Sure, so I work as the director of the Indian Teacher Education Program and the Indian Teacher Education Program, ITEP, was started in 1972, off the heels of the red paper, off the heels of Trudeau's white paper, and started as a means to start creating a pathway to Indian control of Indian education. So in our program, we train teachers in a four-year Bachelor of Education degree program, and they leave here certified to teach in K-12 education with a focus on First Nation culture, language, and tradition, and really trying to foster and live by that mandate of Indian control of Indian education. We have a huge success rate in our program, and the aim of it is really to create those teachers that are thinking through an Indigenous lens.  That's the aim of it. And then at the end of it is that they get a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Saskatchewan. We have a lot of work. This is about the Indian teacher education program, and I work here, and I'm also an alumni of this program. And one of the things that I hear constantly from alumni that come through here, that are living successful lives, that are making a difference in their family, that are the first graduates of a university, one of the things they say to me, and I could say as well, is I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for ITEP. People, our own people as well as non-Indigenous people tend to devalue our programs when they're Indigenous. They tend to say that they're Mickey Mouse, that they're Cracker Jack degrees, that they're not as rigorous or not as strong as regular non-Indigenous programs. And that's a myth. That's false. That's just not true, because I'm a product of that. And throughout my Masters, throughout my PhD, I was able to think at the same level, if not further, because of my Indigeneity, just like everybody else. And the foundation of my academic started in the Indian Teacher Education program. Creating space is what we do in Indigenous programming at university. And creating space is the first important part in all of this. Indigenous people that come in to programs, into universities where there's no space created, they get swallowed up by the system. And universities like the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Trent University, or Simon Frazier, or UBC, or U of M, or whatever it is, the university that exists in North America was never built with the vision of having Indigenous people be successful in there. This place is 100 years old. And 100 years ago, they didn't envision, you know, 70 teachers graduating per year out of my program, First Nation Indian Teachers. So this is a phenomenal piece for all of us. This is what I feel that's a huge important part that I wanted to share, is that I wanted to share that our programming is strong. We're producing amazing teachers with insights and knowledge that floors me. And I'm excited about that. I'm excited for our kids. I'm excited for our schools. If they can enter into a school where they can flourish with the knowledge that they're gaining in our programs and it goes further, watch out. You know, that's what's going to happen. So when our teachers enter into our school systems, enter into these places, we need to foster that knowledge. We need to take out the workbooks.  And that was through story, through knowledge and sharing. You know, we, from my own perspective, from my own thought process in Indigenous education is it's the original education of this land and this territory that we're walking and breathing on. It's the stories of our trickster. It's the knowledge of the land and where the moss grows. It's the knowledge of the stars. It's the knowledge of the animals. It's our relationship to all living things. It's really Indigenous education is moves so far beyond the four walls of a Saskatchewan curriculum. It moves so far beyond any school that exists that we label an education system. Indigenous education is what has kept us resilient. It's what kept us alive all these years. And for me, my understanding, my thought process around what it is is really that knowledge that existed here for thousands of years. That's what it is. I've, for myself, I've been a teacher and I've been an administrator in our school's experience on reserve in the provincial school system and internationally working in education. And what I found was a, what is happening in education right now is that we have what we've termed as Indian control of colonial education. So we are Indigenous people. We're First Nation people. We're Cree. We're Dakota, Nakota, Lakota. We're Anishinaabe. We're standing in front of the class teaching a colonial system of education. My goal and what I'd like to see is that stopping, that we foster and harness and value our Indigenous ways and teach those in the classroom, that we escape the confines of a textbook or a classroom. And we graduate to the knowledge that existed here that is beautiful, amazing and powerful. And we enter that somehow through our own lens. And that's what it is. That's the goal that I have for our people is to take back that education system and have really true Indian control of Indian education.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Happy Friday coming at you with the brand new release, 2020 Panini Limited Football. It's the second half of the case that we popped open a little bit earlier today. Lot of great stuff. Big thanks to all of these wonderful people here hanging out with me on a Friday night. Break two, second half of that case. Thanks, Mike. Last spot mojo there. And there's everyone else. And we've got more coming up. In fact, I think all of our breaks are sold out. We don't have any more limited after this. Due to the weather conditions in Dallas, the limited supply has been limited. But keep your eye on the website. We're gonna obviously doing our best to get as much as possible into the shop and as quickly as possible, we hope. Just at the mercy of the weather, unfortunately. But I appreciate everybody being patient on that. So these are all, let me get out, grab all the base cards first. All cards shipped, so that's good news. Matthew Stafford. And let's see if I can do the, is there a relic only card, I think, maybe this? No, that's an autograph. Trying to do the relic first here. How about this? There we go. There's Hunter Henry Stadium Stars, 98 out of 99. And that'll be for the Chargers.  There's Kendall Fuller to 75. All right, what's going on? Savage, what's up? Got an autograph back here, Ross Blacklock. 77 out of 199. Texans, that'll be for Ark. And thanks, yeah, I am doing well, Ark. Thanks for asking. Finally, nice to have these new releases here. And behind Goff is Michael Pittman Jr., 151 out of 175 for Ark and the Colts. Checking in just in time. Nice, he's pretty good. All right, next box. So we're looking for that right there. Thanks, Savage. I love my vids, too. Yeah, new release days are always fun. We finally got that certified, was supposed to be out, certified basketball. I mean, certified basketball is supposed to be on Wednesday, but the weather delays pushed it to today. I'm glad we were able to still get some cases. Behinds to Fallon Gilmore to 149 is gonna be Gabriel Davis, 42 out of 199. Gabriel Davis is gonna go to Buffalo. It goes to Mark Miller. There's Gilmore right there to 149. Behind Jamal Adams is gonna be Adam Trotman, 24 out of 99. That'll be for the Saints, Arthur Hackett. Behind Daniel Jones is another Michael Pittman Jr., two-color patch and autograph. Nine out of 49. That'll be for Ark and the Colts. So your first one was landscape, and now you have a portrait mode right here as well. Well, and now that he has, well, maybe a new and improved Carson Wentz throwing to him, throwing to Michael Pittman Jr. That'll be interesting to see. Let's do this one first. Behind Marvin Jones Jr. to 75, it's gonna be, it's gonna be Josh Jacobs. 56 out of 99 for my Raiders. Donnie has the Raiders. The Raiders have a Stadium Stars Relic.  It's the name of the game. They're Super Bowl champ, Kronkowski, and his teammate, Keshon Vaughn, 17 out of 49. It's a nice patch right there. Good on-card autograph. Jake Odom and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Behind Tyler Boyd. We have an autograph. We've got team trademark's Donald Driver. 24 out of 35. Nice one for Sean Maddock and the Packers. Next one. All right, we do have a number of rakes sold out already, folks, so consult the schedule in the chat to see when yours is coming up. Plenty of stuff to do tonight on jaspyscasebreaks.com, so visit the website and browse around and start buying in. We do have a late night tonight, so keep buying your spots and don't worry about running out of time. We've got plenty of time for everything on the site. All right, there's the Relic only. There is out of 199 rookie phenoms, Jordan Love. 144 out of 199. Another one for Sean in Green Bay. Nice out of 75. Derek Carr for Donnie and the Raiders. Marvin Jones Jr. and a Darnell Mooney. 164 out of 199. Joe Pren with the Chicago Bears. Da Bears. Behind Keelan Cole is KJ Hamler, my rivals. Broncos 229 out of 299. That'll be for Denver. That'll be for Eddie. There you go, Eddie. Three boxes to go in this seven box break. This is pick your team number two, three and four coming up a little bit later tonight. Check the schedule. All-Cards ship, Tom Brady, Super Bowl champion for the Buccaneers, Jake Odom. He's not the Relic only, that's the Relic only. There's AJ Green and behind him is 164 out of 199 Antonio Gibson. That'll be for Patrick and the Washington football team. And Jamal Adams reveals a Zach Bonn, a 27 out of 99. That's for the Saints, Arthur Hackett. Schedules in the chat, Herbert. Thanks for paying attention to that. I'll tell you what we're doing now and what's coming up and what we've done. Appreciate that. Daniel Jones reveals a Antonio Gibson. Three, what's that extra, it's a little extra bit of something right there. I don't know if it's part of the uniform or maybe something that was stuck from the, manufacturer? Not sure, but that goes to Patrick and the Washington football team. Next box. Thanks everyone for getting in, appreciate it. And we got, I think we have our first, I need the schedule too. I think our first certified break is after, is after this first certified hoop break. I spotted a redemption back there. Slide these extra base cards off the top. There's another TB 12. Behind Micah Sicki to 149, is a limitless relic, Anthony Miller. 