, 51 domains. If you just look at the domain page, NPTEL domain certification, browse our domain and courses, you find discipline wise, what are the domains available? Aerospace, biotechnology, bioscience, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, faculty discipline, humanities, social science, disciplines, management, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and meteorology, and materials engineering. Say I am interested in electronics materials. Okay, what say I am interested in, say VLSI design. Okay, I want to get an expertise. What I do, I just click here. It will show that I have to learn minimum of 660 weeks of learning I have to complete. That includes four courses from this list, list is provided, and I have to complete new elective courses from this particular group. If the course is being offered at this point of time, we'll be able to see that okay, it is shown here in role now. Complete these six or seven courses, whatever is prescribed within a period of three years. And if you consider that okay, you are taking one or two courses, two courses per semester is not a very difficult for many of the students and if you complete two courses, then it is very much possible to complete all six or seven courses within a period of two, three to four semesters, even if the complete one course per semester. Again, also within a period of three years, they are able to get domain certification in a particular area. Okay, and once you complete a domain, your name appears here, you can see our domain scholar. The people those who have completed a domain in the last semester, you have got faculty, they have got students, as well as you will find there are few employed professionals. So it's a mix of faculty, students, and working professionals who are doing the domains, and we'll see that it's not only one or two people who are doing the domains. A large number of people are doing the domains because they want to get an expertise in a particular area. This is how a domain certification will look like. This will be little more and carry little more information than your regular certificate because the regular certificate will carry only this information. But here you have got additionally which domain you have created and which discipline it belongs to. 571 scholars have definitely completed one domain, 32 scholars are there who have completed two domains and there are at least four scholars who have completed three domains. The popular courses, we say that, okay, we are trying to prepare you for better job opportunities. So there are courses we have from the emerging areas which will help you to get the job. But from the perspective of the industry, which are the courses they consider is valuable. So most popular courses among industry, the students from the industry who take these courses are definitely some of the programming languages like Python. You can see the courses from the industry 4.0, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, electric vehicles, renewable energy. All these courses are extremely popular among the industry. Then to talk about the industry initiative, we see that, okay, UGC and AICT has given the mandate like certain percentage of training in a semester can be taken from swamling NPTEL courses. UGC has approved up to 40% credit transfer from swamling courses, AICT has approved up to 20%. How does a credit transfer takes place? Since this college, essay engineering college is an autonomous institution, their academic council can take a decision that, okay, they want to transfer the credit from the swamling courses. Okay, first in principle approval is done by the academic council of the autonomous college or university. Then comes which of the courses they have to identify the courses which will be taken for the credit transfer. So they may actually identify a basket of courses and make it available, the list made available to the student. Okay, if you do these courses, these credits can be transferred. Now question comes how many credits will be transferred? I have shown you in the swam page under the summary section, each course credit equivalency as per the NPTEL is concerned is marked. We say that 30-hour course is equivalent to three credits, 20-hour course is equivalent to two credits and one credit is given for the 10-hour courses. Okay, but the provision is given in the same guideline, AICT is a guideline that the colleges may suitably enhance this credit limit, depending on if they feel that additional efforts are required in understanding the NPTEL courses, then definitely they can enhance it. And in most of the cases, the universities or the colleges who have approved this credit transfer, they have taken these three credit courses as equivalent to four credits, two as three and so on. The initial recommendation based on our experience is that please do not encourage the students who are in the finals and we start to take credit transfer from here. Because if there is some issues like unforeseen circumstance like your COVID came from nowhere and there are issues in conducting the examination. So there could be some uncertainty in conducting the exam or also the students may not do well to get a certificate also. So, since we do not conduct the supplementary exam, either the in case the student is unsuccessful, the college has to make an alternate arrangement for getting a, say, certificate and get the time to get, the in time to meet the internship or job time length, otherwise it becomes a problem. Also we are saying that it is always advisable to leave the first semester students from this because it may take some time for the learners in the first semester to settle down in a new environment or from the second semester we can ask them to take certain courses like, say, English or soft skill courses which are relatively easier and they are of four or eight weeks duration. Just if they join there, they will be able to learn what are the steps in a MOOCs platform. So that exposure they will get. And from the next semester onwards, they can take the skill based courses, programming courses, all these things. Particularly if the college is not offering certain courses, then definitely they can encourage their students to take such courses from the NPTEL