 which is an active local chapter of NPTEL Swam. Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune is a multi-state, multi-disciplinary university established by Honourable Dr. Patangraoji Kadamsaheb. Bharti Vidyapet Institute of Management, Golapur is a constituent unit of Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune. Earlier it was affiliated to Sivaji University, but from 2004 it is the constituent unit of Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune. It is a local chapter of NPTEL Swam since December 2019. The local chapter was established under the guidance of Dr. Rajesh Kantesar, the director of the institute. As I spoke of the local chapter and in behalf of Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune and Institute of Management, Golapur, I, Professor Narpej Kumar Nrip, take this opportunity to welcome our experts from IIT Chennai, Madras and the experts from IIT Bombay to create the awareness about MOOC, about the courses offered by NPTEL, the credit transferred policy under MOOC Implementation and NEP 2020. I welcome the dignitaries of the University. Dr. Sivaji Rao Kadamsaheb, the Chancellor, Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune. Dr. Vivek Sauji, Vice Chancellor, Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune. Dr. Visujit Kadamsaheb, Pro Vice Chancellor, Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune. Dr. Sachin Vermeikar, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Pune. Dr. Kirti Gupta, Madam, from IQSE Cell of BVU Pune. I would like to welcome all the participants, teachers, faculties, students present here through YouTube Live. Today's session guest is Dr. Kamal Alaskarsar, the HOD of Computer Application Department, who will introduce about Bharti Vidyapet University and the MOOC Implementation Policy at Bharti Vidyapet University level. Dr. Kamal Alaskarsar is a renowned academician and researcher, having more than 27 years of experience. Welcome, you sir. Now, I am handing over the session to Dr. Kamal Alaskarsar for giving a brief introduction about Bharti Vidyapet University Pune. Sir, you please unmute. Yeah, sorry. Thank you, Nipesh. On behalf of Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University and Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Institute of Management, I thank you one and all those who are hosting this program and those who are coordinating this program. Let me introduce about Bharti Vidyapet and then after Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University and Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Institute of Management. Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University, Bharti Vidyapet established in 1964, 10th May 1964, which is having more than 180 branches spread all over India, starting from pre-primary up to post graduation and PhD programs. Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University established in 1996, 26th April, and which are having 29 constituent units. And now again, it is more than 41 constituent units are there. Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University Institute of Management, it is one of the constituent unit of Bharti Vidyapet Deemtobi University, which is already mentioned by Professor Nipesh. So these programs, which are coordinated by him since last three years, 2019, he is coordinating these activities, which is definitely useful for our students and our faculty members. As you all are our students, faculty members, you are aware in NEP 2020, most of the semesters starting from the third semester itself, the MOOC courses are introduced and it becomes compulsory for everyone. Unless and until you complete this course, you will not get the graduation certificate and post graduation certificate. Fortunately for our university, we introduced from third semester in MOOC courses. And as far as the university syllabus is concerned, whatever it is there, that means what actually given by the Board of Academic Council and other Board of Studies, we are inducting some subjects. But some of the subjects which are new are the burning subjects which are required in the market, which we can get through the NPTEL MOOC courses. So this will be definitely useful for our students, especially for our students and even for our faculty members. The request to the students is that you have to attend these type of courses, get the information from different sources, especially it is available from IIT. Now today it is hosting by IIT Chennai and IIT Mumbai. We again, officially, Board of Thanks will be given by one of our faculty members. But again, I am thankful to the coordinators of this NPTEL courses. Thank you. Thank you very much. Over to you, Nerepesh and the coordinating team. Thank you, sir. Now I request the expert team to keep the session on. Okay, respected Professor Kamal, Professor Nerepesh. Other faculty members were connected through Zoom or through YouTube sessions. A warm welcome to this NPTEL awareness e-workshop being organized by NPTEL in association with Bharti Vidhapur Institute of Management, Kholapur. Just let me share my presentation so that we can proceed further. As we said, this program is being organized in association with Bharti Vidhapur Institute of Management, Kholapur. During the part of our discussion today, we'll be talking or giving an introduction to NPTEL and what SOEM is. NPTEL online certification that is the prime focus. Additionally, different other associated activities that includes tele-transfer mechanism, domain certification, internship opportunity for the students, soft skill training, gate examination related preparation portal, faculty development program, then some aspects of the local chapter, NPTEL class, different other initiatives. One of them is definitely NPTEL class. We'll talk about that. And also, we'll also just highlight two of the newer initiatives launched by IIT Madras in the form of a four-year BS degree program, which can be attended by students who are already enrolled in any program in any institute or faculty or employed professionals. Along with the talk, we'll also be taking the questions as and when they are posted onto the YouTube. So it will not be just one way. If you have got any doubt, you can definitely ask the questions in the Google, sorry, YouTube chat box. We'll take that question as and when it appears and proceed. So NPTEL is an acronym, National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. It started its journey 20 years back. This is for the last 20 years, we are in existence. From 2003, when we started our journey, 2003 to 2014, our main focus was to provide high quality affordable education at large scale. We started our journey with this vision. During this 2003 to 2014, we created the contents. That is, we recorded the contents created by recording the lectures delivered by the faculty members in our classrooms and made it available for the learner communities. From 2014, aligning with a global print where there was a need to actually maybe provide course level certification. That is, I go through the course and then I write an exam and show to the outside world that, okay, I have done this course and this is my level of knowledge on that. So we started offering online certification, that's a course level certification in 2014. Now, in addition to what we offer, we are also interacting with different stakeholders, be it autonomous engineering colleges or general degree colleges and universities, took for promotion and use of these courses in the credit transfer framework as has been actually approved by the two higher education regulators, UGC and AICT. During the period of our say 20 years of existence, we have created more than 3000 hours of unique courses. Okay, offering different disciplines that will talk little later. These contents are available to the global audience through either YouTube channel of NPTEL HRD or through our NPTEL.sc.info. So you can see the number of YouTube subscription that crosses 4.5 million, although it's not an entertainment channel, this number speaks about the popularity of NPTEL courses for all learners spread across the globe. If you see the number of viewerships, that also is pretty high, it's more than 1.6 billion. We have got more than 62,000 hours of contents out of which many of the contents have English subtitles too. So these contents are offered. We are saying that NPTEL through which we are offering the courses. The NPTEL is a program which started as a program of seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore. And now we have actually spread our horizon. We have included many, many institutions, newer IITs, few IISCRs, triple IITs, few institutes from other, say abroad as well as within the country which are centrally funded technical institutions, law institutions, we have added them. But once we say that we are offering the course, then we need a platform through which we will be offering. So Ministry has come out with a new platform called SWAM. It's an umbrella body through which anyone in India who wants to offer an online course in the MOOCs format will be offering. So it has got few coordinators each targeting a particular segment of learners. Like NPTEL is one of the coordinator of SWAM who are primarily mandated to offer the courses focusing on the undergraduate and postgraduate level engineering education. But since all IITs or ISCs, they have other branches of studies like basic sciences, humanities, social sciences, management. We are offering the courses from all these disciplines also. Finally, by associating our NPTEL program with other few institutions, we are also offering courses from certain courses from law, health sciences, and all. So what started in 2014, a course level certification, we are offering these courses in MOOCs format through SWAM. That means all our courses, although the courses are coming from NPTEL, they are called SWAM courses. Since all courses are offered to SWAM faculty. This can be taken by anyone, anytime, from anywhere. That is irrespective of what he or she is currently pursuing. Whether there is student, faculty, employed, or maybe a homemaker or retired person, anyone having an interest to learn will be able to join the course and learn the subject of their choice. We follow a four quadrant approach that we will talk little later. Courses we offer, aligning with the semester systems of Indian universities, that is either in January or in July. Maximum duration of the courses are of three months. That is either we complete the courses by April or by October, depending on what is the starting time. We release the tentative timeline. When the course will start, when the examination will be conducted, all this information march ahead of time along with the list of courses. Say today we are in July and from July we will be having a large number of courses which are open for enrollment, which will be starting from July or August. The time schedule will be seeing in the next slides. But if I want to see what all courses are forthcoming from January 2024, what is the timeline? I will be able to see it so that the colleges and the universities who are taking these courses for trading transfer, they can take a decision before that. So for the January run courses, we open the courses for enrollment by November, mid of November, and for July run courses, we open the enrollment by mid of May. During July 2023, we are offering about 690 plus courses whose enrollment is currently open and whose courses are scheduled to start from 24th of July. The detailed timeline will be discussing in the later slides. So currently whatever you may be pursuing, you can join in any number of courses that interest you without paying any cost because the whole program is supported by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. So for joining into the course for learning purpose, number is not limited. The branch or subject that you want to pursue is not limited by what you are doing currently. But if you want to write the examination, that examination is not free, we take some charges that we will see little later. So as we said that these courses are offered in a four quadrant approach. Now any course in a regular university semester will have a structure that means