14 out of 25 for the Bears. Joe H of the Bears again. Micah Sicki going to Miami for Leonard to 149. Behind Drew Locke is, Ben D'Nucci, 141 out of 199, Cowboys. That's gonna go to Daniel. And the redemption behind Kyler Murray, is gonna be Tyler Johnson. Rookie Patch Autographs, Amethyst spotlight. What is Amethyst? Number two, should have had the checklist. Sounds like a, sounds like a lower number. Rookie Patch Autographs, Amethyst, is out of 25. There you go. Buckineers, Jake Odom. With the Bucks, it's the Super Bowl champ, Tyler Johnson. Final box, thanks for getting into this one, ladies and gentlemen. Really appreciate it. Behind Khalil Mack is, C.D. Lam, 15 out of 199. Cowboys relic, going to Daniel. At Khalil Mack is to 149. Behind Saquam Barkley is, a charger, Kenneth Murray. 40 out of 99. That'll go to Sean Maddock and the Bolts. And the final hit here behind Michael Thomas is gonna be another K.J. Hamler. Two-color Patch, On-Card Autograph, 107 out of 299. Four of my rivals, the Broncos. That's Eddie, with the Denver Broncos. And there are no randomizers in this one. There you have it. That was the second half of that case. We popped open earlier today. 2020 Panini Limited Football.  I'm Joe for JaspysCaseBrace.com. I'll see you for that one next time. Bye-bye.


Rajkumar sir, you can share your slides later sir. I will intimate you sir. You can start sharing now. Okay, sorry. Good morning all. Good morning Rajkumar sir. Good morning Sunil Kulkarni sir. Sir Rajkumar sir, you can start with your introductions. Okay. I'm sharing my slide. Slides you can share later sir. Just to give some introduction about the workshop. Okay. Then I will intimate you to share your slides. Just to give some basic introduction. Good morning one and all. I'm Professor Rajkumar Babar, working as an assistant professor in the Red and Stop Technology, LC211. And I'm handling the responsibility of SPOC since last 10 years. And today we are very fortunate to organize this NPTEL awareness workshop. At our institute for Red and Stop Technology, local chapter 211. And I'm very happy with this team NPTEL team because last 10 years I'm handling this responsibility. And today, students are expecting that what are the benefits of the NPTEL in their careers and how they can grow their careers by the MOOC courses. In the NEP 2020 also, as per the National Education Policy 2020, approximately 40% of vacations given to MOOC courses. So these MOOC courses are very much important for the students' life. With the help of these MOOC courses, students are going to learn the subjects in detail from the highly qualified and highly experienced IT professors. From anywhere, anytime and anybody, this is a tagline of NPTEL. So last 10, 15 years NPTEL is working and superbly with this motto. And today's workshop is going to tell you all the students and staff, the benefits of these MOOC courses. What went by domain certification, what went by mental certification, how the FDP is coming to the picture and these MOOC courses now can be considered as an authorized approved FDP, Faculty Development Program for the Career Advancement Scheme. And it is decided by the AICP. So this kind of different time for benefits of the students and staff will be discussed in this workshop. So I heartily welcome our principal representative, Dr. S. G. Kulkarni sir, Priyadarshani madam and other NPTEL IIT Madras team. With this introduction, I am handling the mic to Dr. S. G. Kulkarni sir, principal sir. Good morning. I welcome you all for this FDP, which is being organized in association with the C. T. Thomas Elizabeth College for Women Chennai. I really thank the NPTEL authorities also to giving us this particular opportunity. Actually, the e-learning scenario, if you see after COVID-19, it has changed the education system to very large extent. It has given us an opportunity to enhance our and explore various online tools also. Basically, the knowledge-based practical learning is very important aspect of this modern learning, if you see. And it also increases the ability in terms of analytical ability, the thoughts which are original, aptitude of the students, etc. This has made very important for us to have a global interaction also in terms of knowledge. And various e-learning platforms which are there for students and teachers are being developed nowadays. So earlier it was used to be a kind of distance education which was enabling various students earlier in the earlier decades to interact with such universities and all. So online learning which is there in this post-COVID scenario has actually been very on dramatic rise. The e-learning market which was there around 39 billion in 2018 and now next year we're expecting it to reach up to 360 to 400 billion. So the various aspects such as various losses in the enrollment which used to be earlier problems in the higher education, the spread of the education which was needed to the society and rural part and the geographical boundaries. So now these all things have become easier for us if you see because of this online courses. Many projects which are there now the mission which the government has undertaken national mission on education through the ICT that is NMICT is a very important step towards increasing this e-learning base in the country and projects such as Akash project which was launched by IT is the projects for e-learning with number of projects which are launched. They are actually increasing the penetration of this e-learning. Actually now if you see the globalization, the knowledge globalization is also a very key aspect and the driving force in the enhancement of the various e-learning platforms which are there.  This has made us to realize the need to access the knowledge from the best in the field. Knowledge sharing it has become an important part of learning. So all this is facilitating this platform such as now NPTEL which has taken a very big lead in this. And various inter-based training which are replacing the conventional trainings like government is supporting all these initiatives of moots. And other things also. So in that sense now this particular workshop of initiatives which are taken by NPTEL and various chapters which are there. This is actually playing a very key role if you see the bigger picture of all this. So other platforms, many initiatives are taken by the government in this particular direction. And our institute, Garada Institute of Technology which is actually Garada Foundation initiatives under the leadership of Dr. Garada has always been proactive towards this e-learning and towards making this online resources which are there. And I congratulate the team of NPTEL for taking such a good initiative. And I also thank all the authorities of this NPTEL, the central team and our, that is co-organizer of this. That is the women's college from Chennai for taking these initiatives. And yeah, all the best and I wish very happy learning through this particular program. Thank you, Power Sir and we can conclude here. Thank you. Thank you, Sir. Okay, so many of you may be familiar with this logo. This is the NPTEL logo. We'll start off with it. So NPTEL is today a lot of initiatives put together. It's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website, but we have certification, not just certification for one course but it is also clubbing courses together to make it into a domain. For faculty we have FDP courses which fetch you career points, then we have internship opportunity for students, we have soft-skilled training going on for local chapter students and so on. So this is what this presentation will talk about. Okay, so you might have all heard about these two terms NPTEL and SWAYAM. So SWAYAM is a project of the ministry, the government of India MHRD and they created this in 2017 and said that all these agencies that you see below, right? IAM, Bangalore, UGC, CEC, NCRT, NITR, AICP, they all have to offer courses for certification under SWAYAM. So NPTEL is also a national coordinator under SWAYAM. We primarily offer courses in engineering, the UG level, the bachelor's level, the MTEK ME level, some PhD level courses also. But since we have courses that are there in the management and humanities division inside IITs, we offer that also on NPTEL. NPTEL also coordinates with some institutes like the ISERS to offer, say the physics, chemistry, mathematics courses. We work with the triple ITs. We work with National Law School, Bangalore. We work with some medical institutions to offer medical related courses. So maybe 90% of our courses will be engineering related humanities management and 10% is something else we help. So NPTEL comes under SWAYAM and we coordinate this primarily. There are other agencies also. So one thing to remember when you are going to SWAYAM.gov.in and you try to enroll to any course or you try to join any course, please check whether the national coordinator is NPTEL if you want to join the NPTEL course. Because if you just search for say a database management systems course, maybe there is some other college also offering it with somebody else's coordinating. So the course name that we offer will also be database management system. There's will also be that possibly. So how do you actually differentiate if it's