platform. For career provision of the faculty members, they need certain faculty development points. And AICT has tied up with NPTEL or rather NPTEL has tied up AICT and as per the MOU, certain courses of NPTEL are recognized as equivalent to FDP. So the courses which are recognized as FDP, they are primarily undergraduate level, you can say elective courses and certain courses from the advanced area. There are FDP courses and this is marked here in the SUEM course page under the summary section as that I had shown. For this faculty has to identify that he or she is a faculty, enroll into the course, write the exam and later on apply for the FDP certificate by paying the requisite fee. Now here, once you say that they aren't certain FDP points, what is the equivalency? A four week course is equivalent to half FDP of one week, eight weeks is considered as a full FDP of one week and 12 week course is equivalent to one and half FDP as per AICT. The sample AICT, NPTEL AICT, FDP certificate looks like this and you find every semester when you offer the courses, a large chunk of the courses are actually part of the FDP. In the last semester, we offered about 665 courses out of which 561 were identified as FDP courses. One point to be noted is that if the course is marked as FDP, it does not mean that this is only applicable for faculties to take this course. This course can be taken by anyone who is respective of what is their profession, but only thing if they are faculty members, they aren't certain FDP points. That's the only difference, but it's open for everyone. We said that about 16 to 17 or 18% learners are from the faculty and you have seen in the domain scholar list also a large number of domain scholars are actually faculty members. So that is what is reflected in the graph here, how many people are enrolling from the faculty category and how many are they studying. It's about 17 to 20% is the faculty registration. Now the faculty in a college, the information on NPTEL comes from NPTEL shares it with the single point of contact of the local chapter. Who takes it forward or takes the pain of bringing to the notice of the administration, as well as to the learners, as well as motivate the learners to enrollment process, maybe help provide necessary assistance during exam registration, all tickets print out, all these issues, different logistics supports are provided by them. So they become an ambassador of NPTEL in that particular institute and the success of the NPTEL primarily relies on their efforts. Okay, we'll show you the data. Why if some colleges are very, very popular because of the active SPSS and to help the SPSS in their career provision, if some of the SPSS has got a paper which has accepted for presentation in a conference in say conducted in a designated institute like IITs and IITs for T4E confidence anywhere. In that case, they can actually apply for say certain financial assistance to the extent of 25,000 to recover the expenses towards that. It's what's called your registration fee, travel expenses and accommodation related expenses. Every month, first 10 days is a window and you can apply for it. And if approved as per our guidelines, then on completion of the says, one for instance, you can submit all the documents for the recouping of the expenses. If you are not utilizing but actually nominate any other faculty who might be interested in this program and fulfill all the criteria. Okay. Now comes the gate preparation. We know that gate exam is not only limited to now, say, enrollment to the higher educational institute with scholarship, but it is also linked to the jobs in the public sector undertaking. So if you are trying to get into any of these, then definitely get portal you should look into. What do you provide? Okay, we have offering we have got about more than 3000 courses that is 3000 books we have got specialized. Now you can before the great examination will be referring to a lot of library books. You can also consider these materials where you have got the faculty members from IIT discussing in depth about certain courses. Okay, so here you don't have to search through different pages if you say that okay, if you're looking for a particular topic. Then if you tell that okay, this is the video lecture that talks about this topic. Things become very easy. That is what we have done for 10 disciplines in the form of syllabus mapping. You select which branch, which subject, which topic you want to study and will give you an indication like which input will help you in this. Okay. Before the exam, you will be trying to solve different questions, previous year questions, just to understand whether you are your preparation level is fine on. Now here also we are providing about last set any also question papers, video solutions have been made available. So you can just go to the portal and see the video solution. Additionally, if you need any assistance say you have not understood certain concept and you need a support, there are PhD research scholars who are providing you support in different concepts there. So we are providing mentorship support to online. Further before the exam we always try to take a full syllabus based mock test to understand our preparedness level. How much score I get, that is also provided absolutely free of cost by NPTEL for the gate aspirants. Now if you want to see in detail, let me go to the gate.nptl.sc.in. Just click here. It will take you to get syllabus mapping. Say I am talking about say instrumentation engineering. I want to study control system. Which topic I am looking say I am looking for Nyquist criteria, then this video talks about that. So if I am interested to get details, deeper understanding of Nyquist criteria, I will go to this particular course. And if I just play the video, it will talk about what Nyquist criteria is about. So instead of going to the books and breaking your head, you can also take the help of NPTEL videos. Next comes what we said is video solution. Here say you have got say let me go to instrumentation engineering. Say I can select by ear or select by topic. I can select say electricity and magnetism. So here we do not have data, but say 2022 we have got those video solutions here. So that is how it is available. Additionally, you