it will have a start date, it will have end date. Every week certain amount of contents will be delivered, there will be certain other activities in addition to just delivering the lecture like you'll be having face to face interaction in a classroom. Then there could be additional class test, periodical class test being conducted, the faculty may give supplementary study materials, all these are actually part of four quadrant approach. The main component is the lecture. The recorded lectures of the faculty in the form of say 30 minutes duration, they are made available every week. About 5 to 6 lectures, about 2.5 to 3 hours of lectures are actually made available to the learners every week. So at the rate of 2.5 hours of lectures per week, we have got three variation of courses in terms of hours, it is 10 hours, 20 hours and 30 hours. And these 30 hour course will be completed within a period of 12 weeks at the rate of 2.5 hours of lecture per week. Similarly, we'll be completing a 20 hour course in 8 weeks duration and it will take 4 weeks time to complete a 10 hour course. Okay, so one of the component is the pre-recorded lecture modules. Second, as in a classroom, there is a face to face interaction, the same thing is replicated here, but through an web-based interaction portal. Since the students' numbers are not limited to what can be accommodated in a classroom, it could be very large or it could be very small also. Because of that, in a MOOCs platform, the interaction takes place through a web-based interactive portal. Additionally, the faculty will be interacting with the students periodically through a live session that we are conducting today. So the faculty will be taking the question posted by the students in YouTube chat box and will be responding to that. Okay, additionally, you know there are PMRF scholars, Prime Minister of Research, fellow scholars, as part of their regular requirement, they're supposed to take some teaching load also in the institute. So the PMRF scholars are utilized here for certain problem solving sessions. We know the contents, the lecture contents will only talk about the theoretical aspects and the practical or the problem solving skills will be tested in the form of assignment problems. So the PMRF scholars will be utilized, the services of the PMRF scholars will be utilized to help the students understand how to solve the problems based on the theory what has been discussed in the lectures. So they will be talking about say previous assignments, how to solve those problems. So this is additional component. In addition to regular interaction, the faculty may also provide some supplementary study materials in the form of maybe the PowerPoint slides, the text transcript. We understand many of the students may not be very comfortable in the beginning to learn directly from the faculties who are teaching in it or delivering the lectures in English because they might have studied up to their 10th or 12th standard in vernacular mediums, say bead Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali or whatever languages. So in the beginning they may have some difficulty to help the students of that category of learners. We try to provide English text transcript, we'll see what to see about all these text transcripts where they are available. And also the faculty may give either hand detail notes or free web resources, links to free web resources as supplementary study materials. Once I go through the lectures, clear my doubts, get detailed, say further study materials to get deeper understanding, then I am exposed to certain assignment questions related to that week's content. So these assignment questions will be about 10 to 15 questions, maybe they are all mostly auto graded, that is, either the questions are multiple choice type, one or more correct options. Then it could be numerical problems, you solve the problem, then put the numerical answer in the text box. It could be a small sentence that you have to put, these are all auto graded. But somewhere the faculty may also choose to test your writing skill, they may ask you to write say within 100 words, certain para, or maybe a design document, you have to design something and upload that document through the portal. So these are all your, these all documents will be evaluated manually by the faculty. Okay, so this type of weekly assignments are given. So if the course is for four weeks, there will be four assignment. There will be eight assignments for a 20 hour course and for a 30 hour course, just because it is offered over a period of 12 weeks, there will be 12 assignments. This assignment submission timeline is 10 days. After 10 days, you can see the performance of the students in the portal that out of 100, each assignment is graded out of 100, out of 100, what is the score of the student. This is important just because a part of the assignment score is actually connected to your final certification. So if you just see, okay, you have one joint into the course, you have seen the videos, interact with the faculty, either through forum or into chat box or PMRF scholars, gone through the supplementary study materials and submitted the assignments. But then you are now interested to write the examination. Now for the July run courses, the examination registration is already open in the portal. If you have already decided on that, you can join. Now for joining into the course, as we said, it works in a triple A model that is anytime, anywhere by anyone. But for writing the exam, the exams are conducted in designated exam centers where our exam partner TCS will be conducting the exam. We are having more than about 150 to 200 centers spread cities spread across the country where we conduct the examination. So the students during the exam registration, which is done to a separate portal, not to swim. They will be giving the course name, the exam date is decided and which city they will be looking for for writing the exam. Based on the choice of their city, they have will be allocated a center where they will be going with the desk, your official comment issued identity card for writing the exam. The exam could be in online mode or offline. The difference between online and offline mode is that in online, the question papers, as well as the answer to be submitted, they all take in online. That is in computer itself, we have to do everything. Whereas in a case of offline examination, the question papers will be appearing in my terminal. I'll be given a conventional answer script where I have to solve the problems or write the answer for manual evolution by the faculty. That's the only difference. We'll be having designated exam date and on each exam date, we can have exam in two sessions. That is between 4 noon between 9 to 12 and in the afternoon between 12 to 5. Okay, so these are the two sessions. Examination fee, as we said, in case of joining into the course for learning purpose, you don't pay anything just because it is funded by the ministry. But for writing the certification examination, a fee of 1000 rupees is payable by the learners. This fee is irrespective of whether the course is for 8 or 12 weeks. Okay, however, complying to the government requirement, we are providing a fee waiver of up to 50% for the certain category of learners. That is, if the candidates belong to SC or ST or persons with disability, they get a partial fee waiver of 50% examination. After the exams are over, we declare the result within a timeline of 30 dates. These certificates were to issue their short copy of the certificates. They will bear about the complete details of the course the sample certificate will show and also will appear a, you can say, QR code so that the certificate authenticity can be verified by anyone who wants to check it. Without referring it to NPTEL. Now the certification criteria, we said that it's an online or offline exam, whatever it is. The exam is conducted out of 50 or 100 depending on the course duration. If it is a four-week course, the total marks is 50. If it is 8 and 12 weeks course, then the total marks is 100. So in the final certification, you have two components for non-programming uses. That is 75% weightage comes from your final certification exam and 25% weightage is taken based on your performance in the assignment, weekly assignment. So for non-programming, there are two components 75% and 25%. These are the two components. Whereas for a programming course, you will have three components, one additional component because in weekly assignment, in addition to the say multiple choice of positions, the students will also be exposed to certain programming tests. Say if you're writing the exam for CC++, Java, Python, Marylog and all, you'll be every week, they'll be giving certain programming assignments. And before the final examination, you'll be having a programming test, which will be in a non-proctored manner. That is just before the examination starts. There will be one dedicated day, which will be published beforehand. On that particular date, the programming test will be conducted in two sessions, one in the morning and there's a during daytime and one in the evening. You can attend both of this exam or any of this exam and the score, whichever score is higher, that will be taken. That 25% will come from there for programming test. So for programming courses, 50% weightage goes to the final exam, 25% each goes for the non-proctored programming test and assignments. How do we calculate assignment score? Say we are in a eight week course, so best six assignments score, whatever is the final say out of 600, whatever score you have received, an average will be taken and 25% will be taken from there directly for the certification. If you do not submit the required number of assignments, then say instead of eight, you have submitted only, sorry, in a eight week course, instead of six, you have submitted only four. Then the remaining two requirements will be considering you have received zero and accordingly, your average score, average assignment score will fall and 25% score will also fall. Now for getting a certificate, it is essential that you get at least 40% score individually in each component. That is in assignment, your average assignment score should not fall below 25 or in other terms you can say it should not be less than 10 out of 25 in assignment. Similarly, for the final certification out of 100, it should not be less than 40 or 30 out of 75, that should be the minimum point. The certificate is provided, we do a five point reading that is if the consolidated score is less than 40, the student is considered unsuccessful and no certificate is provided. However, 40 to 59 consolidated score you are successfully completing the course. 