My name is Harshavardhan Dhodmani, I am in Spoke representing SJC instead of Chekbalapur. So, in our college we come under Vishweshwari Technological University. So, it's really transferably done through the university. Actually, we are continuously four years, we are active and nearly four hundred students every semester they enroll for the NPTEL courses. It's a great learning from many NPTEL. A good effort from NPTEL for the students and for the faculty members. Thank you one and all for this effort. Myself, Thangadurai, SPOC of KS Rangasamy College of Technology, Thiruchanguru Tamil Nadu. In our colleges we can start the local chapter from 2014 onwards. From that a lot of students are got benefitted and then they have got an intensive through these NPTEL courses. And then some of the people are got a domain certification in our institution. They are also utilized this domain certification to enrich their knowledge in the field. Where in this field they can got the domain certificate. And then I thank the NPTEL team, Prof. Andrew Thangrasar and then Bharati madam. And then recently in October, Gambalamam visit our institution and give a lot of initiation given by the NPTEL for BSE degree courses. And then what are the new initiatives NPTEL can taken for the betterment of the students. And then a faculty, it shall give a good session for them. Lot of people from all over Tamil Nadu in the field of library and information sense they have come for the conference. In that the tutorial madam has the source version and share lot of things. Thanks to NPTEL. Here I am coming, this is my 7th time. I am attending SPOC meeting. From starting onwards the local chapter is below 100. Now it is reached above 5000. It is a lot of a growth of NPTEL. And then now there is at first only 110 courses starting. Now 665 courses are offered by NPTEL. Lot of 12 week courses. The 12 week courses can help the students to use for career transfer. In the regular academic they can use 3 career course. And then now the 12 week course also offering the 3 credit. It is highly helpful to the students. Students are responding but the time to time the syllabus are revised. In the previous foreign example I am told internet of things. The people have scored above 92 or 3 people. Now the people are the syllabus also revised. The advanced technology also introduced in that. So students are taking more effort to score gold category. That is a growth of NPTEL. This part nowadays the students in the village areas they can do NPTEL course. Means they will struggling, they can panic. How we can do an IIT course. But we are giving more motivations and orientations regularly to the students. And then from the basic course for an example effective writing too. They can start their career in the effective writing to do NPTEL courses. Then they can move on to the top level courses. High domain courses. Students can find NPTEL through the NPTEL portals and NPTEL social medias. And then students are nowadays they can have aware about the what are the course content. For an example 4 week courses, 8 week courses and 12 week courses means. Students can go through the syllabus. There is easy to them or they can learn areas they can do it. That is the faculty mentor plays the vital role in that. Faculty mentor can allotted for 30 students in our college. They can help them to put assignments in time. And then if there is any difficult problem in the problematic subject. They can give solution for them. They can help if the faculty knows the shortcut to solve the problems. They can help them. Thank you very much. Thank you to the NPTEL. Thank you sir. Good morning everyone. I am Sreejesh from Nailit Calicut. National Institute of Electronics and IIT Calicut. So I have been with NPTEL from the very beginning. I have been SPOC from the very beginning. So it is a wonderful program by Government of India. So all the students across the globe is being benefited by this great initiative. Because we are getting the lectures from pioneer like pioneer process of IITs, IAMs and other prestigious institution free of cost. And if you wish to get a certificate. You can pay some small minimum amount and get certified. That is a wonderful idea. So talking about NPTEL and from our institute point of view. We have a partnership with NPTEL for having a lab workshop. We have started lab workshop series with NPTEL. Pioneered with ARM like partnership with ARM. We have already conducted some around 8 to 10 workshops out of it. Many batches are running. We are having very good response. Now also we are running two programs. ARM based SOC design and FPG architecture and programming using Verilog. Lot of responses from all over the globe actually. Because we have students outside from outside. In Nailit Calicut we have set up a hardware remote lab.  You can download your programs. Sitting at your home and see the kids and the outputs through the camera. So that is initiative again by government of India. It is called smart lab. Smart remote hardware lab. So that will become a next milestone in the country's technical education. So since I have been a first POC from the starting of NPTEL. Now people are understanding the value of this kind of initiatives by government NPTEL. Because students are, see if I want to get a lecture. See I am basically from a VLSI background. I never have opportunity with BC schedule in my work going to Karakpur and getting Karakpur process lecture. But I can sit at my workplace and do it at my convenience. That is something great. So the idea and the concept is very good so that people are after it. As a single point of contact for an institute, we get all the first hand information from NPTEL. So that we will share with our groups, with our college notice boards and other things. So that people come to know that many people don't know what is this NPTEL and what kind of courses they offer. So in that way, SPOC is very, very important to colleges in remote locations because they don't have access to maybe social media and all. So I get always get a printed list of courses. So I put all those things on our notice board and people get, say, I get normally get calls many, many times and we put the brochures as status. So people, our students always see that and take the benefit of such a great initiative. As a student, as a faculty, what I feel is that the courses, all the courses which you want to take is free of cost, free, absolutely free. But if I want to get certified, I should pay. That means if I want to take a lecture specifically of one topic, I don't hear everything from YouTube and search it and find it and do it. So I can go and search and find out the specific topic of a course and I can listen that and I can leave it. Even I don't complete the entire course but I can learn whatever portion is required for me. That portion is very unique actually. Now also I utilize, before taking some lectures for my students, I refer lectures of IIT process which I follow and I see some points which are to make my class interesting and people also get benefit out of it. Thank you very much. Hello, good morning. Myself, Dr. John Victor. Vice principal, ICIC coordinator and spoke person, NPTEL. My institution name is Dr. R. K. Shambhalam College of Arts and Science, Kallakarichi District, Tamil Nadu. I feel very proud to participate in this workshop today, organized by NPTEL. The session or the courses available by the NPTEL is so very good because out of the actual academic syllabus, the students are able to learn more things. That is one favor I would like to point. As I am from the rural side, the institution based on rural, we face some difficulties from the below average students. The difficulty is the class session is like a one-way communication. That means the students listening to video classes and learning new things and appearing for the examination. It is working for above average or average students, but the below average students find difficult. They feel it, it is not just like interactive sessions. If it is an interactive like classes, at least if it is a four week class, at least one week class could be an interactive. It could be better for those below average students also, because they easily pick up in such a case. This is the personal opinion as well as the opinion from the below average categorized students. So in future, may not be now immediately. In future, if you do this, it could be better for everywhere. Actually, students still not much aware of those feedback. That means they come and finish their examination and after that they stop their proceedings. That means still it has to be motivated either through the institution or directly by the NPTEL to involve in this process. So that is the personal opinion. One thing the students feel just a part of students regarding the examination. If once they failed, suppose they failed, they feel it. They have to wait for another one six months. That means another semester. Usually our university, we belong to Annamalai University, Chidambaram. The university norms in the beginning they insisted for the compulsion, but because of finding these kind of students difficulties, the university has given an opportunity for the students, not as a mandatory. That means the students may pay for the examination if they will, if they have the willingness. Otherwise it is based on the obligation. So that is... Myself Sayyed Akbar from K. Ramakrishna College of Technology, Samay Brahm Turchi. I'm a spoke for the NPTEL for our institute since 2016 onwards. It's a great pleasure to me having a hand hold with the NPTEL team, all the things. They have supported us for organizing the workshops, additional support to the e-workshop also. Based on the NPTEL activities, students can be able to get easily placed in the companies. Many of the companies and students also get placed by means of having the additional certification from gate, online certification from gate. Even some of the toppers also additionally recognized by our institute. By that also they can be able to perform well during the interview, all the things. NPTEL also providing translation for the students based on the local languages like Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telangu etc. In our institute also two faculty has got translation order. They have prepared some of the courses for translator. And they got additional beneficially from NPTEL too. In addition to that they are providing, from NPTEL also providing some technical skills to the students. Additional placement trainings and additional support through placements also they are providing. Based on the performance of the toppers, they are offering an intern from the various IITs etc. In NPTEL also providing the free waiver for the students. Around 20% of the students will be offered with the free waiver. They are given the 50% of the regular fees payment. Based on the performance and based on the family background, we are choosing the students and providing the additional scholarship provided by the NPTEL. Good morning to one and all. My name is TV Vamse Krishna, Associate Professor, Vignan Slara Institute of Technology and Sciences, Vadlam Modi. Our LCID is 3533. So first of all today, I am at ICMR to give the feedback about the NPTEL. In our college, we are starting the local chapter nearly six years back. So the students who are done the courses through NPTEL, they are having very good opportunities in their careers. I think last year, two students are got selected in a major. So those two students are completed the course in the NPTEL, two courses, the two closest place a vital role in the Amazon interview. And similarly, in present 2023 batch also, one student got selected through Amazon. So she also did three courses in NPTEL. So like this, the students place a vital role who are completed NPTEL courses, mainly organized by IIT Madras. So on behalf of this, I am very happy to share, IIT Madras taken a very good initiative to upskill the education point of view of the students. And moreover, the majority of the IT companies also, they are preferring that. So NPTEL courses are completed means that they have very good knowledge in the particular field. And my personal feeling also, I completed three courses in NPTEL with my interest. So when I got a certificate from the NPTEL, I am surprised to see, means, when I am writing an exam