to write the NTPL exam and my course was HRD, Human Resource Development. The exam was fine since because I had completed all the assignments it was cool and easy for me. Since I am doing MBA and my major specialization is HR and France it will be an added advantage for me and I am doing my final year so it will add a weightage for my certificates. Hello everyone, my name is Nazar Mohamal. I am actually not from India. I am an international student. I came to India for studying and I have come to know about MPL through my friends and my colleagues and it is actually a very nice initiative from the government of India to increase knowledge and to increase very good initiative. I like it very much. Certification is very useful for me because it enhances my employment rate and it introduced me to various knowledge areas and overall experience is very good. Myself Lukas and I am from DG Vaishnava College. The exam is really very good and we can gain more knowledge and we can be more talent by writing this exam and this exam is really very good and I gained a lot of knowledge and the Swine Online exam, the Swine Online courses is really very good and I think the certificate will help me in my future in my careers and it will help me in my future. Hi, my name is Harshavina. So I am here after completing my NPTEL examination. So I took my course in the core of my biotechnology field and I got to know about this through my college faculty members. So the overall examination was easier and I had to just go through my assignments and the video lectures which had been very useful for my UG course and I completed the examination and I feel that it will be definitely an add-on to my career. I am Ilan Goh. I am working as a faculty in VAT Chennai campus. I came to know about NPTEL through our VAT university. I have taken this course Engineering Graphics and it was a new experience attending the assignments and facing the final exam and the exam was conducted in a nice manner in this COVID situation by following all the safety instructions. Good morning myself Vijay Krishna. I am working as an assistant professor in SRM University Katangulathur campus. So for this NPTEL exam I took the course Thermal Processing of Food. So obviously through our college we know that NPTEL is conducting various type of courses. So through that I have registered. The course was very informative. The question also very useful and it also helpful for me in future scope like research. The question pattern today what which I have attended also very expected one. It is combination of both numerical and theory. Whatever the course teacher have taught the same pattern has came here. The two things I want to suggest that I was coming from Uggapay. So I felt little bit far away. So that can be taken consideration. So near to my situation Ananagar or Ambatur it will be more feasible for me. And second problem what I faced is that that calculator when I used that lawn operation or that calculator little bit I faced that problem that can be avoided. Registration and payment process everything is very smooth. In discussion forum also I raised few questions that was answered within a week itself. The only thing is exam center is far away and that calculator I was facing problem today. I am M.K. Tiwasavan. I am doing this NPTEL online course Dyself Circuits for my college credits. And the course was a little bit moderate to tough. I prepared well for the exam. I thought they might see some assignment questions and theoretical ones. But there was mostly only problematic ones. We have to calculate and it took some time for that. So I think that there have to be some theoretical questions. And the question paper was fine. It was not that tough. I am doing this for my credits and also very useful as I am studying electronics and communication. Dyself Circuits is very basic for my course. So I am doing that. Okay. So I enrolled for course the space flight mechanics. So my name is Karthik Narayan. I am pursuing final year mechanical engineering in Sastra University. So I came to know about this course through college itself. It is course for Honours course. So I am doing for extra credits. Thank you. The course was useful. NPTEL videos was useful. And I gained knowledge than I know already. Thank you. The registration process payment was smooth and no interruption was there. I am Yashwantyam from Sastra Deepthi University. I have enrolled for the introduction to internet of things course from NPTEL. I had to do this course because it is part of the Honours track which is there in my college. So once I finish this four such courses, I will be able to gain the Honours degree from my college. So the course was overall informative. It was just an introductory course. So nothing bad about the course. So the course was overall fine. And then the exam was also easy. That is why I was able to complete within the time. And then overall was a good experience. Regarding the portal, the portal could be improved a little bit because the portal is quite slow. So whenever we click on each week, the videos or the assignments, it takes a lot of time to load. And at times it does not load at all when there is a huge traffic. So the portal could be improved a little bit. And also we need to sign in every time we access something. So it gets signed out automatically very often. So that could be improved. Live sessions are quite informative. So we had, I think, three live sessions or something. So that was sufficient. So my name is Manas. I am a second year in Triple IDM Kanjipuram. I enrolled myself for Joy of Computing Python. This course was recommended by our college. It was mandated by college so that people will be more fluent in programming languages and it will be helpful for them in the future. Regarding the course, the course was very good. I personally liked it. The faculties for FMIIT Bombay and all of FMIIT faculties, they thought really well. The lectures were informative. None of them were repetitive. And assignments were also very thoughtful. Overall, the course was very good. And it will be a very good beginner course for anybody hoping to learn Python or any other programming language. Portal is slow because a lot of people are trying to access at the same time. I don't think it can be improved any time, but still it's fine. They are doing the best. Live sessions have not been a part of any live session before, but the discussion firms are active. Faculty answers your question if you ask them as soon as possible. Myself Priya. I am doing my research in commerce. My guide only suggested to do this NPTEL exam. So I have selected HRM paper. It was quite easy. And still they can improve in case of video session. Still it can be better. Like weekly assignments I have completed. Content still they can develop. Content it's not clear. Not like that. We are not getting time to win through the videos. So through PPTs also still they can have some ideas. My name is Kiran Mai. Studying in SRMC and I am taking a technical psychology