an NPTEL course? On every course card we will have a logo of NPTEL. I showed you when we come there, but you can check that and then you can join the course. Okay, that is something that you have to look out for. Okay. NPTEL started in 2003. The vision mission that we have had is to record the content that is being taught to IIT students and put it out for anybody to watch and view so that nobody can say I didn't get a chance to prepare for IITs. I am not in the IITs today. I cannot get access to their knowledge to their teaching. Hence, you know, I'm denied this opportunity. Nobody can say that today more than 2000 courses we have in our repository. You can go there and you can actually access the courses for free. You can just go there. You can scroll. You can watch all the videos. We have more than 50,000 hours of video in our website. You can access all that for free. There is no charge. There is no free fee at all to access our content. Okay. There's somebody who's asking is NPTEL useful for students of LLB. So National Law School Bangalore NLSIU is offering two courses. I think in Jan, I don't know if we have in July we had two courses. I think and more are coming in that so specific to law. We do have a couple of courses. IIT Kharagpur has a law department. So from there we have some courses coming in. But otherwise you can access the general courses that we have also say on management or English. Those might be useful to you. So whenever you think of a website, what really do you look out for? Say how many people access that website? How much content do we have? In a YouTube also whenever we go to and watch a YouTube video or a YouTube channel, one of the things we look at is how many people have watched that video or how many subscribers are there in that channel. So this is the NPTEL statistics. We have more than 1.3 billion views of the NPTEL videos. Okay. So this is like huge huge for a technical channel which has no entertainment. You can't call NPTEL videos as entertainment. There is no song and dance or something. It's all faculty from the IITs, IIC teaching, serious stuff there. And for that we have more than 1.3 billion views. We have 37 lakh subscribers on our YouTube channel. So any of you has not subscribed to our channel today. I think I would say you're missing out on something. Go to our YouTube channel, subscribe for our updates so that you get it. Go to our social media handles, subscribe to our social media handles so that you get the latest updates from NPTEL. And this is where we are today as of NPTEL. Okay. So these are what we do at NPTEL today. And if you do an NPTEL course, what is the use of it? So the very first point is credit transfer. I was just talking to Dr. Satish also about it and said that maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer for the courses that you do from NPTEL. But yes, even if you don't get credit transfer, I think you get a lot of knowledge from NPTEL courses. For instance, say what are the kind of courses we have that we would recommend to students in your college. Correct. So we will say that we have a lot of programming courses. So we have programming and C, C++, Python, Java programming and all that. So if you are say a BSE physics student or a BA English student, maybe a BCOM student, as part of your program in the college, you would not be learning programming possibly. So you can go to NPTEL, you can learn the programming course, you can learn a bit of programming and also get that certificate along with your program.  It's good for y'all to know at least something about it. That is the first part. The other thing, what are the other courses we have that is useful for you? If you're planning for higher education, you want to go in for a master's degree. Supposing you want to strengthen your fundamentals, your foundations, you want to maybe do some more courses from other institutes so that you're confident when you're attending interviews, those courses will be available on NPTEL. So we have all the UG undergraduate courses. You can go through that. You don't even have to write the exam for each of these courses. You can just go through the videos, you can try solving problems, you can watch many videos, try to get knowledge from it and strengthen your foundation. So if you're going for higher education, I would say the courses are really useful. So first thing I'll say, try something like programming courses.  The third thing, try to learn something that is of interest to you, which you possibly cannot learn otherwise. For instance, we have courses on German language, teaching you German, teaching you Japanese, teaching you Sanskrit. So if you want to learn any of these, you can come to NPTEL and learn. So for instance, German is taught only by maybe the Goethe Institute and maybe some other institutes. Here the same course is taught, but it is free for you. And if you want a certificate, you can write the exam, but otherwise too, you can learn the German language for free. Same thing, you can learn Japanese language. Why are these useful? Maybe you go to a company that has branches in Germany, Japan, they have opportunities for people to go there, but you need to know the language. So at that point, this becomes very useful for you. So you can try to learn other languages also through NPTEL courses. Okay, maybe you're technically very strong, you have good foundations, you have good knowledge in your particular program. But maybe your English is not very good, hence you're not confident about speaking. We have a lot of courses like soft skills development, soft skills enhancement, how to attend an interview, the body language that you have to have when attending an interview, interpersonal communication skills, leadership skills. So we have a lot of courses like this that you can also go through. It will give you a lot of tips on how to present yourself, how to ready yourself for such situations so that having the knowledge, you can also be confident when you talk to somebody and you are presenting or being in an interview. So that's another set of NPTEL courses that we have as part of what we offer. So anybody who wants to learn, I think should be able to get at least two or three courses of their interest that they can join and learn. Joining is free, like I said, there is no fee at all, it is all completely free and you can watch it. There are no live classes, these are all recorded lectures, so you can watch at your convenience.  On Saturday, Sunday you can watch it. There will be one assignment every week, you have to solve the assignment and you have to submit it. For that also you get 10 days of time. So you can watch the lectures, you can try solving the assignment, maybe a couple of you friends are joining the same course, you can all sit together. You can learn from each other, you can solve together, take help from your teachers and you can do the NPTEL courses. So there is no such thing as there will be live lectures, maybe you will miss a few lectures because you have college or something. It is all video lectures along with assignment. So the first part is credit transfer and learning from our courses. Apart from it, if you do very well, maybe we should go to next slides. So this is the credit transfer, I don't want to discuss too much about this because I think your university doesn't have credit transfer so I will skip this slide. And so credit transfer just as a piece of information for maybe the faculty who are out here, IATs do do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. We do it at the BTEC level, we do it at the master's level for PhD working professionals, for them to get credit transfer also we do it. So IATs also do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. It is not just the outside colleges that have to do, we ourselves do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. This is an important thing I would say. So we have a program by which the toppers in the courses actually get internship opportunity with the faculty in the IATs. So whoever has offered that course, they take in normally about 2, 3, 5 interns during summer or winter if you are a topper in the course. So if you do a course very well and you become a topper in the certification course, then we give you an opportunity to intern with the faculty. So we are trying to scale up these numbers COVID hit us also so we could not get them. But we hope it will be at least 200, 300 students who can intern at the IATs with the faculty. So this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and stay in the city, be in the IAT Madras or IAT Kanpur or IAT Kharagpur or IAT Bombay lab. You get to interact with the faculty members there, you interact with their PhD scholars there. You can do all of this which will be wonderful if you are especially thinking about going for higher studies. You'll get the idea of what is done in these institutes. I think it's a really good opportunity for students outside of the IATs to come in and experience the IATs here. So there is internship. Then we also do soft skill training. So there are many colleges who provide it on their own, but there are also some colleges who do not have this training for the students. So if college students in local chapters, they participate in NPTEL courses, then for those students we are providing soft skill training. So this training is of two types. We do a one week training or we do a two week training depending on how much time the student can spare and the college also wants the students to do. So here we have group discussion practice. We ask you to write your resume and we give input on the resume. We ask you all to present about yourselves, give feedback about how you should talk, where you should look, your body language and so on. And there are also a one on one. Like every student will get half an hour with a