Your turn. Myself Dr. Bessy Lijo, Asusman Professor of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, King's Engineering College, Chennai. This is CH Nagasuresh Nekanti, lecturer in mathematics from Silver Jubilee Government College, Atenamas, Karnu. My name is Chinnath Thambip. I'm a Christian Engineering and Technology, Myself Venu. I came from Jalangaana. I'm from Kagthi Institute of Technology and Science. I'm Dr. Durashwami, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore. So, Myself Dr. K. Madhu, from Omega-PG College, Adalabad. I am Dr. K. Vijayakumar, spoke of Shanmugha Industries Arts and Science College, Thiruvannamalai. I am Dr. R. Rajesh Khanna, coordinator Center for Virtual Learning, Dr. NGB Arts and Science College, Coimbatore. Prof. G. Mammaeshwariya, professor here and head department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Venkateswai University, Thirupathi. This is Dr. Indra Pradashni from Vinayaka Mission, Changracharya Dendi College, Salem. This is Dr. K. Sashikalla from Vinayaka Missions, Krippanandavarayar Engineering College, Salem. I am Dr. Mallik from Vasa Reddy, Venkata at the Institute of Technology. I am Dr. N. Senthil Madasamy, NPTEL S.P.S.C.F. Dr. Makhalingam College of Engineering Technology, Pallaji. I am Dr. N. Vijayakumar, representing Government Arts College, Salem 7. I am Dr. P. Navanidakrishnan from Kongu Engineering College, Perundwari, Erode. This is Yogeshwar from Anantalakshmi Institute of Technology and Sciences, Andhra Pradesh. So, my name is K. Ashok. I am from Telangana State, so, Trinity Degree and PG College. I am Deepak from Rewa University, Bangalore. So, myself, Dr. Anand Babuja, currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Information Science and Engineering. I am very happy to hear a spark from K. Ramakshan College of Technology. Myself, Saiyal Akbar. Dr. A. N. Paul Angelo, from St. Joseph's College. This is Arulkumar. Myself, Saiyavakata Krishna, spark of mega Institute of Engineering and Technology for women, Hyderabad. This is Dr. Prasanna Judy, working as a spark for NPTEL courses from Dhangiri University, Karnataka. I am Dr. Rajkumar. I am coming from Kerala, from working as a professor as his College of Engineering Management in Thirushur. Myself, Dr. Sajith, from KME Engineering College. I am Dr. V. Rajeshwari, professor and head of Computer Science and Technology from Karpakam College of Engineering, Koyamattu, Tamil Nadu. This is Dr. Kalpana A.B. from Bangalore Institute of Technology. Myself, Rosa Chandrasekhar Rao, from Arver and JC College of Engineering, and I'm from this. So, Myself, Dr. Prabhaharan, associate professor and head of the Department of Technology for Women, Namakali District. Myself, Dr. R. Mohan Das, I am spoke of the Balaji Institute of Technology and Science, Narsambet Varangal Telangana State. I'm Dr. Ashanta Selvakumari, from Abkosh Lange Engineering College, Sivakasi. I am Dr. Shri Jamadhu, from Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology, Raj Mandri. Hi, this is Sikumaran, a spark of NPTEL, from Astri Agilandisarive Women's College, Pandavas. I am Marlok Rasu, coming from Selvam College of Technology, Namakal, Tamil Nadu. Myself, from NALID, from Laila Degiri College, Bluengal, Andhra Pradesh. Myself, Manjunath P, and I am from V.Sesha Technical University, associate professor and S.P.O.C. of BA College of Engineering and Technology, Pulaochi, Tamil Nadu State. I'm Markandeshwar Jai Bandi, from Rural Engineering College, Ulkoti. I am M.Somya, from Baradir Institute of Engineering for Women. I'm Vadi Bukkarsi, from APC Mahalakshmi College for Women, Tothukudi, Tamil Nadu. Peshwar Kumar Nandiyala, I'm from Manamachal Institute of Technology and Sciences, Rajanpe. I'm Dr. V.Nirmal Rani, from Satyabhama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. I'm G. Prabhu, from Ramchandra College of Engineering. I'm Pradeep Kata, S.P.O.C., Bail Tech High Tech, Dr. Rangarajan, I'm Dr. Pradeep Kumar, from Vail Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus. This is Vinay from Christ University, Bangalore. I'm Dr. V. Vijay Lakshmi, working as Associate Professor for Puzhicherry Technological University. I'm Sister Vincey Joseph, from Sanmairis College, Puthanangadi, Kerala. The National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning, NPTEL, is a multi-institution collaborative project that has evolved into a multi-institution collaborative project that has evolved into a multi-institution collaborative project that has evolved into a multi-institution collaborative project that has evolved into a multi-institution collaborative project that has evolved from a courseware to massive open online course certifications. The project is managed by a consortium of seven IITs and IIC, the premier science and technology institutions of the country. Unlike other MOOCs, NPTEL courses have in-person proctored exams which increases the credibility of the learning outcomes. The courses are also separately archived in the NPTEL website. The current model, supported by NPTEL, allows mainstreaming of MOOCs through the help of NPTEL local chapters. Local chapter is a voluntary partnership between NPTEL and higher education institutions in the country, driven entirely through the efforts of faculty members in these institutions. As you can see, from the endowment and exam registration numbers, they contribute to nearly 80% of exam takers in our MOOCs. The partnership actively tries to address the last-mind learning challenge with the help of faculty mentors and a simple point of contact at the institutions. The local chapters seem to be a very important part of this whole new approach to learning and it's therefore evolving in a different way compared to how MOOCs and such courses have evolved in other parts of the world. The partnership provides a platform for the institutions to actively involve in the course offering policies and frameworks. There are also incentives on the basis of their involvement. The significance of local chapter in our growth as a MOOC platform is immense and we always strive hard to maintain this open, inclusive and equitable partnership. Keep learning for neural networks. Apply thermodynamics for engineering. Basics of IoT. Professional engineering ethics. Industry 4.4. Decision making and uncertainty. Advanced cognitive technology. Composite materials and structures. Soft skills course. Cloud computing course. Advanced calculus for engineers. Social network availability of groundwater. Accreditation on outcome-based learning. Direction to research. I consider myself a veteran in writing NPTEL exam. This is almost my sixth or seventh exam. Why I am doing this? Because the most important advantage is that I can learn at my own pace and feel the comfort of my house. It has been a very valuable experience for me. Currently I am working as well as an side by side I am studying also. And I will always motivate other people also to take courses on NPTEL. This is a very useful course and it helps me in PhD. It will be helpful for us for internships and interviews. This is a very good portal which government has initiated. Thanks for NPTEL. The videos in which the IIT professors were there was detailed, too detailed. And it was the examples that they gave throughout the video. That was the best part of it. Our education system is slightly boring nowadays. So changing subjects to NPTEL gives it like emerges many students to it and we never saw like any faculty giving exams with us. A teacher has to learn every day so this NPTEL matters a lot to us. Of course we have learned a lot. This is my fourth examination. This is my NPTEL team and it is an amazing initiative for students who are willing to learn beyond the college curriculum. It was a 12-week course and it was a very wonderful experience with very interactive feedback sessions, too. It was a wonderful course. I enjoyed learning the course and the exam, I am writing the NPTEL exam for the first time. It was very well organized. It was really useful and then the way of conducting the examination and the domain area of Tupper missions. I thank the NPTEL for giving me an opportunity to update my knowledge and moreover the convenience of the examinations was also very good. So the course was really good. After the industrial experience I came to know many new things. How well we can use the artificial intelligence in the industry level. It was such a good experience for me to learn a lot. I am trying to look forward to implement this in my project. In Kolkata, I am in the hotel management field. For my personal development and the development of the students I have done three courses under NPTEL Swam. All the courses are related to personality development and body language and communication skills. I am Dr. Dureshwamy. East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bangalore. So myself, Dr. K. Madhu from Omega PG College. I am Dr. K. Vijayakumar. Spoke of Shanmugha Industries Arts and Science College, Tirunamalai. I am Dr. Rajesh Khanna. Coordinator Center for Virtual Learning. Dr. NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore. Prof. G. Mammaeshwarendi. Prof. Ria and Head Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Venkateswai University. I am Dr. Darshini. From Vinayaka Machine, Chankaracharya Denti College, Salem. This is Dr. K. Sashikalla. From Vinayaka Machine, Skripananda Barrier Engineering College, Salem. I am Dr. Malik. From Vasur Reddy, Venkatayadani Institute of Technology. I am Dr. N. Senthil Madasamy. NPTEL is Spokeship of Dr. Makalingam College of Engineering Technology, Polarji. I am Dr. N. Vijayakumar. I represent Government Arts College, Salem 7. I am Dr. P. Navanidakishnan from Kungu Engineering College, Perundwari. I am from Telangana State, Trinity Degree and PG College. I am Deepak from Rewa University, Bangalore. So myself, Dr. Anand Babuja, currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science and Engineering. I am very happy to hear a spark from K. Ramakrishna College of Technology. Myself, Saiyadakbar. Dr. A. N. Paola Angelo from St. Joseph's College. This is Arulkumar. Myself, Saiyadakrishna, spark of mega Institute of Engineering and Technology for Umel, Hyderabad. I am Dr. Rajkumar. I am coming from Kerala. I am working as a Professor at this College of Engineering Management in Trishore. Myself, Dr. Sajith from KME Engineering College. I am Dr. V. Rajeshwari. Professor and Head of Computer Science and Technology from Karpakam College of Engineering. I am from Tamil Nadu. This is Dr. Kalpana. I am from Bangalore Institute of Technology. Myself, Roza Chandrasekhar Rao I am from Andhra Pradesh. Myself, Dr. Prabhakaran. Associate Professor and Head of Computer Science and Technology for Umel. Myself, Dr. R. Mohan Das. I am spoke of the Balaji Institute of Technology and Science. I am Dr. Ashanta Salwakumari from Abkosh Lang Engineering College, Sivakasi. I am Dr. Shree Jamadu from Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajmanri. I am Dr. Shree Jamadu from Sivakasi, coming from Selvam College of Technology. Myself, Ramanadu from Laila Degri College, Pulaingal, Andhra Pradesh. Myself, Manjunath P. I am from Vishyashwari Technical University. Associate Professor and S.P. O.C. of P.I. College of Engineering and Technology. From Pulaoji, Tamil Nadu State. I am Markandeshwar Jay Bandi from Rural Engineering College, Ulkoti. I am M. Soumya from Bharatheer Institute of Engineering for Women. I am Vadi Vukrasi from Manamachal Institute of Technology and Sciences. I am Dr. V. Nirmal Rani from Satyabhama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. I am G. Prabhu from Ramchandra College of Engineering. I am Pradeep Kata, S.P. O.C., Veltek High Tech, Dr. Rangarajan, Dr. Sekunthala Engineering College, Chennai. I am Mohanar Sundaram from Veghananda College of Parts and Changes and Autonomous. I am Dr. Pradeep Kumar from Vellur Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus. This is Vinay from Christ University, Bangaloo. I am Dr. V. Vijay Lakshmi working as Associate Professor for Puthicherry Technological University. I am Sister Vinci Joseph from Sanmeri's College, Puttanangadi, Kerala. The National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning in Pital is a multi-institution collaborative project that has evolved from a courseware to massive open online course certifications. The project is managed by a consortium of 7 IITs and IIC the premier science and technology institutions of the country. Like other MOOCs, NPTEL courses have in-person proctored exams which increases the credibility of the learning outcomes. The courses are also separately archived in the NPTEL website. The current model supported by NPTEL allows mainstreaming of MOOCs through the help of NPTEL local chapters. Local chapter is a voluntary partnership between NPTEL and higher education institutions in the country driven entirely through the efforts in these institutions. As you can see, from the enrollment and exam registration numbers they contribute to nearly 80% of exam takers in our MOOCs. The partnership actively tries to address the last mind learning challenge with the help of faculty mentors and a simple point of contacts at the institutions. The local chapters seem to be a very important part of this whole new approach to learning and it's therefore evolving in a different way compared to how MOOCs and such courses have evolved in other parts of the world. The partnership provides a platform for the institutions to actively involve in the course offering policies and frameworks. There are also incentives on the basis of their involvement. The significance of local chapter in our grow as a MOOC platform is immense and we always strive hard to maintain this open inclusive and equitable partnership. No, it's not wrong. No, no, no. Yes. Put it in the chat. Hello everyone. Hi. Good morning, very warm welcome. This is one of the coldest times in Chennai. I don't know if you're from where you're from but depending on where you're from you might think God, this is cold or maybe this is too cold but this is the season when you'll see people in Chennai wearing sweaters and walking around and all that. We feel very cold this time of year but we're inside the AC room so it shouldn't matter too much. Welcome, very warm welcome from my side. My name is Andrew Andrew Thangaraj. I'm one of the coordinators of NPTEL here at IIT Madras and for a long time we didn't do this SPOC workshop during the pandemic. The first time we did it was last semester and it was very, very nice to see all of you in person and the same happiness continues when I see all of you here. Thanks for taking the time. Thanks for taking the trouble to come here in person and interact with us and as you will know the local chapter relationship is the most important bedrock of all of NPTEL. Without local chapters NPTEL will not exist. There is no two ways to say that. That's the absolute truth and your participation and your active participation in every NPTEL activity in terms of actually participating and also giving us feedback on how to improve what is going correct what is not going correct what are the big requirements from the college in your area other colleges what do you think will help more people learn effectively from NPTEL is also extremely, extremely important for us and I think this is the first SPOC workshop usually we only call SPOCs and this time we have also called learners special learners who have actually participated in a lot of NPTEL exams and activities. I think we have classification for them generally they are called NPTEL stars and within stars there is lots of classification, domain scholars superstars, believers, evangelists etc. I believe a few of them are here in the evening they are going to come not now. I thought somehow it was now. So they will come in the evening something slightly different also but many of them may not stay till the evening some may stay. Some of them may also be the same group I don't know. So that's something that we want to slowly start make this event a little bit more participative in terms of bringing out learners also who are benefitting from this program. With that brief introduction let me jump into the slides here and begin by describing some of the numbers that we saw in the last semester. So that's how most of the SPOC meetings start. We talk about how well we did in the previous semester what courses we ran, what numbers, enrollments, registrations and then here and there we'll ask you some questions on how to do something better. So that's how we want to do this let me get started. So the first happy news or something that we are extremely proud of is the fact that NPTEL has been around for 20 years now. So I think we should that's something worth taking a little bit of time and thinking about. 