course. This is electives for us to select a one topic. So I took this from the college itself. So I am interested in psychology of language and as well as stress management. So it's better. It's better and it's very useful. And it's like para for a long time for my course. So I took this. Hi, my name is Saran and I am coming from Venkateshwara College of Engineering. And I have registered for the course Digital Circuits. And I came through this. I came about this course through my college and the exam was I will not say easy, but it was average. Actually I was not opting for this course, but my college insisted me to run this course and take the Digital Circuits examination. And I hope that this subject will be helpful for me to get any improvements in the career and so on. Do not upload my ID please. I faced an issue and took like a 4 to 5 years and then I finally solved it. My name is Nalin Bharati. I am a final year student at Shastra University. The course I took this time is Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture. I came to know about this course through my college and I did this course as a part of my college's open elective. And it was a very good experience because I was always interested in learning Japanese, but I did not know how I could do so. So by enrolling in this course, I could get a good starting point to where I could learn Japanese more. Actually it is useful because apart from my interest, this course has also been a part of my college's open elective. So it has helped me finish a course, a 4 credit course. And also I feel like before I take the actual Japanese N5 exam, this certification might give me confidence. Only thing if I had to say a bit long I guess. For a week, we had almost 4 hours of videos to watch. So that might be a little difficult for people who are not like very focused or determined to do the course. But the quality of the videos was good. I feel that I felt that test was quite challenging actually compared to the assignments. The assignments were quite easy. So I feel that maybe the assignments could be made more difficult or we could be provided some kind of sample papers. Japanese has this part called Kanji. So those were not given much importance in the assignments, but here in the test we got quite a few questions from them. So people who haven't actually been preparing for that and they have kept preparation in mind with respect to the assignment may have found it a bit difficult. So myself, I am doing my psychology master degree and I found NPTEL course was very useful for the students who acquiring knowledge other than their core papers. Also I came to know about this NPTEL from our college as they wanted to do an elective course with the NPTEL support. So we chosen NPTEL course as a 4 week and 8 week courses and I think lots of duration courses and also more programming courses also available in the sites. And I took body language and psychology of language as a 4 week and 8 week course and it was quite interesting and I found videos and PPTs all the content was clearly explained by the tutors. Content of the thing can be reduced I think because as a 4 week course I know because 4 week class should comprise of at least some amount of basic knowledge I know. But it feels little bit more during 8 week courses it feel it comprises with more amount of stuff into the subject because this was the first time I am entering this NPTEL exam. So I didn't face any kind of difficulties and also registering and payment office also selecting of courses and selecting of centers was everything was fine. The thing the centers can be near the city sites I feel because people are from various hostelers have felt difficulties from our college because they have been due to this pandemic situation they aren't really in the cities in the same area they have been went to the same area where they have been edited. So they face lot of difficulties to come over here and choose different centers where should be doing the center something. So find the centers can be in more of near by city areas I feel and also no payment issues and it was very clear once the payment done everything was clear and no refund or any kind of difficulties and also a mail was being intimated every time through mail every kind of information was being gathered it was really effective and also regarding the examination I find you can be they give us a kind of what kind of questions you are asking like pattern of paper can be told before that because it will be useful to prepare for our examinations either it's a MCQ or a PHIMA because I felt some of the people went through PHIMAQ and TUMAQ questions in the last moment they felt very difficult to face those questions before if you are intimating it will be useful for the preparation purpose thank you. Hi myself Saravanan Jay and I am working as assistant professor in Veltek University actually this session I have registered couple of courses today I was writing patent search for engineers and lawyers so actually I am in the perseverance of domain certification regarding patents in management domain so that's what that's why I chose that particular course this session. Yes actually regarding faculty member it's being a very much important scenario for getting certifications especially that too in our own domain and very much required concepts it seems a great thing being a part of NPTEL student community and it helps me a lot actually so because research is all about getting know about the new things on a regular basis so I see these courses on those lectures as opportunity to know about the new new happenings in the domain. NPTEL actually I started referring NPTEL while my PG but I didn't know about online certification courses at that time so after joining as assistant professor only I came to know about NPTEL online courses so especially of course I am regular you know watcher of those websites so I came to know directly from NPTEL websites only. Yes actually while comparing MOOC platforms we need to talk about the quality of the videos especially because in a parallel session we are seeing a Coursera platform as well and NPTEL platform also so when I need to compare these two there is a lot of attitude adjustment is required from the learner side in case of why NPTEL is not like Coursera so yes that would happen but it's on the way I am hoping but apart from that regarding NPTEL alone certain courses are simply having very lengthy videos that was the major concern for me so the video length might get adjusted no matter how many videos that we are having per week but the length of video makes serious about committing into the course till last. Yes assignment part it's fine so we actually since being a faculty it's tight schedule for us to cope up with couple of courses at a time so we would allocate a particular day or date before the due date so that to carry out assignment as a group activity along with our colleagues with whatever courses that we are having so that was fine actually assignments are when I