Good morning all of you. On behalf of NPTEL IT Bombay, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all the principals, SPOC's, mentors, professors, IT madras, coordinators, my colleagues and all the representatives who have gathered here. We are very happy to have you here with us today and thank you for accepting our invitation and making it here. In the last SPOC workshop which was held on 5th July 2016, we had 800 plus local chapters but in the last few years these numbers have increased to 1400 plus and now we can proudly say that we have 1400 local chapters all over the country. We are delighted and honored to have our NPTEL coordinators with us today. I request Nisha to welcome them on stage. Professor Shivgaukar, Principal Investigator, NPTEL IT Bombay, Professor Shridhar Ayer, Headsteadip and Co-PI NPTEL, Professor Pratap Haridu's coordinator IIT Madras and Bharti Ma'am Senior Project Officer NPTEL, IIT Madras. Hope you all have got the kits. The TA form is available in the kits. I request you all to fill the form and submit it after the lunch. We will now be starting today's sessions. Now I request Professor Shridhar Ayer, Headsteadip and Co-PI NPTEL to say a few words. Thank you. Just to give you a brief background, CDEEP is the center for distance engineering education at IIT Bombay and it's the body through which we carry out a lot of outreach programs and content creation and so on. Professor Shivgaukar actually was the first head of this center so I don't really have to say more and he's also the Principal Investigator of the NPTEL project at IIT Bombay since its inception. So with that I'll hand over to him and we'll go ahead. Good morning friends. First of all a very warm welcome to IIT Bombay in this SPOC workshop which we conduct regularly. Not only IIT Bombay but all IITs actually conduct these workshops in different zones and in IIT Bombay we conduct in the western zone. So as mentioned last workshop was held almost one and a half year back and we are again here and first of all I should thank you because the response was really overwhelming. We got a registration of something like 170 plus and after some time we had to put some restrictions of having a company person along with the SPOC convener and so on. So our apology for restricting the entry for the workshop but really good to see all of you here. Dr. Pratap and I think Bharti they will tell you more details about the current state of what is happening in the NPTEL but what I'm going to do is to give you a little more perspective of how NPTEL came. Many of you might be knowing it but some of you might be new they may not know the history and it is always good to know how much we have come. You know when we started, how we started and how much we have come is a long way we have traveled in NPTEL program. The NPTEL program actually started it was under discussion from 98-99 but finally it got approved in 2001 by MHRD and that time essentially five IITs and ISC were involved and the objective of the program it had a very novel cause in some sense that the need was felt that there are many institutions which are coming in the country, the engineering institutions and there is acute shortage of the faculty in these colleges. However the entry of the students was always very good because 90 plus in the 12th standard they get entry into engineering programs but when they come into the program there are not enough teachers in these colleges. So MHRD along with IITs they wanted to create the content at least that could be available to these bright students who are coming to these colleges and professor Anand who was the director of IIT Madras that time he was the lead he was the chairman of this this program and then there was representative from each IITs we could call them KOPIA if you want to have or the IIT representatives. So it was a highly coordinated program we started in around 2001 and today I must say very proudly that probably this is the one single program in this country which is so coordinated among all IITs and various institutions and it's so successful you know there are many programs. So there are many programs which came you know which work into two institutions three institutions but here now we are talking about you know all IITs together all NITs ISC all colleges which are participating into that so we are really proud that these are really come a very very long way. So initially in the what they call is the phase one the objective was at least cover the prime disciplines of engineering and that time five disciplines were there mechanical civil electrical electronics communication and computer science and we were asked to develop courses and that time it was not very clear that if you wanted to make this thing very interactive would the video lectures be the only one which would be the good good way some people thought that time maybe web courses will be much more interactive and so on and so on. So in the first phase by about 2005 about 120 video courses were recorded like classroom lectures and almost 120 web courses were were recorded and they were put onto the NPTEL website but when the feedback came from people the people still wanted to see the normally the way lectures are conducted in the classrooms so the web courses were there people were using it but when you got the feedback from people they always thought no I think seeing a lecturer in the class mode is still probably a better option. So when the second phase of NPTEL came that time then the web portion was said well we will not focus on the web portion we will essentially create the video courses and then second phase then there was a very massive sort of meeting which took place in Chennai. So there are almost like 200 faculty came you know and and all the principal investigators were there and that time even though the disciplines which were not covered in the first phase they were taken into consideration even the postgraduate courses which were not there in the first phase they were they were taken into consideration and NPTEL committed thousand courses to be developed mostly in the video format and I must say again that by 2008-2009 not thousand but at least 900 plus courses were done you know so it's a very very large number and why I say that this is a great achievement for for our country is that during that time many of us used to visit even European countries or or US and people used to talk about MOOCs you know that we are doing MOOCs I happen to be in Netherlands and people who are boasting you know that we are doing MOOCs you know and so I asked them how many courses you do in MOOCs so he said five he said he asked me how much courses you do I said 500 so you couldn't believe it that we are doing a 500 courses you know which are online and still we don't know I mean don't talk too much about it in the external world so the OCW which started from MIT and NPTEL actually they all started almost at the same time and the courses but but the objective was OCW and NPTEL was very different the OCW objective was that that's the way we do in MIT these are the courses which are available you want it you take it if you don't want you don't take it sometimes you take it or leave it NPTEL objective was very different NPTEL objective was that can we really take a quality education into those places where the teachers are not available so the mandate which was given to NPTEL was very very different than OCW and that's that is an initially though the courses which we developed they were par excellence even in the international scenario most of the users they were from from India because the college students essentially and then when we did the survey we also found something interesting it is not the students who are undergoing this course as much more actively but the faculty are going through this course as much more actively so many of them want to teach the course first time and they don't know how to go about it so they just went through this course and then they started teaching it even within IIT we found something interesting there are many of us who did not do some course during our undergraduate or post graduate program but we were curious to know about it we just went through some other professor lectures through that you know I myself have done there for example Professor Balakrishnan from from IIT Madras his quantum mechanics course I I I've gone through it because I never studied quantum mechanics myself you know in that sense so even within IIT also people started seeing the benefit of this that well you can really unleash your knowledge you can learn some subject with yourself around not gone through and so on and so on later on when the sort of surveys were conducted and when the scope expanded and people came to know about this the foreign students for started