60 to 100 total score will earn a allied tag on the certificate. The elite word will be written onto the certificate to indicate the score is above 60. If your score is between 75 to 89, then in addition to that elite word, you'll be having a silver medal symbol printed onto the certificate. For score between 90 to 100, you'll be getting elite plus a gold, you can say, seal. That is gold medal seal will be printed onto the certificate. Additionally, if your score is very high and if you are within the top 1%, 2% or 5% of the scorers, then these top part seals also be reflected in your certificate. This is how a sample certificate looks like. Elite gold indicates that the student is within top 90 to 100% marks. The certificate will carry your photograph, name, course name, individual component, what is your score. When the course was taken, how many students actually successfully completed the course during this time and which institute offered the course NPTEL logo, Swyam logo and QR. The important points to remember is that if you are enrolling into the course using a particular email ID, register for the course using the same email ID only because NPTEL will recognize or Swyam will recognize yourself with your unique email ID. So email ID should not be changed during the course of your learning phase through NPTEL. Before enrolling into the course, ensure that you check the exam dates because on any exam date, there are two sessions and not more than two exams can be actually attended on a particular date. So you may wonder that, okay, I have selected two courses and both the exams are on the same date. How do I manage? Yes, you will be able to manage because we'll be allocating one exam in the morning session and another in the afternoon. So two exams can be written on a particular date. So there will be three days of exam in a semester and at maximum at the rate of two exams per day, you'll be able to write six exams in a semester. In an exam, physical calculators are not permitted. That's very important to note, particularly for certain courses where you will be requiring the support of calculators. Then how do you solve it? Usually, you'll be having access to online screen calculators. That means if you just ask any of your friends who might have done that, they'll be having the links to that. That is, you can utilize that links and practices beforehand during the weekly assignment so that you are fully aware how to use that on-screen calculator. Then if your college is taking credit transfer and you expect a large number of students to be writing the exam for better logistic management by NPTEL, that is, your students are not inconvenienced to move far off or allocated a center which is far off from their place of residence, we would suggest that you alert the NPTEL beforehand that from our college or our university, these many people are expected to write the exam, and if possible, name the course, provide the course name also. So these are the timelines. We say that there are three variations of courses. One is four weeks, some courses are eight weeks, and others are 12 weeks duration. So what do we do? These courses are offered in January and July and not all universities will start at the same time. Some universities will start in the maybe 15, 20 days ahead of other universities. Since our timelines are fixed, what do we do? Four weeks and eight weeks courses are split into two groups. One set of four weeks, one set of eight weeks, and all 12 weeks courses will start from 24th of July. And second set of four weeks and eight weeks will start one month later. That is from 21st of August. While the enrollment for the first set of courses will end on 31st of July by 5pm, the second set of courses enrollment will be restricted to that particular date itself. That is 25th August itself, the enrollment will close. The exam for the first set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks will be conducted on 24th of September in two sessions. Similarly for the remaining courses, that is all 12 weeks and second set of four and eight weeks will have exam on two days. That is 28th and 29th October in two sessions on each day. That means four exams can be taken there, two exams here. Exam registration date, as we said that exam registration form is open. Exam registration closes for first set of courses on 14th August and the second set of courses by 11th September. However, kindly note that 12 week courses, exam registration will be closing with first set of courses on 14th of August. That is with normal fee but you can say pay late fee and register by up to say 18th August or 15th September as the case may be. So now if you have selected, if you have decided that I will be taking the course, what are the steps that we should follow. First you can go to the nptl.sc.in portal to check what are the two components. One, what are the timelines, the timelines that we have just shown you. So you can just see the timelines here, this timeline is provided. When the courses are starting, the exam registration, all these details are provided here. Additionally, if you want to see okay, what are the courses that are available at this point of time. I'll just go click on to the courses and here I have got all 690 class course list. How they are split, you can see the course ID, discipline, course name, the faculty, institute that is offering the course. What is the duration of the course? Then you find the other courses which are written as rerun and few courses are written as leave. The distinction between these two is that new means this is the first time the course is being offered. Because rerun means this course was created earlier, it was offered earlier, maybe once or more times and it is on say rerun more. That is being re-offered. So once the course is on a rerun more, naturally the contents are available already into the quota. So if I am actually looking for a rerun course, I'll be able to see certain components of the rerun courses like videos, previous assignment, one set of assignments, all those things are available. Along with that, during the last time, once the course was offered, how many people enrolled into the course? What was their performance? How many people wrote the exam? How many got 90 plus? All this data will be available including if there are course stoppers, who are the course stoppers? So this will give you some idea like what is the level of the course and what is the approximate past percentage in this course. So depending on the level of your students, the college can actually look into this document, the statistics and prescribed courses that are suitable for that particular group of learners. Okay, additionally, what you find here, you find the start date, end date, exam registration date, whether the course is of undergraduate level or postgraduate, whether it's a core course or elective course, whether these courses are for the faculty development program and not. And if this course is linked to any of the domains, we'll talk more about this domain safety later. But again, just to reiterate that if the course is marked for the faculty development program, it's not necessary that this has to be done by faculty only. Only advantage is that it can be taken by faculty, students or anyone. Only if the faculty is taking the course, they will be able to avail a faculty development certificate on completion of the course. That's only different, but these courses are open for everyone. On the course enrollment page, all this data is available here. So after I go through all these documents, then I can take the decision on that. Say now we are looking for the number of courses that are available for forthcoming or the timelines of the forthcoming semester January 2024. Now I'm going to go through this MPTL semester information document. This is archive.nptl.ac.in slash analysis slash NPTL semester. Just Google with the word NPTL semester information it will take you here. Now if I want to see the timeline, you can see the timelines here. January 2024 timelines when the course will start, particularly the colleges or universities who are taking these courses for transfer, you can see the timelines so that they do not clash with the NPTL exam dates. Now here, additionally, you can see your tentative course list. Sorry, not this one. January 2024, if I see, I'll be seeing a list of courses which are scheduled for offering. They be new course or rerun courses. If some list is available, this list will be periodically updated to include more courses, but certain courses have already been decided they are available. If your university is considering certain courses for credit transfer and that number is big and you feel that that that course is not reflected here in the list, you can alert us beforehand so that if required will be able to include that course which is required by the university for credit transfer in a particular semester. Okay, so you have taken a look at the course, you have taken a look at the timelines. Now you want to take a decision whether to go for a rerun course or new course and register or enroll into the course. If it is a rerun course, what all information you can get from the rerun course page. Say, I am considering a course on Python. And say joy of computing using Python, this is the course I am going to prescribe for our students. What all information I will be having from the course page just because it's a rerun. I can see from the downloads, one set of assignment is available here. So this will give a fair idea to the student what type of weekly assignment questions they are expected to face. Then comes transcripts. That is, as we said, these courses are transcripts. The videos will be transcripted into English text. So we can see here. And in addition to the English verified text, we have got certain other languages like Hindi Malayam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, all these languages. These contents are actually translated into different regional languages. They will be able to download this on a say lecture basis. They can download it from here. Additionally, you can also see that there is a books link. That means all the contents, weekly contents have been actually clapped into a book. And this book is available into different other languages. You can, they can download this in whichever language these are available. What else is available here under the download section? You can download the videos also from here. For that, you can just look at the statistics. How many times this course was offered and giving each time, how many students enrolled, registered for the exam, got a certification or successfully completed, got 90 plus 75 to 89 and all this data. This will give you a fair idea like what is the toughness level of the course, to what extent the students in earlier operations could complete the course. So based on that, you can take a decision. Okay. After all these steps, if you feel now you are ready to take an enrollment, visit soym.gov.inporter. Here you can directly write Python or else you can select all courses. It will list all the courses that are currently available in Soym platform for enrollment. Now, if I am looking for NPTEL course, I apply my NPTEL filter. These are based on the coordinators. I put my NPTEL filter. Then I can select, okay, based on the course duration and all. Otherwise, I can directly write, say the joy of computing. It will show me the particular course, the joy of computing using Python. This here, I find that, okay, this course is from my IT Roper faculty. It's under NPTEL. It's a 12 weeks course. Enrollment starts on 31st July. Exam date is on 28th October. Exam registration closes on 18th August. So now I click onto the course card. I get into the course enrollment page. What all things I get? I get a two to five minutes video that will briefly say what is the, say, what faculty is going to teach in the course, what is the learning outcome. All this information will be available here. Then about the course, intended audience, prerequisites, if any, and industry support. That is, which are the industries that will appreciate the knowledge of the course. Then the course layout, structure basis, the books and references, instructor biography, course certificate, all these data that we are talking about, everything will be available in this. So now, after going through this, if I am decided, okay, I will be, I want to join into the course. I'll click onto the join button. It will take me to the login page. I will be taking the path of my Google account. I'll be using my Gmail account. I select my Gmail. It will, from my Gmail account, it will collect certain data like my name, phone number, email ID, all this data will be collected directly from there. Then I can select my age group, gender, country currently I am deciding my pin code. Based on this, it will select the state, city. Then I have to select my profession, whether I'm a student, faculty, I'm employed or other. There are four options under this. If you are a student or faculty, definitely you are connected with some academic institution. In that case, the question comes, are you part of the Swam local chapter? Select appropriately. If your college is a local chapter, select the college name from the dropdown menu under that particular state. Okay. You select the qualification or the highest qualification. If you are, say, if you are pursuing your degree, that means the highest qualification is 10 plus 2. That you can say secondary or high secondary, whatever it is. Okay. Then year of graduation you can select. Then the academic inside is a part of the Swam local chapter. Say yes. If it is a local chapter, local chapter state you select. If I select here, say Maharashtra. And from