Good morning, ma'am. You can start with introduction. Yes, a very good morning to everyone present here. I, Dr. Kamakshi, SPUC NPTEL Local Chapter SRM ISD Delhi NCR Campus, Modinagar, Ghajibar. Welcome you all to this NPTEL Awareness e-workshop. So, to grace this occasion, I have pleasure to greet Bharti Ma'am, Senior Project Officer NPTEL IIT Madras. I welcome you, Ma'am. Divya Ma'am, Project Officer NPTEL IIT Madras. Prayadarshani Ma'am, Project Associate IIT Madras. We also have with us Dean SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. D. K. Sharma Sir. I welcome you, sir. We also have Professor Dr. Naveen Alawazar, Dean Campus Life and HOD with us. I welcome you, sir. We all know that NPTEL is the National Coordinator for MOOC courses in Engineering and Science to Men. NPTEL learners not only get the benefit of learning by prestigious faculty members across the country, but also they can earn the internship and in course stoppers with a nominal strike band. NPTEL offers the domain certificate across 12 disciplines. Now, to move ahead with today's program, I would like to invite our guest speaker, Dean Dr. D. K. Sharma, SRM Institute of Science and Technology. I request you, sir, kindly share the valuable words to enlighten the special movement of this program by addressing few words. Thank you, Dr. Kamakshi. Good morning to one and all present here. Ms. Bharti, Senior Project Officer IIT Madras, Ms. Divya, Project Officer IIT Madras, Ms. Priyadarshini, Project Associate IIT Madras and other who are present here in this workshop. Good morning to one and all. First of all, I wish to thanks to the NPTEL team to give me the opportunity to be a part of this workshop. Thank you very much. As a part of, on behalf of SRM, IST, I wish to say few lines about my institutions. SRM Institute of Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary deemed university celebrating its five decades of academic excellence. We are accredited by NAC with the highest grade A++, A grade by MHRD and category one status by UGC. Apart from that, the NIRF 2021 ranking is 90, fourth rank by ATAL ranking of institutions on innovation achievements 2021. Moreover, we are globally diamond rated university by IGH and four star rated by QS star rating for excellence in academia. SRM IST has excellent research facility also. Approximately 3,000 research scholars are pursuing their PhDs and around 180 scholars are pursuing their research in our campus, the Delhi NCR campus. NPTEL is now become a popular government took an initiative in 2003 to provide quality education to all corners of the country. With this reason, seven IITs and ISC Bangalore joined this mission and now NPTEL is having around 600 courses. Every institution NPTEL have shown his presence and we also, if I say we are associated as a local chapter since November 2018, our NCR campus. As on date, NCR campus from NCR campus 588 students have been passed and 17 students are in top 1% in the session July to December 2022. So with this words, I thank you NPTEL team for conducting this workshop. Thank you very much. Now over to Dr. Kamakshi. Please unmute. Thank you sir. Thank you sir for your kind words. Now I would like to invite you ma'am to take over the session. Okay, so maybe familiar with this logo. This is the NPTEL logo. We'll start off with it. So NPTEL is today a lot of initiatives put together. It's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website, but we have certification, not just certification for one course, but it is also clubbing courses together to make it into a domain. For faculty, we have FDP courses which fetch you career points, then we have internship opportunity for students, we have a soft skill training going on for local chapter students and so on. So this is what this presentation will talk about. Okay, so you might have all heard about these two terms, NPTEL and SWAYAM. So SWAYAM is a project of the ministry, the government of India in HRB and they created this in 2017 and said that all these agencies that you see below, right? IAM, Bangalore, UGC, CEC, NCRT, NITR, AICT, they all have to offer courses for certification under SWAYAM. So NPTEL is also a national coordinator under SWAYAM. We primarily offer courses in engineering, the UG level, the bachelor's level, the MTech, ME level, some PhD level courses also. But since we have courses that are there in the management and humanities division inside IITs, we offer that also on NPTEL. NPTEL also coordinates with some institutes like the ISERS to offer, say the physics, chemistry, mathematics courses. We work with the triple ITs, we work with national law school Bangalore, we work with some medical institutions to offer medical related courses. So maybe 90% of our courses will be engineering related humanities management and 10% is something else we help. So NPTEL comes under SWAYAM and we coordinate this primarily. There are other agencies also. So one thing to remember when you are going to SWAYAM.gov.in and you try to enroll to any course or you try to join any course, please check whether the national coordinator is NPTEL if you want to join the NPTEL course. Because if you just search for say a database management systems course, right? Maybe there is some other college also offering it with somebody else's coordinating. So the course name that we offer will also be database management system, theirs will also be that possibly. So how do you actually differentiate if it's an NPTEL course? On every course card we will have a logo of NPTEL. I showed you when we come there. But you can check that and then you can join the course. Okay. That is something that you have to look out for. Okay. NPTEL started in 2003. The vision, mission that we have had is to record the content that is being taught to IIT students and put it out for anybody to watch and view so that nobody can say I didn't get a chance to prepare for IITs. I am not in the IITs today. I cannot get access to their knowledge to their teaching. Hence, you know, I denied this opportunity. Nobody can say that today. More than 2000 courses we have in our repository. You can go there and you can actually access the courses for free. You can just go there. You can scroll. You can watch all the videos. We have more than 50,000 hours of video in our website. You can access all that for free. There is no charge. There is no free fee at all to access our content. Okay. There's somebody who's asking is NPTEL useful for students of LLB. So National Law School Bangalore NLSIU is offering two courses I think in Jan. I don't know if we have in July we had two courses I think and more are coming in that. So specific to law we do have a couple of courses. IIT Kharagpur has a law department. So from there we have some courses coming in. But otherwise you can access the general courses that we have also say on management or English. Those might be useful to you. Yeah. So whenever you think of a website, right? What really do you look out for? Say how many people access that website? How much content do we have in a YouTube also whenever we go to and watch a YouTube video or a YouTube channel. One of the things we look at is how many people have watched that video or how many subscribers are there in that channel. Correct. So this is the NPTEL statistics. We have more than 1.3 billion views of the NPTEL videos. Okay. So this is like huge huge for a technical channel which has no entertainment. You can't call NPTEL videos as entertainment. There is no song and dance or something. It's all faculty from the IITs, IAC teaching serious stuff there. And for that we have more than 1.3 billion views. We have 37 lakh subscribers on our YouTube channel. So any of you has not subscribed to our channel today. I think I would say you're missing out on something. Go to our YouTube channel. Subscribe for our updates so that you get it. Go to our social media handles. Subscribe to our social media handles so that you get the latest updates from NPTEL. And this is where we are today as of NPTEL. Okay. So these are what we do at NPTEL today. And if you do an NPTEL course, what is the use of it? So the very first point is credit transfer. I was just talking to Dr. Satish also about it and said that maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer for the courses that you do from NPTEL. But yes, even if you don't get credit transfer, I think you get a lot of knowledge from NPTEL courses. For instance, say what are the kind of courses we have that we would recommend to students in your college, correct? So we will say that we have a lot of programming courses. So we have programming and C, C++, Python, Java programming and all that. So if you are say a BSE Physics student or a BA English student, maybe a BCOM student, as part of your program in the college, you would not be learning programming possibly. So you can go to NPTEL. You can learn the programming course. You can learn a bit of programming and also get that certificate along with your program.  