trainer to discuss about how they should also do. So the right side photo you see is a one on one where we do mock interviews. We try to simulate an interview and see how you're responding and then give feedback on how you should do better in your interview. So here we have some soft skill training for students who do NPTEL courses. So this is something that we do from NPTEL again. If you look at numbers, we have finished soft skill training for more than 2000 students currently and we are doing about 10 colleges a month and we hope to scale it up. So if you're, I don't know if Pedderpally College has done it, but yes, we can extend it to y'all also and we can get it done. Okay, so there's a seven or 14 day training program that I was talking about next. Okay, so somebody was asking, will we get jobs with these NPTEL courses? How is it helpful to us and so on. When we do surveys of NPTEL students and where they have gotten placed, these are the companies that they have gotten placed so far. This is like some of the companies are on. It's not all the companies that they've gotten placed for. They have said that the NPTEL courses have really helped them when they went for the interviews. When they show a certificate to the interviewer and say, I did a course with the IITs, I got so much marks in that course, it really does help in the job interview. So those people also ask questions on that, assuming you've studied well and you can answer. It will definitely help you that outside of the college syllabus, you have done something more to learn and skill yourself. Also, companies approach us and ask us, do we have students in particular areas that we can send them their resumes? So we also collect resumes of students on our site. And if they're interested, we send these out to the companies and the companies call them for interviews, go through their levels of recruitment. And we have been able to place NPTEL students from our side also in some companies. So we are still working on it. I hope this will increase. We are talking with more companies on this front. But otherwise, even if you have like two or three courses from NPTEL and the certificates for it, I think it will be hugely useful because of the logos we put on the certificate. The next one, there are a lot of students, learners, faculty who do multiple courses with us. There are people who do the courses, maybe they do three courses in a semester, four courses in a semester. They are toppers into a three courses every semester. There are people who have done a lot of courses with us. I'll maybe show you the data on the next one. But this is another type of recognition we give to NPTEL learners. So you can go to NPTEL website and at the top we have a link called NPTEL stars. So click on that link, click on any of this. You will see how many people are actually doing multiple courses with us. So if students are thinking, oh, I don't have time and I'm so busy, I can't do it. You should just see these pages to see how come these people who are working professionals, who are students in colleges just like you or who are maybe studying or faculty or something, how are they able to get the time to do so many courses? If they can get the time, I think anybody can get the time.  So this page I would say, please go and see. So these are the kind of domain scholars, superstars, evangelists and all we have. We have more than about 3000 as I can just calculate on the fly that we are going to have these people doing multiple courses and they are NPTEL stars with us today. So there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last two years. So what is a domain? So a domain we have created just to club courses together and maybe about five or six courses we have put together. And we say that if you study this six courses and you get more than 60 in the course in each course, not just pass it by getting a 40, then you get a domain scholar certificate. So why is this important? This is important because it shows that you have specialized in a particular area. For instance we have a programming domain. So in the programming domain we have courses such as C, C++, Python, database management course and then maybe cloud computing course and so on. So if you do a programming domain and you do all the six courses, it shows that you have a solid foundation in this particular area. So when you go for an interview and you actually show a domain certificate versus just one or two certificates from us that will make more of an impact on the interviewing person. So this is something we recommend. It is more just to guide students on what to study to become and specialize in one particular area. We found that many NPTEL learners do four or five courses but they do random courses that are not connected to each other. So this domain will guide you in what to study if you want to specialize in a particular area. We have about 53 domains today in all branches of engineering, management, English and for faculty we have a faculty domain basic and advanced also so that you can also go through that part of it. So you can go to our website. There are more details on domains there. You can we can talk about it later too. Okay. Yeah, so these are some of the domains we have. So for you, it might be relevant the English studies we have a domain psychology we have a domain management we have it in marketing operations, patents and intellectual property and economics and of course engineering and all we have a couple of domains. If you're a general student, not an engineering student, I would recommend the programming domain for you if you want to try out something do the programming domain or do the management domain that will be really useful for you. So if you're an engineering student of course you can try any of the domains relevant in your particular discipline of engineering or you can do a cross discipline. So for instance I'm maybe mechanical engineer. I like electrical engineering. You can actually do the courses in electrical engineering and you can get a domain from there.  You cannot study electrical engineering say power systems course power electronics course. You're not allowed to study that there is no such thing like that. Anybody can study any course as long as you can cope with it. So you can also do a cross department study by doing domains from any of what is listed here. This is what a domain certificate looks like we give this we list all the courses you have done and we assign it out of course from the specific IIT that we are giving it from. So how do we do lab courses is it online. Not really we do it in the institutes. We do it in various institutes such as ICERS IIT you can come here you can stay for a week at the Institute. You can do the lab experiments. You can listen to faculty giving one or two lectures in the day and then do a lab exam and take a certificate. So what is the advantage of this. You will get to see really modern labs you will get to see what the state of the art labs are in these institutes. You can see the equipment that is there the modern equipment that is there you can see the advanced research that is happening here. You can interact and get explained on all this equipment. So we had very successful labs being run at all these places. This is a wonderful opportunity. Again if you do the theory course in NPTEL those people we will permit that you can apply and come for these lab certification courses and you can do the workshops here. Okay. So that was the idea behind the question we asked you. What else do we do at NPTEL. This is for faculty in colleges. So faculty in colleges under the AICT scheme. We explicitly have an MOU with them where NPTEL advanced courses if you do and pass you will get an AICT approved FTP certificate. So that is for faculty in AICT colleges for those under the UGC scheme. They have given a broad guideline that if you do swyam courses there will be some career progression points. The actual logistics I'm not sure you'll have to check within your university. So that is something that is there. But we see that more than about 20, 30,000 faculty write our exams every semester and most of them apply for the FTP certificates also.  Stay for a week or stay for 10 days and then do an FTP course. You can do the FTP course online itself just like the students. You join for free on swyam portal.  Once you get your certificate you can apply for the FTP certificate to us and get that too. That's all it takes to do an FTP course with us today. So this is very important for faculty. I hope this is clear. This is what the FTP certificate looks like. You can see that it has the signature of the director from AICT also. There is a regulation under which they have approved this, the AICT logos there. So this you can present when you are going in for your promotion interviews. The conversion that they do is a four week NPTEL course is equivalent to half FTP of one week. An eight week NPTEL course is a full FTP of one week and a 12 week course is equivalent to one and a half weeks FTP equivalent. So this is the equivalent of it. Okay. Yes. The next thing I wanted to talk about was gate coaching. So we have started a new link on our website and somebody has given us CSR money for developing this and providing whatever. I wouldn't call it coaching but yes, gate preparation, whatever we can help students with to have and prepare for gate exams free again. We are trying to do from our side. So you can go here and we have given solutions to all the previous gate questions. We have given videos solving those questions. We have extra questions that are coming up practice questions that will be coming up small courses linking all the videos that are relevant to dates. We will be coming up phase one is only over phase two and phase three. We will be coming up within the next six months. So keep watching this