can also take the path of live mentoring sessions and gate practice test. You can register here and take the gate practice test for this. More charts are taken by NPTEL. This is all about gate. Then NPTEL plus. The difference between NPTEL and NPTEL plus. In NPTEL we are offering the courses which are primarily syllabus based. That means these syllabus are acted by the senate of IITs or certain universities. Offered by a faculty. Offered during a designated timeline in say once or twice in a year. That means beyond that, if I want to take a course, I am not in a position to take that. We found that many of the agencies who are not part of NPTEL have been utilizing these courses and conducting the examination then giving them certificates. So we thought okay why not to make use of that from our side itself. So we are offering NPTEL plus under which we are not only restricting NPTEL courses, but also we are courses from say skill based training programs. It could be short term or long term training. It's not only four weeks, say 12 weeks program, but it could be say as small as two hours to four hours to long term like one year duration training program. Okay, it could be self based courses, live blended courses. These courses are available here, which can be taken by the learners whenever they want. That means it is not only January or July. Whenever you feel you can take these courses and complete it within the timeline that you need. Instead of taking three, say 12 weeks duration to complete a MOOCs in that say Python course I was taking, it's 12 weeks duration. So in NPTEL I have to take 12 weeks duration to complete the course. But if I have a capability and if I want to complete the same course within a period of say one month time, or 15 days duration, I can complete it here in NPTEL plus. So the basic difference here is that I can take any course that interest to me and do it whenever I want. Exam is also conducted on a weekly basis in a remote proper manner and I can write the exam and get the certificate. Okay, that is the basic difference. The only advantage here is that instructors are not only coming from IITs, but they are also coming from the industry. Many programs are there, which are part of the industry. So these are the basic numbers difference is a very important part for the students perspective. If the top are in any of the NPTEL course, we provide internship opportunity for the top parts under the same faculty. Say you have taken a course on say cloud computing, which is offered by a faculty from IIT Kharagpur. In that case, the top will get a chance to work under the same faculty in IIT Kharagpur for a period of four weeks to 12 weeks. How the process takes place? Do you have to apply? No. You only do well in the exam. Once you are top part, you first contact the faculty, get a consent whether the faculty is willing to take the students for internship. Once you get a consent, then we'll write back to you saying that if you are interested to take the internship, then write to us, fill out the form. We'll be sending you a Google form where you have to submit documents like your latest resume. You have to submit maybe one-page summary like all statement of purpose, what do you intend to do during the internship and your last two semester grade cards. Based on this data, the faculty will be selecting a set of students who will be undergoing the internship. Our preferred mode of internship is that you will be physically going to that center and working under the faculty in the same lab where the resources are available and impacting with the researchers there, which will give you a lot of exposure. Okay, but there are certain courses where maybe online internship will be accepted. Right now we are putting a lot of trust on that. This semester we are actually more than 200 people are undergoing the internship and we plan to escalate it to 300 or 400 in the coming semester. So do well in the exam and get an opportunity to do internship under the IIT faculty or IISC faculty. We have got a rational tie-up with the Texas Instruments which is the leading name in the IISC manufacturing. They are providing certain benefit to the NPTEL learners. That means if you are proper in certain courses which are of interest of them, then you get an opportunity for the internship under them. And if you do well, maybe you get a pre-placement offer also from them. What are the courses? You should be a top scorer in the core courses like either basic electrical circuit and electro-analog circuits or analog IC design. These are the courses you have to complete, say, 4th by 4th and 6th semesters of BTEC students. Additionally, they expect that if you do circuit analysis for analog designers, introduction to time-bearing electrical networks and few courses like this, you get added advantage. So once you complete all these things, then we nominate your names, we send your names to the Texas Instruments who will be conducting an interview and based on your interview, you will be selected in the program. Okay. You must know that having a deeper understanding of the core discipline is not enough. You really need to have its communication, writing skill, verbal and written skill, as well as you should know how to present, say presentation skill. Then you have got your body language and moreover, once you are appearing for the interview, there could be some shortcomings in it. You really need to know what are the shortcomings and how to take care of that. So just to help the students, because many of the times since we are working with the industry, we try to nominate some people for certain internship or job opportunities. And we find that many of the students, although they know the subject well, but while facing the interview, they can't meet the expectation. They can't answer to that. Just to help in that perspective, NPTEL is offering soft skill training for the learners, NPTEL learners in two different formats, either one week or two week division. Did you mean we conduct the Employability Assessment Test, your English language skill test, then there will be session to explain how to prepare a better resume, how to start jobs through the social medias. Then how to improve on your body language, what are the shortcomings, how