for an NPTEL, some kind of great feeling is there. Actually, I am completed my BTEC in 2005. At the time, I got silver medal. So in the gate, so the same kind of feeling I received when I am finished the NPTEL course. And currently also, I am doing deep learning course through NPTEL. So to get a good career opportunity in the research field and all. So this is a very good initiative for uplifting the knowledge of both faculty and students. This is my personal feedback. Thank you. Thank you, Vanan Dal, for giving this opportunity to me. Myself, Dr. Shalini, a student professor from Salem, Saudi Shuri College, Salem, Tamil Nadu. And I am very proud to be a part of this NPTEL. I thank my principal and the coordinators for giving me an opportunity to take part in this workshop. I have been in this NPTEL, the SPOC of my college. I have been in this for more than five years and I have done six courses along with my scholars. The next step which I am going to do is I have to make my college students to enroll. A few of the students have been enrolled and they are also registered for the exam. And my target is to make entire college students to enroll in this and get benefited. And also I have started an initiation for the faculties to develop more courses in my college. This is what my target is to be an SPOC. And then this is very beneficial for us since we are given lectures by the professors from IIT. So we have discussion forums in according to research also. And the part of research also, we clarify our doubts and my scholars have been benefited through this. And we have made an announcement in the college for the GATE exams. So students who are willing to prepare for the exams also have been benefited. And now the members here have been said about the NPTEL PLES. This is the first time I am getting to know about NPTEL PLES. Further we will go through it and we will also look for further prosperity through NPTEL courses. I am Professor Parnivel from the Senior Science Institute of Technology and Management Studies associated with the computer science department. We have associated with the NPTEL local chapter from 2018. And also I have completed 18 courses in computer science. And also I got data science, domain certification and other NPTEL star certification. It is most useful for the persons who are in teaching learning because the new technologies or emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data science, reinforcement learning and knowledge representation, mission learning, deep learning such kind of courses we can learn through NPTEL and it is most useful to deliver the lecture to the students. And I also ask our students to do NPTEL courses to improve their knowledge. And I suggested to our college our colleges are an autonomous college so I suggested to make under MOOC course NPTEL course as a compulsory course for both UG and PG program and both the studies people have accepted already implemented our students are doing every semester NPTEL thanks to NPTEL team. See we conducted local chapter workshops in our institute and apart from that Spock is directly interacting with the students and he is explaining about the importance of NPTEL courses and the importance of the course for their career development and everyday software industries are asking certification courses any one certification courses probably that from NPTEL then they give more importance so we ask our students to do NPTEL courses compulsory so regarding this translation earlier it was only in English language now we can get it in any regional language places like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh in Tamil Nadu, Tamil medium most of the students are completing their plus two in Tamil medium same way in Andhra Pradesh they complete their intermediate in Telugu medium then they are joining engineering courses and technological courses in English medium for them suddenly understanding English medium is a difficult so if it is available in their regional language then it will be more useful that is the thing they asked the same thing we suggested to the NPTEL team now it is available in regional language also so it is most useful for the students who are coming from rural background like village background students it is most useful so the NPTEL is started about GATE those who are completing their undergraduate program applying for post graduate they have to write an entrance examination called GATE that will be conducted in their level and most of the students are struggling because they are coming from rural background they are not getting a good platform for preparing exams like GATE so the NPTEL team have started a separate portal for GATE examination but also I instructed to our college students utilize them for utilizing that and they are appearing for GATE exam also they succeed in GATE exam because of NPTEL some of the students have informed me good morning I am a maxillofacial surgeon and Dr. NTR Health University NSS program coordinator and SPOC for Dr. NTR Health University and it is really good through our students are going to learn even though it is a medical health university we have very less courses in medical sciences so we do have a research methodology by NPTEL and our students are actively participating in research methodology and there are other courses like anatomy physiology, they are very old courses and I think it has to have a little bit of appreciation otherwise it is very nice, thank you so myself, Surya Teja lecturer in Tripoli government polytechnic is Guntur Andhra Pradesh recently we have established the NPTEL local chapter for the benefit of staff and student for getting the CAS for career advancement schemes and for enhancing the knowledge not at all recently just one month completed just one month completed I am aware of NPTEL programs because I am learning from my bachelor's degree onwards so I know I am aware of these NPTEL courses so I am learning I am Dr. N. Vijay Kumar I am from government arts college autonomous ALM7 I am the spoke of that college we have recognized as a local chapter since 2021 since our college is a government college we would like to offer NPTEL courses for our students so far our students have in a mass manner for the last academic year we have introduced NPTEL courses for credits so for all PG students should enroll NPTEL courses and they have to complete with certification so it's very nice and all the courses are in a world level quality our students are also getting lots of knowledge by enrolling themselves I hope in future our college is also creating lot of modules for NPTEL IIT Chennai thank you for the opportunity so good morning to one and all this is Dr. Mohammad Irfan I am from Sana Engineering college Kodar, Telangana so NPTEL programs have been really a great privilege to the students to enhance their knowledge skills language skills technical skills and soft skills also so really it's a very benefited for the student to be updated according to their requirement so I hope so that this online platform has been creating a wonderful help to the student to have a great future to them so with this the students are enjoying and they are benefiting a lot by enrolling their courses along with their academics and really these type of online programs will enhance their student to update according to themselves so really it's a great honor to be the part of this program and to present myself thank you, thank you very much and move away working as PG Head M.E. Computer Science and Engineering in Seidu Institute of Technology actually we have a very good strategy in our college to promote NPTEL activities so we have department-wise coordinators so I am the SPOC and regular meetings we are conducting and we have a whatsapp group in our college among the in turn the NPTEL department coordinators in turn they reach the class advisors of every department so the class advisors in turn they motivate the students so they are participating in a very interesting, they participate with a very good involvement and interest so far we have 700 registration in NPTEL, so thank you hello all I am Dr. Aish Jai Chitra I am the SPOC of KSA Institute for Engineering and Technology about the NPTEL experience does being very good only that is a point which includes all the NPTEL courses are offered to both the faculties and students all the courses are being free it is very positive point and about only one point is nobody is very insisting the students to enroll the courses that should be better they are coming on their own interest and doing it in our college what we do is whatever the subject we take will make a group of students to enroll the courses and we will work with them so we all will sit together to solve the assignments and for the time we will complete that and both of us will write the exam and some of the exams some of the students will end up with the certificate also it is really positive point it is really a good point to say about the NPTEL thank you hello everybody this is Radha Mani representing Raj Lakshmi Engineering College last year we were ranked the 50 second rank and now we have been ranked the 40 second so we are very proud that many of our learners have taken this as an initiative and gained knowledge in the NPTEL courses that has been offered by IIT professors and we have our own credit transfer system that has been implemented and it is very good that most of the courses that has been enlisted in this NPTEL have been a great effort for our students to take up the placement activities also and enhancing the knowledge in their regular curriculum and syllabus so I thank the NPTEL for providing such a wonderful platform and having a nominal fee of allowing the students to take up lot more courses in particular semester that because they are not restricting any courses for enrollment so even if a student is interested in learning more number of courses in one particular semester he would take up to 20 to 25 courses also he can take up for learning it is up to the students interest that he would be taking up the examination but it is a good part on the NPTEL that allowing the students to take up so much of courses enrolling themselves and allowing them to take up the materials and the YouTube videos lectures contents without any amount to be paid for all those things and also our own college students have taken the soft skill training also that was provided last semester and many of the students got benefited by the live placement skill evaluation that was given by the placement training that was conducted online for our students and it was a live interaction with the person who has conducted that placement soft skill training so our students have got benefited out of it and they have shined in the placement activities also so thanks NPTEL for all the benefits that they have given us yes we have given that awareness to our students also see we conduct a regular discussion forum and we give the awareness about this NPTEL courses in a regular semester basis so last whole week we had an interaction session that we conducted in our college for first year and second year students because they won't be knowing third years and final years are already enrolled themselves into many of the courses related to NPTEL but first year and second year students have just now entered the college so we have given all the platforms regarding the gate portal gate dot nptel.ac.in that portal also we have given and we have shared that and many of our students have started using that portal also so it is also a great benefit to us thank you Hello all myself P.V. and Sai Chandu I am from Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management acting as an NPTEL Spock since 2021 and I would like to thank the AACT Swayam and NPTEL for giving the opportunity to share our thoughts and share our insights experiences and give us our feedback and also we are very pleased with the contents offered by the NPTEL program and even our non-teaching staff my college is encouraging them to have soft skills training and have management courses so in that way my college is encouraging all the workers and staff and one thing I want to appreciate the NPTEL is the content as well as the amount of time each and every professor is spending so we are very glad to be a part of this prestigious MOOC program and today we are here to gather for the