here, I can select here Barthi College of Arts and Commerce or it is Barthi College of Engineering, Pune Barthi Institute of Management. This is a history group. Then I put my college role number degree that we are pursuing the department. There could be multiple departments spread across multiple institutions, but we have tried to provide a consulted list of major disciplines that are available across the country. So just select the discipline that closely matches with your discipline. Okay. Then which is the study year? The first year, second year, third year, fourth year, all these things. Then click onto these two check boxes and join for the course. Immediately you will be alerted that you have joined into the course and I'll be taken to the course page. Thank you for registering for the course. Click the announcement tab for important information. Now here what I am meeting I am getting. This is my course page, which I will be visiting during the entire runtime of the course. I'll be getting the weekly videos here like week zero, here it will be one week to two week 12. Under each week there will be certain number of course videos, weekly assignment, supplement study materials, all these things will be available here. Okay. Then what all things are available further here. As you can see in the announcement sections, whenever the weekly videos and assignments are released, an announcement will be made here that will be visible to you. Not only that, you'll also be getting an alert message in your account, Gmail account or whichever account that you have used. About the course, then ask a question. As we said, after going through the video, if you have got any doubt, you'll be interacting with the faculty through a forum. So this is the forum where you'll be posting your queries, which will be answered by the faculty. Okay. Additionally, what you have every week you have got 10 days time to submit the assignment at once the submission deadline closes. That is Monday to next week's Wednesday 1159 is the closer time. So 1159 after that you'll be able to see your score out of 100 in that particular week's assignment here assignment score you are written weekly name and your assignment score out of 100. If your college is actually alloting some faculty to act as a mentor in that case, you'll be able to select your mentor from here and you'll be able to see the mentors name of this point. All these things are available in the course enrollment or the course page. You have gone through the complete contents, completed the course. And before that you have taken a decision that okay, I'll be writing the exam. So how do you register for the examination? Usually all enrolled candidates will be alerted on same the link for exam registration by NPTEL. So this is the exam form that is exam from the NPTEL.sc.in. You go to this portal and give appropriate responses to register for the exam and pay the required fees. Okay. This was all about what NPTEL is how to enroll into the course before enrollment what all things you should see for rerun courses what is available to you. And how to register for the exam through exam link provided by NPTEL. Now, if I say that okay, what are the benefits of this NPTEL courses? First of all, if you like to see that what are the career options available for the students, just consider the student. Either say they will be going for the higher studies or maybe going for the job market. If some people may start their own say business entity. But in all the cases, usually the students always use some study materials, they go to the library and all that NPTEL courses most of the courses are actually curriculum based. So these are being taught by the best faculty members in country from the premier institutes, which where they will be giving a lot of stress on the fundamentals. So the NPTEL contents if you follow as an additional reading materials, this will give you a strong foundation on your different topics, which will help you not only to get a better employment opportunity but also crack important exams like skate. Now there is always a gap between what is taught in the academics and what is required by the skills required by the industry. Because the industry changes periodically, the industrial scenario changes periodically depending on the newer developments. Okay, and the university cannot cope up with that rapid change of changes that takes place in the industry. So there is always a gap. Since NPTEL offers certain courses from the emerging areas, there is a good opportunity for the learners to enroll into the courses and say learn newer skills which are required by the industry, so they become job ready. Additionally, for the job interview and all, they will be requiring a better communication skill, you can say, or in general you can say soft skill. They do provide a lot of courses from soft skill as well as build up on their language, you can say confidence they build up on the language. So you offer certain courses from the language as well as from the soft skill. So all this first thing will improve the students confidence to face interview, competitive exam, better. Additionally, if they're starting their own business entity, then there are new things that aren't required to be learned. How to start a business, what are the things that to be kept in mind, how to prepare a project people, how to manage the finances. All these things are taught as part of the courses coming from the entrepreneurship. We have got good number of courses that starts from beginners to the advanced level. So they can take that and certificates that comes from IITs or IICs at the end of certification examination improves the prospect of getting an internship or job. Once you show the certificate, then definitely it improves your prospect. The AICT and UGC has given a mandate that okay, you can also take these courses for credit transfer. While AICT up to 20%, UGC has up to, in a CBC structure, up to 40% courses can be taken from Swam linked NPTEL courses. In addition to this, many of the universities have adopted honors or minor degree program as part the guidelines of AICT. Okay, that is if you do certain extra credits to Swam, you earn a BTEC honors program or you get a minor degree. Many universities have actually accepted that. Now, if you are planning to write the gate examination for better preparation, you can not only say go through the contents which are available here, but we'll show you that okay, these contents are created course wise and you may find it difficult sometimes that okay, if I am looking for say mechanical engineering, certain topics from a particular area, which course I should I follow. We have given you certain guidelines on that. We'll talk more about the gate examination portal in the coming slides. So it helps you to prepare better for the gate examination. Then for the faculty, they need to complete certain FPP points for the career advancement. And many of the courses of NPTEL are actually recognized as faculty development program courses as per our agreement with AICT. So after completion of those selected courses, they'll be able to get a FPP point. The people those who are in the industry or the employed people, they are required to upskill or reskill themselves periodically, at least once in five years to make them or keep them competitive in the job market. So since we are offering a lot of courses from the emerging areas, they can actually brush up their skills here. Just we'll look at the some of the statistics. You might feel that okay, people have got a scared scenario like okay, these courses are coming from IIT must be very tough. Should I take these courses and all? Possibly these statistics will help you to understand for the people, how many people are taking these courses. So as we said that during our 20 hours, 20 years journey, we have created 3,000 unique courses, but many of these courses are offered in Iran more semester after semester. So we have offered about 5372 courses as of now with more than 2.3 crore people or learners enrolling into the course for learning purpose with more than 28.6 lakhs learners registering for the examination and 18.8 lakh class getting a certification. This has been our journey during the last 20 years, not 20 years exactly from 2014. That's a certification program. What started with 3 courses with merely 1 lakh enrolment and about 3,000 people writing the exam. If we just look at the 2022, the last year, during the 2 semester we offered 1,213 courses which had more than 40 lakhs enrolment and more than 7.5 lakh exam registration. During the last semester alone, we offered 665 courses with enrolment count, crossing 24 lakhs and exam registration higher than 5.16 lakhs. Currently, we are offering about 690 plus courses enrolment process is on. So if you are looking for the courses as part of the credit transfer or learning newer things or learning the courses that helps you to prepare better for the get examination without further delay joining to the course and registered for the examination. Now, unlike other online platforms which offer only popular courses, we are not restricting the courses where you have got more number of enrolments. We are also offering courses from different areas like where you'll be having maybe only few students will be taking, particularly say researchers will be interested to take the courses. Since this program is funded by the ministry, we are without thinking about the commercial aspect, we are offering the courses which are catered to the needs of that even though select group of learners also. So you can see where we are offering about close to 700 courses from the mechanical engineering, computer science 662, electrical and EC club together 668. Equally number is coming from the Humanities Social Science Management CB. So you have got complete spectrum of the courses coming from law, health sciences, basic sciences, engineering on branches available. So if you are joining, if you are coming to the Swam NPTEL portal, you'll possibly find some or other course that interest to even a course like appreciating kinetic music was taken by many of the senior people, be it in the academics or you can say not employed in that sense. Okay, we are offering courses from say German on language courses on Japanese. So you can actually learn many things from here and you'll find someone other interesting course that may be useful for you. So some percentage if you attendance percentage you see it is consistently around 85 to 90%. It used to be 85 to 90% earlier, but with the change in our says policy or certification policy, this number has taken a deep. We are saying that okay for certification 40% individual score in assignment and final examination is mandated. Okay, so it stands sometime is around 65 to 70% current exam registration if you see the statistics wise it has been consistent since beginning 40 female versus 60 male. It's a very good figure, considering the spread of such students in our engineering curriculum also reasons for taking the courses. We continuously take the feedback from the learners why they are taking the courses while most of the people you can find they are taking the courses. Maybe for the grade transfer, some are taking to update their knowledge in this particular field or getting a placement or internship opportunity. Some are taking these courses for the research purpose some for better preparation in the competitive exam and so on. If you see the top 20 courses where we had enrollment and exam registration, very high, it includes the courses which are on Java, Python, maybe data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IOT, such courses. Pass equally good number of people are registering, enrolling and registering for the soft skill courses. Now the major challenge before us is that people are registering in the exam and we get the data of number of exam registration at a very late stage. And conducting the exam on a Pan India basis with five lakh people registering for exam in a semester is very tough job. Because you have to book the exam registration centers much ahead of time. And since we do not get hardly, we get not more than a month's time to decide on the exam centers, it becomes difficult sometimes