using it so we get feedback from even the international community the student from very well established university in the United States that I went through this course and this is a course amazing course which I have gone through they even give the comments tell our professor how to teach courses you know so this was something very proud thing the Indian teachers are always well known you know they always teach very well but even that compliment coming from the western world that look these teachers are doing better job than even in the when no university in the US I think that was a very great recognition there however in US when you do this kind of activity there is nothing free in US you know nothing free in the in the western world the NPTEL is completely free so many time when people went through these courses and they were very very excited about it they were benefited by that many time they wrote to us well I did this course how do I pay about it and we said very you know humbly that you can't pay about it because you have no mechanism to collect money because image earlier already said that you can only make these courses but these courses cannot be used for commercial activities so initially money involved made available to you and this content whatever you are creating you have to deliver free to anybody who is who is there in the country of course in today's world nothing can remain confined to the country so it went outside the country and people started using it so it is not only the though the objective was primarily meant for Indian colleges essentially the the spread is now worldwide and there are many developing and developed countries also actually you are using this those these courses you know worldwide so that is something which is very very very satisfactory when this after 2011 when this courses will become matured and people started using it when we did the survey and we started talking to even the the the colleges and principals and various stakeholders every time we took the feedback from the students and the always the feedback used to come there there are great courses but how does it help us in our examination system because our examination system is very different the questions the way they are asked are very different so these courses are very good if you are very curious to know about something on your own but as far as your grades are concerned in the examination these courses really don't don't really matter much right and with that then very very cautious decision was taken by the ministry of human resource development and NPTEL that we will start a certification program it also started with the the well-known code which came from the the IT industry that only 20 people are employable in this country you know so NPTEL actually went to these people NASCOM and said what do you think we should teach so that they become employable and you will be surprised they came only with three things that if you teach these three things algorithm data structure and programming the people will become employable so NPTEL actually created this course and NASCOM and NPTEL together endorsed the certificates that this is the course which is endorsed by NASCOM it is covering the content which is required by the industry so that certificates probably can be taken to the industry and it may become more employable that was the beginning of a certification program in the NPTEL later on one that the computer science on the IT courses you know became available the need came more from every sector and why it came from every sector that by the time even the regulatory authorities have started realizing that there is no choice if you wanted to have really a credit based system or a flexible system in the university to give an option for the online education people were using some courses coming from some MIT or edX and and so on but a very solid consolidated effort was required so that anybody from the university wants to take the course and claim credits for it their structure should be available with that then the courses other disciplines also courses started happening and today the fifth phase of fourth phase of NPTEL what we call it is the NPTEL MOOCs now so originally the idea was create the content leave the content on the website anybody wants to use it let them use it and so on but in present phase that's not the objective the objective is create the content but also create a structure in which you can conduct a course you can give assignments you can conduct examination and at the end you are going to give a certificate to everybody with a proper marks and grades so that any institution or university wants to use those credits in their credit system the structure is available for them with that thing in place now now the AICT which is the prime body which is deciding the rules and regulations for engineering program after professor Anil Satharaput they went to AICT now they are saying that you can make even 15 percent courses mandatory in your program taken through the online courses here the curriculum which was designed very recently there was a national committee for every discipline the courses were there the focus actually was put as NPTEL so they said when you are designing a curriculum can you put NPTEL as a focus so that anybody wants to implement the curriculum in their institution at least the content is readily available to them right something like that so now AICT is on board right we say that this material can be used for credit purposes then the university grants commission also accepts that discourses can be used you know into your curriculum so I think now this NPTEL MOOCs program really is getting integrated into the university system still the credits which we are giving maybe university may not honor those credits directly but you will see later on that if we give you on marks the university can decide their own criteria for deciding marks you know what is the corresponding grade and so on and so on but at least the elective level courses which many of the institutions may not have expertise with they can really use these courses which are coming from NPTEL and integrate those courses into you into your program so that truly is the credit based structure with the Washington Accord sort of endorses that can be taken to the colleges without really having their own resources because these resources are going to be available to them right into that so that's where the structure today is so today the NPTEL program is a complete program starting from the lectures to the assignments to the evaluation to the to the certification and once that happens actually the scale is increasing now and this is a nationwide sort of examination which you have to conduct so Tata's came and they started actually having the proctored examination so online examination which are conducted there so now every semester we we run courses and you know which are which are having schedule and examination schedule and so on and so on but now if you imagine that all discipline if they start offering the courses in this mode this is going to be much more than gate or even even jee and incidentally we don't have that infrastructure because when you say gate gate is really a national examination everybody gets involved into it and still not to reach to that level there so we are very staff crunched we have very skeleton staff at IIT Bombay IIT Madras and all other IIT also and with that skeleton staff we are trying to actually do our best and try to conduct the examination on time and so on and so on but this scale is increasing and the system is becoming much more complex the media is playing a very great role now positive negative both because if you do something good you get a feedback immediately if you do something bad you get also the bats also very very quickly that the job was not done properly the examiner is not conducted on time the computer was down server was down all kinds of comments keep coming nevertheless we are quite happy with that in the sense that yes that means people are using it they are participating into the program and we are moving into the right direction the hurdles are there which we which will definitely solve so Barthi she is from IIT Madras I think she is going to tell you much more detail what difficulty she faces when he conducts the examination every semester right and so on so because we are having now Pratap he is from IIT Madras and Barthi from IIT Madras so now since it is a examination conducting body the central source actually is from IIT Madras they are the one who coordinate because it has to be extremely coordinated activity whether timelines are their fixed dates are there and so on and all other IITs actually provide the supports in the online format conducting examination putting the web on