20 years is a long, long time. Two decades different generations of people have now gone through NPTEL. 20 years clearly marks that not just one generation and from the time of distributing content in CDs and DVDs, today we use YouTube and such means for distributing content from the time of engaging with students and learners in face-to-face workshops, primarily awareness workshops. Today there's a huge amount of engagement in social media, right? So Twitter and Instagram and things where youngsters really live NPTEL is also present we're quite strong in social media activity. So we have changed with the times and 20 years is a long time and one person who I would really like to acknowledge in front of all of you is Professor Mangal Sundar with us today. So he's one of the faculty who's been with NPTEL from day one. So he played a role in the writing of the proposal and getting it approved in the ministry and you know how, okay, so getting anything approved in the government level is very difficult, particularly a new idea something like NPTEL was not there before, right? Sometime in 2000s there was no online learning, nobody really had heard about such things and to propose something like that at that time is quite revolutionary and we have to give credit to Professor Mangal Sundar and Professor Anand, our earlier director who had the vision to start this project and you know, here we are 20 years later a different team now runs the project there are teams in fact across the IITs which run the project and we also have representatives from all of them here Kohati, Kanpur, Delhi a lot of people from other IITs are also here to see how this workshop is done. Okay, so something we are incredibly proud of. Let's hope for the next 10 years of NPTEL to be very fruitful for all the future learners who are going to come out for colleges and for them to enjoy NPTEL as much as the previous learners have done. Okay, so the first slide is to show you the big picture numbers in terms of the number of courses we have today it's, I think for engineering content the widespread engineering content that you think of across the board civil engineering mechanical engineering, everything put together I don't think there's any other repository that can come too close to NPTEL. We have 2500 plus courses 60,000 plus hours of video and today our YouTube subscribers are more than 44 lakh for educational channel, higher education channel to have 44 lakh subscribers on YouTube is not a easy task and that's something that we have today and the websites have more than 1.6 billion views and these numbers are growing semester after semester. So these are very nice numbers and I think the vision and mission are still work in progress we have created several courses and portals and but I think in terms of number of people we reach every year we still have room to grow there's so many more learners in India whom we can reach out to and let's hope to do that in the next 10 years I think that's a good target for the next 10 years. So from 2014 onwards NPTEL started the certification activity. So till then NPTEL was only a repository we created content, we put up on the website, people refer to it and then learn and then that's it there's nothing beyond that. From 2014 we started certification where you know we conducted exams at the end of the course, we ran the course like a MOOC week after week timed teaching and then we conducted an exam and those who pass the exam got a certificate. So this we started from March 2014 in a very small way. Today in the past 8 years we have offered more than 4,700 courses in certification mode. More than 2 crore learners have enrolled in these courses over the last 8 years. Nearly 25 lakh have come to write exams and nearly 15 lakh among them have got certificates. And this semester January 2023 semester we have 665 courses currently open all our certification now gets done through the swyem portal swyem.gov.in. So this also has been a big reason for NPTEL amplifying its reach and reaching a larger section of learners. So the certification effort pulled many more learners into the system and the local chapter activity that we started really was very instrumental in getting out to colleges and then getting the students into this program. So all of that has happened following the certification effort. This is a sample certificate I think most of you would have seen it. How many of you have earned a certificate like this? Wow, that's nearly 100%. It's great to see. I've only signed these certificates I have not earned a certificate myself but these certificates are quite nice I've seen quite a few versions of these. In terms of how we grew it's always a nice story to tell if you are a new SPOC we have not seen these charts before. When we started way back in 2014 we had 3 courses and 3000 students writing exams that's all. Today if you look at the last semester July 2022 or last year 2022 we had 1200 courses 40 lakh plus enrollments 7.58 lakh registering to write exams for the first time we have overtaken GATE. GATE exam people want to clap here. So GATE exam is an exam that we conduct for admission to Mtech and various other PSUs and all that and for the first time NPTEL exams now number of NPTEL exams has gone above the number of GATE exams that's happened last year and this year we're already starting with 665 the enrollments are going on I think it's crossed 15 lakhs so numbers are picking up again we hope to see a larger number of students writing exams next semester as well. So this is something which is unique to NPTEL, the spread of courses the sheer spread of it across the board we have 600 plus in mechanical engineering these are numbers you don't see quite normally in a typical MOOC platform but of course the biggest draw in terms of people doing courses is computer science humanities management three big departments from which many students want to do courses those are also well represented but you know things like aerospace engineering it's really interesting how there's a dedicated group of students who want to do courses in aerospace engineering and we're able to serve those group of students as well so we're really proud of the fact that we offer courses in ocean engineering, earth science, textile technology we don't short change any particular area every area is covered by us and number of unique courses I think right these are unique courses 5300 no this is not unique courses offered total courses offered is gone to 5372 I guess this includes the JAN 23 semester as well okay so one discussion point we can have some participation of people here so we run something called see our courses usually have video lectures and then we have assignments that happen every week so students are supposed to watch the video lectures and then answer the questions that come at the end of the week you know those questions are based on the lecture content that's what you're supposed to do in case you have any doubts while you're watching lectures or if you have difficulty while solving a problem in the assignment you can go to the forum and post a question on the forum and the the teachers of the course or even other fellow students can participate and answer your questions that you ask in the forum so this is the forum is considered an important part of the learning process and it's used quite actively and if you see many other portals forum is very very very active but somehow traditionally I don't know if it's a quality of if it's a if it's something cultural in the large Indian audience that we have in our courses or if it's course dependent or whatever but if you see the forum participation in NPTEL courses is quite low across the board if you see all courses the number of courses which have greater than 500 posts is zero right nearly zero I don't think this I mean four or five that's all most of the courses have less than 100 posts in them 90 percent of the courses have less than 100 posts in them so one question I've always thought about is why why is it that students don't feel okay with asking a question on the forum okay or maybe they do I don't know but maybe you have some better answers for this question do you know students who ask questions in the forum have you asked questions in the forum have you looked at the forum when you do a course or you only do lectures it'll be nice to hear some thoughts on this there are people floating around with mics if you'd like to say something on what could happen on the forum or what we can do to make forum participation better yes compared to other courses here first thing it is not mandatory okay generally when you see a course or any other platforms which are online you register for a course it is mandatory that you also post something in a forum okay you start introducing yourself as a member or a student as I say that I'm a student here I'm studying from here I'm from this city as an introduction I'll start with the forum then all peer will also see at the end of every discussion or assignment submitted I also have to say certain documentation or maybe an uploading on that and the forum itself okay it's a mandatory it is mandatory okay okay after the assignments it is optional first two they make it as mandatory it forces them to know that there is something called forum where I know people who are all learning along with me for the course okay this itself will start them to know that there is a platform called as forum where I can discuss something okay generally here what happens is they register yeah and they go for an assignment they look for a course and assignment and complete their target is only on the certification more not on the discussion part you're saying you make the something on forum mandatory for certification okay or we can also just say at the beginning of the course as soon as I register it's good to introduce myself I'm the part of this okay and then the forum part is visible to everyone okay okay thanks thanks that's a good suggestion I think there's a hand up here only one mic is it sir one reason maybe sir I can't see who's talking and yes please sir one reason maybe the students may not receive the answer immediately sir once they posted the question okay they may not receive the answer immediately okay instead of forcing them to ask question in the forum we make like a chat chatbot you know like the system may be there so they can interact or they can ask the questions and it may be reply the answer instantly or at a certain period of time so that would be much better okay okay so you're saying it's not live interaction okay okay thanks any other yeah any suggestion is sir so if we have the forum along with the content say for example in a week we have some assignment I agree with the sir also so along with the content if forum comes then it would be easy like you know the teacher can give some kind of a discussion question so where the discussion can happen in the forum so that way you know so we can encourage the students the faculty is asking some questions so students also can give some input on so the discussion can be very okay thank you it's a good suggestion so basically encourage the discourse forum as part of the course content in some way okay excuse me sir yes myself Dr. John Victor actually ours is a new local chapter we started last year only we are from rural region institution so we may not be aware of this kind of facilities what else available in your so for all new local chapters if you interact or if you share the particulars regarding what else available it could be better for the students to update the things sure okay thank you sir so some of these things we have tried okay so for instance this introduce yourself has been tried but not compulsory as in we just make a post saying introduce yourself and some people introduce very few people introduce generally and you know and in fact there was even a attempt in a course to make a discourse part of the assignments and something I don't know how well it worked out so I forget the activity for Dr. Jay Krishnan was involved quite actively in that that effort somehow I think I still feel there is a gap but some courses are very active the programming courses which have a lot of assignments the python course for instance yeah so I think one of the questions that he was asking is what do new people do so when you log into the course there is something called week zero the week zero content is something that you should see so that gives you a walkthrough of the portal it tells you all everything that a new learner needs to see about the course is there in week zero so please look at the week zero content that will help you you know familiarize with all the features that are available so every Thursday I'm told there is a meeting of local chapters so that is also something that you can log into and then you can listen to other local chapter representatives discuss and our own staff will also be there so you can listen to them and then ask your doubts and get your doubts clear as well so forum is something that it's a complicated thing I think it's not as easy as getting other things done but do we tie it to certification do we make it mandatory do we make one post mandatory I think that one post mandatory is something that's interesting these numbers will increase you can't check so I think it's we'll think on this so this is something any other thoughts we'll move on to the next set of slides marks for forum so then what will happen is everybody will say thanks hello yes sir same thing marks for forum but it also means that we have to spend more time creating a better forum forum has to be full featured we're not sure if we should invest that kind of effort if we put out a very fancy forum and nobody is really using it that is also very painful to see on the other hand social media this generation is so taken in by right they participate so actively there post and like and share and all that maybe there is something missing I don't know what we can do okay the reply so usually we try to tell them that within one day they should respond some respond quickly sometimes there is a delay that can be a discouraging factor okay so additional questions may be posted in the forum for people to think about and respond okay so we'll see maybe we'll take a few courses as an example and work on that and try and improve forum participation in those courses and learn from that that would probably help us okay thanks thanks sometimes I may ask them what is the doubt if there is any sir because in our college we are allocating apart from the mentors you are giving we are allocating some mentors in our college so we will track the students in their study and you used to follow them so while we are asking when is there he is approaching have you solved the problems if you have any doubts please