NPTEL facilitated Spock facilitated program so I would like to thank all the stakeholders for this success and this NPTEL program has been initiated since 2018 in our college and there are many number of NPTEL stars among our staff faculty and students so I hope the same continues honestly as per my observation most of the aspirants are for US and Australia so past 2 years when the NPTEL has announced the gate inclination program most of them felt as attracted and the focus on the GRE exam has been somewhat reduced and honestly more awareness has to be created among the peers so recently we have created a group so that to share whatever information we felt to be worthy of sharing and even students have come forward with their insights so in that way mutually we are trying to interact but I feel that in the upcoming 6 months it is very critical at least for the 2024 gate examination thank you very much my name is Sai Chandu Hyderabad instead of technology management thank you very much I am Dr. Ambala Krishnan from Kalyanthi Government Arts College so ours is a rural institution it is affiliated college to Telugu University so the main problem based upon our students is mainly the examination fees for the university examination per paper only 9 rupees have been charged for the UG degree courses for PG degree only 180 rupees have been the examination fees but for appearing in an NPTEL examination for each unable paper the students have to pay 1000 rupees so it is very much bad for the students so if the examination fees is reduced at the level of rupees 200 to 300 rupees it will be much much more efficient for the students and one more thing is most of the students are studying in Tamil medium schools so the translated version of the NPTEL courses in Tamil is also much needed for the rural students that will popularize the courses in the NPTEL to the rural folk only when it is available in the rural language particularly in Tamil language thank you for your participation thank you very much very good morning I am Dr. Divyan Sukanya associate professor, AC department from Sainton College of Engineering and Technology we have this local chapter right from 2016 and we are initiating the students to participate various courses in the NPTEL this year we got R2 local SPCO certificate we are happy to be a part of this event and we are mainly utilizing this NPTEL courses for the students to get trained in specially C language programming which is helpful for placements for the non CSE branches we usually select 3 to 4 courses from CSE branch that are helpful for placements for our students for that we have increased our placement skills for the students language skills also and not only for that we are training the faculty to be trained in the multidisciplinary programs like OBE, NBA for that they can improve this object oriented educational skills that are helpful for NBA accreditation for the college that is how we are implementing in the college in the future we are going to plan in a better manner and most students will be registered for this NPTEL course thank you for giving me this opportunity for projecting my views in this workshop actually we are making use of these courses we are coming from a we are coming from a rural area actually so we are trying to impart most of the knowledge to the students so we will come across after completion of this workshop we will gain some knowledge and we will vitilize all those opportunities and we will improve the skills to the students for the next coming events thank you, thank you for your support hi myself Ronith Thomas-Miriken I belong to the mechanical department of Muthur Institute of Technology and Science I am the SPOC of Muthur Institute and regarding NPTEL NPTEL is offering a wide variety of courses for students to enrich themselves in the new knowledge pool so almost all areas different areas is being embedded in the courses and from our side I have been part of NPTEL from 2017 onwards hardly 6 or 7 years I was SPOC and looking back like almost many students have got the benefits from NPTEL because actually ours is accredited to KT University so we have our limitation but students who are going abroad for higher studies and all they are telling that due to the NPTEL courses they can write good SOPs and they are getting good admissions in the universities abroad and regarding the initiatives taken by NPTEL like placement training placement initiatives for women from the weaker sections and also from the local areas also the training soft skill training provided by the NPTEL also for the topers NPTEL is giving special training for the job assistants and many courses have been like vetted by industries so I believe that NPTEL is definitely providing a very good assistant to the students students as well as to the faculty as well as to the whole community of India and I wish all the very success to NPTEL and in the coming years let NPTEL bloom up and in the whole across the world let NPTEL have all local chapters across the world all the ways thank you Good morning, me Narsam Hum from Raghu Engineering College Vishakhapatnam Regarding NPTEL courses as a faculty what I understood that we can get some knowledge we can we can do certification courses apart from our curriculum subjects so that lecture will get some knowledge to teach the students at the same time students will get more information by doing what you called assignments they can face any type of campus interviews to write the written examination and at the same time our college management encouraging the staff to do the courses by giving reimbursement of the fee to the staff and they are also encouraging the students by allocating some mentors and ask and we are also providing labs special lab sessions to participate and to do the assignments with the help of the mentors so I think this is useful for students to crack any type of interviews campus interviews because the assignments and the video lecturers are good enough to get more knowledge according to my what you called observation Myself Dr. R Mohan Das spoke of the biology institute of technology and science we have MOU with the NPTEL team last 6 years we have local chapter and we are initiating our faculty we are motivating our faculty and students they are going to write the NPTEL registration and maximum faculty members are writing the exam and successfully they completed 4 or 5 courses also for semester each semester so many faculty as well as students also to all the faculty and nearby colleges also are you aware of all those yes madam usually I spoke to coordinator also in our college also we are planning to conduct this type of whatsapp and usually whatever in nearby college anybody is conducting also we are attending all the same thing we are using the youtube also previous whatsapp youtube also we are showing to our students also it's very useful one thank you first giving this opportunity very good morning so my name is K. Ashok I am SPOC of Trinity degree and PG college so we have MOU with NPTEL since last 3 to 4 years and couple of our student got the certificates in ethical hacking as well as python for data and these are the very beautiful courses that have been done by our students couple of our students also got the placement because of only this NPTEL certification so I say strongly say that the NPTEL certification plays a key role in the in the values you can say recruitment process ok so I strongly suggest thank you very much for this giving this opportunity yes we have taken lot of initiative for giving the creating awareness in our college like through the whatsapp and we are also using the youtube and we are also I am also personally visiting the particular classes and I am creating awareness apart from that I have elected 2 members from each class as a NPTEL representative from the student group so they are organizing themselves and meanwhile I want to add here that we are not only concentrated on our college we are also visiting to our nearby colleges and we are giving awareness recently we have started a new program called Nari Shakti so which is a good initiative we are collaborating with the local leaders and we are identifying the village educated women those who are unemployed and we are reaching this program to the particular unemployed women people those who are already get married so that they can upgrade themselves they can upscale and they come back to that they are using even recently we have completed soft skill training program from IIT so we used all of the resources which IIT NPTEL is providing so this is a very wonderful platform for us for our students especially we are from tied 3 rural background students so they are very beneficial from this thank you myself Dr.Gajalakshmi Professor and HOD of EC department of Kailan College of Engineering Madurai Spock of NPTEL I have been associated with NPTEL for the past 7 years one time we have got our colleges has been nominated as top 100 local chapter but this time I think we have slipped a bit more we have got a little bit less score hope we will get within top 100 in next semester yeah of course actually after getting autonomous we are offering a credit transfer for our students so our students are getting benefited by skipping one elective course during their final year so they are ready for placement preparation also NPTEL is offering soft skill training and placement of us and internship and some students are benefited with Texas Instruments internship also so we are really happy to be associated with the NPTEL being a Spock and in our college we have quality circle and quality education for faculty members as well as for students and every semester beginning of semester all the department of the QCQE members will present the awareness program for their students and we are giving one or two periods for NPTEL for completing their assignments and apart from the mentors assigned by NPTEL we are assigning our own mentors for 10 to 20 students maximum not more than 20 students and they are guiding for completeness of their certifications it is better than previous one thank you I am Sunil from New Horizon College of Engineering local chapter ID 691 so we are using NPTEL initiative incorporation in curriculum since from like 4 to 5 years consistently top 100 ranker so NPTEL is a lot of benefits with the training and placement activities even NPTEL is providing a lot of industry ready courses like artificial intelligence, Python, data science so these are helping the students in getting the placements and also industry ready so these are the activities and it is also helping the students to identify the research gaps so even they are involving in the more projects even the embedded courses are there even students are getting more innovative ideas to think on the projects and case study projects when all the models of the NPTEL having the case study at the last model is helping the students for doing some activity points and more focus is that NPTEL is helping a lot in the placements training and placement part of the curriculum and the industry ready Good morning everybody I am Dr. Nadekumar from Hindi Mahajalaya Hyderabad I am associate professor in history heritage cultural tourism studies so I am the spoke of my college we have actually 1000 students are there this year already 300 people students are enrolled now we are developing next session next academic year more number of the students for NPTEL courses and our faculty also joined in this program I am Dr. Keiji Srinivasan department of Tripoli Mahendra engineering college for women I am associate with NPTEL as a local chapter since 2017 so from then NPTEL helps our students in a very much broader way so our students they take the courses starting from the 2017 itself and after that when they were introduced all the free waiver schemes it was helpful for because we are from a rural background college and we are women's college so it helps us in extreme way in such that our poor students from village background they can get the courses done easily so NPTEL we thank the team whole team we are creating awareness like that we have made the posters displayed on the notice boards we have taken a special session for the newcomer students when they are entering in the first year we are making them aware of that the whole NPTEL system we are making that we are making our students