web portal and so on and so on but IIT Madras is the one which is the most coordinating Andrew Professor Andrew he is in the other conference while he will join little later so you will be able to visit him also in this conference so these are the people right to be used to be interacting with and if you have any questions or doubt regarding conduct of this right feel free to ask the question if you want to make a suggestion feel free to do that because ultimately our objective is that this program is your program it should go to you and you are the one who should use it as much as possible we will be the one which are facilitator right but ultimately you are the one your participation will be extremely important so before I close I just want to introduce the team from IIT Bombay right who are there and very small team she is Ria then you are having Bharti, Bharti Sakhpal then you are Nisha then you are Bharti Sarang these people work essentially on the coordination on the web for conducting examinations and so on and so on then you are having on camera you are having Ravi you are having Vijay and who else Amin is there and Tushar these are the video editor editing persons these people are actually working on this project for almost last 10 plus years so they know in and out of it right they know what is required how to how to create a proper video quality and so on and we should we are really again very happy that our video quality lectures are really very very good whatever the deterioration you see the deterioration is not because of the technical manpower the deterioration is because of MPEC4 so you should blame MPEC4 for for any deterioration and don't blame the people they have to call video quality was not good our video quality is always recorded into HD format right and you know we try to do the thing which is really very very best right so these are the these are the people who are there and they are going to be here whole day so you can also have any questions or doubts you can ask them so I wish you very best right have a good time here right and make this program as much successful and integrated in your system as possible my best wishes to you thank you okay before I close one more one more thing one more announcement this is probably my last meeting for NPTEL because I'm retiring next week so so I will not be now the part of NPTEL right so maybe Shizhar Aiyar is there of course but I'll tell you later so Shizhar Aiyar is there he's there so he's definitely going to be there so you will see the activity nothing is going to get changed except one percent will be less that's all thank you very much thank you sir thank you for giving us the brief about the NPTEL the historical background of the NPTEL now I think all of you have a good knowledge about the NPTEL so with this I would like to call upon a stage professor Pratap Haridu's coordinator NPTEL ITM for giving the presentation on NOC whatever we have done in the last few years so good morning first of all I thank all of you for coming here and I thank Professor Shivgankar who has really you know participated in a very major way in this whole initiative in fact we were completely unaware of what he was just announcing till you heard it as well so first of all I would like to also know thank you and congratulate you as well as your students for many things for participating in this process in such a you know involved manner in an interested manner and for all your students who have worked so hard you and all of you who have worked so hard that they all done well after all this is a felicitation activity that we are doing here so all of your colleges your local chapters and your students have really worked hard and done very well so we are so proud and so happy that you know we have this occasion to meet you all and you know share this whole process with you so thank you and I would like to give you all a hand so we have just I think a couple of presentations we in fact we have done many workshops and so on shown lot of data at various workshops this is slightly different this focuses on primarily what has happened during the course runs specifically what has been accomplished in the course runs we would like to share that data with you so that you understand the scale of the operation what is being attempted what is being tried out and how far we have come with it and we definitely have a lot of ideas we definitely have a lot of you know distance to go we have some ideas on how we should go about it and we will share all that with you okay so you are aware of what you see here that it is I mean it is a project of MHRD we have had association with NASCOM and of course at least our portal is significantly I mean it is basically powered by Google with a lot of support from Google engineers and so far actually they have done it even for free so in fact that's been a very important aspect of you know the activity that has helped us scale to the extent that we have scaled so far so yeah this is just the outline of what we are trying to do here I make this presentation on what we have done with respect to the course runs Barthi will step in and do something about the local chapter initiative and what we have done and then we will we also have a small video will show you the middle which I don't think we have shown you before so in with respect to even this presentation I will talk about these 15 exam runs that we have done some overview of what has been done something with respect to local chapters workshops the most recent semester that got completed July to November 2017 and then we will get on to this rating of local chapter so this you may have seen before this is just summarizes what we have done in NPTEL there are in fact about 1400 plus courses which are present in the repository in the form of a library more than 37,000 hours of video has been high quality video with a lot of faculty putting in many hours of hard work to get this generated and we are very proud to see that you know it's been used actually by nearly 700 million people around the world that's a very significant amount of the population of the world that has used this content we are so proud and happy about it and we also have you know much of it has been converted into subtitles and so on and so a lot of processing of this content has been done it is not simply a one-time activity that something was put up and forgotten considerable effort has been made to first make the content in you know technically good quality good you know educational content and also make it you know with good video quality as was being mentioned and also further process it so that it is has greater utility so this is the kind of you know infrastructure across all IITs to enable doing this all created as part of the project we have professional quality studios in each of the IITs to ensure that this recording is done in you know professional manner and made available so that it stays for a long time because a lot of effort goes into it. With respect to the online course process which has been on only since 2014 there are also significant strides have been made Professor Shevkankar was just mentioning that you know many countries around the world think that they have put in a lot of activity in this area and when you actually ask them for details they have talked of numbers like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 that is it so when they so when we talk of a number saying that we have completed 514 courses that is huge very few places I mean in fact there is no other place that I am aware of that has gone this far no other university has gone this far even recently as because I am part of NPTEL I have been involved in one Indo-European project where they are trying to look at ways of you know enabling more digital education in India and so to speak and they are completely stunned by the numbers that we have they have not seen such numbers they are all talking of one course two course so they have actually ideas when they are now realizing that they can probably learn more from us than the other way around on this aspect. So 514 courses completed more than 2.7 million people enrolled for these courses which is a huge number more than you know 101.8 to lack people registered for the exams and you know about 80 percent of these have received certificates. This is our portal many of you are I mean in fact definitely all of you are quite aware of our exam centers where we run these exams that is our certificate and now our courses are also available on SWIME. So NPTEL is an integral part of SWIME so that is again something that many people who are you know first encountering these names often have this doubt what is NPTEL what is SWIME we are an integral part of SWIME. SWIME is a larger umbrella kind of activity under which