compare Coursera and NPTEL NPTEL assignments are on par with those Coursera platforms and live sessions unfortunately I have not attended such live sessions so far but I have gone through all these procedures how they are intimating that how they are getting the questions for live sessions I have gone through it was a good thing actually that fills the gap that this course is actually happened some four years back and they are re-running it again and again but still the faculty is you know available for clarifying the students doubt that's a good part actually. Payment I have a huge concern about that because 1000 rupees is a very large amount for a course and especially for faculty last couple of years they are aligning with AICD faculty development program certification that is good actually but individual course and respective payment is more so that is my thing portal and all is fine so last semester it was changed into Swayam altogether so it's fine no issues with portal and the network connections but one thing is regarding the placement of exam centres I actually think that okay if I register for the exam very early stage then I would get my own the first priority exam centre but that's that didn't happen this time I belong to Avadi Naari Chennai and I need to travel a lot this time this session especially yesterday I had courses in SRM college which is so extreme boundary of same Chennai so that is a concern so the because we are having exam centres in very near by our college itself but I have never have a exam centre in that college I always need to travel so that maybe get focused for the progress you'll learn. Hi my name is Swaminathan I just finished the NPTEL exam on patent search I have taken this exam because I wanted to get into the patent domain certification NPTEL has got a fantastic feature which allows you to take a number of courses and become certified in the domain so I am taking about three subjects this time one such exam is just what I finished it's called patent search in terms of teaching in terms of the support available in the discussion forum absolutely fantastic even the exam facilities today are awesome the only suggestion I have is that the keyboard becomes stuck and other thing because of frequent use I think somebody should keep examining but otherwise both the arrangements in terms of academic as well as the exam arrangements are fabulous NPTEL I have been a regular user of NPTEL this is my sixth or seventh exam I forgot and I am a regular user both in terms of quality and in terms of support available I really enjoy this I look forward to taking more courses to become a domain certified in this area called patents I need to take a certain number of core courses and optional courses so I am taking basically three courses this time and in the next cycle in the January 21st cycle I intend to take the remaining to finish this actually it is very useful because from this it depends on the interest right you see you got to be interested in taking a domain right there should be a purpose the purpose could be simply because of interest in that area you want to learn more or you want to do higher studies or you want to go for a research for example if you take this patent there is an exam called patent agent exam which is by patent office of India actually somebody who wants to become let us take a final year engineering graduate who wants so he can actually do this patent domain get a fantastic basic knowledge and then go and study better to prepare for that exam that is one use or you want to pursue a specific law legal courses and intellectual property this could help you so I think people should understand what is the purpose and then do it I do it for both purpose one is primarily for enjoyment for learning in this area second I may decide to use and sit for patent agent exam later but that gives me an option the qualities are pretty good actually both in terms of video and in terms of the content see content there are always two suggestions one is breadth of the content and the depth right but that is limited by the course time some of the courses are for four weeks some are for eight and some are for twelve for example if I take the patent search which I just completed it's an eight week exam run by IIT Kharagpur and the Rajegandhi School of International Property so it's extremely good in terms of faculty we don't have any problem another course I took yesterday that is from Dr. Ferros Ali who is from IIT Madras chair so we have no doubt about the the the course expertise and the teacher's expertise I also want to place it on record the amount of support available in the discussion forum that is very important because what is the difference between an offline and online right online you only rely on you have to raise a question the support is really fabulous hello and welcome to everyone I'm B. Manirajan I have came to to know about this NPTEL course in my college during my second year and I was and where I was motivated by my college to do this course I did my course on heat transfer today which was very useful for my engineering subjects and other field applications it this course helped me to enhance my knowledge about in my in my placements or in my higher studies I've been associated with NPTEL since the program started so in the initial days we used to purchase CDs from IIT later on then the same classes we had it in CD ROMs once you published in YouTube it was quite popular but it became more popular once you started conducting the exams and I've been writing this exam at least for the past three years and I've been watching the number of students who are writing the program it's almost increasing year by year this year it is the highest number of people have attended the course here I see most students are writing here and even the faculty members have the numbers of faculty who are attending these programs have increased and in some institutions they do attend this course or attend this exam for period transfer and how it helps us it helps us to learn a new skill at least at least I would have learned so many other skills other than my core subjects by these programs I think these programs are quite helpful and the one suggestion which I want to give to the NPTEL authorities is they can convert these lectures to textbooks and they can attach the textbook with the course material itself I think this textbooks would improve the quality of technical teaching in the country as well as it would increase the popularity of NPTEL more than what it is now that is a very easy process the registration resisting for this course of course if you want only knowledge it is free only if you want a certification you have to write an exam otherwise it is quite economical I think it is the cheapest in the world I think you do have other equivalent things here but it is the quality wise it is not something like this it is quite flexible 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks and of course one good thing about NPTEL other than