aware of the domain certificates so each one they will do a course so at the end they will get a domain certificate so it was very useful they were attending the test one they are not attending any workshop still now but yes we are posting the students the exam times for non-autonomous colleges so they are doing on that thank you I am Dr. Gaurishankar SPOC Muthayamal College of Arts and Science Rasivuram in the district of Namakal near to Salem we have introduced this particular NPTEL local chapter this time only presently there are around 250 students from PG they registered for the they enrolled for the NPTEL courses we are planning to give this particular NPTEL courses for all the students who are studying in the campus around 4800 we already got the autonomy status we plan to offer the credit transfer system for the particular NPTEL courses who are going to complete it actually this NPTEL course I was working in some other college earlier where the NPTEL course was much important for the students now I joined here as the controller of examination hence I given the importance of this particular course then the students are getting knowledge about that through my conversation with the students only we used to conduct the department wise orientation for the students regarding the NPTEL courses how it will be benefited how this can be transferred into your mark statement for their placement and intensive and other things whatever the mails comes from the NPTEL I am conveying them to the students hence they are learning about that at present there are around 250 students enrolled in the PG stream we are planning to complete around 4000 students in the forthcoming semesters just now we have started the NPTEL whatever the things comes out I will send it through mail from Manjunath P from Vishweshwari Technology University Karnataka we are in association with the NPTEL from 2014 from the initial stage actually and as a university we are offering BE honors and minor degree program and we also introduce the online program especially from NPTEL MOOC for MTech also from next coming semester actually and especially for the BE honors once the course has been launched by the NPTEL every successive semesters the respective boards of studies committee will recommend the list of NPTEL courses to be taken by the respective disciplines respective streams actually and once it is in a circular correspondent to all of our affiliated colleges in Karnataka, engineering colleges across Karnataka the local SPOC's of that particular college will go to take care of the to map the courses as in open elective as well as the professional elective courses and based on the 18 we have our own credit structures actually they like how the through credit transfer if the candidates and nearly 18 credits will be eligible for BE honors in addition to regular BE degree actually that is one of the major initiative what we have taken from the university level for NPTEL MOOCs in addition to that we have some minor programs on artificial intelligence, data science IOT, cyber security and in each minor degree program the candidate has to earn 18 credits 18 credits in addition to the regular academic program to a minor degree program all to make eligible for minor degree as well as the BE honors once the candidate enters for fifth sem that is from fifth sem is able to get enrolled for the minor degree as well as the BE honor program in addition to that we have introduced the MTech online program in each successive semesters one course is dedicated for NPTEL MOOC courses actually for every first sem and second sem actually in every respect to disciplines in addition to that in association NPTEL we recently conducted one soft skills program also actually and one more batch we are waiting for the date from the NPTEL for actually 80 place I think students have registered out of that the NPTEL limited 40 per batch actually one batch has completed successfully and we are waiting for the date for the next second batch in addition to that PVAVAR and other thing the SCST students as well as the and other income certificate based upon their income certificate other thing whatever the norms NPTEL says you are following that is one advantage for the students especially from for TITO and TITRI colleges actually but any till date beyond we have received very good feedback especially from the content side actually normally even I am also one of the institute representative for NPTEL actually normally I will be able to conduct since I am from the university perspective many of our faculties are well known to me actually since in addition to the student the teacher also will take the certificate exam will be conducting the interview both from the content side audio video quality side the teaching methodologists aspect there is very good feedback very good feedback regarding no doubt in the content and other thing is a total hasm and overall is totally an hasm experience learning community for the learning community thank you NPTEL regarding the workshop and gate gate portal no no I need some more information will take okay and other thing regarding the translation content is there actually we have introduced the mechanical especially through as an NEP 2020 we have introduced the mechanical display in our mother tongue is learning through kandada whereas the learning contents from is going to helpful for the library perspective the translation content what you are telling the face for actually and thank you I am Dr. P. Ramakumar I am coming a spark I am coming from Sivannana Tamil arts and science college Malam it is a very rural area it is very useful in rural rural area students our college conducted in workshop about in swyame NPTEL course we conducted in awareness program in our college it is a certificate course very useful in our students especially in commerce students and computer science students good morning all this is Vivek from Belamal Institute of Technology I am the SPOC for the past one year I have registered from my college we have enrolled around 900 enrollment this year and I have played around some 4 or 5 courses about NPTEL it is a wonderful learning from IITS and from the way they are explaining the very very good and even from the beginning it is for basic level to higher level it is very very easy for the students to understand because for the curriculum they start learning some new things from the NPTEL so from their point of view as a student they are able to enlarge their capacity of understanding as from my point of view from some other real time examples they are giving some examples but assignments and then that point of view so some other real time examples and some other animations it can make some learning better thank you so much from Vignan Foundation Science and Technology Vignan Dimadi University Guntur Vadlamadi Andhra Pradesh so we are the active technical chapter since 2018 the last 3 semesters we are in the below 100 it is in the AA grade our enrolments and examinations it will be the crossing that it is a 2500 on each time line basically these courses we started first it is in the 2018 for that it is for the PhD purpose later these courses we are implemented for the HANA students then we revised our curriculum in our 2019 curriculum we are giving to the 9 credits for the students then apart from that it is our Chayarman Dr. Laurataya is a visionary he announced that it is the many awards to the students for the completion of the NPTEL courses that was the moment for one moment was the encouragement from the Chayarman another is the the credit transfers what we take in place so our enrolment is the touching every run it is the above 7000 apart from that it is we are doing to the more on that it is the discipline certification and it is the domain certification so now this time onwards we are giving the credits for the the PhD courses also PhD courses also we also this time awarded that it is in the special category certification for the maximum number of scholars in the domain so we are encouraging for that it is a domain certification also then it is a we are having the special felicitons awards for that those who are securing to their toppers and the gold this it will continue for the student it is the fee wherever it is there so these are all so many things it is that we are maximum utilizing the NPTEL courses in our curriculum thank you Myself Vijay Prakash Senior Lecture in Mechanical Engineering Malayugari Telangana State we have registered for this NPTEL local chapter in the year of 2022 so we have registered almost 100 students in 2022 now for the 2023 we are registering and in 2022 we have conducted a soft skills training program in that almost 30 students got certificate certified and this NPTEL helped a lot being we are from the rural polytechnic college so like we got IIT standards to the rural polytechnic through this NPTEL so we are very much thankful to this team this helped both in technical as well as in personality that we have conducted on soft skills training in that the students got benefited how to prepare resume how to face the interview in that aspect they are benefited so apart from the technical aspect they are aware but ours is a diploma college that is polytechnic college so after completing diploma they will enter into the B.Tech college also so as of now we want to make them aware of this NPTEL once they enter into the B.Tech college they can full fledge they make use of this NPTEL as of now most of the courses are matching to our syllabus also so fundamental basic things they are learning thank you I am Dr. M. Mandrasalam Librarian and Dean of Coimbatore Institute of Technology and also the SPOC of that college in 2017 we have established the NPTEL local chapter in our institution and encourage our faculty to join in courses related to outcome based education and we selectively recommend some of the courses to our faculty to do the courses and also encourage students to select courses of their particular semester and also accept credit transfer based on merit basis if they score more marks above than 75 then we accept the credit transfer that is the criteria set in our academic council so as a SPOC of our institution I too joined many courses as of now I have completed 18 NPTEL courses so I think it is a good experience and also I think it is a good option for lifelong learning regarding the location of the centers that is the major issue many of the students are complaining about that the location of the exam centers in-person proctor exam centers since most of the centers in Coimbatore are far away from the city that is the one major complaint or suggestion students requesting us to think up yeah I have already encourage students to use the NPTEL gate portal yeah that is useful it is quite useful okay thank you very much I am Ms Anbu Krasi from engineering college Amarichandai I am a SPOC from 2016 onwards that is very useful for NPTEL courses and all but recent technology development lot of resources that is needed for students and faculties so it is very helpful to the students to develop our skills and extracurricular activities like that recent days everybody is asking for the MOOC courses online courses that is ACT also insisted to do that courses also that NPTEL very helpful to the students then there is a registration for free for all the students no the learning is for certificate purpose only they are paying amount so it is very helpful the students to learning that new plan come then IIT Madras specially they are doing very well the coordination and the follow-up very good and very helpful to students and staffs also see I am library our weekly one library we are having for students that period what I am learning from that workshop we will expose that for the students to learn and increase the students to register the courses and what are the uses in that courses like that I will explore to increase to register besides going slow only every major I received a water received from your side I will forward it to the students and staffs and increase to register now only one by one that open management one by one they are resending I will share that information to our students it is very nice the encouragement for the students and the very communication is very well whatever we are feel difficult immediately that one more number we are introducing any