They will have some kind of coding that is there. They will have some kind of software they're using within their company. It's good for you all to know at least something about it. That is the first part. The other thing, what are the other courses we have that is useful for you? If you're planning for higher education, you want to go in for a master's degree. Supposing you want to strengthen your fundamentals, your foundations. You want to maybe do some more courses from other institutes so that you're confident when you're attending interviews. Those courses will be available on NPTEL. So we have all the UG undergraduate courses. You can go through that. You don't even have to write the exam for each of these courses. You can just go through the videos. You can try solving problems. You can watch many videos, try to get knowledge from it and strengthen your foundation. If you're going for higher education, I would say the courses are really useful. First thing I'll say, try something like programming courses. When you go in for higher education, probably you want to try and strengthen your fundamentals. The third thing, try to learn something that is of interest to you which you possibly cannot learn otherwise. For instance, we have courses on German language teaching you German, teaching you Japanese, teaching you Sanskrit. So if you want to learn any of these, you can come to NPTEL and learn. So for instance, German is taught only by maybe the Goethe Institute and maybe some other institutes. Here, the same course is taught, but it is free for you. And if you want a certificate, you can write the exam, but otherwise too, you can learn the German language for free. Same thing, you can learn Japanese language via these useful. Maybe you go to a company that has branches in Germany, Japan. They have opportunities for people to go there, but you need to know the language. So at that point, this becomes very useful for you. So you can try to learn other languages also through NPTEL courses. Okay, maybe you're technically very strong. You have good foundations. You have good knowledge in your particular program. But maybe your English is not very good. Hence, you're not confident about speaking. We have a lot of courses like soft skills development, soft skills enhancement. How to attend an interview, the body language that you have to have when attending an interview. Interpersonal communication skills, leadership skills. So we have a lot of courses like this that you can also go through. It will give you a lot of tips on how to present yourself, how to ready yourself for such situations so that having the knowledge, you can also be confident when you talk to somebody and you are presenting or being in an interview. And that's another set of NPTEL courses that we have as part of what we offer. So anybody who wants to learn, I think should be able to get at least two or three courses of their interest that they can join and learn. Joining is free like I said. There is no fee at all. It is all completely free and you can watch it. There are no live classes. These are all recorded lectures. So you can watch at your convenience.  On Saturday, Sunday you can watch it. There will be one assignment every week. You have to solve the assignment and you have to submit it. For that also you get 10 days of time. So you can watch the lectures. You can try solving the assignment. Maybe a couple of you friends are joining the same course. You can all sit together. You can learn from each other. You can solve together. Take help from your teachers and you can do the NPTEL courses. So there is no such thing as there will be live lectures. Maybe you will miss a few lectures because you have college or something. It is all video lectures along with assignment. So the first part is credit transfer and learning from our courses. Apart from it, if you do very well, maybe we should go to the next slides. So this is the credit transfer. I don't want to discuss too much about this because I think your university doesn't have credit transfers. So I will skip this slide. So credit transfer just as a matter of course. The faculty were out here. IITs do do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. We do it at the BTEC level. We do it at the master's level for PhD working professionals for them to get credit transfer. Also we do it. So IITs also do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. It is not just the outside colleges that have to do it. We ourselves do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. This is an important thing I would say. So we have a program by which the toppers in the courses actually get internship opportunity with the faculty in the IITs. So whoever has offered that course, they take it normally about two, three, five interns during summer or winter if you are a topper in the course. So if you do a course very well and you become a topper in the certification course, then we give you an opportunity to intern with the faculty. So we are trying to scale up these numbers. COVID hit us also so we could not get them. But we hope it will be at least 200, 300 students who can intern at the IITs with the faculty. So this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and stay in the city, be in the IIT medras or IIT Kanpur or IIT Kharagpur or IIT Bombay lab. You get to interact with the faculty members there. You interact with their PhD scholars there. You can do all of this, which will be wonderful if you're especially thinking about going for higher studies. You'll get the idea of what is done in these institutes. I think it's a really good opportunity for students outside of the IITs to come in and experience the IITs here. So there is internship. Then we also do soft skill training. So there are many colleges who provide it on their own, but there are also some colleges who do not have this training for the students. So if college students in local chapters, they participate in NPTEL courses, then for those students we are providing soft skill training. So this training is of two types. We do a one week training or we do a two week training depending on how much time the student can spare and the college also wants the students to do. So here we have group discussion practice. We ask you to write your resume and we give input on the resume. We ask you all to present about yourselves, give feedback about how you should talk, where you should look, your body language and so on. And there are also a one on one. Like every student will get half an hour with a trainer to discuss about how they should also do. So the right side photo you see is a one on one where we do mock interviews. We try to simulate an interview and see how you're responding and then give feedback on how you should do better in your interview. So we do soft skill training for students who do NPTEL courses. So this is something that we do from NPTEL again. If you look at numbers, we have finished soft skill training for more than 2000 students currently and we are doing about 10 colleges a month and we hope to scale it up. So if you're, I don't know, Pethupalli College has done it, but yes, we can extend it to y'all also and we can get it done. Okay. So there's a seven or 14 day training program that I was talking about next. Okay. So somebody was asking, will we get jobs with these NPTEL courses? How is it helpful to us? And so on. When we do surveys of NPTEL students and where they have gotten placed, these are the companies that they have gotten placed so far. This is like some of the companies are on. It's not all the companies that they've gotten placed for, but they have said that