all the other things is the focus part you have to compulsorily write an assignment every week so you are more focused on this NPTEL than with other things for example you do also have the private things where you do not have the assignment part where you can do anything on your own at any time but here it is not something like that there is a duration is fixed your assignment time is fixed your exam time is fixed this would help you to focus more on the subject than any other MOOC platforms and of course other than this I have done some courses where you have been offered the software for example MATLAB software of course if you are doing a course on MATLAB they give you free MATLAB software license version and in some cases I was told by somebody they were offered something which normally you would not get it elsewhere in some other platforms and you know I think it is a good service from NPTEL they should improve it further they should take you to the next level by more publications my domain as of now is started with patents and the new course what is that the new system that they have got it told is it domain speciality I think this would improve the popularity of the courses because more patletees are doing the course within the specified domain in fact I have registered for six courses this time only to get the domain certification part of it and the programs are also very challenging in those domain levels and not all programs are very easy there is a small amount of challenge in this to complete the domain certification also you will not get the certificate very easily you have to do put in some effort to get the domain certification I think that is a very welcome move the domain certification part at least in our area they could increase the number of domain certification militarily there are only four I think you could increase it to four or eight and all and that they will you do not have separate thing called electronic something like that they could increase the number of domain certification so that more number of people will do the courses and of course overall I think the quality of education or technical education would improve because of this NPTEL alone discussion forums have participated but most often you do not get doubts at all right it is maybe for a layman if at all you have a doubt or if you want to have a tattoo then you can do it is good but most often if you have a query and all if you put a query normally gets answered you do not need a forum for that to have a live interaction and get an answer if at all you have any doubt you can put a question it gets answered most often it gets answered even if a silly question it gets answered by the teaching assistant somebody answers the questions this is Dr. A.K. Subramani I am working as an associate professor and head in the department of management studies St. Peter's College of Engineering and Technology actually I did the the the NPTEL course and both Jan to the April session as well as December November to December that is July to December session and the topic of course I did three courses actually I did this time that is human resource development principle of human resource management and leadership and I find this particular course is very useful for the enrichment of the knowledge as well as even the students can do this particular kind of course so that they will be getting more exposure in terms of the subjects as well as the industry expectation they can fulfill the industry expectations and the course were run with a lot of videos and assignments which instigate the students to learn more and even the faculty who are teaching those subjects also able to get more information from the experts in the subject concern subject domain so and the assessment part also was very interesting and it instigate us to learn more I found that it is very user friendly so that the people can learn and access the system at any point of time to access the as to do the assignments and to access the videos and even the presentation the materials whatever they provided it is also very useful apart from that when we are going for the registration of the exam as well as for making the payment for the NPTEL course and choosing the options everything I found it is very easy and user friendly so that and even the kind of exam pattern they have the software they develop for the assessment of the subjects is also very good it is very user friendly and I did not find any difficulty even the common man or the person with common technical knowledge or computer knowledge could operate the system and can get the benefit of the system so my name is Vinod and I am coming from Chennai since I am today I written the NPTEL exam I applied for applied optimization for MI plus big data and today exam was nice and since this exam is came from my professor he recommended to take the exam so I came here and today I taken the exam and since it is going on well so today she means so much of exam is written today 19th December and since the question also is liberal and the course is very nice and for NPTEL I recommend for to take lot of people because the course is very nice and even exam also they conducting very good and the feedback also they giving step by step instruction was very nice I said that please take the exam and please come on and take the exam and thanks for coordinating for from IIT Madras came here and taking feedback as well as they managing the exam also very nice so thanks to all so I am not faced any issue in the portal since even I am applying online payment also they getting the feedback immediately from feedback team is good advice and recommend you to take a lot of people this exam. Yeah, good afternoon my name is Lakshmi Narsimhan I work for a German multinational engineering consultancy called Fischer I head the site services as a general manager I have today came here to write I am basically a mechanical engineer so I actually I underwent a course on financial accounting IIT Mandi course so I came here to prepare the exam earlier of course I did complete a course on solid waste management so per se the course conducted by IIT Mandi excellent actually the way the faculty conducted was wonderful because I am purely a hardcore engineering guy and for me to understand the basic concepts of accounting and finance it was a wonderful 12 week course and today the exam out in fact I did not come prepared for the exam because of my business in the office I just came and I finished off all the questions because the way the faculty taught Dr. Mandel excellent it was the only thing is today I had a very peculiar issue the you know I am I live in a place called Ambatur and we have a center very close to that I had applied for that center but the center allocated to me was Chennai Institute the Chennai Institute the address is given as you know Kunratu I put out the Google it landed me somewhere some 10 kilometers away from here so 845 I was there and the Google whatever was showing nothing was there then I asked no