various other agencies are also involved the core I mean for engineering and you know post undergraduate postgraduate engineering kind of curriculum the primary you know agency that looks after it is NPTEL and so we are called a national MOOCs coordinator for as part of SWIME. So we show up under SWIME and in fact even under SWIME since we have we have invested lot of time and effort doing all this much of what we have learned through this process is what is being you know integrated into the SWIME process. So many of the other national MOOCs coordinators are learning from these processes and trying to incorporate specific aspects that are relevant to them so that is how this whole SWIME activities are building. Okay so the vision has always been to provide high quality affordable education at large scale and in that context we have been developing video lectures offering online courses and conducting exams and we have been actively involved in trying to promote the use and adoption by colleges and universities. So these are all part of our mission and we have really worked hard over the last few years to keep you know building on these two. So now when we get into the details this is how it looks if you can see here July 2014 we started with one course which is what shows up here and then ever since we have been you know progressively increasing the number of courses at least when we started we didn't anticipate or we weren't sure how far this would go or what we would end up doing in the process but the numbers have really gone up in a huge way. So this actually shows up as September 2017 and October 2017 because two different durations of courses had I mean our exams were distributed across those two dates and so actually we had 159 courses in the immediate preceding run that was there towards the you know second half of 2017 and now for April 2018 where the courses are just going to start now in another you know two weeks time courses are going to start we have 226 courses. So we've been seeing a steady increase in the number of courses as we go forward in terms of availability of content and so this is actually when we say 226 courses those are 226 courses where everything is available you have content you have assignments you know every week there's an assignment there's going to be a discussion forum there's 226 places where the students can ask questions and have faculty from IITs and IAC answer them and of course final exams. So all of that is so there's a I mean this number has many things hit many layers and hidden inside it which are not immediately evident. So the the enrollment for these courses is open so in fact that's one of the things that we would like to share with you and highlight I'm sure many of you are already aware because you are quite involved in this process but please spread the word and so that more people can you know benefit from what is being provided here. We have already completed 15 exam runs which is what you see here 15 different exam runs we have completed and in that process we have completed 514 courses. Numbers have also in terms of student participation number has been steadily climbing in our most recent run we had more than a million students enrolled which is very significant and about 70,000 of them completed the course and received certificates and as you are all completely aware you know these are the main things that we have we have content discussion forum assignments which could be objective or subjective based on the kind of course it is text transcripts including some lab demos etc and there's interactive session in some courses based on what the courses and you know availability of faculty etc. Yes so one important thing that has often now that you know increasingly there is interest in doing credit transfer there is interest in you know getting students to formally take it as part of their curriculum and so on a lot of questions have been asked about what is the extent of student participation in this process how should we gauge it. So this is I think the slight sort of capture some key highlights with respect to it and I will also add this comment that the way we are doing this is we are doing this in a very cooperative manner with all of you with all the institutes and colleges that are participating in this process. So we provide you all raw data including this information and it is up to you to decide your university's mode of studies to decide how you want to you know value it so that is completely your you know domain it is not our domain so whatever we say in terms of credits for the course is our you know estimate of what should be the credit for the course our guideline for what the number of credit should be for the course you can select to do something different that is totally your choice. So your university can select to do it differently the neighboring university can select to do it differently because you have some standards within your university of how the course is run what is expected of a course etc that may have some variation. So we provide you the raw data in all cases we only provide our guidelines and raw data is given to you completely you select what you want to do. So for example in a typical course you are looking at 3 to 4 hours of video lectures per week. So if we talk in terms of classes we would 3 hours 3 hours of lecture you would often call it as a 3 credit course 4 hours of lecture we would call as 4 credit course that is the tendency but many places we also have tutorial classes and so then you would say 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of tutorial so that is still a 4 credit course. So things like that we have variations like that and we recognize that in different ways in our universities. So lecture hours itself would be 3 to 4 in many of our courses then you would have weekly assignments where basically the student depending on the assignment complexity of the assignment may end up having to spend about 2 hours on our assignments. So if you have some specific value that you put for the tutorial part of you know the credit process you can you can keep in mind that there is going to be about 2 hours of engagement in that context so you can decide how you want to value it that is the reason why we say we only provide you a guideline we can always you know simply go by this 3 hours 3 credit 4 hours 4 credit and complete it but that is not the idea here so that is the reason why we want to highlight these things. So there is about 2 hours of per week of that kind of activity that is there we have text transcripts we have references some live interaction possibly about an hour of week is that activity is there and then we have a discussion forum. So based on how involved the student is they may spend even an hour on the discussion forum based on because some some of the courses have very interactive discussion forum on and so a lot of questions are asked people answer and there is a lot of learning that is going on in it because you have doubts somebody else also has a doubt and then you understand maybe you had a doubt and you didn't even know how to say it you find somebody else saying it the correct way so a lot of such activity is there. So if you look at this you are looking at you know say 3 to 4 hours plus 2 plus 2 so you are looking at anywhere from 7 to 8 hours of involvement for a serious student so you have to decide what you want to do in terms of credits for that and decide how you want to do it of course there will be students who don't use most of it but that is not I mean we always gauge it with respect to the serious student and then from there you you know scale it down scale it accordingly. So what have we done so this number here say 740 this is actually the 514 that were completed and the 226 that are opening right now so that is what we have you can see here across almost all major engineering disciplines courses are available only a few places where it is I mean the discipline is you know not commonly available across many institutes you have lesser number of courses but you can see otherwise all major disciplines are accounted for here computer science and engineering seems to be more popular so you have about 104 courses there but you can see here chemical engineering 36 civil engineering 46 humanities large fraction of humanity courses are there 92 electrical engineering 89 mechanical engineering 95 metallurgies 39 so significant number of courses management courses also many students would like to I mean these this day and age where lot of students are you know getting into entrepreneurship trying to open businesses or trying to get into some management role somewhere they want to do management courses and many of our institutes our curriculum is so rigid and we don't have time and space to allow