the NPTEL courses have really helped them when they went for the interviews, when they show a certificate to the interviewer and say, I did a course with the IITs, I got so much marks in that course, it really does help in the job interview. So those people also ask questions on that, assuming you've studied well and you can answer, it will definitely help you that outside of the college syllabus, you have done something more to learn and skill yourself. Also, companies approach us and ask us, do we have students in particular areas that we can send them their resumes? So we also collect resumes of students on our site and if they're interested, we send these out to the companies and the companies call them for interviews, go through their levels of recruitment and we have been able to place NPTEL students from our side also in some companies. So we are still working on it. This will increase, we are talking with more companies on this front, but otherwise, even if you have like two or three courses from NPTEL and the certificates for it, I think it will be hugely useful because of the logos we put on the certificate. The next one, there are a lot of students, learners, faculty who do multiple courses with us. There are people who do the courses, maybe they do three courses in a semester, four courses in a semester, they are toppers into our three courses every semester. There are people who have done a lot of courses with us. I'll maybe show you the data on the next one, but this is another type of recognition we give to NPTEL learners. So you can go to NPTEL website and at the top, we have a link called NPTEL stars. So click on that link, click on any of this. You will see how many people are actually doing multiple courses with us. So if students are thinking, oh, I don't have time and I'm so busy, I can't do it, you should just see these pages to see how come these people who are working professionals, who are students in colleges just like you or who are maybe, you know, studying or faculty or something, how are they able to get the time to do so many courses? If they can get the time, I think anybody can get their time, right?  So this page I would say, please go and see. So these are the kind of domain scholars, superstars, evangelists and all we have. We have more than about 3,000 as I can just calculate on the fly that we are going to have these people doing multiple courses and they are NPTEL stars with us today. So there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last two years. So what is a domain, right? So a domain we have created just to club courses together and maybe about five or six courses we have put together and we say that if you study this six courses and you get more than 60 in the course, in each course, not just pass it by getting a 40, then you get a domain scholar certificate. So why is this important? This is important because it shows that you have specialized in a particular area. So for instance, we have a programming domain. So in the programming domain, we have courses such as C, C++, Python, database management course and then maybe cloud computing course and so on. So if you do a programming domain and you do all the six courses, it shows that you have a solid foundation in this particular area. So when you go for an interview and you actually show a domain certificate versus just one or two certificates from us that will make more of an impact on the interviewing person. So this is something we recommend. It is more just to guide students on what to study to become and specialize in one particular area. We found that many NPTEL learners do four or five courses but they do random courses that are not connected to each other. So this domain will guide you in what to study if you want to specialize in a particular area. We have about 53 domains today in all branches of engineering, management, English and for faculty, we have a faculty domain basic and advanced also so that you can also go through that part of it. So you can go to our website. There are more details on domains there. We can talk about it later too. So these are some of the domains we have. So for you, it might be relevant. The English studies, we have a domain. Psychology, we have a domain. Management, we have it in marketing, operations, patents and intellectual property and economics and of course engineering and all we have a couple of domains. So if you are a general student not an engineering student, I would recommend the programming domain for you if you want to try out something do the programming domain or do the management domain that will be really useful for you. So if you're an engineering student, of course you can try any of the domains relevant in your particular discipline or engineering or you can do a cross discipline. So for instance, I'm maybe a mechanical engineer. I like electrical engineering. You can actually do the courses in electrical engineering and you can get a domain from there.  You cannot study electrical engineering say power systems course, power electronics course. You're not allowed to study that. There is no such thing like that. Anybody can study any course as long as you can cope with it. So you can also do a cross department study by doing domains from any of what is listed here. This is what a domain certificate looks like. We give this, we list all the courses you have done and we assign it out of course from the specific IAT that we are giving it from. So how do we do lab courses? Is it online? Not really. We do it in the institutes. We do it in various institutes such as ISERS, IAT. You can come here. You can stay for a week at the institute. You can do the lab experiments. You can listen to faculty giving one or two lectures in the day and then do a lab exam and take a certificate. So what is the advantage of this? You will get to see really modern labs. You will get to see what the state of the art labs are in these institutes. You can see the equipment that is there, the modern equipment that is there. You can see the advanced research that is happening here. You can interact and get explained on all this equipment. So we had very successful labs being run at all these places. This is a wonderful opportunity. Again, if you do the theory course in NPTEL, those people, we will permit that you can apply and come for these lab certification courses and you can do the workshops here. So that was the idea behind the question we asked you. What else do we do at NPTEL? This is for faculty in colleges. So faculty in colleges under the AICT scheme, we explicitly have an MOU with them where NPTEL advanced courses, if you do in pass, you will get an AICT approved FTP certificate. So that is for faculty in AICT colleges. For those under the UGC scheme, they have given a broad guideline that if you do svayam courses, there will be some career progression points. But the actual logistics, I'm not sure you'll have to check within your university. So that is something that is there. But we see that more than about 20, 30,000 faculty write our exams every semester and most of them apply for the FTP certificates also. This is very, very useful for faculty, I will say, because you don't have to spend money. You don't have to take leave. You don't have to miss your college work and go to some institute, stay for a week or stay for 10 days and then do an FTP course. You can do the FTP course online itself, just like the students. You join for free on svayam portal.  