time we will call and they will answer that questions, worries, everything it is no problem our side it is a very nice program we are organizing and NPTEL courses also very right now we are initiating other languages also that also very helpful translating courses that also very helpful to our students thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you So we can motivate our students and also it is very useful for our curriculum also. So our students are interested to attend the examination. In future we have same program in our credit all that is university syllabus also. So we are motivated our students to write the exam in the next semester onwards. Learning is good. Learning is good. But only thing we face in the exam center facility only we are facing difficulties. Nothing to worry about. Thank you. I am Dr. Ramnathan. I am working as a professor in ECE and vice principal academics of Madhanapalli Institute of Technology and Science. I think one semester back I completed a domain on systems. Now I am learning data science. That is the course I have registered. Already 15 courses, around 15 courses I have completed from SOIM NPTEL. And I think from 2018. And our institute I think they are encouraging credit transfer from 2015. Students are taking courses. And this time even many students are taking two courses. Not even single course. They are taking two courses. And this time many of our first year students want to learn language through NPTEL. They have registered a course called English language for competitive exams. And generally we transfer credits only for technical courses. Actually I am basically a partially an administrator, vice principal academics. So I just go and interact with the students. I tell the importance of certification. And in our institute we encourage certification which is very important for replacements also. The quality of the courses, what I have so far taken is majority of the courses are belonging to competitions. And in my view the content of the course is very good. And the instructors are providing the appropriate material and guidance. And even the forum is active. Suppose you have any queries also you post means you will get back replies within a day or something. Actually if they register for the first course that is how I started to register every semester. First course may be a hindrance for everybody. But when somebody motivates and then you register, you see the quality of the content. And then you get motivated and you want to do continuous learning. That is how I have entered into that. Soft skills training I think last time I think from here they have organized. But many of our students because it is mostly through online, very difficult to make the students attend during that time. The time slot is not feasible. For example, 5 MPTL means the videos are there. I can watch the video at the comfortable timings. But this training I think soft skill training was held at a particular duration. I think around 100 students if I remember they have registered. But the participation was very less and even we got negative feedback only. Negative feedback means our students did not attend. From here I am telling. It is not about the course content. People are not regular to the classes. I think if it is better on weekends, it will be better. Soft skill training should be done on weekends. Saturday, Sunday. Thank you. Hi, I am Dr. K. R. Muhammad Sufyan. SPOC of C. Abdul Hakim College, Mehlusharam. It is situated in Ranipeh district. I am very fortunate enough to be a part of this fellow station program in this IIT Madras campus. And I request the faculty as well as the students to take use of this MPTL courses in their career development. Because this platform offers a wide range of courses which whereby at a single time or in a single platform you can't find these number of courses. So you can be easily benefited and now they have started the program for domain certification also whereby you can become expert in a particular field. So my sincere request to all the students as well as the faculty members to make use this opportunity for building your career. Thank you. Good morning. I am Dr. Bestli Jo working as assistant professor in the department of electronics and communication engineering at King's Engineering College, Chennai. King's Engineering College, Chennai is a local chapter of the NPTL. And for the past six to eight years we are associated with the NPTL and more number of students are actively participating. And just after the second lockdown, many NPTL learners are participating actively. They are doing the assignments. They are actively participated in the problem solving sessions. And the number has gone up and especially the NPTL course if you consider it's a very important MOOC course that is offering a variety of courses from technology science arts and science medicine. And recent technologies are also been updated and semester after semester we have got new courses that are up to date with the industries level of technology. And coming to the King's Engineering College NPTL, we offer remuneration schemes for our students and faculty members who have successfully completed and gained certificates. For the past three semesters right from January of 2022, we have introduced this scheme and we give rupees 500 for the meritorious students who have successfully completed. And rupees 1000 for those students and faculty members who have got elite and elite plus grades of NPTL certificates. And in this regard I would like to thank the management and principal for giving a good opportunity for the student and faculty community to learn at a larger extent. And I believe that in the days to come we would seek to improve the relationship with the NPTL by accelerating our efforts in the gate form of a tutorial that is being conducted through NPTL. The NPTL plus program, the soft skill training programs also we have planned to do in the days to come. And once again I would like to thank the organisms of the NPTL IIT Madras and Dr. Andrew Thangaraj sir and his wonderful team for giving this opportunity for this SPOC meet. And we were able to get a good idea and definitely in the days to come we will be sharing this with our fellow students and faculty members in our tower college. Thank you. Myself Kirti Krishnan, SPOC from Marine Engineering College Trivandrum. Our college is a local chapter of NPTL since 2016. And I am happy to say that our local chapter is an active local chapter. And during the initial days only few students were attending this NPTL courses. And one thing I noticed that very large number of students will enroll for the course and only few students, very less students will be registered for the course to get the certification. And later on our college is affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Kerala Technical University. And the university, since the university didn't offer credit transfer system, the university offers minor degrees and honor degrees for the students. And as part of this minor and honor degrees, students need to took two more courses in their Calculum as a compulsory to get these degrees. So as this new initiative the students will be taking the NPTL courses for getting their honor degrees as well as minor degrees. And the number of students become large for registering and getting certificate from NPTL courses. And the latest initiative related to soft skill training, our students also attended the soft skill training and get the mock interview as well and get the certification. And I am happy to be part of the NPTL local chapter from my institute and thanks for the opportunity. Our students also get to know from the initiatives of NPTL. I will create separate WhatsApp groups for departments and share all those forums or all those inputs I get from NPTL WhatsApp groups. I will share to those students and students are also contacting me to get about the new initiatives like gate forums, soft skill training etc. Myself Dr. Bishri Vidya working as associate professor in Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology Hyderabad Telangah. We come under the local chapter 1419 and we are happy to say every semester we have 2000 plus learners in the NPTL and we stand the 11th position is all over the nation. So thank you for NPTL for enriching so many people and so many students and faculty also do so many certifications. It has been useful in the pandemic stage also mostly for the core learners. They are getting certifications in the python internet of things Java etc. Where this is this is helpful for them for the getting them to placed. Thank you. Thank you NPTL. This is Vuma from Trichy Engineering College local chapter 2752. For the past three years I have registered as a local chapter in Trichy zone. More than 30 to 50 exams I have acted as an Aya in Trichy zone. I am very happy to be a part of NPTL team. Thank you. I am Dr. E.K. Kautar, spoke Sakthi Institute of Information Management Studies, Pallachi Coimbatore. The NPTL course is very useful to the placement and the training. We have introduced for that new syllabus. You can learn for that more than other courses. Okay. Thank you. I am Dr. Sendamik Sylve from Spock of Poli Cross College Trichy Nappalli. In our college we have started a local chapter in the year 2018. We have also the credit transfer system also we have followed in our students for extra credit transfer system. Many of our students are economically deprived. So they are, the fee by the scheme is very much useful for our students. We are continuously comes under the top ten category for the past four years. Thank you. Thank you NPTL.


With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks, like unlimited talk, text, and three gigs of data for just $44.99, or with five gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The presidential debate series between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump got ugly and uncivil, and many issues got buried beneath a mountain of political barbs. But today at Johns Creek Middle School, perhaps for the first time this year, issues in this year's election cycle were discussed in-depth, minus political jousting between candidates. The minimum wage as of now is in 29 out of the 50 states, not including the District of Columbia, is $7.25, which is too little to live an average life with the family. He thinks it's unfair because I'm able to get everything and lose everything. He said every promise the Obama administration made in the beginning of negotiations have been broken. Trump says that we would have to look very strongly at the records of the people on the no-fly list before we take the gun rights of those people. Her strategy would be to generate half of our electricity from clean sources. Give the companies back to our market forces that's something he doesn't want to get involved in. Two teams of eighth grade students, one representing Trump's views and the other Clintons, took turns answering questions in front of their fellow classmates. The answer is based upon each candidate's on-record opinions. Johns Creek Social Studies teacher Claire West said today's mock presidential debate gave students the opportunity to truly understand where each candidate stands on a variety of issues. They didn't know what side they would be on until I flipped a coin last night on Facebook Live, and that's when they found out what side they would be on. And just because they had to sit on that side does not mean that support that candidate. They just had to talk about the issues from that side. They worked on that probably a couple weeks and then we put this together and they spoke today. But they had to know both sides. Now I did have the ones that spoke, they did have the questions ahead of time, but that was so they could focus on what their answers would be. And now those who took part in the debate say they have a better understanding of each candidate seeking the Oval Office. I had to do a lot of research. I had to kind of see what both sides were like before I actually got a side. I used to just think what everybody else would say was the opinions I think, but now after I did research I understand that not everything's as it seems. With today's successful mock debate, more like it are likely to follow. Every four years probably. Reporting from Johns Creek for EKB News, I'm Chris Anderson.