they said you travel back 8 kilometers so I came rushing 95 I rushed inside that was only otherwise otherwise it is a wonderful experience in fact I have registered for German also for the next semester German absolutely no issue absolutely in fact my son is writing through his college for tomorrow power electronics in NPTEL one of the he is one of the curriculum for them so he also did not find any problem and it is all fine as for a suggestion is concerned solid waste management I did last year and compared to last year this year I am seeing lot of centers have increased you have increased the exam centers also there has been good improvement I think to some extent the study materials they can make it see what happens in the study middle comes out as an output of the PowerPoint presentation probably the faculties may not have time to make a separate kind of you know notes for people like us you know if some shot material is made it will be good yeah I did I did I did attend the live interaction with him it was good excellent wonderful thank you so much. Deepa yeah and Deepa I did a course on introduction to proteomics by Professor Sivastava from IIT Bombay it is a very very nice course and all the modules were very interesting and it was thought with special industrial experts coming and having discussions also and the animations given were also very excellent very good teaching profile so that we were able to understand and there were lot of repetitive informations coming which made sure that it went inside our minds well so it was actually very good and the lecture material that was provided at the end also is very useful for preparing for the exam and I should make a special note of thanks to Professor Sivastava to making us know about all these proteomic tools and giving some live demonstrations also on it that is number one and number two I should appreciate the excellent examination setup that was given we were actually worried about how the safety aspects and things will be during the examination process but it was very very user friendly and as an individual I could handle without any help I was able to manage the whole process and there was ample good time and to reassure that my questions were good and I am very happy about the overall course as well as the examination conduction thank you so much. One thing which I wanted to study the lecture materials which were coming though it was useful there were certain what to say mistakes and things like that probably the teaching assistants who did the transfer of the material some cash should be taken could be taken I would not tell it should be done but it could be taken to make sure that the material is stand alone and it is excellent it was just an updation it is just an improvement not a bad. Hello my name is Akash I am from PSI Tech I got to know NPTEL from our college staff then I started doing NPTEL courses today I wrote a foundation engineering exam the the lectures were very useful it made me to understand the concepts clearly in our college the concepts were not thought not so clearly but NPTEL videos taught us the basic from basic to the core so it was very useful for understanding the basic and for solving some also it was very useful and for our anonymity exams also doing NPTEL was very useful for us and the exam exam the exam the conduction of exam also was very good structure domain more two courses I did the structure analysis and matrix method of structure analysis now then I have to do structure dynamics and strength of materials live we can do it on a google meet later instead of typing if you can express in words it will be very easy for us this is Kenjana Prasanna I have been working as a research teaching faculty for the past 13 years when I was working in alpha institute Porur they know there only one of my colleague my actually my H.O.D told in order to upgrade my career so I did one course and as soon as I joined the the course was computational fluid dynamic and as soon as I joined I got the placed in after that I got placed in VIT as a research scholar I did entrance and I did so this was my first paper which I did today advanced fluid mechanics the course instructor was Suman Chakrabortri of IIT Garakpur and all the 12 weeks the courses were very nice he explained very nice but only thing I felt was I was from max background and it is basically physics so I felt little bit tough so what and the assignments and all I am able to score like 60 to 70 months I was able to score not to the full extent 60 70 like that I scored but positive comments is this a negative is one thing is all the 12 weeks put together we can't able to that is I myself I felt like I can't able to read even though I spent two weeks because this is this corona period and I had only online classes in college so I managed to study so what I feel is after three weeks if you give test small test like every week you are giving assignments apart from assignment what I tell us like after five weeks after five weeks one test like that test you have to conduct if you conduct means it is very very nice very live sessions yes but I didn't have live sessions and all that in that so many people have posted the questions discussion forum I was been a member and so many people posted and answers were accordingly given based on that and that too I can able to understand very good very good for people like me content is yes video audio everything only thing that background that marker writing and all even more darker that alone again and again if I view through laptop it is very confident but every time we cannot use since because my child is also using the laptop so over phone it is the clarity only but speeches and all very excellent teaching so since because I have been max background and I was able to do that advanced fluid mechanics very useful I'm Harapriya I'm from assassin college I'm doing my third year B civil engineering I attempted my NPTEL course on reinforced concrete bridges and I got to know about the NPTEL courses to my college and I guess I did well it was it was quite satisfactory and we got to we had four assignments and it was a one-sided course I did it for my you know a credit transfer in my college and professor Raju I applied for power system protection the exam questions were a little bit tough it was covering the entire syllabus and mostly intricate questions were asked it is not that I had to take it as a certificate or something of it to acquire the knowledge I have come therefore the certificate is not of much importance for me going to just enrich my knowledge mostly this are most of all the courses are covered now this time I apply for three that is have two earlier two one I cancelled it because in the same day two examples it came therefore I cancelled one okay thank you so I'm Narseeman I'm currently doing my fourth year in triple IDDM Kanjiburam so I've taken the course advanced fluid mechanics in NPTEL this course was actually useful for me regarding I was I have already done fluid mechanics in my