Once you get your certificate, you can apply for the FTP certificate to us and get that too. That's all it takes to do an FTP course with us today. This is very important for faculty. I hope this is clear. This is what the FTP certificate looks like. You can see that it has the signature of the director from AICT also. There is a regulation under which they have approved this. The AICT logo is there. So this you can present when you are going in for your promotion interviews. The conversion that they do is a four-week NPTEL course is equivalent to half FTP of one week. An eight-week NPTEL course is a full FTP of one week and a 12-week course is equivalent to one and a half weeks FTP equivalent. So this is the equivalence of it. Yes, the next thing I wanted to talk about was gate coaching. So we have started a new link on our website and somebody has given us CSR money for developing this and providing whatever I wouldn't call it coaching, which is gate preparation. Whatever we can help students with to have and prepare for gate exams free. Again, we are trying to do from our side. So you can go here and we have given solutions to all the previous gate questions. We have given videos solving those questions. We have extra questions that are coming up, practice questions that will be coming up, small courses linking all the videos that are relevant to gates. So we will be coming up. Over phase two and phase three, we will be coming up within the next six months. So keep watching this link on NPTEL website if you are preparing for the gate exam. That is one new initiative we have come up with. The next initiative exams outside of India. So till 2020, we were doing exams only in India where you have to go to a center and you have to write it. And then we got a lot of requests from people outside of India saying they also study from NPTEL courses and they want to write exams with us. So now we help to do that also. People outside India can also write exams, NPTEL exams and get certificates from us. Okay? Yeah. So translation is the next effort. So for people who are asking in what languages do we offer courses? The faculty teach only in English for now but the English transcripts, we translate into eight languages. So we do Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi. So that's the languages that we are translating it into. So Telugu, we have a lot of transcripts that are translated into Telugu language. So the faculty will talk in English but you can also read what we have translated in Telugu or Tamil or Hindi, whatever is your language and you can understand it better. We are keeping the videos in English so that you also learn English because when you go to work somewhere, English will be the primary language you have to communicate in. So this is something we are doing. One of two courses we are getting in regional language. For instance, this time in January, we are doing a machine learning course in Tamil language. The faculty is going to teach in Tamil language. There is a signals and systems course that is coming out in Hindi language. In July semester, we are getting an R programming course in Hindi language. So only two or three, we have most are in English. We don't have too many other language courses. So that's something you can check. Let me take a question from the chat. There are one or two saying, I'm from Commerce background. I'm from BCOM. What courses we can take? So for BCOM students, we do have a lot of accounts related courses. You can check those out. Go to management department. I'll show you how to filter and learn from it. You can go there and you can see how to do it. So you can check out management related courses in which we have accounts related, commerce, economics related courses. That's something you can learn. Or if you're learning all that anyway in your college, right? I would strongly recommend programming courses for your learn at least one programming language to know what is programming. How do people program? Whether you write the exam or not, I would say please write the exam. But yes, even if you don't write the exam, at least try a course, do the assignment, see whether you can do something about it. Or if you're not doing that, I would propose the English courses. I would propose the German language or the Japanese language course that you can learn from. Those are what we have. Quite a few for you to choose from. I would say more than a hundred we would have for BCOM level students at least. Okay. Yeah. So these are translation how many courses we have in each language. So in Telugu, we have 48 courses that are translated for now. So that's what we have, right? Okay. We have also something called special lecture series. So we also have industry people come in and present lectures. So these are again free to watch. Very interesting topics, very, very distinguished people who come and present lectures. These are vice president, CEO, CTOs of companies like IBM, Camp Germany, Infosys that we've had in the past. IAS officers who have come and spoken to us, film directors who's come and spoken to us, journalist in the Hindu, a director at Hindu entrepreneurs. So I would really say you should go and watch these lectures when you have time. Even if you missed it last year, it's okay. But listening to such people is very inspirational. You know what they have done, how they have worked, how they have brought up new companies, how they've started a company, where did they get their idea from. These are all really interesting to listen to. I would say please go back and listen to some of these lectures. It will give you a tremendous amount of information, knowledge, and maybe there'll be some topic to talk about also when somebody asks you something, it will widen your knowledge base. This is something that you can see. And if you're wondering saying, how many students study, how many courses, right? Maybe you think some students study only one or two courses, and that's all we can do. That's what is useful, right? Look at this, there is one learner who has done 47 NPTEL exams with us. That's as good as a degree program or more than the degree program that all of you are doing, how many courses you'll do there. I don't know, maybe if you're doing a BSE, it's six into six, maybe 36 courses. Or if it's a BTEC also, it's about 48, so he's an equivalent to that. Okay? So there is one learner who's done 47 exams, 34 exams, 33 exams, 32 exams, and so on. So you can see maximum people, yes, 5.6 lakhs do one exam, but there are 1.4 lakhs who are doing two exams, 48,000 doing three. And if you look up to 10 exams even, right? A lot of them are doing 10 exams, 8 exams with us. So maybe you should think about and plan for how you're going to study which courses you're going to do as you are in college. And every semester try to do at least one or two NPTEL courses and finish with a certificate. That'll be really nice that you can do that with your college, okay? This is something we wanted to say. Who are these people who are doing these courses? They are employed, they are faculty members, they are students, all people like you. So it's not like these people come only from somewhere or they are also special, they are so privileged, nothing like that. They are there in all towns in all kinds of environment. They also have their constraints, but they are also studying from these courses and doing multiple courses, okay? This is what the certificate looks like. It has the Svayam logo and it has the, okay, it has the NPTEL logo. Then it has your photo on the certificate. It has, as you can see the elite tag, the gold medal, we just put it here to say if you fall under these categories, you can see all these coming on your certificate. Then the institutes of IT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this foot, you can see IT Madras logo there, IT Madras, the name will be put there, signatures from our site will come and so on. So this is the way that you can see how the certificate looks. We had 20 lakh people who joined our courses in January semester, 20 lakhs who joined our July semester. And in 2021, we had 16 lakhs who joined the Jan semester, 16 lakhs who joined our July semester. So it's not 5,000, it's not 10,000, it's not 1 lakh like I'm seeing on the chat window here, but it is 16 lakhs who was our enrollment number last semester. Out of these exams, those who have written over the last 5 years, it is 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us and they've gotten, so our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last 7 years from when we are running this certification project. We have finished 3,500 courses almost and enrollment is 1.58 crores, 15 lakhs exam registration that's the thing. So you can see how big NPTEL is. NPTEL is not something that we are doing 100, 200, 500 people or something like that. Every semester when we conduct exams in March and April, it's 3 lakh people who write our exams. So that's the level at which we do. We conduct exams all over the country in about 170 cities we conduct exams outside India like we said. So this is our data. So somebody tells you okay, I haven't heard of NPTEL you should