to improve on that, what are the common questions that are asked in the HR interviews and how to respond to that. All these things plus one-to-one mock interviews are conducted. Every day there will be an interactive session followed by take home assignment and we expect that 80% should be the attendance to get a certificate. People, those who have undergone this training, they are saying that this was extremely beneficial for them to say do well in the later part of the training interview. Okay, so you can definitely, if your colleague is imparting the training fine, otherwise if your colleague is interested, please get in touch with them. If there are a batch of 30 or 40 students, please get in touch. We'll be trying to arrange it to our expert soft skill trainers. Then as we said that our main target is to create an interface with the industry because we really need to know how industry is going and what type of courses it should offer so that the students after doing this course will have adequate skill to face the interview or get a better job opportunity. For this, we are tying up with a number of industries currently the number stands about 87, 88 industries to which we are connected to the both from the government sector as well as from private sectors. And the say association is on multiple from not only they provide inputs valuable inputs as far as the course is concerned, sometimes the faculty members sometimes the industry experts also join and in co-offering the course. They also provide valuable talks in the form of what is going on in the industry, the trends, the leadership qualities of the students should build up all these talks they provide. Further, you know there is CSR initiative by each industry, and some of these industries have been generous to provide some funding from there to provide CSR funding from there to support the needy initiative needy students to get some financial support. We will see in the later slides. So, association with industries on a multiple from not only getting inputs, training that say risk killing or upskilling of their staff members as well as co-offering the course, invited talks, specialized lectures, all these things are done to them. Plus, we approach them for providing the internship opportunities or maybe training them or maybe say soft skill training or mock interviews are conducted by the people from the industry. So, these are the type of industry to which we are connected to that includes your educational sector, IT sector, oil and gas sector, you can say telephone networking, all sector people are connected here. And many of the life session has been conducted by experts from this industry, more than 121 lectures are available you can always view that lectures. Now, as you said that industry is also providing a valuable support for the needy student. We know there are few students from any college we may have some students who are really meritorious but cannot afford to pay 1000 with this example. Although we consider it's a very small amount, but they may be coming from a very, very poor background and they cannot really afford to that. In that case, to support the students what we say that within a timeline that college can actually look at the financial background and recommend the name of those students need is students after checking their say financial status and recommend their name to us for fee waiver. Once we have the fund, we approve it and initially the students will be registering for the exam by giving your paying the fee. But later on, once they complete the examination, they'll be getting a refund of the 50% fee that is 500 will be refunded. Now, someone is asking what is the criteria for fee waiver for economically challenged students. Sir, initially, thank you for the question. First of all, what we see that most of the colleges were in the TR1 city, the metro cities, they really may not need that waiver. So we are targeting students who are coming from say remote areas, TR2, TR3 cities. If you feel that there are certain students who really are from economically weaker section because in certain cases engineering students who get into the engineering curriculum colleges, certain category of students are marked as financially backward, and they get certain benefit in terms of admission fees and all. So they are automatically eligible. So if you feel that there are certain candidates like that, you can definitely check their credentials and recommend their names to NPTEL. Okay, so the first criteria is that we try to restrict it within, say TR2, TR3 cities, then check the authenticity of the claim that you are in, recommend it to us. Student, if you have the funding, we approve it. Then later on, once the students pays full fees and write the exam, he or she completes the exam successfully, we refund the fee 50%. Only for those students whose fees were approved. Learn English with them. Someone is writing, how will you provide the soft skill training for general NPTEL students towards the criteria. Sir, here if you feel that your college doesn't have soft skill training as part of your regular curriculum, and there are about 30-40 students who are in, who have taken the NPTEL courses, you can write back to us, we'll organize the NPTEL training to our trainers. Okay, there's no criteria on the team. If it's your interest, if you feel that about, see, you can see one more than 1.4 lakh students have already benefited from the TR1, TR3 cities. If you feel that you do not have the facilities and you want to take the benefit for your student, do write back. What we need is about 30-40 students in a batch. Okay sir, going forward, CSI initiative that we talked about, more than 1.4 lakh students have already benefited, so if there are any students from your college, definitely you can explore getting this benefit. Then you have shown in a particular course that English text transcript is available. Additionally, there are certain other language transcripts are available. Okay, so that translated version cannot be done by NPTEL alone. So what we expect is that the faculty members from different colleges, if they can come and join hands with NPTEL, then this process can be taken forward. What is the requirement? You should know that particular