curriculum so I wanted to explore more in this fluid mechanics that's the reason why I took advanced fluid mechanics in NPTEL the course faculty was actually Suman Chakraborty it was actually excellent the course was excellent the depth in the concepts were also really good and the exam was quite challenging I won't call it really tough but the level was moderate the exam level was moderate so overall feedback is like NPTEL is doing a great job yeah I told like I did my basic fluid mechanics in my college itself during my fifth semester so in order to go beyond the scope of the fluid mechanics and going in depth into fluid mechanics and it also helps my project which is I'm currently doing my final year project so it helps for me to get more concepts involved in advanced fluid mechanics so that's the reason I took the portal was excellent there was no hassle in giving money for that is for exams and all the portal was good NPTEL portal swine portal were also good live sessions actually there weren't many for my course but the discussion forum was excellent and thank you thanks I am Dr. Suresh from assistant college of engineering working as associate professor in that college and I am since I'm in teaching I know very well about this NPTEL so I am regularly attending this courses even two days back I attended a course on steam and gas power systems and today I attended a course on heat exchangers fundamentals and design analogies it's really very good actually the purpose of doing this course was mainly to improve our department activities in our college so it will be the this course are considered as an FTP program for a faculty so the FTP program for a faculty always will be good for college and department so that's a major objective of doing this course and again online learning was very good excellent the assignments sections and answer solutions for the assignments again then the exams really it was very competitive it was really good actually and once a student passes this NPTEL exam he's really going to gain knowledge in that particular field so in that way it was it's not so easy to attend NPTEL it was really good and the system online system was excellent again payment is very very small amount compared comparing this other exams so it's really appropriate payment payment was very good online payment was very easy to pay the only problem was since we were faculty and once the assignments section everything we it was a 12 week course today I attended an exam and 12 week course so just 10 days back only I submitted assignments so suddenly the exams dates when so little bit tough for preparing otherwise that is the only drawback I had otherwise it was very good really and in future also I'm going to attend these kind of courses really that was very good sometimes some answers was not correct so we posted that immediately within two three two three days to one week they were able to correct it and they modified the marks also maybe courses later to refrigeration air conditioning it will be better I did not find that actually so if it is added it will be good for you thank you very much yeah the course which we have undergone in NPTEL was excellent and the courses which we which I went introvent it it makes me to learn plenty of things from that one but I have registered for a course in an industrial revolution 4.0 an introduction to IOT I was done and it was a pleasant experience for me to learn the new technology called IOT where I'm doing my research on IOT so it helps me to learn in depth of knowledge in IOT and and today I'm here to write the examination here in Chennai Institute of Technology yeah and I wrote my example and in each and every semester each and every half I'm just doing my NPTEL course here and this is my fifth course I'm doing in NPTEL because I'm just grasping more knowledge on it and so it was a it was a better learning and also I'll share to my students also because I'm in the faculty of an engineering college where I'm just train my students what I've learned from this thank you it's like a semester where an engineering student is doing where instead of going on with theoretical kind of things where NPTEL it gives an immense pleasure to have a better better better hands on on all those things where for example if a student is going on with data structures or object oriented programming languages if they took if they choose those languages as a domain language and they can go on with this video kind of things where they can have a better hands on experience and it leads them to get placement in better activities my name is Akash I'm current I finished my civil engineering in 2017 batch and now I'm currently proceeding in due to COVID time I have no job and currently really free at home so I pursued this pursued your NPTEL domain and I wrote a exam for a glass applications today glass application and design glass applications and I I studied for four to six months and using the video tutorial and I also got got the knowledge about the outside experience of the college environment and mostly I had no idea after passing my civil engineering these much these much courses are there and no knowledge idea so I tried this take this tried this NPTEL and and wrote my exam today today and I'm mostly I did it for certification knowledge under my career improvement career improvement and now I'm I have some idea what to do in next next to coming for the job job opportunities yes sir live interactions I have gone for for my topic there wasn't a live introduction I also applied for other other topics like reinforced reinforced concrete and advanced concrete technology they had a live interactions and it was very very good sir and I also our questions were answered the last of the session hello myself myself Hariharan I'm working as assistant professor in Anand city constitutional college Kanjiburam I selected this course patent law for engineers and scientists and I found this course very interesting I just wanted to apply for patents in future so that's why I applied for this course but I found that the the person who gave lecture during the videos the presentation was very good but the technical words that he used were very confusing and he might have taken some effort to prepare slides well the slides were not very properly oriented and but the exam was very interesting and subject was interesting for me and I did well for the exam no I'm very interested because I wanted to complete this for my career development also when I selected the exam center I selected Kanjiburam but it was very far from this place it's one suggestion like when they select the center for the exam they can select the area which is close to their residential or workplace hello everyone I'm Shweta and I'm studying in IIT Madras I'm a third year student and here the course which I took was biomedical nanotechnology the reason which I took is because my major is biotechnology and also nanotechnology is such a scopeful scopeful branch and many things are now being designed for example