really tell them saying that 15 lakh people enroll every semester and 3 lakh people write exams how come you're missing out? That's the answer I will give them. Okay, you can see a lot of feedback about NPTEL on our social media handles we keep regularly posting about it we are present on Instagram, on Facebook on YouTube community and you can see all the feedback that we have posted there about people who have gotten jobs people have gotten through the soft skill training done our courses, course feedback everything is available here. So do subscribe to our social media handles so that you can get updates from our site. Okay, I'll just give a brief on NPTEL local chapter because I don't know how many of you are faculty from different colleges who are not a local chapter with us. So NPTEL works with about 4,500 colleges today across the country and we have coordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact or Sparks and through them is how we are so successful. So thanks to all the local chapter Sparks whoever is watching this workshop today was not watching the workshop today whoever is anywhere they are the champions for NPTEL within the colleges without them I don't think NPTEL would have grown so much. So thanks to all the Sparks of the local chapters and I would like to just briefly say how you can become a local chapter if there's somebody watching who started a local chapter. So to become an NPTEL local chapter there is no money involved there is no financial dealing you just need to send us an email saying that you want to become a local chapter there's a Google form in the website fill it up and we need a coordinator in your college who will be our local champion so the head of the institution the director the principal whoever has to send an email saying that we would like to become a local chapter and so and so will be the single point of contact for NPTEL and that's all once we receive the email we will verify some details and we will make you a local chapter. So why should you become a local chapter can students and faculty from colleges who are not local chapters participate in NPTEL yes totally you can participate you can be a free learner you can learn from our courses without belonging to a local chapter but having a local chapter in a college is a big advantage there are logins that the single point of contact to the spark has one is a login on svayam portal one is a login on our NPTEL website and here they get information related to enrollment exam registration the marks the transcripts the certificates all of this is given to the spark directly that they can actually see and they can share with their management also the other benefits are if we don't have a center in your particular city you can request for that if they have more than 200 people writing exams we can facilitate centers in your particular city faculty can become mentors you can follow the progress of your students in the colleges that you can do another important thing I will say is we have CSR support from companies who also give us money to help students from economically weaker backgrounds to write exams so this fee waiver we give only to local chapters so if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds if they are doing NPTEL courses writing exams once they pass it we will refund 50% of the fee to them based on the colleges recommendation so that is something that you can do also all this data that we give to the spark can be directly shared with bodies such as NAC and NBF and they come for accreditation and you can say that we are showing this data inside your dashboard that has also been very helpful for colleges is what we came to know these are local chapters that we have this is a state-wise distribution I think Maharashtra is the highest followed by Temanu and of course we have these Telangana comes in maybe 7th position with 234 local chapters currently every semester we also we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries they are not very active but yes they do keep using our courses as they can we also rate local chapters every semester based on the participation from their side in the particular semester so how many people have become topers how many people have written exams how many people have you know done well based on it we also rank and rate the college local chapters and we publish this list publicly on our website every semester other interactions with local chapter people we do soft skill training like I already spoke about it we take help of people here to go to exam centers as our representatives faculty can help in translation efforts and yes like I said we rate it and we give recognition to the spark and the college also every semester so these are certificates that we give them based on the formula that we have to the college and the spark yeah these are other categories that we have on based on faculty participation based on how local chapters improve semester after semester there's a separate category part which is also yeah star LC who have been in the top top 100 over the last 4 years that's something that we have done that's it as a presentation that we had today so I hope you learned about NPTEL about what we do here the NPTEL office the head office is in IIT Madras we have our head office here about 70 people work in NPTEL office in IIT Madras we have smaller offices in IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharebpur, IIT Roorkee IIT Guwahati, Bombay Delhi and ISC Bangalore also and we all work together to keep this project going it's one of the most successful inter institutional project that 8 institutes come together to work on this project and kind of run it without a break and to kind of offer 2000 courses that we have today that's what we want to say so my suggestion and you can say maybe I'm old enough to advise all the young students out here also is try out NPTEL courses today go and go to Swayam website join a few courses learn from it sample the videos there you may or may not be able to follow certain videos you may not like certain courses maybe some courses are difficult it's okay you can drop off it is not like a college course that once you join a course you have to be in that course you have to complete that course otherwise somebody will think something somebody will ask you something or maybe a paid fee that will get wasted there is nothing like that in an NPTEL course so you can join even 5 courses you can join even 10 courses and you can try out week 1 videos you can see what you're interested in and then shortlist it to maybe one or two courses follow it up see whether you are able to do assignments maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester but follow it till the end do all the assignments watch all the videos register for the exam do the exam and become a topper in it I think that's something that is very very doable I hope you were able to get that message as we presented in the last one and a half hours that is what we were trying to tell you that don't be afraid that these courses are from IITs I cannot do it it will be very difficult there are 15 lakh people who have written exams with us so far it is not like all of them are coming out from IITs or they are all like very well accomplished they are all coming from highly studious background something like that they are also students just like you in any college what you need is the interest to study what you need is the motivation you have to put out time it is not like two days before the NPTEL exam let me study and get a certificate you will not get a certificate every week you have to watch videos every week you have to do the assignment then you can definitely get a certificate so you need hard work and it will pay off okay but it is not like I cannot do it there is no such thing as I cannot do an NPTEL course anybody can do an NPTEL course we showed you people from age 86 years doing NPTEL courses we showed you people from all nook and corners of the country doing NPTEL courses there is local language translation support of transcripts in some courses that will help you understand the subject better your faculty are there to help you if you do not understand something your friends are there to help you if you all join a course together discussion forum is there ask questions ask doubts