subject and also has got good understanding or good knowledge about your local language. So if you are, say, equally competent on your local language and on a particular subject, you will be given English transcript, just convert it into the particular regional languages. Okay, and also you can convert it into, say, audio text files, audio files also. Okay, these are paid services and you get a recognition because you might have seen in one of the book that I have opened, the person who has converted into Tamil language, the name was mentioned there. So you get a not only recognition, but you also become part of a national initiative and get suitable remuneration. We are currently working with these online languages like S&M, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bharati, Uriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Definitely more courses are required for the Hindi, but if you are equally competent in other languages, we are most welcome to join hands with our team. We, whatever we do at our fund, we are always connected with the larger interest, say learner groups, who are different social media handles. We are present in LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and definitely to our YouTube communities. Okay, you can see the number of followers, whatever we do, you always publish the information to these social media handles, you can follow these to get regular updates on that. We are very active here. Okay. Particularly the NPTEL starts, I think they put a lot of efforts and we are really proud of them. Just to recognize their efforts, we provide them a memo like the t-shirts that you are seeing now, which they can wear and probably display that they have achieved something. Whether they are a domain scholar or NPTEL superstar, evangelist, whatever it is, that's their achievement. They have put a lot of efforts in that and they get a t-shirt for that. Additionally, there are certain courses, like say, VLSI, semiconductor characterization. Not many institutes may have that type of facility to give exposure on that type of lab. So we conduct laboratory workshops on certain areas, like internet of things. Okay, so we select a particular topic and carry out workshops in certain designated institutes where the training is for a or workshop is for a period of one week. During these, the first say five days, the candidates will be exposed to a little bit of theory and they will be doing experiments, maybe moving around looking at different other facilities available in the institute. And on the last day, they will be writing an examination to get a certificate. So this gives them a lot of exposure on systems which are not available in their institute. Okay, for these, the students have to pay a few of these, 200 rupees to NPTEL to attend this program and bear the expenses towards the accommodation and food. Usually we try to provide accommodation in one of the hostels in the institute if they are available and the charges could be about 200 to 300 per day. Now comes local chapter. Local chapter to become a local chapter. See, once you are spreading the message that such facilities available from the ministry support, we really need some vehicle to reach out to the colleges. So that's how we are connected with the different local chapters to pass the message, what are the initiatives taken by the ministry. So to become a local chapter, you really don't need a lot of infrastructure, not any financial support. Okay, it is only the interest what is important. So you don't need a separate building or separate room even, not even no charges are to be paid. Just a simple letter of the head of the institution in a particular format what is required to become a local chapter. You identify a faculty who will become the same single point of contact between who will be interfacing between the NPTEL and the local college. Take this information from NPTEL and pass it to the right people, whether it is administrator or the student. Okay, that is what is needed. And to become a local chapter, once a local chapter is established in a college, anyone from that institute become part of that local chapter and no fees are charged. What are the benefits? You have seen that okay, we have created about 60,000 hours of video. If you want you can really send a hard disk to us and copy the relevant portions which are important to you and copy it there. If you want all 60,000 hours of video, send us the video. Hard disk will copy your post and send it to you. Otherwise, if you feel that okay, you are interested only in certain disciplines, you can also mention that it gets copied. That's one benefit. Then comes the as we said that the local chapter once they become there is a dedicated local chapter page is created under NPTEL. Where whatever activities are taking place on NPTEL fund, if the students are enrolling into the course, the performance, everything is reflected on the NPTEL local chapter course, local chapter page. So you get a local dedicated page. For that, whoever is enrolling into the course, what are the activities? Initially, the faculty may join their actors and mentors. So the mentorship support is needed. So there is a dashboard which is available in the, you can say your swim portal. Then other activities like registration, fee waiver, all these things are put into separate NPTEL page. So different logins are provided to manage the activities of NPTEL by the single point of contact. If the number of students you talked about the fee waiver, if there is a student who needs a fee waiver. In that case, the fee waiver can be requested only by the local chapter policy, so you can ask for that. Mentor addition we talked about. If you are a college, if the local chapter college is situated in a place where there is no nearby exam center and our requirement is that at least there should be 200 people writing the exam on a particular date. And this 200 is not necessarily from your college. If you feel there are nearby colleges and the total strength of the students to be 200, do write back to us so that we can explore the exam partner and allocate an exam center near to you. And also, based on the performance of the students, either the college gets a recognition or the mentor gets a recognition. So