The weird circle, in this cave, by the restless sea, We are met to call from out the past, stories strange and weird. Bellkeeper, hold the bell, so all may know we are gathered again, in the weird circle.  Silence in the court, next witness please. If your honor please, the next witness is Charles Castare, the defendant in this case. Will Mr. Castare please take the stand? Silence in the court. Place your left hand on the Bible. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? I do. Suppose, Mr. Castare, you tell this court your story in your own words. From the very beginning? Don't be afraid, from the very beginning. Well, I don't know where to start, to be honest. I feel like a man that's drowning. I guess it started the night my wife, Bertha, and her brother, Dick Linton, were helping me to pack my suitcase. Dick and I were preparing to go on a hunting trip in Canada, in the northwest section. And don't forget to put the compass in, Charlie. A hunting man needs a compass, you know. Sure he does. Keeps him from getting lost. See how bright my wife is, Dick? She knows all the answers. I didn't mean it that way. I know Bertha, I know.  Don't you worry about Charles, Bertha. You know me, I never get lost. Do you remember the camping trips we used to take when we were kids? You were a boy scout then, Dick. He's no boy scout now. Hey! Well, let's see, darling, have I got everything packed in here? Yes, dear, everything. Will an underwear?  Gun cartridges? For both guns? The cartridges for the hunting gun are in the rear pocket of the suitcase. And for the 38, they're in your holster. Ah, good girl. Where's your suitcase, Dick? Oh, it's checked at the station. Hey, what time is it? Well, it's almost 10 p.m. Oh, we'd better be going along, darling. I like to catch my trains with ease. I'll help you close the suitcase, Charles. The best suitcase-sitter on earth in the world. Yeah, I see what you mean. There, that does it. You can get off now. Have a nice trip, both of you. Bring back at least two dozen, dear. Oh, at least, says. Bye, honey. Bye. Oh, don't forget your muffler, darling. It's in the closet downstairs. And please, please be careful.  So, we left, Dick and I. We took the express to Montreal and then travelled by train west of the Hudson Bay to the northwest territory, specifically to a small town known as Fort Ray. What equipment we hadn't already purchased, we purchased there. Mostly food provisions and plenty of coffee. Then, on the morning of September 3rd, Dick and I started out on foot. It was a clear brisk morning and the air was alive with sounds. Birds chirping, a constant crunch of leaves underfoot. We were both in high spirits, as Dick said. Ah, this is the life, old boy. This is what a man needs. Get away from civilization and breathe again. Ah, back to nature. Back to nature's right. You know, there's something to matter with modern civilization. You get all jogged up inside, begin to think all sorts of strange things. Strange, Dick? In what way? Oh, morbid thoughts, hating yourself, hating everybody else, hating the world. You know, that's bad for a writer. His work becomes bitter and he pours the gall out in words. Paints the world he sees in gray overtones. You mean like that last story you sold? Yeah. It was a depressing story, but that was my mood. Both you and Bertha have morbid emotional streaks. Well, Sis and I very much alike in many ways. Funny, my marrying Bertha. What's so funny about it? You know, I engineered it. You did? Why? Well, Bertha and I have always been pretty close, you know. Much closer than ordinary brother and sister. I didn't want to see you marry some clerk. Well, thanks, Dick. You'll be my roommate at college. I got to know you pretty well. Yes, Sis and I have the same likes and dislikes, and I just knew you were right for her. You mean to tell me I didn't have anything at all to say about it? Sort of. Sort of? Well, Bertha's beauty and chemistry, if you like, and youth took care of the rest. You sound like an old, old man airing philosophy. I told you I've been civilized too long. You've been a bachelor too long. I think I'll dig up a nice young girl for you. Marriage is a sensation, Dick. Well worth a try. Well, I don't quite like the idea of digging up a girl for me. Sounds like she's been buried already. Here, we turn this way to the north now. Are you sure? Of course I'm sure. I know these north woods like a... Like a book? Yes, like a book. You'll never get lost with me. We'll be at the next port by six this evening. I still think we ought to have taken a guide along. Oh, nonsense. There's nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about at all. Just stick to Dick Linton and you can't go wrong. Nothing to worry about. That's the way writers are. So sure of themselves. Except they ought to stick to paper and pencil, not to their memories of north woods. At six o'clock in the evening, there wasn't a fort in sight.  Well, we're lost. No. Yeah, we're lost. I'm sorry, Charles. Are you being pretty monosyllabic about the whole thing? Normal under the circumstances. Hey, that wasn't the wind, was it, Dick? No, uh, wolves. Wolves? Hmm. I'm not afraid of them, are you? Oh, no. I love them, especially at night when I'm cold and hungry. And they are, too. Well, we'll have to sleep in the trees. You'll have to sleep in the trees. I wasn't built that way. Well, you can't sleep on the ground. You'll never live through the night if you... I'm not sleeping on the ground, Dick. I'm walking until we find someplace. Well, we might not find a fort till tomorrow morning. Or tomorrow evening, but whenever it is, I'm going to find it as soon as possible. Uh, even sooner than that, if that keeps up. You coming with me? Sure, I'm with you. Oh, boy, I'm hungry. Oh, say, wouldn't a nice, thick, luscious steak taste good? You know, one of the charcoal, broil variety dripping with butter and fried onions? Oh, stop it. Oh, one of Bertha's lamb stews with mashed potatoes and rich tomato gravy. If you want to die, just keep on talking. It's the thought of food and I'm a murdering maniac. Oh, how about a real English roast beef with Yorkshire pudding? Oh, you're asking for it. Hmm, I wonder just how hungry that wolf is. Maybe he won't mind if his meat isn't cooked, huh? I'm sure he won't. There canivari, which means in Latin, canivaris or man-eaters. Hey, Charlie. Huh? Look, straight ahead of you. Isn't that a light over there? Well, yeah, I think so. Maybe it's the fort. No, it's not the fort here where Miles off the beaten track. Oh, what is it then? I don't know. Looks like a cabin from here. I'm not particular. Let's find out. Fine, I'll leave the way. Oh, no. You've led the way so far, but this time, Dick, my boy, I'm leading. Follow Charlie and see some food. Food? Food. Whoever lives there must eat. Maybe it's not steak, but it's something. It is a cabin, all right. Shall I knock on the door? Well, you can't get in any other way. Who can't? This rickety old shack could be blown down by a good strong breath. Hmm? Funny looking place, isn't it? I'm not amused. Knock on the door. Such a timid knock. Uh, my hand's numb. Yeah, we'll try it again. Hope this guy's friendly. Is that a what? Uh-oh, our friends are sniffing a bot again. And I don't look at all well in tomato sauce. Oh, Charlie. Good evening. Something I can do for you, gentlemen. Uh, we, uh, we managed to... We hope to find some place to stay for the night, sir. We're completely off the beaten track. Uh-huh. You don't say. Come in. Come in, gentlemen. Yeah. I'd be delighted to put you up this evening if you don't mind sleeping on the floor in the attic. Well, at this point, we don't mind anything. Don't you? Uh, uh, my name's Charles Costar, sir, and my friend is Dick Linton. How do you do? My name is Joel. Just Joel. At least they used to call me Joel. Have you eaten yet this evening? Uh, no, as a matter of fact, and we're starving.  That is, if you don't mind my meager rations. Oh, we don't mind anything at this point. Do we, Dick? Oh, no, no, definitely not. There's an old American saying, you know, food is food. Let's eat, huh? I'll fry some deer steak for you and I have some wine. Oh, wonderful. Uh, tell me, Mr. Joel, do you live here all alone? Unfortunately, yes. You see, I'm an outcast from your society. But a man be different and then automatically he becomes an outcast. Yeah, there's something in what you say. Let him look a little different or think a little different or speak a little different. And he becomes a marked man. The individual is not allowed the privilege of individuality. Mankind doesn't permit it. Oh, I, I don't think so, really. Don't you? I'll just set the table and you can sit down over here and eat. Come along, Charles. I can prove my point. Now, look at me. I'm different. Larger than most men I unfortunately grew too tall.  