them to do their curriculum as well as do some management courses you get them in you get them out in four years with some specific set of courses so they can do management courses they can do here so that's very nice same thing so you can see across all institutes you can see wide range of all the IITs and IAC have been involved in putting these courses together and we have also other institutes which are institutes of national importance who are specialized in specific areas who have also contributed to courses so that is how you get this 740 of course distribution is not necessarily exactly uniform for various reasons but it is generally picking up it is picking up to the point that you will see all major institutes offering a significant number of courses as we go by if you look at the distribution of courses the original you know the 514 that were completed you can see here the larger fraction was an 8 week course which is the sort of the mid-range in terms of duration and then you have about half the courses were like that and then you have the rest of them were you know 12 weeks and 4 week kind of courses 4 week courses have typically been specialized elective courses where it doesn't make sense to have a semester long course it's a very specialized topic you have just 10 to 12 lectures on that particular topic coming to what we are having in the upcoming semester you find actually a much larger fraction is the 12 week course it is actually growing in size this is an indicative of the fact that you know lot of people are actually interested in this many faculty are even interested in these kinds of courses and in fact there is even interest in creating faculty development programs based on it which I will comment on in a little bit there is interest in doing that and that is where these 12 week courses are gaining in number and so you will see that you see that tendency it is largely based on what people are interested in and also what our faculty are interested in providing also in terms of type of course we have new courses you can see even in the even in the 514 that were completed a very large fraction almost three quarter of them were new 100 were reruns and repurposed were 46 repurposed would mean they were courses which were there in the original NPTEL repository and then they were taken up and then you know further modification was done to make it a MOOC course and then provided as a MOOC course you can see that you know as time progresses the manner in which these courses are becoming available and the form in which they are you know becoming more prevalent is evolving so you see here now the number of repurposed most of the repurposing seems to have been done so it seems less are less new courses I mean less courses are being repurposed a significant fraction almost half is now a rerun so that is actually good news in many ways it means that those are courses that a lot of students are valuing and not just that it also means that these are courses that you can sort of predictively expect that will be available so when many times when you are doing this credit transfer kind of activity you would like to tell the student okay you can take these courses this semester you can take the as you guide the student you can say that you know take these courses this semester take the other course the other semester etc we are also trying to do that we would like to actually I will show you in one of our slides about what we are trying to do in the future that is exactly what we would like to do we would like to give you a very you know predictable flow of courses at least for a major chunk we will always have a lot of new stuff because that is what is very nice and exciting about the whole field of education so we are never going to stop that but we will still give you one course section which will be predictably available semester after semester so we are sort of headed in that direction you can see almost half the courses are now reruns so that is where we are headed so these are the numbers you can see this large bars are typically the number of students who enroll we have always maintained that the whole idea of this open online education is to make it really barrier free there should be no barriers any student wants to take something they want to experiment in their learning process try some new area of study we should not put any barriers so that is why the whole process is essentially free as much as possible of the process is kept free and definitely enrollment is free so large number of students enrolled to various courses and typically less than 10 percent of them actually go ahead and complete the course in terms of you know finishing the final examination appearing for the final examination and finishing the final final exam so we do not see that as a negative aspect at all we actually are very happy that there are so many people trying out various things exploring new avenues etc and when they find from you know they enroll for like half a dozen courses they find like there are two or three in the right level that they are comfortable and they think it is the way they want to go they continue more seriously with respect to those courses and complete those courses so you can see here you know about in the most recent run July to you know December kind of run which are which are these two bars that you see here so around six and a half percent of people completed those courses but that is with respect to very large number of enrollments so this is still about 70,000 students who completed this I would also like to take this moment to recognize you know what these numbers mean I say a number like 70,000 so I mean it is it is a number that we would like to reflect on in many ways so one thing that I I feel is interesting to note that you know this is all a part of an outreach process it's a part of an outreach process we are trying to make something that was not possible many years ago which is to make as much of our Indian public access the IIT system and IAC system in a free manner and therefore you know only their quality of their effort their you know involvement in the process is all that will decide whether they get the education or not whether they get a certificate from us or not rather than just an entrance exam which makes it very which which could be difficult for various other reasons they may not have an opportunity to prepare for the entrance exam etc so if you just look at it when you say 70,000 cleared the you know got certificate from IITs in this last semester that if you just take the main IITs you know the seven IITs and IAC that are involved if you take the entire student strength not just the graduating students the entire student strength of the seven IITs and IAC that's of that order it's about 10,000 students per campus so you're looking at you know almost an equal number of people from outside the public are able to access the system as of today so that's a very nice statistic to be aware of this is a quick look at the exam attendance attendance has been pretty good with respect this is attendance with respect to the number of people who who wanted to write the examination who registered for the examination this may not seem like much initially because after all they did register for the exam but if you compare it against other examinations I mean many many of the other examinations which are there which are running on a you know regular basis internationally this these are good percentages to have I mean they are you know around 90 percent is what you see as attendance and from those who registered for the exam again around 90 percent are or who appeared for the exam about 90 percent are clearing the examination so pretty good statistics that way that this means that by the time they reach the final examination stage they have gained enough confidence when they register for the examination they have actually learned enough and gained enough confidence that there's a pretty good chance that they will actually complete successful so that is the point of this statistic in this context in august 2016 both UGC and AICT have I mean released Gazette notifications and I'm sure you're all familiar with this basic highlight being that they are now allowing 20 percent of the total credit to be given through online courses through the SWIM platform and as I said earlier we are an integral part of the SWIM platform every course that we have is on SWIM so we only do I mean certain features are not yet available on SWIM so therefore for certain activities you have to still come to the NPTEL portal to complete the process but basically we are on SWIM we have all our courses on SWIM and as you can see this is exactly the thinking that all of us have had all of you also I'm sure have had this kind of thinking it