if you consider the 3d organ printing and all there are a lot of new and interesting stuff coming up so biomedical nanotechnology was very interesting so that's the reason why I took this course and I got to know about this through my college emails every year I used to get the NPTEL course list which in all courses have been scheduled when so it was easier for me to like choose how many week course and it's also useful for my credits for the credit requirement in my college fulfillment so it was very interesting and the exam was also pretty interesting so I recommend that NPTEL course is very much useful because you can study it at your own comfort space and also you can get a lot more knowledge where the college don't provide those courses so regular IITM courses there are a lot of core courses which you need to do even though it's not your major but using the courses which you want to study it specializes the stream which you want to look into because there are no not much courses on nanotechnology in IIT Madras but there are a lot of courses around and NPTEL is an easy way because you can study it from your home or from your own space and also attend exams and test your knowledge on the course so it was very helpful that way. I am Dr. Bala as a professor of community medicine in a Sara medical college I just took the course on biomedical research the exam was being from community medicine background the exam was good enough not very tough but it's just helped us in updating our knowledge the course and a final completion is the exam part yes generally this certification is required for promotion for all staff so that's one reason why I applied but fortunately I got promoted before the requirement came so before I applied I just completed the course because in future sometimes mca or nmc may make it mandatory for everyone to have the certification even if they are professors so we have completed okay the portal generally I want to give a good feedback about the portal it was user friendly the videos were taken well and it's very crystal clear about the professors and the portal were very helpful in understanding the content and they have the regular assignments in the portal that they were able to follow and assess ourselves regularly and that in fact helped in the exams also my name is Arish I'm I'm pursuing my final year in Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Sri Parmuthu so actually coming to NPTEL when I joined my engineering itself I came to know about NPTEL through online itself so while starting my engineering itself I tried end one rolling the courses but since I joined engineering I wasn't able to follow it up but once I came to my third year I enrolled course and even I attempted few courses last I mean like last year also and this year also I took two courses one was my by my personal interest to develop my skills in MATLAB and another course was it was mandatory for us to take up in college because due to this lockdown they asked us to take this course through NPTEL which was a subject course so today I wrote the subject course so this is how I came to know about NPTEL actually I'm still not clear about that domain certification thing I'll little know about that minors they categorize the subjects based on some things but I'm not sure about that. So actually it's one of the good method of conducting the examination is an online and as a faculty I'm working in Radhileshwari Engineering College so it was very helpful for to get updated with the basic concepts over there and it just acts as a refresher for us refresher course so it's very nice initiative by IIT Madras thank you. Payment you can just do some other can reduce it because when faculty has just writing repeatedly so it becomes mandatory for the faculty over there you can reduce the payment over there that is one of the request we just proposed to it. So we are continuously writing over there and we are clearing the paper so we can just go over it and experimental wise FTP score is there but not all the courses are there very few courses are there yeah I have done four to five NPTEL and domain and also completed other than the domain and competition Python completed all the courses over there it's very nice that we could be able to explore other subjects also so where we cannot do it in a degree so like an elective subject it was very experiencing and some of the experimental aspects so you can just show the instruments which are available in IIT so that people will be updated with the knowledge so because all the videos are very old videos and some of them are reluctant to something new we expect the things to be what because you are the forum and the portal where you get the update so when that is being viewed by the student they will be getting update so if you are giving the old very old videos over there and not any update with the current trend content is not there update since we were able to just see so very old something new if you are just adding new instruments are evolved those instruments can be demonstrated and they can be updated at the last of the what last session not even if you could not able to add it in the initially you can just update it a lot so that this is the current development so that development can be included I have been attending almost on 8 to more than 8 examinations so it is very well formatted so that goes smooth. Yeah good afternoon I am Dr. Satish I am Indian Disciple in Ramchandra Medical College so the conduct of the exam is good and that social distancing and all this all those stuffs are neatly maintained except for the salient which has kept just outside the exam all of just not working other than that it was good and everybody was helpful to us and everything was good yeah the portal the portal and the timing and everything was smooth except for at the start of the exam it was a minute or something slow but other than that it was good the certification as such will be helpful for my promotion to associate professor and to a professor. Yeah hi I am Aditya from IT Madras electrical engineering department I have written the exam for applied natural language processing in LPL the course was very challenging and actually very interesting weekly assignments were all very interesting and made me think a lot some required the help of internet also like all the material was not covered in the course so it encouraged people to take feedback from the exams were not subjective so that difference I feel at least but difficulty why it is mostly the same actually there is a course which was not available this year applied time series the courses name is okay so it is not yeah I would try to take it this year but it was not there okay my name Sai Sundura I am from assistant college of engineering I have done the course programming in Java I felt it very interesting the videos and the demonstration that they gave was interesting and there is nothing negative about it it was very useful we could understand the concepts very clearly hi good afternoon everyone