I was hated. Yes, hated by your civilization and fear too. Not because I was cruel or vindictive or dishonest, but because I was different. Yes, yes, I'm a giant and stature. Uh, well, I... Don't feel badly for me. I've had my revenge on society and I'll have even more revenge on little people like yourselves. Yes, sir. It's quite understandable that you feel that way. Uh, gentlemen, before you sit down to dinner, allow me to hang your hunting guns up here. They'll bother you if you carry them around. Oh, well, we really don't mind. I mind. Your hunting gun, sir. And your hunting gun? There. Now, I both, I'll just hang them up here. Uh, you say you live alone, uh, Joel? Yes. That shoe in the corner, that was never your shoe. It's too small for you. You're very observant, Mr. Linton. No, that wasn't my shoe. I found it in the forest one day and brought it home for the purpose of remaking it, like that coat hanging over there. Found a coat and a shoe lying in this outlandish district? Yes, yes, a coat and a shoe. Of course they were not a man, but he was dead.  Oh, he must have become lost out here, like ourselves, huh? Exactly like yourselves, gentlemen. Exactly like yourselves. Dinner's ready. Silence in the court, silence in the court. Now go ahead with your testimony, Mr. Castare.  We, we didn't trust that man for a second. Believe me, he was, well, darn it anyway, the man was unbalanced. It was well after we finished eating dinner that Joel had a good warm, roaring fire in the fireplace and then... Well, gentlemen, it's time to retire. I'm sleepy and I'm sure you two are. Oh, yes, very sleepy. Mind if we take our guns upstairs? I'd like to clean them. You won't need them this evening. You can clean them in the morning. Come along, please. Oh, yeah, come on, shall we? Right behind you, Dick. Be careful of this stepladder. It's rickety to say the least. So I notice, yeah. I'll go first and get the blankets out. Yes, fortunately, I have two blankets up here, although they're musty enough. Don't worry about us. All right, come up now. Right away. I'd feel a lot better if I had those hunting guns. I don't blame you. You can say for yourself, Mr. Linton, that this attic is not accustomed to guests. Musty. And the spiders are troublesome to strangers. Spiders? They are my friends. My only friends. They say he who shares a roof with you automatically becomes your friend. They have shared this roof with me for many years. Good night, gentlemen. Sleep well. Oh, good night. Great, Scott. What kind of a mess have we gotten ourselves into? I don't know. He's got a cog loose in his mind somewhere. That's certain. Very certain. What do we do? I'll tell you. One sleeps and the other stands guard. That won't do us any good, Dick. He's ten times our size and besides, we're unarmed. I've got you a 38 in my pocket. Forget about it, huh? Yeah, I did. Look, through these boards in the attic, you can watch Joel very easily. The fireplace throws a nice light on him. How will we arrange the watch?  Yeah. What time is it now? 1 a.m. What's he doing down there? Curling up on the floor near the fireplace. About to go to sleep. I hope he sleeps well. Too well to wake up. I think he doesn't. I hope your gun works. That's all. Oh, I'm so sleepy. Good night. You've proceed, Mr. Gustav. Yes, I put my head on the floor and slept. But I slept a troubled sleep, a restless sleep, and my hands kept clawing the floor. A floor that was alive with insect life. Then, no sooner had I put my head on the floor than it seemed Dick nudged me. Wake up. Wake up. It's 2 a.m. Huh? Huh? Huh? Oh, okay, okay. What happened? Nothing. It's your turn now. Oh, I'm really late. Really late. So much walking and then all this. He was quite right. All this. He lay down on the floor, and soon he was sound asleep. Sleeping like he was drugged. Poor Dick was all in. I sat upright, concentrating on sitting upright, to keep my eyes from closing. I was so tired and my blood ran cold as I kept my eyes glued to the still figure which lay beneath us. The hut was so quiet that my wristwatch sounded like the beating of tom-toms in that silence. Dick, Dick, Dick, beating off the seconds, perhaps slicing off the seconds left of our lives. And I waited and watched, waited and watched. Then suddenly the huge figure beneath me stretched his huge form in front of the fireplace and yonked. His large, expressionless eyes sought mine through the planks of the floor. And I thought for a moment, he saw me sitting there. Perhaps my crouched figure in the attic somehow threw a shadow down on the floor of the hut below. Then he arose, kept like that huge former rose gracefully and quietly. He eased himself up and walked to the door as if listening for someone or something. Then, just as quietly, he opened the door and... Yes? Yes? Yes, come back shortly. Shortly. He said, come back shortly. Who was he talking to? And what was he talking about? Come back. Come back to murder us. He shut the door just as gently as he opened it. And then returned to the place before the fire he again curled up near the warmth of the blaze. I glanced down at my watch. It was three o'clock. I nudged Dick gently at first, and then harder. Dick, your turn. Dick, Dick, wake up. We're up so soon. Yes. Here, here's the gun. Okay, I'm awake. Anything happened? Listen, he's got an accomplice. What? Somebody was standing outside the door a while back. He told him to come back shortly. That explains the small shoe, maybe. Maybe. I'm so tired, I don't think I can sleep. I don't think I can sleep. Ah, you'll sleep. Just relax. I don't think so. Really, I... Come in. Come in. Yeah? Are they asleep now? Yeah, as fast as sleep, the poor fools. One of them thought he could stay awake. I could see them taking turns staying awake. But I put enough dope in their wine to knock them out completely. Have they much money with them? Who knows? But whatever they have, we need.  Now I'll splinter it like this, and light one end of this. Nothing like this wood burning to dope them completely. What should we do with them later? Put them outside for the animals. I'll wait down here for you. You go upstairs. I won't be long. These things never take very long. Dick, give me the gun. Give me the gun. Dick, Dick, have you fallen asleep? Dick, wake up. Dick, are you doped? Dick, he's coming at us. Give me the gun. Give me the gun. Please, Dick, give me the gun. There, there. I've got the gun now. You're laughing at me. You're laughing. Time to wake up now for the last time. No, take this. There, there, that's got you, that's got you, that's got you. Where's your friend? Where's the little man? Dick, help me find the little man now. Help me, help me, help me. Dick, Dick. I was stunned. Completely stunned. The room looked strange to me. The smoking gun in my hand looked strange to me. The whole world seemed to blot out in front of my eyes, and suddenly I looked down at the dark mass, lying at my feet, and then I looked up. My eyes were absolutely level with Joel's eyes as he climbed up into the attic. Then in a voice filled with horror he said, Great Lord, sir, what have you done? You've killed him, and he was just about to wake you. Yes, I killed Dick Linton, my best friend, when he was just about to wake me. I'd been dreaming, and I killed him. Thank you, Mr. Castile. My next witness is Dr. Harding. Dr. Harding, will you please take the stand? Yes, sir. Place your left hand on the Bible. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? I do. You heard the testimony of the defendant, Dr. Harding. I did, sir. Is it possible for a man, a man as sleep as he was, to fire the gun load at his best friend because of a nightmare? It was more than a nightmare. It was some melentia, sleep drunkardness. Overtired as Mr. Castile was, his nerves were overtaxed, and his fears and suspicions had been aroused. This result is perfectly natural and certainly medically sound. The defendant was not in his right mind at the time of the murder. Thank you, Dr. Harding. Gentlemen of the jury, to sum up this case, Joel the Giant had told his guests the truth about the shoe. At the time he opened the door, he was just talking to his dog who had been scratching outside. But to a man mentally exhausted and filled with fear, Joel's actions were certainly those which would arouse suspicion. Gentlemen, in behalf of my client, I beg leniency. Leniency. Bertha, please darling, it was all explained in court. This doesn't change anything between us, nothing at all. Doesn't it? I love my brother more than you can understand, Charles. I know the court has ruled you innocent, but a court of law has very little to do with a woman's heart. If you love me, Bertha... I'll always love you, but I'll never be able to trust you again. There are seven days in a week, Charles. Some of those days, I'll love you and forget this whole horrible affair. But more days, my brother's face will loom up in front of me. But Dick would understand. I wouldn't see you, because his face would stand between us. I'd spend those days hating you.  Take good care of yourself. I can't help it. I hope you understand. Bertha, please. Goodbye, Charles. Bertha! From the time-worn pages of the past, we have brought to you the story... A terrible night. Bellkeeper, hold the bell.