if you have something there but try out and learn something which is outside of your college curriculum today when companies are looking for recruitment one of the things they see is okay your college degree is there apart from this what have you done that is something that all of them are looking at are you able to learn on your own are you able to study outside of college curriculum are you picking up any skills that are relevant for any job you might be trying for this is something that companies do look out for it's not just a resume saying BSE with this VA with this that might be one thing but then we look at okay what else what else what else that is something that all of us look out for when we are recruiting people so it might be good to have a few certifications to at least get your skills and hands to learn what you're interested in to try and explore new opportunities that are there it is free there is no fee to learn you can download and watch the videos you can download and do the courses you can enroll in swine courses and do it only the final exam has a thousand rupees fee that also we are giving fee waivers if you're a local chapter so you can use that also you have to pay first get your exam done pass the course we will be able to help you with free waivers on that front also so don't let money be a barrier don't let anything else be a barrier put in your time put in your effort learn from NPTEL gets killed and I hope you do much much better till then all the best and I hope that all of you do enroll to a course that is free to learn it was a wonderful and very interesting session about very basic details related to the NPTEL in such a manner that every person can understand thank you so much man now I would like to share my experience as the SPOC so now I would like to share my experience as SPOC NPTEL chapter SRM institute of science and technology Delhi NCR campus Modi Nagar, Gaziabad NPTEL courses screen is not visible ma'am it is saying that your screen sharing is paused ma'am now it is clicking it is clicking the screen now it is visible ma'am still not ok ma'am I will share your video yes ma'am are you sharing ma'am yes ma'am yes ma'am yes ma'am thank you ma'am thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my experience as SPOC NPTEL local chapter SRM institute of science and technology Delhi NCR campus Modi Nagar, Gaziabad NPTEL courses provide the opportunity to learn anytime, anywhere to anyone and as Bharti ma'am said that it only requires so that is rightly said ma'am these courses are in self-paced mode, learners can go through the courses as per their convenience and then they can complete their assignments at their own pace many MTP courses and short term courses are also popular among faculty members the interesting thing which I have also experienced that students and faculty members have explored the courses of their choices from the other domain as well many faculty members and students who work from the engineering background or other backgrounds like management pharmacy, computer applications science and humanities mathematics, chemistry biology, English foreign languages they have opted the courses they have opted the courses other their main domain for example they have opted emotional intelligence creative writing skills communicative skills and other management courses can you share the next slide ma'am thank you our 17 students have claimed the topper of the course in the previous semester that means the semester July to December 2022 so 17 students have secured topper of the course our three faculty members also have claimed topper of the course in the previous semesters other than that we have also secured NPTEL discipline star and NPTEL enthusiast next slide ma'am yes so this is the SRM IST scoreboard we have been associated with NPTEL since 2019 and 2018 so since 2019 there were many students and faculty members who have successfully completed the course and also when the elite plus silver elite plus gold and topper of the course so there were many students who have cleared the exam and other than that there are many faculty members as well who have just simply gone through the courses for their application or for their to brush up their knowledge in next slide ma'am this is actually quite motivating for all of us while we at our campus prefer NPTEL courses over other online platforms and NPTEL has built up the reputation that the content available is of top notch quality and it is being provided by the prestigious professors across the nation post pandemic many things have changed globally and so the education sector in India now we are more adopted to the online environment but the interesting fact is that long before the pandemic and NPTEL was already in the field of online education and post pandemic there is a massive shift in the teaching and learning practices in India and these days learners are well shifted to the MOOC courses or we can say they are very well adopted to the online education system next slide ma'am so this is all from my side NPTEL is to pursue the NPTEL course it is quite challenging but actually it changes the career of the students as well as the mindset of the learners so this is the new Indian education practice this is all from my side thank you so much ma'am over to you ma'am it gives me an immense pleasure to deliver the vote of thanks for this event to all present in this session first of all I would like to thank Bharti ma'am senior project officer NPTEL IIT Madras who accepted my request to conduct the NPTEL awareness e-workshop thank you so much ma'am I would like to thank Divya ma'am project officer NPTEL IIT Madras and Prey Dasni ma'am project to proceed NPTEL IIT Madras for all the coordination thank you so much ma'am I would also like to express my sincere thanks to director to our director sir Dr. S. Vishwanathan for his guidance and support I am very grateful to our dean academics professor D. K. Sharma sir for his motivation and all the cooperation thank you so much sir I would like to express my sincere thanks to our dean campus life and H. O. D. Dr. Professor Naveen Alavath sir for motivating and cooperating me in such a way I mean for such event thank you so much sir I would like to thank our colleagues and students for their support last but not the least I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who is present here thank you all can you hear me yes ma'am thank you ma'am so we can leave the session yes ma'am thank you ma'am studio team you can stop live streaming also yes ma'am


My name is Firas Mnokheeb. I work at the Syrian Arab Red Decrescent. I was a volunteer for 17 years. I'm based in Damascus, but I travel around across Syria. And I'm the field coordinator for Syrian Arab Red Decrescent operation in Syria. I am also in charge of the safety and security on the floor. A couple of months ago we traveled together with the ICRC to the north of Syria to deliver the medical assistance to there. We had negotiations with the old parties on the field to be allowed to use the international road. Yet, we were shot at. First, we heard shooting on the air. I gave the order to stop. We checked where the shooting came from, but then the shooting stopped. So, we continued the movie. But then, we were shooting at again. But this time, it was direct on fire on our convoy. Miraxley, no one died or got injured, but it was closed. We had all the required approvals. And yet, we were shot at. We were just doing our humanitarian work before hitting the road back to Damascus. We sent a joint team, the ICRC and the SARC team to spoke to the group that targeted us and to explain to them our mandate and our humanitarian work. Thanks to the team's efforts, the convoy took the same road on the way back without any problem. We have to work on our acceptance and show the people all the great things we can do if they allow us. Building the capacity of our volunteers especially in the field of safety and security is also important. We need to know how to react and what to do in a difficult situation. A lot of people in Syria they don't know who we are and what we do. We need to tell them more about us about the importance of our work. We need to explain what we do and why it's important to let us travel around in the country. Millions of people depend on us.


This systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies investigated why empathy may change during medical school. The authors found that increased complexity in patients and their diseases, together with the hidden curriculum, including a stressful workload, prioritization of biomedical knowledge, and sometimes poor role models, led to student adaptations, such as cynicism and desensitization. Additionally, students' prior lives and professional experiences appeared to exacerbate the decline in empathy. Despite these findings, the authors noted that many of the included studies had biased concerns, which could limit the generalizability of the results. This article was authored by Jeremy Howick, Maya Dudko, Shennan Feng, and others.


Next up is Stavros with a problem, every sysitman and IM1 has faced validating email addresses. So, a big applause for a short talk by Stavros. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I'm Stavros. My last name is unpronounceable in your language, so I won't bother. I'm here to speak about something that's very important to me, and I think this is the most important talk in the conference. But, yeah, I also see many people here, so I'm afraid you have grossly overestimated how useful this talk is going to be, but that's fine. So, I'm going to talk about a new technology called electronic mail. It's a product, well, it's a technology that lets you send letters to your pen pals across the world, instantly, over the internet. How many of you have an electronic mail account? Just raise your hands, maybe with, you know, hotmail, AOL. So, it's, okay, pretty popular, I see, okay. How many people have sent an electronic mail to somebody or received one? Okay, that's fairly few people, that's good. How many people have written software that uses electronic mail? All right, that's okay. How many of you have written software that has to parse an electronic mail address and validate whether it's correct or not? Okay, you are all going to need this talk. So, let me see if my clicker works. It doesn't work, that's fine. I'm going to do this by hand. No, this doesn't work either, what? Sorry, yeah, electronic mail works, presentations doesn't. Okay, so, I'm going to show you one address per slide, and I want you to shout whether it's valid or invalid. Just, like, go up and shout, and if you need any clarification afterwards or something, just shout, it's fine. So, this address. Valid, okay, that is valid, good. So, you guys are off to a good start. How about this one? Invalid, there is no domain, of course. How about this one? There's a plus there. Okay, that's good, most of you have seen it. How about the dot there? Valid, okay. How about the dot there? It is invalid. If you've said valid, you need to come to me for classes, for tutoring. How about two dots? Invalid, that's still invalid. Yeah, you can't have two dots in a row. How about this one? It is invalid. If you said valid, you should feel bad because you're trying to be too clever, but you weren't. How about this one? There's an asterisk and a bad word. It is valid. You can have an asterisk and an electronic mail address. How about this one? That is also valid because you can have all these characters here. They're fine. How about this one? Are you sure? Do you want to change your answer? It is invalid. You cannot have parentheses in the email address. How about this one? This is valid. This is actually a comment. You can have comments there. This is actually IFC compliant. This is standard compliant. You can have a comment there. You can just put it. It's ignored by the mail server, but you can do it. You can just put whatever you want in there. How about this one? This is also a comment, and it's still valid. Are you all right? Who wrote this stuff? How about this? It is invalid because you have two at signs. You can't have two at signs. How about this? Yes. SMTP level. Somebody has read the RFC, but yeah, this is SMTP. Yes. That question was whether this is SMTP level or whether this was user-facing mail client stuff. No, this is SMTP. This is in the RFC. So yeah, if you said valid, you need to take a good look at yourself and try not to be so clever.  It doesn't have anything. How about this one? Oh, that's just, yeah, the display is too short. It's supposed to be one line. Valid or invalid? Yeah. Who said valid? Go out again.  How about this one? The too clever person was actually correct this time because you can have quoted at signs in the address. How about this one? With a space? It is actually valid because if you quote the space, it's fine. Yes. How about this one? It's a standard ASCII 32 space. So no, yeah. Unicode will work as well, but yeah, anyway. How about this one? Yeah, this is valid. You quoted the space. You can have a space as your local part. That's fine. How about now? That is invalid and not because of the at sign. It's invalid because the quotes must be dot separated. So if you have a quote, you must separate it by dots. How about this one?  So is it invalid now? Is it valid? Okay, this is valid because we did separate the quoted part and the quote is escaped. So yeah, if you send email to this, I will reply to you. I will literally do it, yeah. Tricky one. We're escaping it, but it's still a space. It's invalid because you have to quote the spaces even if you escape them. How about this one? I see you guys know about IPv6. That's a valid IPv6 host name. How about this one? Okay, that's good. It's valid because it's a TLD. Somebody at the TLD will take it. How about this one? It is valid because it's Unicode. It's fine. How about this one? It isn't valid because 23456789 is not a domain, so it can't get delivered. Sorry, it's not a TLD, so yeah, if you go register the TLD and pay the $100,000, you can get it. Just tell me to update my slides though. How about now? Confusing, but it's actually a VV4 valid because it's a decimal IPv4 address. It was an IPv6, so it was correct for the wrong reasons, so you should feel even more bad. Okay, so since we've kind of demonstrated that you can't tell by the email address, how do we validate? And keep in mind that the RFC is kind of a recommendation at this point because the RFC says that the local part is case sensitive, but nobody really does it as case sensitive, so how do we validate an email address? We don't. We just check if there's an ad sign in there, and if there is one, we say, okay, pass the first check, you send an email to it, and then you wait for the user to click the link, or whatever. So if I see another sign up form that says that my address is not valid, I'm going to hunt you down, whoever it is, and yeah, I'm going to show you the presentation again. Thank you very much. Any questions? I do not expect it. Yeah, go. No, no, no, no. I cannot put emojis because that would be cheating. Next question. Actually, that's a good idea about emojis though. Next question. This is a pretty new standard. It's still under development. Sorry, the question was whether there are any new developments. Yeah, it's changing all the time, but I think you can be kind of sure that following my advice will do, yeah, it will suit you. Anybody else? Come on, you must have questions. This is amazing technology. Yes, what library is to check? Every language has an email validation library. Usually you check if at in string, that's it, and every language will do it. So you're really lucky, they've all been available. Next question. Oh, sorry, yes. Well, yes, does it need to be so complicated is the question. If you want an easy way to talk to all your pen pals throughout the world, it's kind of like you have to make some concessions. You have to check the address, you have to send an email to it, you have to see if the user will click the link. There's really no easier way to validate. Oh, so yeah, yes. I will suggest that to the elders of the internet and maybe they will take your suggestion. Thank you. Next question. Is there an email server? Who's talking? Oh, there, okay. Is there any mail server that is validating the local part except checking if it's in its directory, especially for forwarding mail servers?  