ask us tomorrow we will get the answers from the youtube yeah yeah there is lots of so when we start an exam the online exam or assignment or something a lot of people who start youtube channels and if you join that channel you get the answers see in India as a country where people know how to make money and we have to we cannot go against that we cannot go against the natural inclination of our country to teach anything but I think the sincere students know that it's useless I think it's what's the point if you don't get 40% in the exam you don't get a certificate so if you don't learn these things make any difference chat gpt is there yeah yeah so chat gpt might give them all the answers right hello sir yes I have two requests sir first thing is I don't know how far it is feasible can we club all the interfaces into single one because we have multiple logins like mentor login fork login and again participant login each and every time we need to refer in different login links you are saying something not connected to forum right it's something else we'll discuss those things later it's thought about forum but yeah I think with chat gpt type interface one of the things we could do is have an AI interface giving out answers make it look like a very live interaction maybe that's something students might like anyway we'll think about it this is still an unsolved problem we'll see if we can address that meaningfully okay so the next number which we are always very happy about is attendance there's always except during the covid period there's always been very high attendance in NPTEL exams and the last semester we had 91% attendance it's huge fraction of people attending and that's also really nice to see exam halls always are full of people entering and then leaving also yeah so maybe there I should ask one question so if you go to an exam hall have you been to an exam hall during NPTEL exams have you been so one of the most interesting things to observe is the earliest you can leave the exam hall is after 90 minutes right after 90 minutes you can leave till 90 minutes you cannot leave so till that 90 minutes the exam hall will be full when that 90 minutes hits there will be one huge number of people who will leave have you seen that so any thoughts on you know what is do you think most students are are the question papers too easy or is it I don't know why is it that we are not able to engage a student for a three hour exam at least for two hours little bit more than two hours are these the bright students who are really sharp were able to quickly solve and leave or are these students who are not prepared who just come do something and go what is what is your take on that any thoughts on this yes they take within half an hour able to complete some of the papers it is like introduction to machine learning with the ballroom some courses it is three hours it is not sufficient so that it is the invigilators it will be the waiting for that when he will go like those scenarios it will be the you should be the change the pattern of that it is the some of the examination should reach to the A 3 to 4 5 levels if it is not reached some of the examination it is a difficult some of the examination as you said the students it is not prepared those it will be the first go basically mix of exams and many students opt for the easy exams I guess yeah right right there is a mic behind you I don't know whether it is right on my part to say this in this structure but it is a positive note I consider because many of the students have enrolled for that that is why we have got 91 percentage so they have the option of leaving the examination hall I have sat there for 90 minutes I have sat there for 3 hours also so I based on the complexity of the syllabus that you have taken that is the only consideration that you leave the hall 1 and half or 3 hours it is not that other criteria you need to consider that is my point of view see I think our assessment is also largely like that so if there is soft skills question paper right how can you ask what is it that you can ask that will keep someone there for 3 hours right so it is very hard and it is okay for those kind and many people write exams like that so maybe that is the large fraction that we see excuse me sir I am Sugumar from Coimbatore in my observation my students saying that how you are quickly complete the exam they said that sir simply take all the 8 weeks assignments study it well that is much enough that will give you at least 60 to 70 percentage of mark to you so that it is easy to us so that within 90 minutes we can complete it so actually that is intentional little bit from our side I will not say no the reason is if someone can do the assignment questions under proctored conditions on their own in our opinion for certification that is a good thing that is enough they know enough about the subject so they should have a reasonable chance of earning the certificate also that is why most of the students completed within the time so you are saying they will attempt the assignment questions and they leave they do not even think about the 100% they will not think for 100 marks at least I clear because I need certification that is it I crossed my 40 I am leaving that is a good point thank you good morning sir yeah okay okay okay so you are saying it is a bigger trend across all exams but I think that is a very true thing I think they prepare for some parts they answer those parts they leave there is no incentive to master the subject that is not there very good morning sir this is Dr. Mutham Mitzudran from Puriar Minister of Science and Technology actually as Professor said I also took the interaction to machine learning in the last semester which is a two credit paper for the next course for me the time is not sufficient the center coordinator they asked to me the time is over like that but my students sharply to look like they went out after completion of my examination I am just I am sitting behind no one is there one point I want to point it out here why don't we reduce the time for one credit and two credit why don't we categorize like that so one and a half hour for one credit paper two hours for two credit paper three hours for three credit paper like that because it depends upon the size of the course because 12 weeks there is a large syllabus 8 weeks somewhat 75% less syllabus 4 weeks means maybe only 30% less comparatively there are 12 weeks so that is my suggestion thank you excuse me I am Dr. Mandraslam from Coimbatore Institute of Technology instead of fixing the time frame for the number of questions I think it is better to choose the number of questions for example in some courses there are only 50 questions and some for some 60, 70 and 100 like that so based on number of questions we can fix that time fix the number of questions and what you are doing one thing that is very difficult to do with faculty of IIT is tell them how to set question papers if you tell them something they will get really upset I know the subject I know what to ask don't tell me what to do but yeah we do have some templates we don't make it very open multiple templates are there so they have to fit into some template we will look at it if there is some template is very loose very few questions then we will look at it thank you yes sir as many spoke says because of just 40 maybe the reason even the good students leave the hall in your league so instead of that like degree program if you scale in a different range of marks in order okay so you give full grade like 90 to 100 is one grade 80 to 90 is another grade like that full grade yes it may make the students even the good students may still to write the full 3 hours so that they may score the good marks or high marks so the certificate actually mentions the marks just 40 you are saying that's the minimum requirement the actual marks exam marks is specified in the certificate but I think the value for the students is already there the certificate I think people are not looking deeply inside what mark they got and all that so they don't seem to have that kind of thing but yeah I think giving better incentive for people who score higher will be good but generally I don't know how true it is in your college even in ITM it's true the fraction of people who want to really top and do well and study hard is very small people in college most students want to have a happy life also that's the fact some addition for all those things those who got 90 plus you may give 3 credits or less than that 2 like that we can categorize so credits is not related to marks at all sir that's a common misconception credits is related to how many hours the students spent learning the subject that's all credits is credit points is where marks come into the picture credit points can change the marks can change but credits cannot change it's not supposed to change based on marks thank you good morning sir what I suggest is actually many of the institutions are adapting the NPTEL courses for credit transfer so we request that questions under and until the questions are too tough for the students because we are considering it for a grade so it should not be the answers the options they are providing should not be biased and this and until that because some people like the COE last time we have adapted that questions contains AC and descriptive type questions so but we have prepared the students for objective type and so we have have some short for them that so what I suggest but did you know the question paper format this is usually you knew the objective I mean it's going to be descriptive type so we have actually adapted but the students so because they are doing don't have practice so they have thought many questions will be objective some questions will be like that so what I'll suggest is that question should not be too easy and also too tough because most of the institutions are adapting for creating and all the things so we suggest that it can be in the medium thing so we can follow the common format so it is according to the preparation of the learners learners yeah absolutely so see like I said about half of the questions nearly half of the questions will be very similar to the assignments this is an instruction that we give to the teachers also so most teachers have to follow that and if you solve the assignment very sincerely you have a good chance of passing and earning the certificate there's no problem to get very good marks very high marks you have to master the subject and if you master the subject then there's no tough question right the feedback we received from the students is actually they have attended all the questions for the questions they don't know they have selected the choices and they have left at the enabled button is actually open so that's what they do you're saying okay I think that gives us a good feel I think that's okay I think this is like a typical student like you know how students react usually to these things so it's difficult to go beyond that they if it's something unusual we can fix it but to me it sounds like it's normal and natural that students do that and that's okay you don't have to fight too hard against it after that okay so exam cities now this is again a big discussion all the time just to give you an understanding of the scale of the problem we're dealing with here it's an enormously difficult thing to conduct exams so I want the SPOCs to understand that it's not easy to conduct exams in large scale and it's not like we have a lot of choice we can go and pick whatever we want because it's very it's the exam calendar for our exam partners also fully booked everybody wants to conduct exams everything in this country is done based on exams so there's exams going on around the year this college exam there's competitive exams going on and on top of that our numbers are really very large and concentrated in some cities so just to give you a sense of how the numbers vary you see there's 30,000 in Chennai so Chennai being big enough city maybe we can handle the 26,000 in Coimbatore is a huge challenge Coimbatore is a big city I'm not saying no but the exams in Coimbatore are not typically as high as the exams in Chennai so the infrastructure is not that well established so we struggle struggle struggle in Coimbatore I think if there are colleges from Coimbatore here you'll know that the exam center is never inside Coimbatore somewhere else it's very hard for us but look at the numbers 26,000 is too huge it's something that we cannot really handle Bangalore, Hyderabad again Delhi we do reasonably okay people will complain but then those are big cities look at Guntur, Guntur 10,000 for exams very very very hard it's not a big city right so you don't have that much infrastructure so we really struggle and if you go further down Tirupati 7,000 it's a quite a developed town but you cannot do 7,000 computer based exams very easily right so things so overall just first thing I want to impress upon you is conducting this exam is a hugely challenging affair and first thing I want to thank is the team in our office which does exams semester after semester dealing with these kind of numbers it just cannot be easy and they have to get the question paper right on top of that they have to get the centers right they have to make sure that local chapter colleges are happy about it and all of these things are really really difficult problems a few things we are going to do this semester if a large number of students from a local chapter are going to be writing an exam we are going to try and move that exam to that Friday or the Monday so please work with your college management for leave and whatever else that needs to happen there particularly in smaller towns large number of students writing an exam this we have already done in a limited way last time this time we are making it official there should be like 700-800 students from a college who are writing one particular exam we are going to ask for that exam to be on the Friday or on Monday not on the Saturday Sunday so that we get some valuable room for the ability to schedule exams so there is a room in the front you can use it also they are running out of room at the back so maybe we should bunch up a little bit put one row of chairs in the front so so this is something there where you can help us so please let us know if some credit transfer is happening for one particular course in your college and you expect some 600-700 or even 500-plus students to write exam in one subject in your city from your college please write to us be proactive from your side then we can work with you that your students write the exam comfortably on the previous days so that there is no problem for us in running the exam this kind of help is extremely important otherwise we are going to really struggle in finding centers last time I remember in one incident where I think this was Holy Cross College in Trichyat the SPOC here maybe not so there was a discussion and the exam partner was saying I am going to give them a center in Tirunelveli how can people from Trichy go to Tirunelveli to write exams maybe they can but I think it's so unreasonable and that was again because some 500 students were writing some exam in one subject so particularly in smaller towns if hundreds of students are going to be writing exams please keep us in the loop ahead of time let us know that will help I hope this is okay if there is any point anyone wants to make yeah I think you can come to the side good morning sir bring the chat please again this is from actually sir why don't we can split the examinations at the credit base because as I told earlier one and half examinations for suppose because for this semester the four weeks course ended by maybe the February 70th or 20th again they have to wait to write the examinations