enables us to actually offer courses our our variables are students to access courses which otherwise they may not have an opportunity to access because every course will not be available in every institute for your information IIT Madras also does credit transfer through the NPTEL process our own students IIT Madras students can take courses on NPTEL and they will get credit in their grade card based on those courses again primarily this they can take now they are now not no longer restricted to taking a course only from IIT Madras they can take an IIT Kanpur course IIT Karakpur course they can take a course in computer science or management or electrical engineering which they may not otherwise be able to take so a lot of such things are now possible and this is what is being done so reason for taking MOOCs courses through NPTEL so a major reason and for which we have to really thank you thank all of you is this 35 percent that you see here that college faculty actually encouraged the student to participate in this process so I think your show I mean all of us in the you know teaching fraternity should feel very happy that we are encouraging our students to take good content wherever it is available and this is a large part of this is thanks to you so I would like to take the opportunity to give you a hand for this it is really a big accomplishment for us because ultimately we think this is a cooperative process we are all benefiting from it we are all assisting each other in this process and involvement of this nature really shows that it is being accepted in that format 30 percent do say that they are looking for to explore new domains again something we are happy about because that is the whole idea it is open and online for that particular purpose we have still fair fraction who use it for gate preparation etcetera and then you have other reasons campus recruitment again something that is very valuable again here this is one place where we are trying to actually put in some effort by working with industries just the way we have worked so hard with local chapters and colleges we are now in the process of setting up a similar activity with respect to industries they would also become associates of this NPTEL process in different ways and the primary some of the driving I mean some of the aspects that we would like them to focus on is you know co-offering courses with us so that the you know students who take the course will not only know the fundamentals from a you know academic perspective we will also know the current industry application of that particular course so we are trying to encourage them and invite them to co-offer courses with us to look at ways of offering internships to students who are doing well in these courses so that you know even from small towns far away whom they will not have access to such companies in their placement process etcetera but they have done well in the course and that is really all the industry wants many times the industry feels frustrated that they pick up students from various colleges that they feel are not yet ready for that particular job that they are trying to give them so they end up having to train them but now through this process they can they can pick students who are actually good in that particular course that they are interested in and then those students they can offer internships and of course eventually hopefully this will translate to directly into placement so this is something that we are working with them exam registration statistics again from the perspective of gender you know bias or lack of bias so to speak we are happy to see that you know this is approaching 50 percent participation between both girls and boys this is actually a significant accomplishment because particularly in higher education as you go away from school there is a I mean big disincentive for women to continue a lot of personal reasons for which they end up being held back and it is nice that this open online process is actually allowing them to participate much more on even terms than they would do in other cases certainly in engineering this has always been a problem there are not enough girls taking up you know engineering education at the higher levels so this is good and even more so you would be surprised and very happy to note I am sure that you know if you look at the toppers in our courses 70 percent of the toppers are women so a lesser fraction here but they are actually 70 percent who are topping the courses so that is really something that we are which I think I also translate to real life I think you know activity with respect to educational processes because I think especially since they are deprived so much they value the opportunity much more I think that's psychologically the way I see it and so when they get the opportunity they really do well they do well and it shows in the results that we tend to see okay with respect to the audience registering for the examination if you look at the percentage of faculty it's actually been climbing up there are almost 20 percent of our you know the number of people who are registering for the examination nearly you know 100,000 student people register for the examination 70 I mean 20 percent of that are faculty so in fact in the recent run we had 12,000 plus faculty more than 12,000 faculty from various institutions take this and in this context just what I was mentioning a little while earlier we are actively looking to build on this to create a faculty development program and again AICTs just the way they had given you know gadget notifications for credit transfer they are also actively looking at ways in which they can you know give you a proper framework within which you can officially take this as part of a faculty development program so I think that is still in the that is coming up we are actively working on documentation with respect to that and I expect that sometime soon you will hear something in this context and so we are actually doing many various things with it we also have teaching learning center here in IIT Bombay there is a lot of effort on you know how to do this learning process how to involve students in the learning process better so aspects of that will also get involved with the actual content that we are delivering so it will be a it may be a more you know enhanced version of the course that the faculty would take and that would constitute like a faculty development program so that's something that that is being worked on yeah so this percentage is also high on the 12 week courses which is which is what something I was pointing out a little bit earlier because that's a full semester course and that's the typical kind of course that we would also deliver a specialty in our respective institutes so that's something that we see in our okay so just to share some numbers with you this is the distribution of highest marks in 514 courses so I mean it may it may not immediately seem very intuitive but I just run you through what is happening here this is the number of courses and the highest score in that the number of people with the highest score in that yeah so if you yeah correct sorry this is the number of courses sorry this is inverted they want your y-axis is the number of courses and the x-axis is actually the highest score in that course so when we initially started out we didn't really have proper guidelines or we were also learning so the few faculty who are who were our initial you know offering faculty did what they felt was appropriate and many times they were gauging it against their own you know IIT student audience where they had some expectations on what the student will do what the how the student will do etc and so we did have a few courses where possibly there was a mismatch in the expectation of what was being expected from the student what the student was expecting from the course etc so we had initially a few courses if you see this say about seven courses spread across the initial set of courses more towards the initial set of courses where actually the highest score was only in the range of you know anywhere from 0 to 40 marks that's the highest score in that of all the students in that course so that was actually not very encouraging I mean it was the that meant there was some mismatch it was there some mismatch in the expectation and how it was being delivered gradually we have evolved some criteria on how the assignment should be set up at what level and what is the level of engagement that should be there how the assignment should relate to the final examination things like that we have come up with some criteria so you can see here progressively you have courses with larger number of students who are in the 50 to 100 range so 50 to 100 you will see number of courses where the number of students