I started a UX consulting firm way before time in 2005. Ran it for five, six years. Did a equi hire with another large product development firm called Claris Technologies, if you guys have heard of, which is now Global Technologies. Very interesting times. Way back in 2005, when we used to go to clients, hardly knowing what UX is about, but still going and pitching to them doing UX projects and all of that. And now in 2017, when you see the fraternity in terms of people and the clients both maturing, and you see quite a lot of acceptance given to UX design, development which is led by UX, user-centered designs, and we keep on hearing all of these across when we go and pitch as well. How many of you here do a client facing or a sales-based role in terms of selling UX to your clients? Okay, but you as internal champions of UX, you might be selling something or the other to the product teams, right? For people who are in pure pure product play, you don't go out and sell UX, per se. You are in-house team doing UX, but obviously there is a cell which happens. And that cell is to your internal stakeholders, maybe the product guys, maybe to the tech guys, etc. And how many of you face these problems of a power struggle between the tech team and the UX team? Tech team and the management wanting to have some other designs and all of that? All of us? So what I thought was I'll take a little bit of step back, maybe for you guys to also understand when you look at UX from a management consulting standpoint. When you go and engage with the clients for large scale transformation projects. So these are not projects where I have a tangible value to show to the client. So we go and do a deal with that all and tell them that we will improve the sanitation and hygiene for first time pregnant women. We have smaller numbers or smaller ways to kind of define and quantify these numbers. But we don't have a definite measurement system for us to say how good has been the UX or digital transformation. And how they are going to measure the overall return on investment. So for some of these engagements, we typically have to take a step back. What I'm going to do is I'm going to quickly jump to what my talk is going to be about, but I wanted a little bit more participative than a TED format because I think from a business standpoint, when you're looking at a topic like this, it cannot be just one way monologue. So when you guys came in, what do you think you were expecting to hear from me? Two or three main bullet points, wow factor for UX, okay? How you get buying from the management? A story that convinces, what else? Fantastic, I think that's a larger question which we need to focus on. Almost all of us, so say for example, like when we are talking about convincing the management, when you are in the room, the elephant is the management, right? The power struggle which happens essentially happens and you want to find out how to make that elephant dance because you want to make them understand what's the importance of UX and you still don't want to be rude to them or be impolite when you want to emphasize a specific point. So I'm going to break this talk into three or four main pointers. The first pointer I would start is how do we identify what the elephant needs? How many of you find problem when you're management or when you are on a client engagement? You feel that the management wants something different and you necessarily know that you as UX designers are going to give a different output altogether, okay? You feel that? Now, how do you make the management understand that they need to have a UX output and not something else? So, I'm going to give a few anecdotes about these three, four bullet points which I think are very important for you to understand that from a business standpoint, why UX is so very critical. This is about a recent engagement. The elephant which I am talking about is one of the largest clients for us as KPMG. It is the largest public sector bank in India, okay? Just because we are a management consulting firm, I cannot give names. But I'm sure all of you know it, okay? The largest public sector bank in India is the client we are talking to. And imagine, I mean, I'm sure all of you would have had experiences of walking into a branch of this bank or going to their website or reading a leaflet about the credit cards. And would be wondering that will our organization like this adopt UX? Are you guys with me? Okay, so, sorry? Yes, so as, again, an audit and consulting firm, we can give an answer, yes, no, we cannot name. But to my pleasant surprise, and we had to do quite a bit of drill beforehand, but the acceptance which we received was phenomenal. But I would also like you guys to understand that for you to get a phenomenal response like that, what are the few dos and don'ts which you got to know because you are dealing with an elephant, okay? You cannot go with your agile scrums there, it doesn't work there. For stand up meetings, people will actually show resistance because they know that there is a specific process. People know that things will happen on pen and paper before you can start shooting out mails. So you have to adapt and that's what you would have to learn when you have to work with your internal management as well. That when you want to sell a concept on UX, when you want to be a user advocate, you got to make them the advocate first, only then they will be able to understand. So for us to identify what the elephant wanted, I mean, I'll take you back a year and a half when we started doing conversations with them. And some of the very typical things which happen in a sales conversation because we have still not got contracts from the client and we are coaching them, saying why is UX important? So I go, suited, going in front of the client, a large panel of 15 people sitting there. And we say, I'm talking to the center of the seat is CIO. And I say, hey, Mr. CIO, we know that just because you have a mammoth IT organization, we want to do design thinking for your IT guys. And he says, come back after a week, we don't have IT teams at all. So I say, all right, I go back. I understand that they don't have internal development team. Almost 95 to 99% of their work gets outsourced and is done by vendors. So why would he want to invest in design thinking for his IT team? So I say maybe there is some other route. I go and set up a meeting with the CMO to understand that maybe from a customer standpoint, and I do more of user and customer advocacy. Maybe this guy is more willing. So a similar large panel sitting in front, the CMO sitting right in the center of a large ballroom table. And I say, hey, Mr. CMO, I'll help you get more customers. And he says, you know what, I'm not interested, because we have already too many of them, okay? Now for people in the room who go out and sell UX, you have to be very, very conscious of who you are talking to. And when you know that, you got to also understand the pulse in terms of what they would want. So this identifying part of, does the elephant want to dance? Or does the elephant want to see you dance? Is what should be defined very, very well and much before time. So then we had to use a few other techniques to help them understand. But you know what, when you have so many IT guys and IT development teams, and you are going to have customer who are going to be your existing customer base, the only thing which will help you sustain yourself is going to be the experiences. So if you can create something where you are defining and the IP of the organization is going to be design and experiences, only then you will be lasting long. Otherwise, with all the new startups and fintech boys coming in the play, you'll still lose the game. And that is what resonated. So when I made both the CIO and the CMO, sit in that room and help them understand that the game is different. The game is where both of them come and talk to each other is the game. So you have to understand how the power play is in large organizations. And you also have to understand that what are they driven by? So for majority of the customers who are in CMO positions, would want more retention. And they know that acquisition is going to be expensive. I'll move to the next thing. The next thing is how to make elephant learn to dance, okay? You have to understand that it's an elephant. It is not a deer to whom you can make it dance. The elephant has to learn to dance, right? So we did similar things which were a little bit more practical. So if you look at any exercise which is usability testing, what would you do? You set up a lab, you invite the users. You want to make sure that you do enough data analysis. You do your research, findings are presented. And once the findings get approved, you go ahead and start doing your designs, right? Now what happens is in large organizations, the custodians of the end consumers are different people. Where strategies get laid out in corporate offices are different people. And they, at times, don't look in each other's eyes. Because they are two different organizations, so to say, within a large organization. So what we did was a very interesting trick. And this is not necessarily how you do it as an ideal usability lab. Is we made the customer facing guys who are in the branches. Any idea how many branches this bank has? 25,000 branches. There are private banks who have twice or thrice the number as their customer base. These guys have 25,000 branches. So imagine the power of 1.5 million internal employees. All the internal employees can be your champions. You can make sure that each of these guys become end user advocates. If I involve them in the process. So what we did was very intelligently through the CIO, we started working with the branches to help them be the point of focus in front of the user. So we said, you know what? We will make sure that each of your customer who comes with a specific grievance is serviced by you yourself. You have to be the champion and you have to collect all that data and give it to us. We are just going to facilitate the data modeling part of it, okay? So in large organizations, it cannot be that you do it the ideal way in terms of going and doing the research by yourself. If you want to do it, the champions have to be there first and then you go ahead and go ahead and execute the whole engagement. Once we were through with this, then came the third part, which is how to actually make it dance. So now, just because of all this push and pull, you have a very conducive environment between your branches and your corporate team working very tightly in tandem to ensure that the process of UX life cycle can be executed. Now is the part where you go ahead and actually make it happen. So what we did was, majority of the testing also of the new designs which we used to do were also being driven through the branches. So we actually made the branch manager do sessions with the end users or customers to understand and listen and be positive about the designs even before the designs were launched. So when my designs were ready, the branch managers were doing sessions with the users to hear users saying, wow, these are the designs which we wanted, these are very simple. So the adoption which you are looking for is coming from two fronts. One is from the end users, but your champions also being with the end users and telling them, hey, this is what we are doing for you. So the whole organization is in sync. And the final part, anyone wants to guess? Now the elephant is dancing, what else would you want to do? It should continue dancing, obviously. And you make sure you don't forget the dance, right? Because when you're making the elephant dance, so we have had this engagement for long. And there are scenarios when just because you get clocked up in a day to day affair, you end up missing out on your larger things which should be done. So what we did quickly was for us to make sure that we don't forget our dance, we ensured that for this public sector bank, we started doing collaborative design discussions with international public sector banks. So we started doing different design thinking workshops for this public sector bank to have exposure across the globe in terms of how even public sector banks behave. Quite a lot of times when private sector banks do it, they kind of wiff it up their shoulder saying, hey, private guys can do it because they are not bound by rules. To that extent, compliance is not so strong, etc., etc., and they can do it. But when they started listening to other public sector banks across the globe, they started understanding the value of why UX is so critical. So the engagement essentially started with three main things, which was more revolving around testing, around setting and helping them create standard operating procedures to helping them grow their internal team. But what we ended up doing was space design and we have actually setting up the user experience design center for the first public sector bank in India. So no other public sector bank has this. The second is more in terms of helping them see that there is sustainability when you go on to a UX life cycle. So helping them create standards and operating procedures which they can sustain for a long term, and then helping them do training as well. Because we are doing and growing the team to a large extent, and the need is to make sure that all of them are at a specific level of maturity in the UX life cycle. And finally, we could start creating a UX maturity mapping of how the organization is moving from their previous state to the next defined state. So that is all what I wanted to talk about. I'm sure you would have visualized this large elephant do a little bit of dance. There are products which you would have seen rolling out in terms of branchless banks to digital branches where these are unmanned branches with just devices being there. The majority of it is driven through their experience design center. And that's what the talk was about in terms of making the elephant dance. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thanks.