up to April 3rd March 30th they are going to wait one month so you are saying have one more exam day one more exam four weeks course separate examination eight weeks for separate examination one day four weeks is very less right four weeks is very small I think see if we do one of the things that was problematic is if we go to our exam centre partner and say only ten people will come to the exam you give me a centre they will charge us much more so only when the number goes to some hundred or something they break even and they give us lesser cost so that is also important we cannot do small group of students also so everywhere you go the exam is complicated we cannot be too big cannot be too small difficult problems yes because I am from the goon too there you go ten thousand you are one of the ten thousand now we our the examination is nearly three thousand each run so the out cuts we run the buses it is a very difficult we have the nearly three thousand systems for the examination we are requesting we are due for this their side it is that you should give to the other purposes also we can give the infrastructure for us it is for the NPTEL examination it is not for the other not for the other examination because our hostel students we should be taking care of the girls students it is so much I understand sir but our exam partner has that see they are a private company right so they can utilize our infrastructure at lesser at nominal cost we are it is there ready to provide and also earlier there it is your examination dates are the three dates now it is your squeeze it to the two dates five now we are increasing to five that is what I said so Saturday Monday we are going to include Thursday Friday you are restricted to that it is some some courses it is having to them in a particular day yeah yeah subjects based on subjects earlier it was a choice was there on the two days you can choose any any no no previously previously so long back it is just two years back you should choose any other day that it is at that time but the pressure may not be there you should be the like that it is a previously you should be the conduct that it is a three days that is also a solution the solutions are many it is you are giving very difficult solution so we can see we will try talking to our exam partner if they like that model of having the centre so we will try talking to them that is a model they are not willing to accept it is not part of their system so if they are not able to put a centre into their system and say use it only for this exam so it will come automatically for other exams so it will be a problem and so that is the issue and doing more exams yeah I would love to do more exams but then question papers are an issue so that becomes a difficult ah okay yeah yeah yeah I think it is very difficult so I think self-procted is simply too difficult I think the kind of question paper you have to set and the gradings you have to do for that is very very difficult to do and this is much easier in some sense I am Latha from good morning sir yeah yeah no I think there is one point from somebody yeah yes I am Latha from ABC College of Engineering sir we have local centre from November 21 we have the environment more than 750 in that semester also in that session but the exam pretty is allotted only for September 22 sir but we are ready to conduct exam in our institution our exam partner also your exam partner also conduct TRB, TNPS exams in our college but we have no exam city in October so this is very difficult to our faculties most of them register for exam but they didn't try the examination because the distance is from our college we are in but exam allotted in that is fire was travelling from our city so this is very difficult to us so my suggestion is please allot the exam cities in and around 30 kilometers from that location or otherwise we are ready to conduct the examination in our college also we have 200 systems with your requirements so you can allot this type of what are the places reachable Tanjavur is not close Tanjavur is better but if you allotted our college as exam city you can send the tricky people to Tanjavur but we have utilized our exam city we will look into this thank you sir the same case for me also famous because she is telling to come to Tanjavur but we went apart from the from Tanjavur because we are also having more than 300 systems TCSI and everything we are having they conducted as also from the NPTEL site but they didn't so we will conduct the examination in our campus these kind of difficulties are going to be there let me apologize in advance for these things already and I have to move on we are out of time we will come back and discuss specific things later please be in touch with our local chapters offices for help sir so Divya can you put up your if you have any specific issue on exam city Divya is the person to talk to so she is the person who no no no so please be in good terms with her she will take care of her okay let's move on here one option is there so we can check out the local chapters which are typed with TCS or any other we are doing all that sir we are already doing we are asking there is a form that is floated actually we are typed with TCS in last year we have asked I think see this has been asked already there is a form that was floated I think we are working on this actually last so what happens is like I said when we say Guntur we cannot say these centers in Guntur TCS doesn't work like that we say Guntur stop they pick colleges from there even if our local chapters are there they may pick something else they are prerogative okay let's stop the exam cities discussion I may be the last sir okay no no no sir myself Dr. Santosh from Malagpa University okay sir we are having 25 floated colleges so usually we are having we have allotted for exam center in Trichy or Madurai okay so from Karai Kudi Karai Kudi Trichy Madurai is close come on I am not coming to that point you have to that I am not coming to that point sir our floated colleges are far away from that point okay so for NPTEL alone we are requesting center exam center for our university in Karai Kudi thank you sir so please please send a mail to local chapter at NPTEL about this exam center should be proactive from your side say that you would like an exam center keep us informed if you are if you have a contract with TCS that's great already that will help sir sorry as he said he would be the last but I am sorry because this is Sangita from Karnataka and as you said Bangalore our college is almost near to Hubli Dharwat so it will take overnight to take the students at Hubli Dharwat Dharwat we have center yeah yeah Dharwat we have center Hubli Dharwat between those two we will have centers 100% instead of that sir so many people are giving I mean telling this as a problem as I remember for government employees getting that computer literacy exam is compulsory so there they monitor through the camera itself and that how it is so those things are impossible madam if that is being done no no no we are so it's very difficult to monitor those exams okay so do we pause okay so the next big number is past percentage and this has settled down comfortably at 70% this seems to be not increasing beyond 70% on average some courses see lesser also but most courses are around 70% this is a healthy past percentage I think so this shows again our exams are not too tough they are not too easy so there is some merit in the certificate itself it's not it's not very easy to get and not difficult also it's very fair you study well you are going to get that okay so like I mentioned number of people writing exams and percentage of people passing them is not the it's not a constant it's not 70% across the board or something some courses a lot of people who enroll want to write exams some courses nobody really wants to write very few want to write like if you look at the distribution here if you look at the July 22 courses about 60% of the courses saw greater than 10% registration that's a good number out of the people who enrolled 10% wanting to write exams is a great number but more than 10 also want to write but you also see less than 5% is 120 courses some courses are genuinely tough so people don't you know come in and write exam eagerly and past percentage also it varies a lot and I want to highlight two rows here and maybe start a discussion on why do you think this has happened this is an important question for us to answer if you look at Jan 22 in the past percentage the number of courses which had less than 30% okay was only 3 less than 30% past percentage we had only for 3 courses in January 22 okay okay so I am happy to welcome our director let him sit okay two minutes so let me also take this opportunity to introduce all the coordinators who are here so of course director of IIT Madras and chair of the NPTEL PIC we also have come we ran out of all the chairs so we have to put additional so professor Pratap Haridas is dean for academic courses at IIT Madras he was coordinator for NPTEL for a long time continues to be an NPTEL person in spirit helping us out professor Mangal Sundar I introduced you one of the starting coordinators professor Vignesh Muthu Vijayan another coordinator for NPTEL coordinator for NPTEL Ramakrishna Pasumarthi another coordinator for NPTEL so all of us are at IIT Madras and we also have coordinator from IIT Gohati here professor Bharat okay so these are the coordinators I thought I will briefly introduce them before calling our director to address so they are all representatives of our SPOC local chapter colleges SPOC is from there across the country and there are also people from your neighborhood person from Maila to Durai person from Tanjavur wanna come ah yeah so welcome to IIT Madras welcome to this campus this week has been a very hectic week here so we have I hope you will get some time to actually look at Shastra what is happening we are also hosting the G20 summit so on February 1 and 2 I invite all of you to come over and witness exhibition that will showcase how education is happening across the world and then you will also find that NPTEL is the best friends I have only one word to tell hats off to all the great souls who have been working on NPTEL starting from we call him Mangal Anna Mangal Sundar sir and then Pratap to Andrew to Vignesh to many of us who have put this wonderful platform when we started this in 2005 or 2006 that range where completely it was you know new to us we never thought that a Covid pandemic will lead 15 years later when the Covid pandemic hit I think we were one of these single point where a student can basically come and clear her or his doubt I think that was a very big contribution so when we all ask why do academic institutions exist we have lot of satisfactory answers we have a few powerful answers and I am sure the NPTEL along with all the SPOC's is a very very powerful answer that we give back to the nation specifically stating that in the time of the pandemic crisis we have responded to that crisis in a significant way and I am sure quality education did not suffer because of the pandemic and I think that is the testing going forward I look forward to very closely interacting with all the SPOC's and try to increase the reach of this quality education to as many more people as possible India has a lakh and 55,000 supposed offices that means you have lakh and 55,000 specifically demarcated places I think that is the best demarcation that you could have I think we have to reach no student across India should suffer because of lack of access to quality education and I think that is the big spirit in which we are working and thanks to all of you for this effort as IIT Madras we can only do a bit and I can say that we are just a small enabler and you are the people who are reaching it to the last mate and I am sure this is going to be a great revolution that we can tell the world that we exist and I also congratulate the entire team all of you that we have been rated as a platform and I think that is something significant and we will try to keep this and go ahead I also want to basically tell you that the gross enrollment ratio of our country is still at 26% we have approximately 13 crore people who does not get into the formal education in the age group of 15 to 25 and that is very very big point of concern I am sure NPTEL will serve as a motivation for people to come back into formal education and take it forward I think that is also a very important activity especially people who are very close to the villages please try and go to the schools try and go to the you know different localities convincing people to come and take up a formal education under graduate level we should be a country where there should not be a single child who has not got an undergraduate degree I think that is a very very good ambition that we have that we can have and I think with technology we will reach those sides thank you very much I am very happy to be here and welcome again to IIT Madras campus so as you all know we have ratings for our local chapters and rankings also so from the top 10 we have two colleges who are here we have been ranked yeah so I would like to call the coordinators on stage also along with the director when we give away these awards please come so we have a ranking of local chapters every semester after their performance based on academic performance we rank the local chapters in the top 10 the number one is Netaji Shubas University of Technology two is VIT Vellur three is Chandigarh University four is Manaras Hindu University five is GLA there are two of them from the southern part both are here we would like to call them out so that the director will give them the certificate for getting that rank first is Madhanapalli Institute of Technology and Science they rank six this semester so their SPOC is Dr. K. Arul Kumar next is number nine in the ranking list is RVR and JC College of Engineering Guntur Chandrasekar Rao MVP okay thanks thank you everybody okay so let's get back okay so director is a bit busy today there's too many events going on so he's here to leave it's great of him to have made the time to come and see us so like I was saying if you look at the January 22 courses the number of courses which had less than 30% pass percentage was only three and if you fast forward to July 22 there is a dramatic change in that number the number of courses which have less than 30% pass percentage suddenly became 62 okay the same thing is there from the 30 to 50 number of courses which had 30 to 50 percent pass percentage in January 22 was only 14 and suddenly that became 103 in the July 22 semester and there is a big shrinking if you see on the other side the number of courses which had 80 to 100 percent pass percentage was 383 in Jan 22 that number fell down to 214 in July 22 okay so these two things are the cause of big concern for us and I believe our office has contacted a lot of SPOCs and and we looked at it closely actually we looked at it closely and we could see there are students from some local chapters have failed in a big bunch they have registered for that course and all of them have failed or something of that nature seems to be happening very bit unusual so we did called and asked a lot of colleges specifically what has gone wrong why is it that they seem to have failed in such large numbers and here are the answers that we got they think somehow something went wrong some some of the things were about not having mcq type questions having more mentors productive assignments they could not access the semester exams were there it was load was too high it was difficult to do and students were unable to solve problems etc so this is something that is of concerns to us and a very related and important question is this one okay in July 