are in that range this may seem like a large number of you know students large number of number of courses where this this is there but that is against you know this is only the number of courses number of students because there are some courses with large numbers of students also and plus our courses are totally now about 514 so therefore naturally you will have a few courses where the number of students who are the top most scoring student in that course is between 90 and 100 so this this is become more the trend now so tougher courses would fall in this range and based on the student perception of what it is but increasingly you will find you know more popular courses where there is a more you know study I mean involvement of the assignments in the final examination etcetera properly planned course you would see somewhere in this range more and more courses somewhere in this range for the toppers and if you see the distribution of the number of toppers across these courses so if you see the reason you will see some variation here is the number of toppers is decided on various criteria so one major criteria is the percentage so if you look at the courses which have large number of students ok so therefore you will have a number of toppers you will have some courses where the let me just make sure I understood number of courses here yeah this is correct ok number of courses this is 338 courses where there were between 0 and 10 toppers ok so 338 courses 0 and 10 toppers 100 courses between 11 and 20 toppers 24 courses where you have 21 to 30 toppers but you do have some courses where you have you know 100 200 toppers that is because the course itself is large that course had like 2000 3000 students registering for maybe even 5000 students registering for the final examination so therefore this is not a number that is you know it is not like you know it was a easy course there were you know 200 people got full marks or whatever it is not like that it is 200 out of some 2000 or 2500 or 3000 courses and there only only two such courses which which will fall in that category and you will see here so we also have some information here you can see that that is true these are courses where there are more than 100 toppers so that is you are looking at courses from here this 101 to 200 so this is 9 plus 14 courses which fall in this category they are those are courses of this nature soft skills introduction to internet of things programming data structures and algorithms using pythons these are all very popular courses so several thousand students enroll for these courses therefore naturally you have you know well over 100 toppers in that course so we like to take a moment to acknowledge for all these numbers that you saw here as number of people have been involved in this process much as we presented as NPTEL we I mean facilitate or facilitate sorry facilitate it is MHRD which is the funding agency they have they have been really supportive of the whole process they they have appreciated the effort that we have all put in and they have really been supportive and tried to encourage us to do more so the funding is directly from them it is that funding that makes it possible to do this entire activity free that is the main part here Google has also been extremely supportive they have all are you know we are lectures are 40 40 minutes to 50 minutes and you can see you know we have put up 37,000 hours of content all of that content is available on YouTube free of advertisement and they have done this as part of their service for education I mean whatever they feel is the they are involved in this process there are specific engineers here Ashwini Abhinav Kandelwal, Tej, Rishabh and Divi who have been involved which Google these are people that Google has designated to work with us they work extensively with us Ashwini is in fact their head of international university relations so he spends a lot of time on directly working with us we every week we have a call with him for a specific features that we are trying to incorporate etc. AriSent is a company that has helped us significantly using CSR funding so as you are aware many times we are giving you know 50 percent off on the fees the exam fees that is made possible only through CSR funding because the exam fee is not being covered through the MHRD funding so that is why we are even charging a fee because the the funding covers the course run it does not really cover the examination so examination is being done independently and that is how that is being done. TCSI on is our exam partner we are actually looking by the way at more companies we are trying to contact more companies for CSR funding because it does not make sense to just depend on one company for this. TCSI on is has been our exam partner of course this is through a proper commercial you know tender process they were the ones who qualified they are the same exam partner that is used by the gate examination so that is how it is I mean it that is not the reason why they are our exam partner but that is also one of their strengths and they make it possible for us to have exams all over the country in a coordinated way so that is their strength and we simply you know not everything we can do so we depend on them to get this done. We have many other agencies math works for example it enables us to have courses which are based on MATLAB. MATLAB is very useful for many of our students to learn because that helps them in various aspects of you know even they can show this as a skill that they have learned which they can use in the industry. So MATLAB in fact enables us to give free licenses to the students for the duration of the course so they can they everybody does not have to buy MATLAB they come to our you know they register for the course which requires MATLAB and through our portal we can access MATLAB for free for the duration of the course so they give student licenses for the duration of the course. So that NASCOM, ICMR lot of people have collaborated with us courses we are looking at other agencies also who will many of the you know professional software development I mean software that is there say for example LabView, AutoCAD etc many of them have interest in this because they are happy to see students learn their software which because they are with the expectation that they may use it professionally later on. So we now move to local chapters I just do a few slides and then I think Barthi will take over. So this is our statewide distribution of local chapters we have now over in fact over yeah over 1300 local chapters spread across all the states it is not been uniformly distributed across the states largely due to you know it requires us to physically go there run workshops we find the number of local chapters that come that grow up in a particular region is directly linked to the number of workshops we do in those regions and so we have to take the time to do it so we have been doing that steadily. One major contribution from the local chapters is what you see in the slide and for which again I thank each of you personally for it you can see here starting from say September 2015 when we got into this local chapter initiative aspect the percentages of the people registered for the exam has actually been climbing up from the local chapters. So based on the total registration initially we had only 32% or 20 to 30% coming from the local chapter rest of it was general public but you can see here as we come to September October this immediate preceding run 70% of the registration has been directly from the local chapters. So this is a major accomplishment which because this directly shows that the this also goes up is in line with you know the when we said what motivated you to take this course almost you know 30-40% of the students said that their college encouraged them to take that course. This shows a good you know acceptance of the whole process through the colleges through this for the students etc and this is directly related to local chapter initiative. So we greatly value all the you know efforts that you put in in your colleges and we are hoping to get you know more support and assistance from you as we go forward. This is our distribution of local chapters across various states we still have you know places where we have to go and do some work we have not done that we are in the process of building on this. So from all the other states only about 9% is the enrolment exam registration so we are working on that we will try to build the number of local chapter. So Maharashtra is the largest number of local chapters there you go so there you go. So rating and recognition I will start. So we I mean since we have come a long distance in this process and so much has happened and so many activities have been started we felt it was fair