to offer a exam center closer to the place of the student. Sometimes they have to move far or sometimes we find it difficult to say accommodate those many students within a particular date. So we go for additional exam dates. In this also we have said that exam registration is say exam is on 28 and 29 October, but we may go for certain additional exam dates for certain cities. So if your college is looking for exam registration, do alert us on the numbers so that we are better equipped to keep the, or make the arrangement better in a particular city. As we said that we are equalizing the services of the Prime Minister Research Fellow Scholars. So they are taking live session, live interactive session where the students can join and directly ask the doubts where the PMR scholars will be helping the students to understand how to solve problems. Since theories are part of the lecture, problems are part of the assignment. So this session we definitely ask the students to join in more and more numbers. You see, we are actually including more and more courses for this support. And if you take this support, it will be benefited. If you can't join into the course on a live mode at least go through the recorded versions which are made available for the learners so that you know in the final exam if some numerical problems are being asked, you'll be able to solve that. Okay, so these sessions are conducted on from Friday to Tuesday every week on the course start date session timings are specified and announced much before that. The recorded sessions are available to the learners so that if you do not, could not attend the session like you are able to view the lectures later on. And the feedback that we get from the learners who are best use of this is that it was fantastic. If you see the number of the course wise the feedback that we have received that they say that it was extremely beneficial they could learn many things from the PMR scholars. Now comes me from safe 2003 to 2020 we have seen the students are taking courses without keeping a focus on that they take courses from XYZ scattered. Now just to give a direct path of learning if they are looking for a career in a particular orientation particular direction. Or maybe want to pursue higher studies in a particular area in that case it is essential that they develop a lot of expertise or understanding on that particular area. So considering that we have created a domain scholarship program domain NPTEL domain certification program in which we have specified certain courses. If they do certain courses from that particular area they can say they have got good understanding of that particular area. We'll see more details about it in the next slide then based on the students who are enrolled into the course who have been with us in NPTEL. Consistently over say not only one semester but over the years based on their attachment and the number of courses they are doing and the performance. We actually rate these students as NPTEL stars in different categories, either whether they are superstars, evangelists, motivated learners, enthusiast, discipline stars or believers. Say if a student has actually enrolled in four to six courses in a semester and write the exam in that and if they are top or in at least three courses then we call them NPTEL superstars. Similar criteria exists for other categories. So based on your association with NPTEL and based on your number of exams performance in the exam we rate the students as NPTEL stars. I think there is some question by Professor Neeraj. Remote session software, the course. Sir I couldn't understand your question. Can you just explain a bit little. You said that remote sensing software course. You can go to NPTEL.ac.in portal and search whether that course is any courses available on remote sensing to the best of my understanding we have got certain courses. Whether that course is available for enrollment during July or not that you can check it from the list that I have shown. If you go to NPTEL.ac.in portal scroll down course list is there just click there and there is an excel sheet check from there whether remote sensing courses available or not because we have created more than 3000 courses is difficult to remember whether that course is there or not and whether that is available for enrollment at this point. Now the domain domains that we talk about we said that we give a focused direction so that the students can get a deeper understanding of that particular area to get expertise. So what are these. We have got 12 disciplines we have identified and currently we are offering 51 domains we have identified 51 domains from different branches of engineering and humanities social science management all these areas. In each domain you have got certain courses and a few elective courses. Total duration of learning is mentioned says 60 weeks 70 weeks of learnings to be completed. So if you complete the poor and elective courses within a period of three years with an average score of 60 in NPTEL. If you get 40% marks you get a certificate but for domain certification the bar is little raised so that at least you should get 55 in each and average score should not be less than 60 and the completion type of time for all say poor and elective courses should not exceed beyond three years time. If you complete that then you will be getting a NPTEL domain certificate. What are the domains available aerospace biotechnology chemical faculty better we go to NPTEL.sc.in slash domain. This is the domain certification page you can see there is a video. You can domain you can browse that okay which are the aerospace you have got flight mechanics, biotechnology, bioprocess, bioengineering, biosciences, computational biology, chemical engineering you have got five disciplines, civil engineering, computer science, electrical and electronics together. Then you have got faculty disciplines for the fundamental and advanced domains, humanities social science you have got English studies, psychology management you have got quite a good number of disciplines, mathematics, mechanical engineering, metallurgy and materials. So these are all available under each thing say if I am looking for robotics domain. It says that I have to complete 50 weeks of learning there are two core courses out of the which are the specified core courses and whether these courses courses available for enrollment at this point or not that is also mentioned. So here, if it is available it will be marked here that okay you can enroll the course through this link. Okay. Similarly, you find here, this is four courses. Then you have got you have to complete five elective courses. What type of elective courses that also it is mentioned and the courses currently available for enrollment that is also marked here. Now if you want to see, like who are the domain scholars that also will be able to see from here. From January to April 2023, we had 158 domain scholars and these scholars are some are faculty. Some are definitely students like here, there is a student. It's a mix of faculty, student and industry professionals. Okay. You'll be able to see the concrete statistics from the NPTEL domain certification page. This is how a sample domain certification certificate looks like it will be at the same data what is available in your certificate, but all certificate data will be merged together. So in one page you will have the photograph name and the domain that you have got and the courses that you have actually completed and the performance in that with the individual keywords. Number of domains completed if you see that okay one domain has been completed by 571 scholars while there are scholars who have done more than one domains. So there are 32 students or learners who have completed two domains and there are four scholars who have completed three domains. Now this is a new initiative that NPTEL has now permitted or taken an in principle decision that NPTEL learners who are actually start learners can take on campus courses in a semester. That is they come to the NPTEL matras take the course along with the regular students and they will be given a transcript for that they have to pay 1000 rupees per credit. Okay. We will be providing further details on this through our local chapters. The most popular courses we say that we are offering 690 courses but some of these courses are very popular and are of real value to the industry. So which are the courses that from our experience or from the data that we collect. We find there are these are the courses like Python, renewable energy, electric vehicles, data science, cloud computing, industry 4.0 blockchain, design thing, Six Sigma and such courses are very popular amongst the industry for job opportunities. Now if you just look at the what are the initiative that we have taken is one initiative that has been taken by the UGCCAC but we are trying to implement it by reaching out to the colleges. Okay. Like this college is currently taking the initiative to conduct the say governance program. So whatever recognition has been given or whatever approval has been taken given we tell colleges how they can implement it. Now what is this credit transfer they say that okay you can take 40% of the credits. Now each course has got a credit. NPTEL mentions in the certificate that 10 hour, 20 hours and 30 hour courses are equivalent to 1, 2 or 3 credits respectively. But this is the recommendation from NPTEL. The academic council of the institute can take a judicious decision to decide whether this 3 credit what is specified by NPTEL for 30 hour course is to be taken as 3 credit. Or 4 or 5 credits depending on their decision which is already the decision of the academic council. So they can first identify which are the courses that they wish to take from NPTEL. Then what should be the credit equivalence NPTEL says 3, we may say 4 or 5 whatever it is mentioned that and publish the list of the courses for the students to take the courses. What we recommend is that you may avoid say recommending the NPTEL courses for the final semester students. Particularly if you have the fact that if the students do not do well in the course that should not jeopardize their internship or job timelines. Since NPTEL will not be conducting any supplementary exam for that. So another recommendation is that the students after their high secondary or senior secondary they are coming in a very new environment. In that case, it is essential that they will take some time to settle down in the program in a college. So if you just avoid giving the say online certification program for the first year students, first semester students that may be problematic. So once they settle down in the first semester, maybe from the second semester you can ask them to take some courses which are primarily on the English or soft skill courses. Maybe four weeks or eight weeks course so that they can comfortably do the course and also learn the steps that they have to follow on a weekly basis. Then from the third semester onwards, you can actually allocate skill based courses. Okay, and also we say that okay if possible encourage them to do at least one domain certificate within the next four say eight semesters. Within eight semesters they should be encouraged to complete one domain which will help them to give deeper understanding of a particular area. Then we have tied up with AICT. As part of that many of the courses of NPTEL are recognized as an FTP course but as we said the course may be marked as FTP in the course page. In the course page, once you go to the Swam portal you will find in these it will be written in the what is marked in the rate boxes. This is an AICT up to FTP course. These courses not only open for the faculty but also open for anyone. Only the faculties if they attend the course they will be getting additional FTP certificate if they wish to. Okay, so what is the criteria they will be enrolling into the course then after an enrollment they will be writing the exam. Once they successfully complete this, they have to apply separately for the FTP certificate by paying a token fee of 100 rupees. This is how a sample FTP certificate looks like. The equivalency of FTP points is marked as that four weeks course is equivalent to