22 we saw the number of students who had very high assignment marks and ended up failing in the final exam suddenly shot up so so I think this is something that I would like you to comment a little bit on what has changed between Jan and July why did suddenly we have a large number of students who don't seem to have prepared at all on how to solve assignment problems properly on their own and somehow they have got high assignment marks and they have failed quite badly in the final exam so if you have this experience yourself in your college or if you know of some such experience it would be nice to share and tell us about it yes Good morning sir Myself Yogeshwar from Anantalakshmi Andhra Pradesh For the last July semester the newly credit transit policy has been implemented by JNTO Anantpur so in that aspect I am from civil engineering department I encourage the students to take for advanced concrete technology course total students who are certified in that course for 6 out of 90 out of 90 so 90 or they have been enrolled only 6 have been certified so why that has been happened as per my what we analyzed is that was very new for them since concrete technology was that in their semester itself the level of the subject what they have studied was very new that is one point and they are very new to the environment of taking up that online courses first time as it was made mandatory by the university they have suggested to do advanced concrete technology Oh they made that specific suggestion of that course advanced concrete technology as the first MOOC course that the students should take that is for civil engineering and same has been happened in electronics they have opted for introduction to machine learning even that was also an very advanced course where they have been not up to that mark that has been what we have observed over there thanks I think that's good feedback thanks any other thoughts on this if you had this in your college students failing in large numbers yes yes a mic mic one minute one minute I am Dr. Shiv Kumar SPOC of PSA College of Art and Science in our colleges more than 350 students they have filed the last marks in external examination and this is because of the many students from computer science background they are forced to take computer science courses related courses that's the reason many students they filed they could not score much marks in external examinations that is because of that we lost ranking previous semester we were in top 10 now we were into top 20 20th rank so they did well in the assignments but they couldn't score in the final exam they felt that it was tough tough exam now they are trying to move for the exam I specifically told them not to go to COSERA I mean continue some humanity courses and again in the department they are not allowed to take other courses that's also the major reason for us the exam was tough but how they did not so the assignments that they did 3 times more many people they attended 3-4 exams even though we get top students but I don't know it's fault with the students or fault with the exams excuse me sir in our college we have sister from AVC arts and science college sir they also attend the same exam that industry mandatory course that is for PG exam they attend the electronics course same thing sir told that all the assignments are easy they scored more than 20 marks but in their exam they feel very tough because the questions most of the questions are not in the assignments so they feel like that the PG students told no no I think see that is not something we do that's not something we do in fact about significant fraction of questions from the exam will be similar to those in the assignments it will not be different from the assignments but that experience they told okay excuse me sir yes sir sir actually I belong to Thiruvalluvar university 2 years before the university assigned MOOC course as mandatory to PG students the problem is with Tamil students that means MA Tamil they also should do the MOOC course oh my god okay the problem is with the Tamil literature students there is no Tamil related courses but as a mandatory they chosen some of the subjects so it may be one of the reason okay yes thank you sir good morning sir on the Tamil courses we have just now had a recording done on Polhapyam the University of Madras Professor Gauri who is the Vice Chancellor has enabled the DTA Swayamprabha to run some of these recordings and we will transfer the course contents to this hopefully by another within the next 6 months to a year you will have local language courses developed they have their own development team but Swayamprabha is another project which MHRD has allowed so we have about 45 lectures which are being now reviewed hopefully we will transfer that to you so we may have Tamil courses yes sir I agree with you totally I am not in favour of it IIT Madras for instance does not do it so I think many many universities do not specify exact subjects but somehow some universities particularly some of the universities are very specific they are saying second year civil students should do this third year civil I don't know why I think it's so I think it's a type of thinking I think for instance one of the ideas there is students have to do really difficult courses to prove themselves as being great some people some academics in the board of studies they think like that they make very strong arguments in favour of that it's very difficult to go against it but many senate at least in IIT Madras for instance we don't restrict our students at all we keep it as open electives and open electives in my opinion are the best things for credit transfer contents are developed by IIT no but even here for instance developing soft skills and personality it's not a course that maybe somebody some board of studies may think of as a tough course or an engineering course or something but I think it's okay but that's not how some people think about courses and what it should be this is Seyukha Pandya in Asirvatham from Kisil Jainthi College Bangalore when we gone through the results the number one if you see that on June 7th there was a circular from UGC to all the higher education institutions where the blended learning it's a compulsory part and 60-40 should be the online courses you have to do so that's how the number was increased so every higher education institution decided to go with the online courses so the immediate solution is NPTEL so that is number one the number two as Seyukha was mentioning for many of the children it's the first type they have done something very limited level another weekly assignment restricted to the schedule the number was very high for the first time they are doing that kind of thing maybe there is no restricted learning it's the selfless learning you can do your work whenever you want whenever you please here it is a weekly assignment restricted to that so if they miss that week assignment the next week they are not able to do it so that is one way of doing but what we have done the number one is we have increased the number of mentors so that's how we can solve this issue inform the teachers more number to register and group wise they have to take care of individual small small group like 15 or 30 so that is one way we are trying to solve it basically a lot of students who are not exposed to this style of learning suddenly got put into some difficult courses because of some circulars from these are good so we will have to watch in January watch for the same thing and then look at what happens I am Dr. Pajit Sampath from KMCT Dental College in Kerala so we hardly have any of dental medical courses on the platform what I see is the future problem is I think over the next two years the entire various curriculum is going to be revamped we are going to go into a semester system because now we only have annual exams we are going into a semester system now where we will be graded according to the EGPA and students will be required to take electives and they have already brought out the list the draft was just published yesterday it hasn't been gazetted yet so they have put out the list of electives I think about 30 to 40 electives about 9 electives from this so I think it would be better if you can look into those and at least implement some of the programs so that otherwise again when students are forced to take up such programs you are going to see this again again we will have the same table okay thanks okay so I think that's the good morning sir last comment on this Sagar Raj from Mutayimal Engineering College actually I would like to point out one course in the July to December 2022 in the normal assignments there is one course named computer architecture and organization this is what I would like to mention so in the assignment the questions was totally multiple choice questions and of course there were some problems were there our students had done the assignments well the marks were quite decent in the final examinations all the questions were fill up the bank and analytical questions so around some 166 students have registered but in the past percentage was very few you are saying the final exam was very different from the assignment but about 50% of the questions were supposed to be the same we should look at it our policy why is this it's very clear that that's what it should be but then we will go back and look at this subject okay sir yes wait one of the main problem why the universities are compelling the students to do a particular course is that already they are having certain number of courses in their curriculum if they have been given the open choice to do any course then they will select one of the course which they are already studying this will be a repetition of the credits this will be a repetition that's why they are particularly mentioned some of the course which has to be taken which is not there in their curriculum so that you can check at the time of giving the credit that makes the difficulty on the part of the students that is also one of the reason yeah that could be a reason I can see that but then there are ways to solve it which are different okay last last last comment very quick question Dr. Vivekanan Kattimani I am SPOC for Dr. NTR Health University my colleague has told recently that there are some curriculums are not there in PTL that's the one thing and second thing is I have suggested one course because I am a coordinator for Indian Research Council so to make a life skill development okay we wanted to take a citizen every citizen has a life saver so we do have our course we wanted to go through the NPTL where we can get it theoretical part later we can get we will come back and address these things later they are not related to the yes yes okay okay so again I am here to give some more details about what are all the activities that are happening and some numbers to start with so the exam registration statistics that you look at we have been consistent when it comes to the gender ratio it has always been around 60 to 40 so I believe that is a reflection of what the higher education landscape in the country is where you are probably having a 60 to 40 ratio of men to women and that is also that is being seen in our exam registration as well and when we are looking at the reason for taking NPTL certification we are seeing that there is a growing number for credit transfer and I think that is largely due to the active participation of the local chapters and the SPOCs because we see that almost 90% of the exam registrations are from local chapters and with credit transfer as the major goal there are definitely other aspects as well so this students are doing it so that they can get their job or prepare for an exam and a competitive exam and so on but the primary interest seems to be credit transfer which has the major driving force so now we can we would like to have a short discussion on the credit transfer policies which are being adopted in individual colleges so I know some colleges might not have some universities might not have adopted it so it is a good idea to learn from each other and see what policies are followed and so if you have some thoughts to share so I will just start off with saying IIT Madras allows up to 7 weeks of courses 21 credits 7 times 4 so 28 weeks of courses can be credited to IIT Madras program so we have a slightly different credit system so if I say the credit numbers it might be a little confusing for people so I am just talking in terms of the number of weeks of courses so we allow up to 28 weeks of NPTEL courses to be credited for any of the BTEK or BTEK MTEK programs in IIT Madras so I am sure there are other IITs which are also following similar things so we thought we will at least hear from you as to what is being followed and based on how the guidelines have been given by AACTE and NEMOE anybody who wants to share their experiences with credit transfer please good morning sir this is Fawanchand from Electoral College of Engineering at Milivaram actually we have followed the credit transfer for 2 regulations up to now R17 as well as R20 in R17 we have opted for open L2 I mean we have 3 open L2 systems we have opted for open L2 and for every department as well as some department committee members will decide the subjects of 12 week courses only not 8 weeks or 4 weeks they decide approximately 10 to 15 subjects of the department and that same they may send to exam after sending the exam we will scrutinize what is the subjects going to the doing by the students from that if they pass they can submit the certificates and based upon our grade means from 80 to 90 A plus 70 to 80 same if they dot 80 for exam certificates so you are also giving a grade based on the NPTEL not just a credit transfer we are doing trade transfers only for one subject for open L2 in R17 regulation and 2 subjects in R20 at the same time now AACT kept minor degree and 100 degree to complete 6 subjects 4 subjects in the college itself remain 2 subjects should be done by NPTEL course only in R20 regulation we are encouraging the students to do 4 subjects ok so they can do up to 4 subjects but they are also getting grades so in the transcript it will say the course name with the grade will come they dot an NPTEL the same will produce in the grade system ok so what do you do incase somebody fails because you are saying 2 courses are mandatory from NPTEL so they have to do it in the subsequent semester if the course in the 6th semester they can do before 5 semesters they want to submit in 6th semester we are allowing from their first year onwards ok they can complete the course before 5th semester ok for 7th semester they complete before 6th semester ok so you give them 5 semesters time to complete these 2 courses yes sir good morning sir good morning sir actually we give 4 NPTEL grade courses 4 courses we offer for students sir from 3rd semester onwards up to 7th semester we allow students to get enrolled to NPTEL course and they can maximum 2 or 3 courses they can grade it sir in 8th semester we allow them to get internships sir so mostly within 6 semesters they can finish off this course sir so they can leave for internship so we offer students from 3rd semester itself we offer students sir and also equivalence grade we can frame sir for example if they score 8200 we give a top grade in our college and 70 to 79 we give A plus 60 to 69 so easily they can score above 60 sir A grade they easily achieve ok so again you do give grades yes sir equivalence grade sir through BOS and the academic council we get after sir so do you identify specific courses which the students can take or are they free to choose any course from NPTEL no sir we allow them to choose the individual HOD they can each department identifies a list of courses we have core courses in our curriculum sir other