college gets a recognition based on the performance of the students, certain points are allocated. And depending on the total cumulative points collected by a college that top 100 colleges are rated as triple A, double A or A. And these colleges are, you can say, felicitated leading the regional workshop that are connected into four different zones after the results are declared. Similarly, mentor on this being certain mentorship points based on the performance of the students, they also get a mentor certificate. Our local chapters currently you are interacting with more than 5500 local chapter. This data is rolled, spread across the length and breadth of the country. All of the Maharashtra leads the table with more than 1000 local chapters. But as far as the active local chapters concerned, you can find the Tamil Nadu although they have got lesser number of local chapters, but the number of active local chapters. What is active local chapter? Active local chapter is that one from where you have got at least 25 people writing the exam and 13 of them are successfully completing the course. So that number is more in Tamil Nadu. Okay. We have got few local chapters even outside the India. The names are before you. Local chapter participation is pretty high because we find as we said that we are trying to reach out to the advantage of this program to our local chapters and the administrators of the colleges. And in particular, to mention the single point of contact takes a lot of pain for making this program a success. So whatever 24 lakhs, 25 lakhs is primarily because of the efforts done by the SPOC and the administrators. So that we find that currently the last semester we had about July to December semester we had about almost close to 90% environments coming from the local chapters. Thanks goes to the SPOC and the administrators of the colleges. We talked about that if the local chapter has got 25 examinations, examiners writing the exam, and if at least 13 of them are getting a certificate, then only we call it is an active local chapter. For a new local chapter, the solution is that initially definitely talk about soft skill courses or English language courses later on you can actually expose the learners into programming courses. Even if the CC++ is being taught in your college, even they join into the NPTEL courses, they will get a lot of exposure. If you see the reports that say that not too many people can write a quote that really works. So more you get an exposure in say coding practice, it's better for you. So even if you are taking a course from CC++ in your college, it's always better to also join into this program at least for practicing different other problems. Okay. And to tell you that programming courses, the past percentage is not very high. Okay, so students find it difficult to solve different programming case and if you are competent in that definitely it will help you getting better job opportunities. Then you can definitely take the courses which are from the emerging areas like AI, ML, data science, IoT, cybersecurity, say cloud computing, then you have got blockchain, all these courses. There is the students to do some domain courses within a period of three or four semesters or at least within the four years of the study so that they have got expertise on a particular area. They can explore the gate portal not only for preparation of the gate but getting a deeper understanding of a particular subject. Okay, we have provided a lot of features. Please ask them to explore and feel that there are certain benefits to be extracted say by making certain changes we will be ready to consider that also please ask the students to explore more on the translation activities that we have done. If you feel that the translation quality is very good to write to us if there are some improvements required, please write to us. Okay, initially you can impress the students to take rerun courses and having a faculty to act as a mentor definitely helps the learners because as a first level of escalation point for the learners. Dedicated time allocating a dedicated time in the time table will definitely help the students to sit together and watch the videos. They can interact with each other in the presence of the mentor that really helps in doing the, doing well in the final examination and ensure that there are no college activities around N2K days. Not only on the exam date but maybe one or two days before that they will be busy for the preparation many people will be writing more than one courses so it will definitely help them. For the mentors as we said based on your performance of the student that you are mentoring, you get a mentor certificate. The criteria is that 10 mentorship points have to be obtained. Say if depending on the number of people present with the examination kept at 10 but definitely if the mentor if the student is getting between 60 to 74 they get five points. Okay, eight is allocated to 75 to 89 and 20 points is given to 90 plus students. So based on this, if you can if you get at least 10 mentorship points, you get a certificate. Particularly if the student is in allied goal or top or category you get a top performing mentor certificate. With this I will stop at this point and if there are any questions we take that one question. Otherwise I will hand over the stage to the SPOC for taking the session forward. Over to you. Someone is asking like what is the minimum number of 20 should be under mentor. Minimum is not specified said it is only the maximum you cannot mentor. I think ma'am your mic is on. Yeah, there is no minimum number you can mentor even one but the maximum number cannot cross beyond 50. That's the limitation. Okay, so if you are mentoring only one student and if the student gets say 90 plus you get a top rated mentor certificate. Okay, so it is you have to get 10 points. There is no minimum number. Maximum is limited. I hope this point is clear to you sir. I think there are no other questions ma'am over to you. Thank you everyone for your active participation and support. Let us carry forward to the knowledge gained from this workshop and apply it to our academic and professional endeavors. Thank you and have a wonderful day. Jai Shree. Okay, so we will end up the sessions.