half FTP of one week. Eight weeks is considered as full FTP of one week and a 12 week course will be considered as one and half FTP. During each semester you can see the number of faculty members who are completing the courses. This time say last semester we offered about say 665 courses out of that 561 courses were FTP courses. Similarly here out of 690 you will be having around 500 class courses which are FTP courses. The faculty members can take benefit of that. The participation of the faculties in the enrollment or exam registration has been consistently around 20%. Over the years you can see 17 to 20% except on certain time when we had the COVID hitting the scenario. Now the SPOC is the single point of contact for the faculty from the local chapter college. We is interacting with the NPTEL plays the most pivotal role in success of this program in their institution. So what we do, we support the SPOC's in their career advancement. If they are actually going to attend a conference in which maybe one of their paper has been accepted and the conference is conducted in certain designated institutes. Which are the institutes? It can be IITs, NITs, IISCRs and certain other institutes or T4E conference held anywhere. If they attend that conference in that case they can apply beforehand with all the documents. An amount up to 25,000 is reimbursed to the students on completion of the conference. These amount is reimbursed towards the travel expenses, registration fee, accommodation related expenses and all. So for the first 10 days of the month the portal remains open when you can actually apply. Only thing ensure that the conference is conducted in the designated institution what is mentioned in the portal. If you are not utilizing this benefit, if you have any faculty in your institute who is taking interest in NPTEL activities but is also attending a conference. When this paper has been accepted, he or she may also be encouraged to apply for this. Then we have got gate portal as we said that if some of the students are interested for taking the great exam, either for joining master's program elsewhere or they want to get an opportunity in PSUs where job opportunities are now linked with the gate performance. You can definitely explore the features that are available in the gate portal. What are the features available? First thing, let us go to the gate portal. Here you will find gate preparation platform, it has got many options like gate syllabus mapping. So if you are from say mechanical engineering and you want to write gate exam, you want to take the help of say supplementary study methods. NPTEL video lectures are one of them. So in this case, say I am looking for thermodynamics course. I want to get a deeper understanding of the thermodynamics course. In that case, if I select the topic thermodynamics, the NPTEL link here the link is provided to different video lectures in one place where this topic has been discussed. So you do not have to look for many courses, whether this course is useful for me or not. NPTEL has already actually marked certain courses which you can refer for getting deeper understanding of the particular topic. What else is available here? Now before the exam, we always refer to the previous exam papers just to check our preparation level. So what we do here, in this case you can find here video solution. Under this section, different video based solution, how to solve that particular problem has been posted. So you have got video based solution say if you are from mechanical engineering, you can select either on a year basis or from topic basis. If you select on the topic basis, maybe heat transfer, then different questions that were asked on heat transfer, these video solutions have been given to give you understanding like if this was the problem, how to solve that type of problem. What else options are available here? Now what we get practice test that is before the exam, any exam we try to attain mock test. The same feature is available here. On a particular date you can actually come and write the exam which is of three hours duration and at the end of that you will get a score. So number of cases have been created where you can actually take regular mock test here. In relation to all these facilities, you have got live mentoring sessions also where your doubt hearings can be done by the experts, particularly the PMRF scholars can chip in and help you understand certain topics which are relevant for your gate examination. So whatever is required to prepare better for the examination, NPTEL has taken a holistic view of that and providing everything in a particular platform to explore for your betterment. Then NPTEL class, now we say that okay we are offering a courses in January and July starting from January ending in April starting in July ending by October. But if you want to certificate in between say you come and once you close the enrollment at that point you will have to wait for the next semester, but you want the certificate to be getting you want to get at the earliest. Many of the online platforms it has been seen that okay they are utilizing the NPTEL courses and creating their own certification program and charging ABG. So NPTEL class platform has been created, which is an add on to the NPTEL path that is whatever is being offered in NPTEL that flexibility has been enhanced here. There we were offering curriculum based courses but here in addition to the curriculum based courses we are also offering certain skill based courses which are not only offered by faculty members from say IITs or IISC or academic institution but also from the industry. So it's not linked to say senate approved courses, these are quite open courses and here you can take the courses whenever you want that is if I want to take the course today and complete the course within say next 10 days I'll be able to do that. So NPTEL class is a platform where you can do courses whenever you want because we see in industry many of the people from the industry they take these courses on their own or in sometimes many of the industries have tied up with us to train their resources and they may not have 12 weeks time to complete a course. So for the benefit of those targeted learners, NPTEL class platform provides an opportunity to take the course and write the certification exam as and when you desire it but yes it comes with a cost. That is if you want to enroll into the course for learning purpose in NPTEL you don't pay anything but here a token amount is charged. Similarly for writing the examination at charge is little higher on NPTEL class because we will be organizing the examination dedicated for you. Okay. So the basic distinction between NPTEL and NPTEL class is that these are not very structured courses like 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks. It could be say NPTEL courses, a 12 week course you can take it within a weeks time if you feel so you have got certain say workshops, some expertise on say something on specific tools. Okay, special training on certain tools, certain softwares, all these programs are part of NPTEL class and the duration of these programs can be from say as few weeks, few hours to few months. Okay, another opportunity for the NPTEL students, the students who are doing well in the NPTEL is an internship option. We understand that internship is an extremely valuable proposition for the learners for getting a job opportunity and all that gives hands-on experience to many things. So internship opportunities are arranged for the NPTEL course stoppers by our office. In that case, the steps are like this. Once the results are declared and we see that okay there are course stoppers, we approach the faculty, course faculty, get a consent from the faculty on taking interns under them. Then we approach the course stoppers saying that if you are willing to undergo course training under that same faculty in IITs or IICs or other institutions that are offering the course. In that case, give your willingness by submitting your resume, statement of purpose, what you want intent to do during the internship and your last two semester grade course if you have. Based on all this data, the faculty will see whether you fit into the internship program or not. Sometimes it requires that okay you want to do something you have interest on something but the faculty has an opportunity to expose you on certain area. So there is a project mismatch problem is there. So that may not actually result in internship. So based on your interest and the interest of the faculty who is giving the internship, certain students are selected who will be going to the institute, other institute say IITs, IIC or any other institute that is offering the internship. They'll stay for a period of four to eight weeks or in some cases 12 weeks. Interact with the faculty and the research scholars there, learn newer things and at the end, they get a certificate on completion of the internship. We also pay them a token stipend of 5000 rupees per four weeks of training to recover there to partially support their lodging and boarding expenses because once you are going in IIT, you have to bear the post of your staying there and lodging and boarding expenses. Sometimes we definitely try to help you to get austral accommodation but sometimes it may not be feasible also. In that case, you should be willing to take, you can say make your own arrangement of stay outside the institute. Okay, because many of the times like in July, the semester in IIT system starts sometimes in the, say 13, 14, next second week of July. Okay, whereas some of the internship programs will be going beyond that. So once the students of IITs are back in the campus, so austral accommodation is not available. In that phase, either the students have to make their own arrangement, otherwise internship will be difficult to do in an offline way. Yes, we do consider certain online programs also based on the nature of course, nature of work and then we have also tied up with our partner, industry partner, Texas Instruments. The people who are from the electrical electronics domain, they know that Texas Instruments is a giant in the, you can say cheap industry, semiconductor industry. They provide an internship opportunity for the students if they complete certain courses within a certain semester, like basic electrical circuits and analog circuit or IC design, analog IC design. Additionally, if you have completed certain other courses like circuit analysis for analog designers, introduction to time-bearing electrical networks, PLL for power management, integrated circuits. In that case, you get a preference over others in getting the TI internship program. For getting a job, it's not only the domain knowledge that matters. The students were aspiring to get a job opportunity. First, they need to know how to prepare a resume properly, how to search for the jobs, how to present themselves before the interview panel, their body language, their communication scheme. All of these plays equally important role as that of your domain knowledge. So just to help the students in their holistic development, what we are providing, we are providing soft skill training for the NPTEL local chapter students. If you have got about 30 to 40 students who are interested to take the, say, soft skill training from ours, do write back to us. We have got dedicated team of trainers who will be conducting either one week or two weeks training, covering your employment assessment, interactive session will be there to tell you what are your shortcomings, what are the points where you need to improve on that. Then there will be online mock interviews, like what are the, say, general questions that are asked, how to answer better in that questions. Okay, so this type of sessions are conducted over a period of one week or two weeks based on the request coming from the local chapter college. We try to see that the students must have at least taken one NPTEL course and accordingly they are given soft skill training. Okay, the impact of soft skill training has been extremely good as per the feedback we received from the students who have undergone how that has actually helped them to, you can say, prepare better for the interview, present