than core courses we allow sir for electives so electives you basically prepare a list of electives ok so just to give some idea about how IIT Madras does it so IIT Madras basically allows all kinds of courses from NPTEL to be credited and they submit the certificate and earn the credits the grade is not included but in some I think I am learning that many colleges even have grade system to convert the NPTEL scores into grade so that is also that is good so that it comes in the transcript proper please sir I am Dr. Ramnachary from the BVRI to BV Raju institution it is a rural college in Telangana we are offering the three NPTEL courses for the credit transcript purpose so nine credits are transferred to the students so each subject purpose we are allotting the three credits the minimum criteria we are given that is the seven CGPA is required for the in regular degree ok so up to the two one if they are seven CGPA if they have one one course is going to give two two we are going to one more course three one is one more course like three courses from the final year courses we are providing in the three one three two four one so like that we are transferring the credits fourth semester ok ok so this is the policy we are making and subjects also we are we are taking the approval from the BOS only every time 10 to 15 courses we are choosing from the NPTEL list so every semester you choose a list of courses and you approve that and allow and the repeated courses also we are not taking ok so madam over there she wanted to say something ok oh ok the norms we are calculating the internal and the semester examinations ok so you use your exam for the great purposes but they so is this conducted for anybody who is enrolled in a course or is it only for people who do the certification if they after they get the certification you conduct exams so that they can do credit ok so that's an additional layer of exams to but in 2021 regulation they have changed they didn't mention about that one ok good because for students can be quite stressful so thank you thanks for that information I think your mic is turned off can you please turn it on ok I am from the Wignan University Guntur so we started that it is the NPTEL credit transfer in the 2019 regulation onwards there is a 9 credits we are kept so we are facing the many challenges then it is we formed that is the department wise committee one regular one restriction it is that they should not choose the course what they studied in our regulation so basically it will be an elective course now the challenge was that so that we started in the fourth semester they crossed the seventh semester so we accumulated that it is the three courses failed students two courses failed students one course failed students this is a very big exercise so that we we take an approval we are conducting the separate examination those who are failed in the NPTEL courses the criteria we are considered it is that they should score that it is the minimum 25% of the marks in the NPTEL courses that marks we are considering for that it is the internal examination we are our internal examination it will be the we are making to that it is the weightage to the 40% remaining 60% we are conducting the examination so 40% comes from the NPTEL exam proctor examination we are not considering for that it is the assignments so that is the method we are following so this is for students who have failed the NPTEL exam NPTEL courses those who are meant for that it is a credit transfer and we are that it is all the HODs that is giving them a complaint it is that it is a drop down all those things it is that still in a R20 regulation what we done it is that we are given a flexibility we have in an elective courses it is a 33 credit a student can go from 9 to 33 credits so that if it is a because we want to introduce that it is a domain certification for that purpose it is a good student can be the he can be the choose that it is there all the elective courses from the NPTEL so another move it is there now we are done it is there many industry persons it is a we are coming for that it is a PhD enrolment so that it is for the PhD enrolment the 18 credits we are giving from the NPTEL so for PhD all 18 credits can be done at through NPTEL from the NPTEL it is interesting so are there any who is having challenges like anybody who is not doing credit transfer or having challenges because of the university not allowing it and so on so sorry I think she was about to say something but I will come back to you in a minute Sir I am Dr. Indra from Picker Arts college for a moment Sir in 2019 regulation we are running a college rural college our students are first generation students we can give credit transfer like extra credits ok then this time we have regulated sir if we are taking the subjects from our syllabus so we are transferring the same credits if they get passed through NPTEL we are giving the same credits to them if they are not getting through that NPTEL courses they have to write our examination ok Sir only 30% of the syllabus only they are covering through NPTEL so is there any challenges if they are not go through that NPTEL Sorry I couldn't understand the last part Sir we have framed the syllabus in that when we compare to the NPTEL syllabus only 30% of the syllabus only covered by our syllabus sir so the students are taking the examination if they got through the examination it won't be bothered if they don't means what will happen what we have to frame the policy I am asking So as many people were suggesting your own exams is an option so where people had a couple of other models where based on their performance in the NPTEL exam you can have a grade or if they fail you can have an internal exam so you are saying that the syllabus in your college course is much lesser than what is actually covered in NPTEL is that right okay okay so you can choose to have a question paper based on the topics you think are relevant for giving credits in your college so that part you can I think you would have the control to do that so if you are conducting an internal exam for giving credits you can choose to use NPTEL as a learning material but the exam content can be focused on what you cover in your college so that is potentially possible you can modulate it most of the students are coming from Tamil medium background sir so they are facing so much of challenges while doing NPTEL courses so NPTEL has translation when it comes to the content you have subtitles which can be seen in Tamil for many courses I think almost all courses should be available in Tamil I think not all but significantly large number will have in the science courses it becomes difficult to the students to understand the English what they deliver in IIT okay so we are working on translation as actively as possible so this is the challenge which we are working to address and hopefully we will be able to have more of these local language content where we have translations and transcriptions which are available in local languages so that people can overcome the language barrier itself sorry there is somebody here who wanted to morning to all I am Dr. D. Bhanamati professor and head department of C.R.C. Spock of Pava Engineering College, autonomous we are offering two way for the students to get credits in NPTEL one is to skip open elective the student can earn three one credit course any courses they can do and they can skip their open elective they have two options of open elective one in the semester six and another one in semester seven so they can skip any one of the open elective this is one choice and another one is they can skip their professional elective provided if the student have completed three credit course one three credit course in NPTEL and that course should be the equivalent course of the paper which they are skipping okay so this would be a professional elective that they can the same subjects relevantly it should be okay so you have a list of professional electives in your college and an equivalent course can be taken in NPTEL and the student can start doing their NPTEL course from second year onwards so that they can on six semester or in the seven semester okay thank you so excuse me sir I have a sorry just one second good morning to all I am Dr. Victoria Priscilla from S.J.B. Vashan College we have introduced like in PG department we have introduced a research skill and students have to clear the NPTEL exams that will be reflected in the as a additional credits in the mark sheets so for the same for the UG they can also take up the list of courses from department and also they also they'll be given as an additional credits to the mark sheets so in order to motivate the students if the students have to clear the suppose the number of courses have been cleared we are providing the separate mark sheets to them for the NPTEL exams okay so now that we have heard various models couple of things I would like to emphasize so as you can see there is a lot of variability between each college each university so if you can what is being practiced in your college based on which regulations you are practicing if you can send it to the local chapter email ID we will collate them and have them on our website so that anybody who is trying to adopt this credit transfer mechanism will have an understanding of the various possibilities because many a times people are not aware of the various kinds of flexibilities that come with such a credit transfer model so when we can have these good practices it will be really helpful so please do send those details I have another question for you so I see that obviously a lot of people are doing it for credit transfer so have you had an interaction with the students to get a feedback so is it the better performing students who are seeking to do NPTEL courses or are people seeing it as an easier way out or how do you think are students being forced into it because the administration is looking for it or either way the idea is to just get a feel for what do you think is the students feedback on the courses and NPTEL experience in general hi sir excuse me once again myself Dr. John Victor usually the rural students find difficulties in facing the examination because as ma'am said most of the rural students are first generation graduates the challenges that they face is they don't have enough facility first of all even then the facility provided by the institution they utilize and learn it ok they feel somewhat afraid of the examination fee first of all the examination fee comparing with other usual courses this is 1000 rupees I was expecting some of the institution may share like this but nobody else also share about this so they face it 1000 rupees paid and attended examination that is participated but got failed without the examination so once they failed they may not find another option for going because another 1000 rupees they have to pay ok so you people have to consider this I don't know how you people have the consideration under credit transfer regarding this the students because of getting failed we people find difficult to add getting the credit transfer process because if 10 students appearing for examination for example if one passed that one credit may not be possible to score the institution level so that is the difficulties that we face thank you ok so the exam fees as such fixed at 1000 and it has been there for since that time the certification started actually we have not even revised the prices since 2014 when it was introduced we understand there are students who do find challenges we have CSR support for scholarships for the exam fees for candidates who are eligible and there is also a waiver for based on the category so we will see how best we can facilitate this because I understand the challenge of failing and then having to redo the exam I don't know if reducing the fee or overall might be a possibility because what we see is there is a definitely a large chunk of people who need that waiver and there is also another large chunk of people where this is not a big factor so we need to find a balance where the fees is actually something meaningful and also it needs to look at what are the costs incurred in actually conducting the exam itself so we will look into it we will see what is possible but we do encourage students to apply for scholarships and CSR support we will provide whatever support is possible so is there an email ID where they can write two regarding fellowships or what is the process so if you can give us a list and we can see what is possible so yeah right sir Prashant from Sayadri college outside yours Sayadri college Mangalore sir the problem where video colleges face is whole country will go in one academic calendar we have a different you know that is one problem we always face because if you look at the scenario right now we are having seven exam exams fifth semester still no exams not started second semester still admissions are going on I mean like lateral entry so that is one problem we always face of course we have become autonomy now so how we are planned this semester onwards is video has introduced minor degree so we made it we make the minor degree through the NPTEL courses so where five courses they have to up where that will be board of studies like we will go as has to up through the courses then credit transfer has to will take place for the minor degree that will be added into the certificate for the autonomy students so all five courses can be done on NPTEL is that right right sir at least like right now this semester we are offering all the courses through NPTEL only like board of studies will be approving few courses so that these courses will not be repeated in their regular academics so it is possible for somebody to do five courses on NPTEL to then the minor from yes of course video has given some norms to be followed like they shouldn't have a backlog from third semester to I mean like fourth semester to eighth semester if at all they have a backlog they are not eligible for the minor degree but they can add to ABC okay yeah so if you are doing something like this there is one so this is for anyone who is going to give a ask for a bouquet of courses to be earning a minor or something along those lines please make sure that the options given are larger because the students may not be able to complete all of those courses in one semester they might have to do it over a period of one or two years and when they do that the same course might not be offered the next year so please keep us informed if you have included something like that for a minor or for earning some kind of a certification with a bouquet of courses and also make sure that there are enough options instead of just saying these are the exact five courses that need to be done if you can identify ten courses and say any five out of these ten can be done then the students will have that option when the courses are offered in case one course is dropped also they will still be able to pursue that it shouldn't happen just so that they complete all four courses and then the fifth course is not offered by the time they graduate and they miss out on a certificate for a minor which would be unfortunate so please keep this in mind we are taking care of that like we have a department by squad in it as we will be monitoring like if at all any of those courses are not available or the reason is not there so we will be opting a similar course or some other course so we will be updating the list every now and then so that's good so if you can keep updating that list and make sure that the courses are available for the students to complete I will just take a semester in this because sometimes we offer some in Jan, some in July and you all take it to the ordinary semester and we just request you to run please