to do rating and recognition of all the people who have put in a lot of effort into this process to do this and then you know recognize them for all the efforts that they have put in. So we also wanted to put in some process based on which we would do this because you know 1300 colleges are involved we have to I mean do something that is clear I mean and it is also something that you know everybody understands that this is how the recognition process happened. So what have we done for for example I mean with respect to examinations based say last semester we had nearly 100 centres spread across the country in September and October and we also conducted offline exams in specific locations where we had very few students available using some local support that we could find. For all this exam work we had for every centre we have sent one representative from an NPTEL office so almost 100 representatives from our offices went to various centres to personally make sure that the exam runs well. We fully understand that one of the major aspects of the value that we provide in over and above all the course content is the rigor and you know quality control that we ensure during the examination process. So we do that personally we go to various exam centres so that is the starting point for us to do all the analysis on what the results are from the various colleges. So for the students for example we have the as you as you are aware in their finals score 25 percent of weightage comes from the assignments and 75 percent of the weightage comes from the certification. So we wanted to ensure there is rigor at every stage at the same time there is good learning opportunity at every stage so this tries to balance those. So we understand that for example the assignment is online so the students can take the help of their friends or their you know teachers or their you know relatives etc to do the assignment which is fine as long as they are learning the process it is absolutely fine we see nothing wrong with it. So we give 25 percent weightage for the assignment even there we understand that you know it is a semester long process as students we not for various reasons they may you know lose concentration at some point so we are not even insisting on all their assignments. So we take 75 percent of the assignments so best 3 out of 4 best 6 out of 8 or best 8 out of 12 based on the duration of the course is the number of assignments taken to arrive at the 25 percent figure and we do this automatically we just look at whatever the student does take the best you know 6 out of 8 etc and come at this arrive at this 25 percent value. 75 percent of the weightage is from the final exam so this is a proctored exam so they come to the center they show an ID card they have a hall ticket etc they sit there and they complete the examination process. So 75 percent of the weightage is from there even in that 75 percent weightage as I said you know we have worked with our faculty to find ways to make the exam more realistic and more you know representative of the course. So our faculty have some guidelines on you know what percentage of questions should be very similar to that of say the assignment questions so that when the students take it if they have actually done the assignments well if they have actually focused looked at the content done the assignments well there is a good chance that they will clear the course. So there is a good chance that and it really means something also it means that they did learn something which is what which is the basic thing that we are interested in looking at this is not an entrance examination we are not trying to eliminate anybody we want to ensure that the student learns something we want to recognize when the student has learnt it that is it those are the only two things we are trying to do. So this captures that 75 percent weightage and this 25 percent weightage and the student has to get at least 40 percent put together that 75 plus 25 should be at least more than 40 percent in order to get a certificate. So the student gets between 40 and 59 overall out of the 100 they get a certificate saying successfully completed between 60 and 89 they get an elite elite tag and then if it is over 90 they get an elite plus gold medal tag. So this is how it is for all courses so based on what they get so they will get this kind of certificate some gradation in the certificates based on how they have learnt it and how they have performed. Then we have a logic based on which we also put a topper indication on the certificate we will say the so and so top the course. So for that we have again we understand that you know the number of students involved may vary between courses in a very significant way. So if there is a course we have had very few courses where the number of students is less than 10 but in the event that it is less than 10 only 1 percent in the course is considered as the topper top most percent the highest mark is the topper. If it is between 10 and 50 the top 2 students in that course are referred to as toppers. If it is between 50 and 100 top 5 of the course are referred to as toppers anything over 100 then it will say a topper it will say top 1 percent top 2 percent top 5 percent. So you the topper thing goes with some you know riders so this is the rider. So but it still indicates that the percentage really well in that course that is the whole idea of this process and there is a seal to that defect on the certificate and it is also and these people are also showcased on our portal. On our portal say toppers in the in various courses the name will be there photograph will be there course will be there etc. So for example this is where the photograph would be this is the gold medal that they would get I think this separate logo here right for the topper. This here this where the logo for the topper would come the students name which course they participated in what is their score in the assignment what is the score in the proctored exam what is their total score and then if they were a topper you would get a seal here additional seal that they are a topper and a particular kind of medal indication there. Now previously we used to have a URL I mean even now we have it but you you do not even need a URL now to I mean you do not have to type anything they have now included a QR code on our certificates. So you simply have to put your mobile phone on it and it will recognize and then take you directly to the site where you can recognize the I mean validate the certificate. So this process we have now incorporated. So I think I will stop with this slide and ask Barthi to take over these are some of our toppers where I mean where we have you know gone through this exact process that I just described and identified these toppers you can see that these are toppers who are no in various stages of their career some are students some are faculty and some are industry people. So I will hold here I will ask Barthi to take over. So something that we would like to give back to them is a feedback at least saying that how have these fee waivers help our students which has to primarily come because we give these fee waivers to the local chapter colleges. So if any of your colleges have actually utilize the fee waivers if you all can give us some specific video feedback talk on the camera you know that we could pass on to a recent it would be really helpful because that gives them that they can take it internally whenever a proposal goes to them saying give us more funds or where it is being utilized we really appreciate it. So you can do it either now or after this session but we would definitely urge you to give some video feedback for us about the recent.


Hi, welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question. Represent the following situation in the form of quadratic equation. Rohan's mother is 26 years older than him. The product of their ages 3 years from now will be 360. We would like to find Rohan's present age. Let's start the solution. Let Rohan's present age is equal to x years. Therefore, Rohan's mother present age equal to x plus 26 years as she is 26 years older than him. 3 years from now, Rohan's age will be and Rohan's mother's age will be x plus 26 plus 3 years which is equal to x plus 29 years. According to the question, the product of their ages from 3 years now will be 360. That is 3 into x plus 29 is equal to 360. On solving this, we get x square plus 29 x plus 3 x plus 87 is equal to 360 plus x square plus 32 x plus 87 minus 360 is equal to 0. Again, we can write as x square plus 32 x minus 273 is equal to 0. Hence, the required equation is x square plus 32 x minus 273 is equal to 0 where x in years is present age of Rohan. This is our answer. I hope the question is clear to you. Bye and have a good day.