themselves before the interviewer. So these all data are available in our social media handles, if you just go through that, what we do on a regular basis and what feedback we receive from the learners is all provided there. Then we are also interacting with our industry partners, what we call NPTEL industry associate, we know that many of the learners are from the industry as well as many of the faculty, many of the, you can say industry bodies have actually associated with NPTEL. In course development, as well as to provide, say, what goes on in that industry, what do they expect from the new learners, from the leadership talk. Different lecture sessions are conducted by the industry associates or the people from the industry, that is, they not only join for jointly offering the course, providing inputs on the course structure, but also provide support to the students in the form of technical or leadership talks. We'll see that CSR, you must be, many of the local chapter colleges must be aware of the fee waiver scheme for the needy student that also comes from the NPTEL industry associates. Okay, we are tying up with about 87 industries currently. These industries are not only from the government sector, but also from diverse disciplines of private sectors, BEIT, oil and energy, power transmission generation, research and development, consumer electronics from all domains, you have got industries. And we are conducting, as we said, we are conducting live session to give what is needed, how to prepare better for the job. All this preparation, these lectures are delivered by the experts from the industries who periodically conduct such things, and these videos are also available. Another important contribution comes from the industry partner is through the CSR initiative. We try to provide what is called your fee waiver to the needy students through the CSR fund support provided by few of the industry partners and some individuals. Okay, whatever fund we get, if the student is needy, many of the students, we find that they are maybe first generation, but they are very needy. Maybe they form, say, three shop owners, their parents are not in a regular employment, but they are interested and they want to develop their skill. If the local chapter college recommends their name to us, we provide a fee waiver to the extent of 50%. That is, they pay the full amount, write the exam and if they are successfully completing the course, we refund their 50% from the CSR fund that is provided by our industry partners. Okay, and if you see that how the students are benefiting out of this, you can see number of beneficiaries so far has been 1.4 lakhs plus students have actually benefited, particularly from the TR2, TR3 cities. Here also if we, that the spread is across the India to which state how many students are getting the benefit out of it and what they say about this particular benefit by the learners. Translation is an initiative just to help the students who might have not studied in English medium school. So for them what we do, as I have shown in the previous slide also for a rerun course, if you go to the portal, you will find under the download section, you'll be able to download individual lectures in different regional languages or the complete book format is available in a particular language. So that for that purpose, we seek your help if you are teaching a particular course or if you have got expertise on a particular area in which NPTEL is seeking in say translation activity. In that case, if you have got good say depth over your local regional language, you can definitely write to us and help us in this translation activity. We are currently handling say 223 courses have been translated into different languages. These paid service, if you have got only criteria is that if you have got depth of your particular areas, which course you want to translate into regional language and if you have good, you can say depth on your particular language also. Translation details we are actually we are handling these many languages as some is Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. So if you have got good competency on any of these languages and the particular course do write back to us so that you can be part of this translation activity. We are available in all social media handles and you have got number of followers you can see whether it's a LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, all success stories, what all we do, we provide it there to join us to get regular updates, not only from our side, but also the viewers or the course takers what they have to say how they have benefited their success stories you can see there. The NPTL starts just we recognize their effort and provide some sort of a moment to which they probably display as NPTL starts. We also carry out or organize laboratory workshops periodically on certain topics. Okay, maybe that course that type of laboratory is not available to your institution. These are usually of seven days program in these maybe the first five days they will be having theory and laboratory session in the morning and afternoon. So morning, say nine o'clock to five o'clock or six o'clock they will be working in the laboratory undergoing the theory, maybe visiting few other laboratories in the institute. That is, this is an in-person base that is they will be going to a particular institute and getting an exposure to the different laboratory activities and in the last day they will be having an examination. On completion of that they will be given a certificate. What is the charge? We charge a token amount of 200 rupees for this workshop and the students have to bear the accommodation and food expenses while they stay in the particular institution. The local chapters has been extremely supportive because we reach out to the learners through the local chapters only. Okay, so like this program is being conducted by one of the local chapter. So based on the performance of the local chapter students, we recognize the local chapters and felicitate them during the workshops. Top 100 local chapters are felicitated. Not all local chapters participate equally. First we say that if there are 25 students writing the exam from your college and out of that if at least 50% clear the exam, we say this is a active local chapter. Okay. In addition to about 5500 local chapters what is available in the country, we are currently having about 48 local chapters outside India also and local chapter participation has been consistently above 70. Currently stands very close to 90%. This is what the data says that percentage of participation from different state local chapters, statewide enrollment and registration data. The suggestion from the local chapter as we said that not to give math based course or maybe a skill based course in the very beginning. Maybe you can offer first soft skill or English language courses then slowly build up on the programming and skill based courses. They can encourage your students to make better use of the gate portal and if they have got any solution you almost will come to revert to us. Initially you can suggest the students to take the rerun courses so that they have idea about what is there in the video and they have been exposed around the one set of assignments. Provide mentoring support to the students so that they have someone in the college as the first level of escalation point. If they have any difficulty they will be escalating to them and maybe the faculty would suggest that they should encourage the students to write more on the forum because it's an anonymous forum. They will be learning how to express themselves. Once they go out of the, say beyond four years tenure, they will be joining in the industry. They have to say whatever problems they have, they will be mainly communicating with their bosses through email. So they need to know what is the problem they are facing right now. They should be able to say write that in forum. So they should be encouraged in that respect. And if your college is taking the courses for health transfer, do allocate some time or maybe a group study in the syllabus or ensure that you do not put or schedule any exam or any activity on the NPTEL exam date. If the faculties are enrolling into the course to support the students at mentor based on the performance of the students that they are mentoring, the NPTEL will be giving a mentoring certificate to the faculties. They need to get in mentoring points which is based on the performance. Like if they successfully completed certain points are given, but if they are getting a gold, say elite gold, that is 90 plus or put stopper in that case, the points are moved. So based on how the performance, what is the performance of the student, the mentors will be getting either a normal mentor certificate or top performing mentor certificate. As we said, we are available in different social media angles. We also provide all feedbacks on to NPTEL starts feedback channel. What NPTEL regularly receives from the learners, you are most welcome to visit and see these things. I'll just take two slides to brief you on the new initiative taken by IIT Madras in the front of say revolutionary concept of off campus BS degree program, primarily on two disciplines of electronic systems and data science and applications. Before I go ahead further, if you have got any doubt on what we discussed today, the most welcome to post it into the chat box so that as soon as I complete the next two slides, I'll be able to take the questions like that. So this is BS program where enrollment is not linked to the JEE advanced. So if someone is doing a BS project program or BSC become program in any of the institution, if then they want to pursue a second degree from IIT Madras, in that case, they can join into this. The joining is not to JEE advanced, but through a separate qualifier process. If you enrolled into the qualifier process exam, in that case, you'll be given a four weeks content. You go through the contents, periodically submit your assignments and at the end write a certificate and at the end there will be examination. If you qualify in that, if you get a minimum marks in that, you will be admitted into the main program. The main program is a four weeks, four years duration, but you can take it in a flexible mode. Because we understand there could be many people who are taking this course from where they are pursuing a second degree on a regular degree from any other institution or they are employed or their faculty. In that case, they can actually take it in a slow pace. The four weeks, four years course can be taken over the period of eight years. Additionally, if they want, they can quit at any point and get that certificate valid for that particular level. It has got four levels for data science program. That is, it is first level is your foundation level. Second is diploma, third is BSC, fourth is BS. So if you want to complete only second year and quit, you can get a diploma and quit. That'd be it. Diploma comes from IIT Madras. Similarly, for the data science, there are three levels. First is your foundation level. Second is your diploma level and there is no BSC level. Only at the fourth year BS level is there. The BS degree is considered as equivalent to the normal degree of IIT Madras and they will be recognized as an alumni of IIT Madras. The placement and internship facilities are available to the students of this program after certain level. So there is no age limit to join into this program. And for joining into the data science program, the requirement is that you should have at the tenth level English and maths. And for the electronic system, you need to have physics and maths at the tenth plus two level. So qualifier, four weeks contain, you pass the qualifier exam and join into the main program. And you may quit at any of these level that is foundation, diploma or degree, whichever way you feel like. These are the identity fee structures. The flexibility here is that you don't have to pay the fee upfront. If you are taking two courses, you pay only for the two courses. Depending on how many courses you are taking in a semester, you pay only for that amount. This is for one year. The opportunities that are available