run good morning sir I am Dr. Lalitha from CTT college actually it's an affiliated college so we come under University of Madras right now the university has not given any credit transfer for the NPTEL courses for the course so yeah we understand this but UGC has sent a circular saying they should implement this but some universities have still not adopted it we will try to push for this we will also there is a clear mandate from the ministry and from the government but somehow there is still reluctance when it comes to credit transfer in some universities so that the students can actually take this a little more seriously same question I want to ask madam what said sir I am K. Ashok, Trinity Degree and PG college with the Pellis sir actually our college is affiliated to Satvahan University, Karim Nagar sir actually so we are trying our best to get the credits from the university but we have trying our level best to get but I need support if anyone is have the good leads from the university or higher education here so that we can get the credit transfer from the university so I am also discussing with the local Spokes those are already there so they are ready to give the representation to the university from our side we want to do our best and recently our principal also ordered us that so you have to gather the information those colleges are implementing this credit transfer so we will give a representation on this so we are working our best so I need for anyone is there from here to support us on this from the university thank you sir thank you for bringing this up so we do know of a few universities where this is a challenge but in case your university has not adopted a credit transfer yet we will please send us an email we will try to impress upon them the importance of this option for students and we will try our best so that it gets adopted in the near future we can also look at the numbers for what is happening in across and we can convey that to the university so that they will be persuaded hopefully hello excuse me sir I am Dr. Agis Baradi the university and we are going to be offering the credit transfer of the research methodology so in detail it is going to be offered so how much percentage they got it accordingly we are going to calculate and they are going to give the credit transfer but in recent we have changed the syllabus so in that one let us say the findings were given in research methodology course in 90 years if they are going to given the content so what that is going to be covered in heading and second thing is you see they have made it the research and public report last time they have given less time so I do not know exactly so some of the students are able to be research to attempt the exam exam registration time is usually the same the time is going to be given so last time they have given very few days so two days or three days okay so that we do not manage the exam partner exam activities for swyam courses so here we only look at the NPTEL courses so just so that everybody is clear swyam actually is the umbrella under which NPTEL works but along with NPTEL there are also other national coordinators so there are I think nine national coordinators on the whole but NPTEL is the only thing which we operate and the exams and course offering from NPTEL is what we have control over the other national coordinators operate function independently we only maintain the platform for the swyam courses we are not involved in the academic part of it or the administrative part of the swyam courses so can't really help you there but as far as NPTEL courses we give a three month window for registration for exams and students take it during that time so we will end with this question and then excuse me one person one more question after that sorry Sir myself Dravid Kraman coming from Calicut actually I am from Calicut university affiliated college according to Calicut university in 2019 revelation they have allowed credit transfer but there is no specific how you can there is no specification how to credit but according to new syllabus they have introduced I am from arts and science college they have introduced four audit courses in each semester the second and third fourth semester and they are allowing us to you can ask the students to complete from the MOOC course or swyam platform you can use like that and what we are doing we will ask the students to complete the NPTEL courses regarding some specific gender justice something like that some environmental some general courses they are asking so once we have we academy council has selected one course in the next year that course may not be there in the NPTEL course list so that we are facing one problem another one problem we are from a remote village as the sir told itself the students mostly they are getting grants and scholarships to complete their degree and they are from really backward community so it is difficult for them to permit the examination fee thousand rupees so there are also students facing a very there are a lot of complaints coming from students regarding the examination fee part so there are some viewers there from NPTEL side I know that one but it is for very few five percent of when comparing to the total number it will be come to five or ten percentage but the number of students from economically background is very large so there we are facing very difficulty for the ask the students to write the exam that we are facing thanks for bringing this up see again as we already mentioned the list of courses which are offered for each semester can vary based on the availability of faculty to offer the course the course some courses are calendared for the next two three years but there are some courses which will probably be offered only that semester and then it may be offered one or two years later so we request that any list of courses that you approve through your board of studies needs to be updated before every semester so that based on the courses which are offered on NPTEL rather than having a fixed list it will be good to have this which is a little more flexible and where you can keep updating so that way it will be helpful yes please I think more than 300 or 400 colleges arts and science colleges are there and all these colleges have to complete these audit courses so the reach of NPTEL is less according to me reach of this NPTEL chapter but that system is not even reached to all the colleges so when it reach and if the colleges are asking because every year we have to complete all these audit courses so if it is possible then every time you can get a huge number of students for the same courses that's my suggestion we will try to work on that last question I have a COC from Salam so we have implemented NPTEL as a mandatory electric course in the fifth semester so that we have reached the push-in of 17 I would see only the less number of 12-week courses in the recent list less number of 12-week courses I request the NPTEL team to look at the possibilities of introducing the more number of 12-week courses we have almost more than 300 courses suddenly you are changing the 12 weeks into the 4 weeks for example the software testing in the previous run software testing so the cloud computing course also so some courses have two different types of offerings even the topic might be the same but two different faculty are teaching deep learning I have seen it map yeah so the title of the course might be the same but it will be offered by different faculty or different institutions and the content covered will be different so they are actually two separate courses they will have a separate course ID so these are operated independently same then you are not offering both the courses that's the problem we are facing we opted for the credit transfer means we are expecting the next turn also the same so yeah so just like how we have odd semester event semester in colleges so the courses which will be offered in the odd semester may not be offered in the event semester so some courses where there is a high demand it may be offered in both semesters but most courses will be offered only in that particular semester so it will be an event the website in the next to 120 is available I think currently it is up to July 20 July 20 sir last one so we will come back to a discussion point later nobody to mention about our anonymity affiliation that's what I am telling in our regulation 2021 we have credit transfer for 12 week course 3 credit is transferred for our open elective or professional elective course sir R17 it is possible that is the students must complete the NPTEL course as well as the anonymity examination but R21 that is regulation 21 we have up for 12 week course for from 50 semester onwards either open elective or professional elective we can drop any elective we can credit that same credit to our we have plan to implement in our college from next semester also PhD 4 courses that is 4 course papers they are instead of 4 courses they have up for 2 NPTEL courses they have drop that to Mathura writing courses sir now introduced in our anonymity so we will stop with the questions again we will come back we will have more time to discuss again so we have a few people to introduce so I hand it over to Jai Bala good morning to one and all my name is Jai Bala just to quickly tell you NPTEL does partner with industry industry people to you know actually to they we both partner with the mutual relationship like they want to up skill their employees we want more application oriented courses there in you know the industry contribute and it is not only the academic part which the courses cover but also our industry orientation is there which will help our learners to improve their employability or even that will be helpful with higher education so we have about 79 partners currently and some of our partners are attending this event today and I would like to introduce Mr. Prasanna Kumar academic program manager from ANSYS software so with ANSYS we do run industry oriented sessions wherein you know they train NPTEL learners on how to use the ANSYS tools which are freely available so this kind of helps the students so Mr. Prasanna please come on stage and just address this Thank you ma'am, thank you for introducing very good morning to all I will not take much of your time they have given me only maximum 5 minutes so my name is Prasanna Shankar I handle academic program for ANSYS software and you all are aware about the tool ANSYS has been widely used by all of you all of the engineering colleges are our customer and it is widely used from 1990s in mechanical curriculum and from year 2005 electronics antenna design HFSS tool has been widely used by all of your students and faculty members and to brief about the organization it is a 51 year old organization it is mainly into software and now they are focusing on multiphysics so any product development happen at software level now so it is simulation driven product development is the concept so everything can be developed in the software so if you want the best iteration you can select the best one and go for manufacturing this is the way industry is now working and ANSYS do partner with NPTEL and NPTEL we have already come up with 8 courses related to semiconductor related to a course on antenna design and course on machine design, a course on CFD computational fluid dynamics a course on FEA has already been hosted by ANSYS along with NPTEL now we are planning to come up with which is using LSDINA there is a course on request a course on ice pack which is means electronics thermal cooling we are working with NPTEL on that and there is a battery pack thermal simulation for electric vehicle we are working with NPTEL on that and also few course request on FSI problem fluid and structure interaction related to civil engineering and mechanical engineering so we are closely working with NPTEL on that and also ANSYS we do have a student license for your students which is accessible in hostel or at their home premises it is not meant for using in academic premises it is a student license they can explore those license it is available for all the physics related to FEA, CFD electronics, electrical electrical computer science and also we recently acquired a few companies like photonics organization like fiber optic simulation these tools are available free download for your students you can encourage your students to use those software and use this NPTEL course and work towards industry means like oriented courses and the main intention is in last 5 years ANSYS have acquired 23 organizations these 23 organizations are re-framed in ANSYS as new and emerging technologies so which is related to additive manufacturing healthcare in simulation so now means engineers are supporting healthcare domain during this covid time we worked very closely with all the AITs and we could able to come up with ventilator and many means medical related equipments are manufactured using ANSYS simulation and also we do have a partnership with AIT Madras ANSYS have hosted a certification program through partnered with AITM Pravartak which is a section 8 company of AIT Madras we launch a program on 5G 5G simulation ANSYS autonomous vehicle and vehicle engineering simulation so these courses are quite been successful more than 350 students have certified through these courses these courses have a placement assistance also with AIT Madras and ANSYS association you can also in case your students have completed NPTEL courses they look forward for a job oriented courses with AIT Madras we have that program as well so I kindly request you please visit our website also and NPTEL website also we have our free software available for your students ANSYS also have free courses in our website 270 free courses are there which is ANSYS innovation courses that is also it's a video based small courses 20 minutes 50 minutes they have taken a problem and solved it through a video it's a self-paced learning courses which may be of your students interest if they are very particular they want to build their career using this simulation so we are working with NPTEL to come up with a few advanced courses as well so we'd like to take your feedback from NPTEL and accordingly we would like to work with you all to enrich the simulation-driven product development concept for our country thank you apologies for my voice my voice is really bad today but with respect to ANSYS we have been in discussion with them for the certification courses and there's been a discussion on the vouchers part of it because I'll have a cost associated with the certification I think so not just badges even for the certificates it's a cost so I think there was some talk between us to say can we do something about you know giving a discount to NPTEL learners on the certification course if that can be something that we can work out it'll be great to help our students come into the programs so a lot of these ANSYS programs we are running on Saturdays they are small workshops that we are doing 2 hours 3 hours on Saturdays for the students for the degree license like you said one more thing we'd like to thank ANSYS for is they are coming out with some CSR support also to us and like you know we haven't announced the July 2022 CSR for the colleges yet because we are on zero CSR now so we have been talking to companies and all that saying that we need it for July 2022 and there are 3 or 4 companies we are in talks with together CSR ANSYS is one of them that has come forward so now that you've seen the colleges I hope you'll get a bigger support from who you are directly reaching out what the colleges are saying about their students and more than we talking to I think you should actually listen to them and hope we get more CSR support from you next thank you so we'll take a break