But, yeah, I don't know of one that you can run as a service kind of, if that's what you're asking. Anybody else? Do we have time? Time for more questions. I do have one. Why do so many people reject if there is a plus sign or whatever? I mean, everybody has faced that. Why do so many people do that? Is there another motivation behind such bullshittering? Well, it's clearly because they have not seen my presentation. But also, yeah, I mean, that's it. They think that they know better, but they don't because they've seen like 10 email addresses and they figure that it's fine because they're all looking the same. But, yeah, they should watch this. Anybody else? Oh, yeah. Oh, poor you. Yeah. My condolences, you shouldn't have had a four letter TLD. That's on you. Oh, sorry. Yes, the question was that this person has a four letter TLD and nobody accepts it, which is, yeah, if you have five letters, you're just done. You should get a Gmail one and be done with it. Next question. Are there security risks associated with allowing, with your simple rule? No, no, no. Actually, my rule is the most secure of all because you will actually send an email and the user will have to reply back and make sure that they receive the email before you can consider them valid. So it actually has no false positives and no false negatives. You were thinking of something, but you appear to be tricksy. You can get me later and we can discuss it. Are there denial of service implications? Yes, there are. And it's going to be kind of costly to send all these emails, but again, it's the cost of doing business. What are you going to do? Anybody else? Your question? Yes. Wait, wait. The volunteer is running. Do you have a link to post when I want to post issue about broken libraries that do it wrong? Yes, you can email me at any of these addresses that you saw, the ones that were valid, and I will personally reply to you and address the issue. There's another question there? Yes, yes. So the question was whether the email address can be valid if the domain is basically not accessible from the internet, you mean? Yes. Yes, that's fine. You can use your own internet servers and it will work fine. As long as the machine can resolve the address, you're good. So my rule again accepts this. So you can just check for the app sign, send the email, and we're fine. You see no exceptions. So hard to find a rule like this. So there seems to be a few additional rules like needs a local part. Would it just be a waste of time to check for those as well? So you use your simple rule if there's an ad it's good enough or are they somehow flexible as well? Actually, that's a good question. You can check for the invalid ones if you're sure they're invalid just to make sure that the address cannot ever be reached. But I think the most general way to do it is just check for the ad sign because you never know what kind of crazy new domains there will be and things like that. So just send the email and be done with it. Next question over there. Yes, behind the, yeah. What if the user is on the same host? Do you really need the ad sign then? Well, so I'm not sure, but you know, better included just in case because you never know when the host might move or whatever. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Why would you be checking without reason for the ad sign? I don't know. Some people just call in presentations and spread misinformation. Next person? Sorry, there's a few over there. So what if you just have a quoted ad sign and that's the only one? Then you don't deserve to be using the internet and computers. So yeah, you're fine. You deserve whatever you get. Next question. After the ad sign, no, because that's, well, hmm, that's interesting. I don't think so, but who knows what these new domains do with their internationalized stuff? Maybe it's not an actual quotation mark. Maybe it's like a Russian something sign and it's a valid unicode domain. So yeah, could be. Yes, this was, this was the old form that was two days ago. We changed it. Sorry. Yes, it was the question was whether it's, it's fine to have an explanation mark after the ad sign. So for the remote part. Next question. It can be the end. Come on, somebody. It looks like everybody is happy with one simple rule. Great. Check for a bloody ad sign. Thank you very much. Thank you for your talk. This is my, this is my invalid email address and this is my, my website. You can see stuff there. And if you want, I'll be around. Thank you.


Do you miss George? Of course, I'm sure many people miss George. And that's one of the reasons why I requested that you, the freedom community, make videos about where is George? Now, where is George is actually something that I'm hoping that we'll do as a community. Because a lot of us have access to software such as Sony Vegas or Camtasia or Adobe Premier, all of which have the capability to do key or chroma key, which is where you take the green screen out and you put something else interesting in the background. And so far, I've seen three entries, which if you'll look behind me, you will see a couple of those in the background. Now, the problem with this is these are of me. And a lot of people have almost they just haven't put anything out about George. Now, George has several, the George show unedited shows here on Freedom Central. And I realized that we didn't make it very easy for you to find those. So, if you look behind me, you will see a playlist with the George show unedited. And that's all it is. And my original idea was to see what kind of crazy situations we can put George in. When George does come back, I want him to know he was missed. I want him to know that we missed the George show so much that we created our own. And I think as a community, that's a really good thing to do. In the description, find a link to the George show unedited. Hopefully, we can come up with some very cool and interesting things. I've even been contacted by somebody who says that they're working on something really special. I don't know what that means. But coming from the source, I think it could be something really cool. I just don't know what yet. If you're working on something, let us know in the comment section down below. If you like these community challenges, let us know. Also, if you have any ideas for future community challenges, tell us. I am always interested in finding new ways to get the community involved with cool projects like this. I think that this is a great tool that we can use to help us all grow as performers and as content creators. What do you think? Till next time, I'm Anthony with Freedom. Like, subscribe, comments, please. Click the first video for a fireside chat with George where he shares our future and how we grew from $20,000 to $120,000 in just one month. And click the second video to see how to monetize all of your videos with just a few clicks to enable all ad formats and monetize in all countries. And we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom family. You are part of it, we are all part of it, and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started. What happened to being your brother's keeper nowadays? Get it? I'm a blooper.