for data science and electronic systems are given at the bottom. If you are looking for any of the opportunities, you can think of it. So irrespective of science, arts, commerce, law, any degree, they can pursue the data science and application program. But for the electronic system that requires an additional component like after every semester, they have to physically come to IIT Madras for the laboratory session that requires your science background at the tenth plus two level. The students will also be coming to IIT Madras for interaction with the faculties and other activities that are done by the in-campus students. With this, I'll stop my presentation. Thank you for being with me for the last more than one hour. It's going to be one hour 45 minutes. With this, I'll stop and if there are any questions, I'll be happy to take that question. Over to you, sir. Thank you, Deep Sankar sir. You have covered almost all aspects of NPTEL being a local chapter. I thank you for giving very, very last time to exploring all the things. Now, as per the schedule, I am going to cover the impact of local chapter as an institute, we are having the active local chapter. So let me say the screen first. There's a madam. The screen is visible. Yes, sir. It is visible. So we have started our local chapter in December 2019 under the leadership of our director, Dr. Rajesh Kanthasar. And till today, as far as enrollment in NPTEL is concerned, we are having around 1800 students. And the total enrollment of the students. Now, as far as an IP implementation in Bharti Vidyapeet, deemed University of Pune, and according to the guidelines, the students are indoling for the examination for the credit transfer. As the credit transfer policy of NPTEL is comparatively simple as the credit is directly transferred to the students in their ABC account. So students are getting motivated to indol for the examination for easier credit transfer. Till today, we are having the received certificate 58, the students who has passed for the examination. And we are having the concept of mentorship. Mentorship, that means mentors are allotted. And in their guidance, the mentees are performing whatever the progress of the assignments are. So total mentorship certificate received according to the criteria of NPTEL till today it is 4. Our faculties are encouraged to attain the course of NPTEL and getting the certificate of faculty development. So till today, we have received 11 faculty development certificate. We have received twice spoke appreciation certificate from the NPTEL. And from this semester, from the last July, sorry, April 2023, our local chapter is rated as active local chapter. And we have received the email from IIT Bombay for the felicitation workshop on 15th July. So this is the achievement being local chapter. Now the feedback we received from our students. So here you can observe the feedback from our students. These are the students basically, which are having two years course of MCA here. And we are also promoting the students of management to get the course from management discipline from NPTEL for easier credit transfer as far as MOOC courses are concerned. Now our faculty members, as I discussed, they are encouraged for participation for faculty development program for upskilling their knowledge. So one of our faculty has achieved seven times FDP and they scored in top 5% performance of the NPTEL. One more faculty is continuously involved in promotion of MOOC and motivating the students to adopt MOOC courses for their skill enhancement. So this time, our center has two toppers as far as programming in Java is concerned. And we are having the feedback from the toppers also. And that has to be said to NPTEL too. Hello, my name is Mansik Taranshan. And I'm here to share an incredible journey in NPTEL's learning programs programming in Java course. It was an enriching experience and I'm honoured to have achieved the Silver Plus Alive Certificate by securing the top position in the examination. From the very beginning, I was eager to enhance my skills and jump. Currently, I study at Parthawilthapil Institute of Management, Phulhaful, which is the local chapter of NPTEL, where I got to know about NPTEL learning program and I found it as an opportunity that I couldn't miss out. The course was designed and taught by esteemed faculty members from the prestigious IITs and their expertise in the subject matter is truly exceptional. Throughout the course, I delve into the concepts of Java to video lectures. They explain various concepts in the way that is understandable for learners like me. One of the highlights of the course was the weekly assignments that challenge me to apply all the knowledge that I have at work. This assignment not only tested my understanding but also sharpened my problems or my skills. Also, there was a forum where I could clear all of my doubts whenever needed. The journey was not without a fair share of challenges, but I was determined to overcome them. Lastly, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the NPTEL team, the faculty members, and everyone involved in making this program successful. Thank you. This was from our side as far as the impact of NPTEL is concerned. We are creating again the motivating environment for the students as well as faculty members for the encouraging to adopt the MOOC courses as far as the guidelines of NAP is concerned. Moving ahead, we will accept certain questions and we will say to you, sir, participants who are connected through YouTube, they can share their questions if you are having and you are requested to, the faculty members, you are requested to fill the feedback form so that you will receive the participation certificate. The feedback form is said in the live chat section. So, one of the participants, Suvarna Patil has asked, please guide us regarding the FEW-AVER scheme at NPTEL. Sir. Yes, I think you can stop presentation, sir. Yes. For the FEW-AVER, the condition is that the faculty from the college or the administration of the college has to take an ambitious decision, check whether the student really needs FEW-AVER or not, check the documents and recommend the name of the students to NPTEL for consideration. So, the first documents have to be verified by the faculty. Then, later from the NPTEL, sorry, Loga Chakra College has to be forwarded within the timeline. There is a timeline given every semester, you have to apply for that. Initially, we will just go through your recommendation and if you have the fund, currently we do not have any issue with the fund, based on the fund available to you, you will be approved. Student will write the exam by paying the fee. Once they successfully complete the exam, then in the cases where we have approved the FEW-AVER, we will be refunding 50% of the FEW-AVER amount to the student account or if the college has collected the fee and provided in bulk to the NPTEL, in that case, college will be refunded that amount. So, NPTEL will refund the amount to the college. Okay, sir. One more faculty members, I hope. Dr. Pallavi Jamsandekar has asked, does NPTEL stars get scholarship or not? NPTEL stars? No, there is no financial scholarship as such. But we are exploring how we can actually provide some sort of internship or other opportunity for the star learners. But as such, there is no scholarship, financial scholarship to the NPTEL stars. There is no financial benefit as such. Okay, sir. One more question has been asked by one of the participants B. Satya Narayana. Can you clarify the credit transfer policy? See, some participants have the same queries. They have even personally messaged to me that what happens if we consider the enrollment of the student is 100 and let it be 70 students are writing for the examination and out of that 50 students get passed and the credit is transferred into their account. But let it be 20 or 25 students, they have not scored, they did not get passed in the examination but they have scored well in the assignments. Does any policy may be from the NPTEL side or from any other colleges that the colleges can implement for the easier implementation of credit transfer? Let me tell you why this policy of 40% individuals for an assignment and final exam was implemented at all. Because initially this policy was not there. Later on we checked and found that there are any students who are getting 100 out of 100 in the assignment state. But once the similar exams which are asked in the assignment state, if similar exams are asked in the final exam, they can solve that. So that indicates that possibly the students have not done the assignment problems fully themselves. They might have taken the support of other students. If any of the faculty members who have done the NPTEL courses just take a feedback from them. A part of the final exam is aligned with the assignment type of question. So if the student has got at least 40-50% marks in the assignment state, there is no reason why the same student should be failing. Provided the mentor has not solved the problem for them. But maybe the role of mentor is to if they do not understand certain concepts, let them understand but let them solve the problem themselves, break their head and solve with them. Now next comes even after that if they fail in the final certification, what happens? There are a few universities since we do not conduct any supplementary exam. There are a few universities, I don't remember at the point of time. They have a policy like they will conduct the exam parallelly within their institute itself. If it is an autonomous institution, it becomes easy. But for certain universities I think that is based in Maharashtra only, I was talking other day. They said that if they fail in the NPTEL exam, then they can take the internal exam and clear, get the certificate. That is also possible. Other cases, there are a few universities, they have taken the path also. In case say the students are unsuccessful, now if any of the faculty members is part of the course as mentor, then he or she has got access to all assignment questions. Possibly they will be able to create a question paper based on that since they know that subject. And they can conduct an exam at the local level and maybe that marks can be taken for the credit. Okay sir. Now I hope questions are not pending. Alaskar sir, if you, Dr. Alaskar sir. Sir you are muted. So moving ahead, there are no any questions and answers. You have basically covered all aspects of NPTEL today. So moving ahead to propose vote of thanks, I request Dr. Deepali Gala madam to propose vote of thanks. Please go. Thank you so much sir. Good morning all. Today I feel incredibly honored and privileged to have been allowed to extend this vote of thanks. On behalf of our college, Bharti Vidyapit deemed to be University Institute of Management Kulhapur. I sincerely thank today's guest opponent and speaker, Professor Siv Shankar Dasar for providing us with the extensive knowledge towards the NPTEL course. I also extend my sincere thanks to all the members of the team, IIT Bombay and Madras for their active participation in conducting this workshop. I take this opportunity to thank Dr. Shivaji Rao Kadam sir, Chancellor, Dr. Vivek Shaoji sir, Vice Chairman, Dr. Vishwajit Kadam sir, the Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. Sachin Varnaykar sir, the Dean, BVD Upune. Dr. Kirti Gupta ma'am, IQ SC cell. Dr. Rajesh Kanthay, Director, Institute of Management Kulhapur to provide all the needed guidance to make this program a roadmap for the students and teachers towards the ocean of knowledge providing courses. I also thank Dr. Kamal Alaska sir, the session guest and Professor Nripesh Kumar Nrip, the Spoke Local Chapter, Bharti Vidyapit Institute of Management Kulhapur for organising this event. I thank all the listeners for their patience listening. With the permission of chair, I declare that the NPTEL awareness e-workshop is over. Thank you so much. Yes sir, thank you Dr. sir, thank you Nirpesh sir, thank you all for joining the session. Professor Vandavi, this feedback link will be live for how many times? Till 4pm sir. 4pm sir. Thank you. Okay sir, thank you. Yes sir, we can wind up the session. Thank you. Yes, student team please stop the live stream. Thank you.