link on NPTEL website. If you are preparing for the gate exam. Okay. That is one new initiative we have come up with the next initiative exams outside of India. So till 2020, we were doing exams only in India where you have to go to a center and you have to write it. And then we got a lot of requests from people outside of India saying they also study from NPTEL courses and they want to write exams with us. So now we help to do that also. India can also write exams, NPTEL exams and get certificates from us. Okay. Yeah. So translation is the next effort. So for people who are asking in what languages do we offer courses. The faculty teach only in English for now, but the English transcripts we translate into eight languages. So we do Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi. So that's the languages that we are translating it into. So Telugu, we have a lot of transcripts that are translated into Telugu language. So the faculty will talk in English, but you can also read what we have translated in Telugu or Tamil or Hindi, whatever is your language and you can understand it better. We are keeping the videos in English so that you also learn English because when you go to work somewhere, English will be the primary language you have to communicate in. So this is something we're doing. One or two courses we are getting in regional language. For instance, this time in January, we are doing a machine learning course in Tamil language. The faculty is going to teach in Tamil language. There is a signals and systems course that is coming out in Hindi language. In July semester, we are getting an R programming course in Hindi language. So only two or three we have most are in English. We don't have too many other language courses. So that's something you can check. Let me take a question from the chat. There are one or two saying I'm from commerce background. I'm from B.com. What courses we can take? So for B.com students, we do have a lot of accounts related courses. You can check those out. Go to management department. I'll show you how to filter and learn from it. You can go there and you can see how to do it. So you can check out management related courses in which we have accounts related commerce, economics related courses. That's something you can learn. Or if you're learning all that anyway in your college, right? I would strongly recommend programming courses for you all. Learn at least one programming language to know what is programming? How do people program? Whether you write the exam or not, I would say please write the exam. But yes, even if you don't write the exam, at least try a course, do the assignment, see whether you can do something about it. Or if you're not doing that, I would propose the English courses. I would propose the German language or the Japanese language course that you can learn from. Those are what we have. Quite a few for you to choose from. I would say more than 100. We would have for B.com level students at least. So these are translation, how many courses we have in each language. So in Telugu, we have 48 courses that are translated for now. So that's what we have. We have also something called special lecture series. So we also have industry people come in and present lectures. So these are again free to watch very interesting topics, very, very distinguished people who come and present lectures. These are vice presidents, CEOs, CEOs of companies like IBM, Camp Germany, Infosys that we've had in the past. IAS officers who have come and spoken to us, film directors who's come and spoken to us, journalists in the Hindu, a director at Hindu entrepreneurs. So I would really say you should go and watch these lectures when you have time. Even if you missed it last year, it's okay. But listening to such people is very inspirational. You know what they have done, how they have worked, how they have brought up new companies, how they started a company. Where did they get their idea from? These are all really interesting to listen to. I would say please go back and listen to some of these lectures. It will give you a tremendous amount of information, knowledge and maybe there'll be some topic to talk about also. When somebody asks you something, it will widen your knowledge base. This is something that you can see. And if you're wondering saying how many students study, how many courses, right? Maybe you think some students study only one or two courses and that's all we can do. That's what is useful. Look at this. There is one learner who has done 47 NPTEL exams with us. That's as good as a degree program or more than the degree program that all of you are doing. How many courses you'll do there? I don't know. Maybe if you're doing a BSE, it's six into six, maybe 36 courses. Or if it's a BTEC also, if I say six courses per semester, it's about 48. So you're equivalent to that. Okay. So there is one learner who's done 47 exams, 34 exams, 33 exams, 32 exams and so on. So you can see maximum people, yes, 5.6 lakhs do one exam. But there are 1.4 lakhs who are doing two exams, 48,000 doing three. And if you look up to 10 exams even, right? A lot of them are doing 10 exams, eight exams with us. So maybe you should think about and plan for how you're going to, since you're going to do as you are in college and every semester try to do at least one or two NPTEL courses and finish with a certificate. That'll be really nice that you can do that with your college. Okay. This is something we wanted to say. Who are these people who are doing these courses? They are employed, they are faculty members, they are students, all people like you. So it's not like these people come suddenly from somewhere or they are also special. They are so privileged, nothing like that. They are there in all towns, in all kinds of environment. They also have their constraints, but they are also studying from these courses and doing multiple courses. Okay. This is what the certificate looks like. It has the Swayam logo and it has the NPTEL logo. Then it has your photo on the certificate. It has, as you can see the elite tag, the gold medal. You can just put it here to say, if you fall under these categories, you can see all these coming on your certificate. Then the institutes of IT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this book, you can see IT Madras logo there. IT Madras, the name will be put there, signatures from our site will come and so on. So this is the way that you can see how the certificate looks. We had 20 lakh people who joined our courses in January semester. 20 lakhs who joined our July semester. And in 2021, we had 16 lakhs who joined the Jan semester. 16 lakhs who joined our July semester. So it's not 5,000. It's not 10,000. It's not one lakh like I'm seeing on the chat window here, but it is 16 lakhs who was our enrollment number last semester. Out of these exams, those who have written over the last five years, it is 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us. And they've gotten so our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last seven years from when we are running this certification project. We have finished 3,500 courses almost and enrollment is 1.58 crores. 15 lakhs exam registration, that's the thing. So you can see how big NPTEL is. NPTEL is not something that we are doing 100, 200, 500 people or something like that. Every semester when we conduct exams in March and April, it's 3 lakh people who write our exams. So that's the level at which we do. We conduct exams all over the country in about 170 cities. We conduct exams outside India like we said. So this is our data. So if somebody tells you, okay, I haven't heard of NPTEL. You should really tell them saying that 15 lakh people enroll every semester and 3 lakh people write exams. How come you're missing out? That's the answer I will give them. Okay, you can see a lot of feedback about NPTEL on our social media handles. We keep regularly posting about it. We are present on Instagram, on Facebook, on YouTube community. And you can see all the feedback that we have. People have gotten through this off-skill training, have done our courses, course feedback, everything is available here. So do subscribe to our social media handles so that you can get updates from our site. Okay, I'll just give a brief on NPTEL local chapter because I don't know how many of you are faculty from different colleges who are not a local chapter with us. So NPTEL works with about 4,500 colleges today across the country. And we have coordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact or SPOCs. And through them is how we are so successful. So thanks to all the local chapter SPOCs, whoever is watching this workshop today or is not watching the workshop today, whoever is anywhere, they are the champions for NPTEL within the colleges. Without them, I don't think NPTEL would have grown so much. So thanks to all the SPOCs of the local chapters. And I would like to just briefly say how you can become a local chapter. If there's somebody watching who's not at a local chapter. So to become an NPTEL local chapter, there is no money involved. There is no financial dealing. You just need to send us an email saying that you want to become a local chapter. There's a Google form in the website, fill it up. And we need a coordinator in your college who will be our local champion. So the head of the institution, the director, the principal, whoever has to send an email saying that we would like to become a local chapter and so and so will be the single point of contact for NPTEL. And that's all. Once we receive the email, we verify some details and we will make you a local chapter. So why should you become a local chapter? Can students and faculty from colleges who are not local chapters participate in NPTEL? Yes, totally. You can participate. You can be a free learner. You can learn from our