now the break is there the coffee and snacks are served outside in the dining hall we can probably come back in 15-20 minutes max if we can finish off we have lot more about initiatives to talk about and then of course prices and plaques to be discussed in the course so we'll come back after the break I am Ram Prashna I'll do bit of the items here so on it's on mic is on okay good thanks okay so these are okay after all the data points with courses exams credit transfers so there are few features that we have added to assist learners in the courses so in addition to discussion forums live sessions by faculty so what we have as a new addition is live sessions in almost all of the courses for problem solving so these are essentially by the prime minister research fellows who are mandated to take or interact with crowd other than IITs for one hour a week so they discharge their duties through NPTEL courses for larger courses there are more than one live sessions per week so in these live sessions there will be problem solved to that pertaining to the content of that week the students can ask questions doubts related to the content of the week and so on so we started off with a pilot of 81 courses in the giant 2022 semester about 850 live sessions were conducted last semester we had 262 courses closing to a total of 4000 live sessions and this semester there are about 294 courses for which we planned to conduct about 5000 sessions so this is a list of courses and I am sure the people who enroll are already alerted through emails and other modes of these live sessions the links are updated there so there is a schedule I think put on for the entire semester so this people have benefited across all courses and problem solving was useful for them and understanding concepts which sometimes are not very clear in the videos or methods of solving problems it could be more than one method and so on so there are so this has been a good initiative people have appreciated the effort of our scholars here however in some of the courses there are not too many participants so and to make it easier so we do this live sessions after the college hours I think we start from 6 p.m. go on till 9 p.m. and then do it over the weekends so that it doesn't interfere with the regular college hours I am assuming that most people here would know about this live sessions if not please alert your students in your respective colleges to attend this live sessions and if you have any feedback on why people don't attend much because there are some courses where the attendance is like in single digit and so on so any feedback on this quick on the way we conduct the live sessions we wanted to do it a little better or any inputs from your side how many people actually know that these live sessions are going on okay everybody knows so of course yeah then I think that's a good thing then that we also then should know that attendance in some cases is a little low so any suggestions or feedbacks on this quick couple of points before we go on to the other things here okay okay so these are in addition to the regular live sessions we used to have with faculty and the regular course here so this happens like every week so please encourage your students to participate on this in large numbers other initiatives I'll quickly talk upon and as mentioned in the morning also about domain stars and we have a few of them visiting us this afternoon so we have something called the different categories of recognizing people starting from domain scholars I'll talk a little bit of what the domain scholars are then there are superstars who have appeared in four or five or six exams and would have topped in at least three exams and you see these numbers are pretty big right so 217 people have topped in at least three courses and then there are people who keep on taking lot of courses so the evangelists are people who take at least 18 exams in the past four years and past and would have credited at least you know past at least two-thirds of those courses and these are also close to 200 and then you have motivated learners who have appeared in at least eight exams in the past four semesters and past at least 75% of those courses and this number is also pretty encouraging and above and you have NPTEL enthusiasts, discipline stars, believers and so on so these are the numbers okay so in the examination some data points on how many students enrolled how many faculty enrolled and what is the past percentage and we have good amount of participation from the faculty also right and then the past percentages are of course not surprisingly sometimes higher in the faculty and a bunch of employed people also who take the courses and others who just take it for interest and hobby okay so what about these domain scholars so we have in the last semester we have awarded domain certificates to about 144 learners then there are about 44 superstars and 76 evangelists and so on and I think these numbers domain is something which we introduced three years ago and this is going quite well and we expect these numbers to grow in the future and also provide little more assistance to people than in terms of placements or getting internship opportunities which I will talk about a little later to help these domain scholars and of course the other categories also we see a steady growth of numbers and in all these categories there are more than 10,000 people whom we recognize or give certificates in different ways superstars they come from all faculty there are employed people there are people who possibly just do for hobby and so on so these are a good list of our superstars a comprehensive list you can find out on the website so these are also people who are the list of students they come from IITs also take this course people from as far as Jadovpur till Roper and typically all over the country and Pital evangelists who do a lot of our courses see people taking up to 31 courses from Shri Shivaji college he is a faculty and Ashoka Mr. Ashok who comes also from the Padmavati engineering colleges about 31 past courses and these are really really big numbers which means they have been taking courses very regularly and almost at each semester and student evangelists are also quite a lot people taking up to 24 courses from ACS college of engineering and all the way taking courses and there are also other lists that you could see the list of all the superstars all the evangelists and so on popular courses on the industry not surprising that all would be related to the modern or the courses which are hot in the market in terms of jobs much of them are programming and cloud computing IOT kind of courses then there are courses also on electric vehicles renewable energy electric vehicles is another dedicated course that we have recently started so these are also quite popular among the industry of course a lot of students also take it from different branches ok so I will talk little more detail of the domain certifications possibly like also minors that we give in academic institutions so as we see that there are people doing more than one or half a dozen courses we thought we could kind of help them streamline courses and get them a specialization or direct them towards a specialization in a particular topic or a particular subject and this helps in multiple ways they can prepare for higher education they can possibly have a skill set where they can apply for a job and so on so first what is the criteria so we have a set of core and elective courses in each of these specialization areas and all these have to be completed within the three years and the basket is large enough that there are courses so many courses that will be offered in the next three years and then it's not just to pass the course there is a minimum requirement that you should pass each course with at least 60% marks and then of course the overall score therefore will also be more than 60 popular ones of course we have come from the computer science domain we have about four domains in AI, data science, programming there is a foundation of computing systems and so on civil engineering also sees a lot of nice domains, electrical engineering of course, VLSI being the most popular with respect to jobs and so on and also mechanical these are typically also aligned with the kind of specializations we offer in MTEX and across institutes so we have Aerospace has one domain in flight mechanics, biotechnology has few specializations of course chemical engineering has one faculty discipline is something which is very popular, a lot of faculty take these courses we have domains in humanities and social sciences mathematics is something which we are adding a lot more specializations quickly go through this as I said again computer science has about five specializations, electrical engineering has about five, mechanical has a lot more and I am sure one of the popular would be on the advanced manufacturing technologies, robotics computational sciences and so on and also we offer domains in metallurgical and material science engineering a typical certificate would look like this there will be a part of it which will look like a course transcript so you will have all these six courses classified as core and elective and of course the students name and then the domain specialization would be useful here, it would be mentioned here so some initiatives that we are also looking at is employability of these domain scholars talking directly to companies saying that look we have people who have specializations and so on so subjects would you be interested so some headway we are making in that and I think as time goes by a lot of this industry would be interested in absorbing a lot of these kinds of scholars so semester wise you see a bunch of numbers here in the recent semester aerospace has three domains of course the largest not surprising they come from computer computer science, data and AI and programming kinds of streams and of course VLSI subjects in electrical engineering but even the others are quite popular in their own way and also the faculty domain I think a lot of faculty take these things this certification that you have a bunch of them in humanities and social sciences mechanical engineering like energy and manufacturing are quite popular and also in metallurgy and who are these people taking these domain certifications we have students we have a good mix of students employees and faculty across all these domains and of course the numbers you see a lot of faculty take the domain certifications in these kind of subjects and so on for some reason I don't know maybe robotics should pick up a little little larger why the numbers are small so there are about 460 people who completed at least one or have at least one domain certificate there are people who have one like two 24 scholars have about two domains and about two scholars have completed three domains so how do we incentivize this is again something very new and something which we would like the message to go across is these NPTEL stars or any NPTEL learner is now eligible to take courses on campus of course it's not just a walk-in but there is a process for that on the website as I said the procedure will be put up shortly we will give a course transcripts for this and there is a little fees which may be about about 9 to 10,000 rupees per course for the people who enroll through this kind of heavily subsidized rates I think this is industry we charged almost three or four times of this rate so this is some incentives that we are working on please pass on this message to also your learners and of course the faculty and themselves who are NPTEL learners are also welcome to register to regular courses on the campus okay so there are colleges where we have a lot of these domains I will skip these details we have good feedback from these domain scholars and superstars and all and of course if you are around you can meet a lot of them in this afternoon so okay so these are good statistics on the course takers so we have almost four like people doing at least one course and then there are up to people who do up to 12 courses with good numbers so there are a lot of people who come back and then do courses which possibly also hints about the quality of the courses and the program that we offer okay so those are these numbers here so these are all the people who got domain certification in this semester who have taken more than within one year so also these are multiple course takers in the entire one year people who have taken more than four courses about 53 people got the domain certifications and so on with the numbers about nine people who completed more than 12 courses got their domains and of course you can always see the list of people who completed okay again a long list of learners who got domain in two or three semesters starting from July 21 till this July 2022 semesters and good distribution geographically and also among students employed and people faculty and people who just do it for just as a hobby or just to an answer learning and we see people also from good companies like IBM and all participating in this kind of programs highest number of NPTEL course takers these are like really big numbers so you see somebody from Goa University actually took 24 all the 24 courses in from Jan to Jan 2021 till July 2022 and and then of course a bunch of people taking 24 courses and all the way up till 18 courses and so on and this will be classified as one of our stars or evangelists in one of those groups so this is across three semesters only two semesters four semesters Jan to July okay I think so they have almost registered for all courses that were on offer during that period which is quite substantial okay some other initiatives credit transfer I think we have talked about this when Vignesh was talking about how to do academic transfer so your council or the university has to approve the credit they have to define how many credits for the courses what kind of courses I think I can skip this because we have talked about credit transfers in quite detail unless you know you have any questions on this you can just raise your hand and we can take up for discussion this another initiative which has been also quite popular that we have an MOU with AICT for NPTEL courses as FTPs a lot of faculty are required to take this FTP certifications once in a while and then the list is available on websites if you look at each of the courses they will be a little marker here which will say that this course AICT approved courses this how the certification will look like for the FTP program so procedure is simple just endure for the course register, write exams and if interested just apply for this certification through AICT NPTEL and it just costs about about 100 rupees so this is again quite straightforward and the numbers are also quite big in terms of the total number of courses that we have of the 665 that are on offer this semester about 561 are FTP courses and possibly I think these are also the 12 week course so how does this translate into the FTP requirement so a 4 week course will look translate into half FTP one week and this will be a full FTP of one week and the 12 courses will be one and a half FTP of each week so I think we will no need to take photographs I think these slides and all will be made available so just ask questions if you have on this so upcoming semester these dates are for previous time but I think these are not important but the procedure and then all are we can just find it on the website exam registration from the faculty perspective we have between 17 to 20 22% of faculty who regularly register for our exam and in the recently concluded semester about of the close to 19,000 of the 27,000 people registered applied for FTP and this good amount of translation from the people wh