courses without belonging to a local chapter. But having a local chapter in a college is a big advantage. There are logins that the single point of contact to the SPOC has. One is a login on Swyam portal. One is a login on our NPTEL website. And here they get information related to enrollment, exam registration, the marks, the transcripts, the certificates. All of this is given to the SPOC directly that they can actually see and they can share with their management. Also, the other benefits are if we don't have a center in your particular city, you can request for that. If they have more than 200 people writing exams, we can facilitate centers in your particular city. Faculty can become mentors. You can follow the progress of your students in the colleges that you can do. Another important thing I will say is we have CSR support from companies who also give us money to help students from economically weaker backgrounds to write exams. So this fee waiver we give only to local chapters. So if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds, if they are doing NPTEL courses, writing exams, once they pass it, we will refund 50% of the fee to them based on the college's recommendation. So that is something that you can do. Also, all this data that we give to the SPOC can be directly shared with bodies such as NAC and NBF and they come for accreditation. And you can say that we are showing this data inside your dashboard. That has also been very helpful for colleges is what we came to know. These are local chapters that we have. This is a state-wise distribution. I think Maharashtra is a high as followed by Tamil Nadu. And of course, we have these. Telangana comes in maybe fourth, seventh position with 234 local chapters currently. Every semester we also, we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries. They're not very active, but yes, they do keep using our courses as they can. We also rate local chapters every semester based on the participation from their side in the particular semester. So how many people have become toppers? How many people have written exams? How many people have done well? Based on it, we also rank and rate the college local chapters and we publish this list publicly on our website every semester. Other interactions with local chapter people, we do soft-skill training like I already spoke about it. We take help of people here to go to exam centers as our representatives. Faculty can help in translation efforts. And yes, like I said, we rate it and we give recognition to the spark and the college also every semester. So these are certificates that we give them based on the formula that we have to the college and the spark. These are other categories that we have based on faculty participation, based on how local chapters improve semester after semester. There's a separate category for art, science colleges also. Star LC who have been in the top 10 or top 100 over the last four years, that's something that we have done. That's it as a presentation that we had today. So I hope you learned about NPTEL about what we do here. The NPTEL office, the head office is in IIT Madras. We have our head office here. About 70 people work in NPTEL office in IIT Madras. We have smaller offices in IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharappur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Gahati, Bombay, Delhi and IAC Bangalore also. And we all work together to keep this project going. It's one of the most successful inter-institutional project that eight institutes come together to work on this project and kind of run it without a break and to kind of offer 2000 courses that we have today. That's what we want to say. So my suggestion and you can say maybe I'm old enough to advise all the young students out here also is try out NPTEL courses today. Go and go to Swayam website, join a few courses, learn from it, sample the videos there. You may or may not be able to follow certain videos. You may not like certain courses. Maybe some courses are difficult. It's okay. You can drop off. It is not like a college course that once you join a course, you have to be in that course. You have to complete that course. Otherwise somebody will think something. Somebody will ask you something or maybe a paid fees that will get wasted. There is nothing like that in an NPTEL course. So you can join in five courses. You can join in 10 courses and you can try out week one videos. You can see what you're interested in and then shortlisted to maybe one or two courses, follow it up, see whether you're able to do assignments. Maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester but follow it till the end. Do all the assignments. You can watch all the videos, register for the exam. Do the exam and become a talker in it. I think that's something that is very, very doable. I hope you were able to get that message as we presented in the last one and a half hours. That is what we were trying to tell you that don't be afraid that these courses are from IITs. I cannot do it. It will be very difficult. There are 15 lakh people who have written exams with us so far. It is not like all of them are coming out from IITs or they're all like very well accomplished. They're all coming from highly studious background, something like that. They're also students just like you in any college. What you need is the interest to study. What you need is the motivation. You have to put out time. It is not like two days before the NPTEL exam. Let me study and get a certificate. You will not get a certificate. Every week you have to watch videos. Every week you have to do the assignment. Then you can definitely get a certificate. So you need hard work and it will pay off. But it is not like I cannot do it. There is no such thing as I cannot do an NPTEL course. Anybody can do an NPTEL course. We showed you people from age 86 years doing NPTEL courses. We showed you people from all nook and corners of the country doing NPTEL courses. There is local language translation support of transcripts in some courses that will help you understand the subject better. Your faculty are there to help you if you do not understand something. Your friends are there to help you if you all join a course together. Discussion forum is there. Ask questions. Ask doubts if you have something there. But try out and learn something which is outside of your college curriculum. Today when companies are looking for recruitment, one of the things they see is okay, your college degree is there. Apart from this, what have you done? That is something that all of them are looking at. Are you able to learn on your own? Are you able to study outside of college curriculum? Are you picking up any skills that are relevant for any job you might be trying for? This is something that companies do look out for. It's not just a resume saying BSE with this, VA with this. That might be one thing. But then we look at what else? What else? What else? That is something that all of us look out for when we are recruiting people. So it might be good to have a few certifications to at least get your skills enhanced to learn what you're interested in to try and explore new opportunities that are there. It is free. There is no fee to learn. You can download and watch the videos. You can download and do the courses. You can enroll in swimming courses and do it. Only the final exam has a thousand rupees fee. That also we are giving fee waivers if you're a local chapter so you can use that also. You have to pay first, get your exam done, pass the course. We will be able to help you with fee waivers on that front also. So don't let money be a barrier. Don't let anything else be a barrier. Put in your time. Put in your effort. Learn from NPTEL. Get skilled and I hope you do much, much better. Till then, all the best and I hope that all of you do enroll to a course. Thank you. Yes. So thank you very much. Sorry. Yes, sir. You can pass it. You can try this. Yeah. My name is Rajkumar Thor. I'm a SPLC of LC 211.  Yeah. Okay. So today we organized NPTEL workshop. E workshop for guidance of technology. And I'm working as an SPLC since last 10 years. So I have a vast experience of this MOOC courses. And even though I'm regularly contacting with. So I'm NPTEL team. And regularly motivating our college students as well as nearby college students also. For enrolling MOOC courses. So as a madam Martin, I'm already discussed about this. There are nine different coordinators are there. Okay. Sorry. Here are eight only. And one of the national coordinators is NPTEL and it's specially focusing on the engineering degree courses. So I am belongs to engineering cause engineering college. So NPTEL is very, very important for our students. So the Swayam is an umbrella activity by the government of India and for motivating the learners to for the self learning and free learning. It's a completely free learning already. So I told you about this learning and it is the best platform, even though the big bodies like AICT, UGC also recommended these courses for the learner. And the University of Mumbai also recommended in their syllabus copy learner should go for the NPTEL courses. Right now in guidance of technology. I am working as a noodle officer for ABC and I have collected from the students 90% of the students in their ABC ID generated and collected and submitted to the University of Mumbai. Now, all the learner already updated their profile. I appeal the GITN to update their NPTEL profile and to enter their ABC ID. And the next is now you know very well, these MOOC courses can be considered as an FDP courses by the AICT. This kind of circular already came. And as for the National Education Policy 2020, these MOOC courses around it 40% of weightage is given for the learner should go for the MOOC courses. So every semester NPTEL, I am very much impressed with the NPTEL team because every semester NPTEL team is coming with the new initiatives like the domain certification, mentors, NPTEL stars, NPTEL emerging stars and number of different initiatives every year they are giving. And these MOOC courses how beneficial to the students and the staff already Barthimam experienced. So I am just rapidly revising it understanding the subjects in the game. Then it is very much important for the research notion. I guess you can interact with the IT professors or you can interact with number of different thousands of lakhs of learners. Those are end all for that course. Learner also take the knowledge from the IT professors and doing these courses three courses improve their soft field personalities and your competition is not only your class is not with you in the States. It's not national even though it's an international level competition now. So from international just madam told the number of LCS are already active from foreign countries and learners are enrolling from the different countries and they are also competing with these kind of students, our students. So flexibility to learn. So anytime you can clear your doubts anybody, anyone and anywhere can learn this kind of NPTEL courses. Advanced technology teaching methodologies are used by the IT professors. So you can avail the facilities of this. The next is in the number of courses the industry environment orientation projects are also given and to improve the more of the self-learning by the learners this kind of so move courses are very important. Now if you're involved with some branch computer or any mechanical but here there is no branch Brown. So you can enroll for any courses from six hundred six hundred sixty courses are running so you can enroll for any code that is multi-skilling is a key to success. Now this is very very important already ma'am shown the data of how the students are benefit from the placement perspective how the students can do the internship at IIT and how these MOOC courses are important for the eight and various competitive examinations. So I'm very much happy to announce that this is the old data but NPTEL felicitated by the president of India because of the best e-learning resource. So I'm telling about now some fact about the local chapter my local chapter so garden stop technology local chapter form on the year of 2011 by Mr Bhavesh Patel he was an ex-library and here after that I'm handling this responsibility of SBOC and I arranged here NPTEL awareness workshop at garden stop technology and it is conducted by the IIT Bombay team and nearby around 80 colleges principles and their representatives visited and then after that they form local chapter in their institute 10 institutes form the local chapter after that workshop. I'm regularly motivating my college students and sparing the awareness about the importance of MOOC courses not only my colleges even though nearby colleges also I'm visiting and taking the lectures and spreading the awareness about the MOOC courses. In our college by the principles are formed MOOC task force and in that some senior faculty members and some enthusiastic students are also taken and though all MOOC complete MOOC task force is working for sparing the awareness about the MOOC courses. Then garden stop technology LCE 211 also form MOOC promotional policy in that every semester we are soliciting the students at the end at the start of the semester we are soliciting the students those are the MOOC certified and if the students got 90% in above if he is a gold medal then we are giving 500 rupees cash prize by the garden stop technology LCE 211. We have 8 p.m. of offline data on this portal <IP_ADDRESS> slash MTK. So garden stop technology learner any staff or student can access this address and you can freely download or watch without internet this offline data is available with us on our server. So every year this LCE enrolling approximately 900 plus learners. The learner are increasing every year by this local chapter but the examination is not to satisfactory mark from my side. It's around 100 every semester. So I got four time active SQC certificate last cycle also I received it but I'm giving this to my whole students and staff those are actively enrolled MOOC courses and got their success with the students and stop success SQC getting the certificate so I'm just giving this to all the active learners. Then our faculty member also very much in active in mentor certification. They are helping the students for this MOOC courses and giving doing the mentoring. So garden stop technology got 8 mentor certificates up till now and gold medal. So talking about the gold medal so total 10 gold medals we received from NPTEL and 8 staff members from that 8 staff members and 2 students got the gold medal. 90% and above score in their individual courses. I'm happy to share with you all our faculty members also work as a translator and reviewer for the Marathi courses and Dr. N. A. Koelker, professor SD Latkar and professor R. B. Porn that's myself work as a translator and reviewer for various courses. So at the final this is the time to give in a root of thanks. So I met with professor Andrew and who started this big project keeping the big dream in mind and definitely in future generation will definitely shine with this e-learning and I met with 2 Bharti MAMs one from the IIT Bombay and one from the IIT Madras just now whatever the section is conducted by Ms. Bharti MAM IIT Madras. I'm very much impressed with how the Bharti MAM talk and motivates every SPOC even though in the just today's talk Bharti MAM not forget to recognize the SPOC's contribution. So SPOC is not going to take any money from anywhere and is ma'am always told that Bharti MAM always told that SPOC is a self-motivated person. So I'm really thankful by management and Bharti MAM and NPTEL team for regular support to all the SPOC's. Then Divya MAM and Priyadarshini MAM thank you very much for handling this and whatever the problems we are facing SPOC I am discussing with Nisha MAM, Divya MAM, Priyadarshini MAM and they are regularly with a quick response they are solving our problems. Kambla MAM also very helpful and I am regular touch with Kambla MAM also. So thank you very much to all the team of NPTEL IIT Madras and all the listeners of Garden Stop Technology for patiently listening and on behalf of Garden Stop Technology LC I am appealing here to all the Garden Stop Technology IITM to take the benefit of these NPTEL courses during your engineering. I am very much thankful to IIT Madras NPTEL team for arranging this this is a superb awareness workshop and definitely our students will get the benefit of from this workshop. Thank you very much all these whatever the contribution passive contributions by all the team members given in that in this workshop. Thank you professor Rajkumar sir Thanks for the wonderful session Thanks Thank you to join this session sir mainly the new team sir Thank you madam and we will share the feedback link in the description box sir so all the feedbacks can fill this feedback form and then they can get participation certificates only the faculty members Thank you madam Thank you sir Studio team from IIT Madras


So, welcome everyone to the Hyperlayer Global Forum and to my presentation around blockchain interoperability, a demo using Cactus. My name is Enrique Alcázar and I'm the Tech Product Manager at Accenture currently working with Cactus. So the first thing that we want to address before we get to the code is why you would want or why would someone want to use Cactus. There are three main points, the first one being that we want to address blockchain fragmentation. Blockchains were designed with the idea of destroying silos and now we just have tons of different networks that are siloed from each other. Cactus can help those different networks talk to each other. It also saves the application developers from having to reinvent the wheel every time they want to do something new, every time they want to do something, every time they want to iterate over what they have. And finally, they heavily lower the risk of adopting specific DLT technologies by businesses. This means that if today you choose to build your application on top of a specific blockchain protocol, let's say that you build your solution on top of fabric and you have a client that just has a BESU network and they want you to move to their Hyperlayer BESU network, you can do so with close to zero effort. And we can do this thanks to the concept of plugins and thanks to how we are using all of those plugins. Here on the top left, we are seeing the most simple example of a plugin that we have and that is the Keychain plugin. Specifically, it's the Keychain memory plugin. This is a plugin that's just purely used to store data on memory. And in order to make this accessible to other plugins, sometimes we emulate processes such as key management directly within this plugin, Keychain memory. But again, the power here of a plugins is that you can do this during development because as you can see, it's trivially easy to use. We just define a map where we are defining, for example, the contract APIs that we are going to be using and then we can store, if we want into this map, more contract APIs for different functions that we may want to use. So contract name and right here we have the JSON when we are using the Keychain plugin. The advantage of using plugins in this manner is that if tomorrow we want to store all of these APIs instead of in, let's say, on the memory itself, we want to store them onto a specific cloud provider's environment, we do have plugin keychains that allow you to connect to those environments. And just by changing the Keychain plugin definition that we have here, you will automatically be storing all of this information, whatever you want. And again, if you have a specific place that's right now not part of the that there's not a cactus plugin portal just yet, it's as easy as implementing the same interface, which are all defined and are all as trivial as possible. And just by defining that interface, you can have all of your code that you did for a POC compatible for a production, just by basically updating and upgrading where the calls are made, where the connectors reside. This is something really, really important. That's another principle that we have in cactus is that it has to be secure and it has to be integral by default. We'll see what that means later on. Here we have a more core plugin to cactus, which are the connectors themselves. The plugin connectors are the plugins that are in charge of speaking with the different blocks and protocols. In this case, we are seeing the plugin for HyperLayer Besu. And as you can see, we do more or less the same stuff that we do when we are using Web3. We want to keep that compatibility with the most popular tools out of the box. So behind the scenes, cactus is still using all of those tools. And here on the right, we can see how we are invoking a contract. You can see that we are using the same connector. And we just have to define the contract name, the kitchen ID, the sign-in credential, because we might want to change this, say, for a sign-in credential that's on a hash you got bought, the invocation type, the method name, and the parameters that we're calling. Something that you may already notice here, if you've been working on this for a while, is that all of these things that we are seeing here, they are compatible across most DLT protocols. What this means is that if tomorrow, as we said before, you want to change from Besu to Fabric, you simply change what the plugin connector looks like here. And then you just do a replace to say that you are using, instead of a Web3 sign-in credential, you're using a hash you got signed-in credential, for example. You do a replace for your invocation type. So you're using invocation type compatible with Fabric. And your whole application and your whole stack just works. It still works in the exact same way. We also have the concept of plugin registries. Our applications can be made, the backend of your application can be made basically by just putting plugins together, including the business logic which can be defined on plugins we're going to see now. So we're going to go through an example, which is going to showcase three different entities that are interacting with each other through a supply chain that each of them are connected exclusively to their own blockchain network. So right now, on my machine, I'm running three blockchain networks for Hyperlayer Besu, one for Go Quorum, and another one for Hyperlayer Fabric. Each of them has a separate role. And we're going to be seeing how we can create an asset on Besu. We can turn that asset into a different asset into Quorum and how we can ship that using Fabric. So here in the first one, right now, I have the role of the bamboo harvester, and I can submit a new bamboo harvest details. When I create this, it appears here, and now this is only in the scope of my Hyperlayer Besu network. Now, if I want to create a bookshelf, here I can select which bamboo harvest I want to use from the Hyperlayer Besu network. This one is the one that I just created. And obviously, I can configure any data that I want, that I have defined in my smart contract, which we'll see later on. And here I have created my bookshelf. And I want to ship it using Fabric because the shipment companies, they use Fabric. So here I just defined my bookshelf that I just created, and I click on Submit, and there it appears. So here what we've shown is how we can use three different, is how we can have the same application with three different entities or members of the same consortium across three different DLTs. I agree that a bamboo harvest was created, that it was used for something, it was consumed, and that it was shipped to a specific part, to a specific place. Now going back to the presentation, here we can see what the smart contracts look like. They are basically Solidity smart contracts here we're showing the smart contracts for the Besu and Quorum ones because this demo, we're going to focus on that. And basically, we can insert records. We can recover all of the records. And the same thing for both of them. Just that one is for the bamboo harvest, and the other one is for the bookshelves themselves. The model for the bookshelf entity, for example, is the one that defined that bookshelves has a number of shelves, as we've seen in the demo. The connector themselves, this is probably, and with some luck, the one that you will have to actually touch on the use and never modify, because we're working on supporting as many protocols as possible, not just most popular ones. But obviously, if there is no support right now for a specific protocol that you're using, you will have to implement your own i-plugging ledger connector, as we're seeing here, with the functions that we have here. And when we created, you can see that behind the scenes, we're still using Web3. You can see that we're still using a plug-in registry, as we've said before, in order to leverage Prometheus metrics collections. And we do some logging behind the scenes. But whenever you are invoking a function, as we've seen, we are using Web3 behind the scenes. So it's basically an abstraction ledger as well for all of the popular SDKs that are used to develop blockchain applications. The business logic is maybe a little bit more complicated to understand and to go through. Here, we can see again how we are creating a plug-in ledger connector in order to send transactions. And here on the right, we have the full registry that we were using for the demo application that we just saw. We are using the plug-in consortium manual, which allows us to manage consortiums, which is leverage for the demo that we just saw. We need to create meta consortiums now if we have different networks involved. And in here, you can define the keys that you're using for that consortium. You can define where that consortium is stored, where it is the consortium database, where we are going to be pulling information from, et cetera. And here, we have a new supply, a supply chain package plug-in, which is basically the business logic plug-in that was developed for this application. It's important to say that you don't have to create a business plug-in for your application, a business logic plug-in for your application if you don't want. You can develop them in a traditional way and just leverage the connectors individually, as we've seen before. But by doing things this way, we create a really consistent and cohesive way to interact with your application into one. What does this look? Well, basically, the supply chain plug-in that I have defined on my code, I can see that it's going to be using three different clients, that it's going to have a web design credential for the best on coding components. And from the front end, if in my business logic plug-in, I just basically implement, for example, the functionality to insert bamboo harvest endpoints directly from the front end, I can just call supply chain API dot whichever method I want to call in here. This means that just from me clicking the bottom of confirming the creation, the front end developer only needs to say that he wants to do this. And behind the scenes, this is using the business logic plug-in, which is using the different connectors of plug-ins which are using the different signer and signing mechanisms. So what this could translate to a production ready application is a line of code for the front end developer. And we are securely invoking a smart contract by securely connecting to a node, but also by securely signing that transaction whatever we want. For example, we have a connector for HashiCoreVault. So you could be signing your transaction into a HashiCoreVault itself, just by clicking a button on the front end. So yeah, we've seen the demo. Here you have a couple of links. If you want to try to run this into your own environment, you will need a powerful machine specifically for this demo because this demo, as we said before, is running three different blockchain networks. And the easiest way to run this and to test this is to run this command. Because as we've done for absolutely everything, everything in Cactus is dockerized. So from our unique tests to our more complex demo applications to the individual plugins, you can instantiate and use and run everything as a microservice if you want as well because everything can live within a container. So yeah, that's basically everything that we wanted to cover for the demo. If you want to try this out, the easiest way to do so is to join some of our daily per-programming sessions. You can visit that link, and you can also just look into the hyper-layer calendar schedule. And every day, we spend some time with the community doing per-programming in case they have a specific problem. We jump into a line with them, and we try to get their environment set up to try to help them build their first application. We're still working on Cactus. It's still a fairly early stages in terms of its documentation. So the best way to actually learn is getting your hands dirty and what better way to do so than actually working with the maintainers of the solution. So we encourage everyone to talk to us through a rocket chat, obviously, to join on the main list, obviously, as everyone else. But if you are actually interested on doing some development with this, please do join these sessions, and we'd be there to help you out. So that's everything for the presentation and the demo. And we just wanted to leave around four minutes to quickly discuss any potential questions.