I am Dr. Amrita Jhansarani working as an assistant professor in Stanley medical college I did this basic course in biomedical research program I came to know this through my professor who asked me to end all myself in learning about this how to do a research project everything it was really very interesting I went through all the lectures which was posted in the course it was really very useful and I came to I learned a lot before I teach my post graduates because we are involved in continuous research programs in a number of clinical trials and I learned a lot I am very happy about joining this course and the exam too was very good very standard interesting and I wish you all to join everyone should join and get benefited by this yes regarding the peculiarity of this course was they gave number of examples to understand the various terminologies usually the community medicine people used to take as many real trial examples and all and this was very useful when compared to the regular lectures very useful to understand many terminologies conduct of the exam is this is the very first online exam I am attending very very interesting and I thought I don't know how to enroll myself how to enter into that very simple very easy and and which has been already given in the assignment it was you can change the options and you can go till the time is over in the same way the exam was also conducted and because it was already practiced to me it I felt very easy and it is not hard at all very easy to understand the course the conduct of the exam was really good very calm very peaceful I have to have idea of doing some online exams in future thank you myself Jaya Kastrat I am from army engineering college I have done a digital course in NPTEL it is very useful for my career because I am an electrical and electronic engineer so it helps me and sir was Santakumar Choudhury I think so he taught me more NPTEL is more useful it's very nice and very interesting and it's different from other websites and other videos it is taking a lesson in the explaining in the note with the note and pen so it is very easy regular course means we we can't take as much anytime we can take it till you can learn night also night 10 o'clock 10 o'clock we can time anytime we can learn so that it is useful thank you hi I'm Aparna I'm from Shivankateshwar College of Engineering here in Chennai in Kanjiburam and I wrote my exam for digital circuits today our college actually instead of teaching the subject they preferred NPTEL's course because it was very useful so it was very elaborate and the things were in detail so it was easy to learn and accessible and the exam also was conducted very like properly everything was planned properly and everything was executed also smoothly and this certification I feel like I've actually learned something about digital circuits rather than just like memorize things I've actually learned something and I think I'll have this knowledge with me so this is how the certification is useful for me yeah the yeah the quality is really good it's very regular it's nice that we get detailed solutions for the answers also and even the live discussion forum was also very useful and yeah it was good thank you so myself I'm Ivy Monisha I appeared for problem solving through programming see the paper was intermediate level it was an intermediate level it was not so tough or not so easy it was challenging it will be very useful in a career and in credit transfer hello I'm Balaji from Rajilashmi Engineering College I am doing my second NPTEL course this semester I did the exam well the exam were easy for those who had submitted the assignments properly they if this exam would be easy for it was a nice experience in this college thank you I'm Ashisha pursuing my chemical engineering in assistant college of engineering and I opted for diary and food products and process and product technology and I found the course interesting and the professor was really good in helping with the course and also with the live sessions and this exam was pretty easy I mean if you have completed your assignments and followed the instructions it was very easy it was all good uncomfortable thank you


Hello, hello, everybody. Andrea Myeski here with Dental Oil Tutoring. So earlier I did the big and exciting board exam bootcamp for my dental hygiene students. If you missed it, I am leaving the link on the bottom where if you would like to watch our video because it was fully recorded, it was about two hours and 15 minutes, you can. So do not miss it. It was a great review. All about case studies and x-rays. So we talked about tons of things. The case studies had a wide variety of topics. So it was awesome. But I wanted just quickly, so I won't spend too much time because I have been tutoring all day and yeah, so I won't spend too much time. But I wanted to help those who did not, you know, sign up for tutoring with me. And if you're not a dental L member, but I still would like to help you guys anyway. So the main things to know for the board exam, okay? So if you're a dental hygiene student, taking the board exam in like two days, okay? The main things to know, and I'm not saying only study this, but make sure to study this, okay? Know your x-rays, know history of radiography, understand how your tube head works, okay? So the inside components of the tube head, think the anode, cathode, electron cloud, all of that. Know processing errors of x-rays, know how to tell when something goes wrong and how to fix it. For example, overlap, comb cutting, exhausted chemical solution. If there's a scratch on the film, if there's static, know all of those things, okay? Okay, so x-rays, know that, make sure to know pharmacology. I know it's a large unit, but go over pharmacology. Know medications, know medical emergencies. You need to know things like special needs. So if a patient is an alcoholic, if they're a diabetic, things like that. Know your oral pathology, know your oral pathology's lesions. So know the difference between a macule, a papule, a nodule, et cetera. Know the different types of cysts, cysts specifically for the x-rays. So know how to tell the difference between the different kinds of cysts. What else? I just kind of left myself some notes here. Make sure to know nutrition. Know that chart that you've probably seen before, showing you the main vitamins and minerals and what happens if the patient isn't getting enough of say vitamin C, vitamin D, and also know how, what foods they can eat that have more vitamin C in them, more vitamin D, more iron, things like that. What else? What else? I left myself some notes, but I'm also kind of thinking on the fly for you guys as well, do mock exams. Okay, mock exams are so important because if you do the mock exams and you're not sure about a couple questions, that's telling you that you need to study that more. Okay, so go through mock exams, especially if you can. If you are a dental L member, I have tons of them inside the membership login area for you. Please make sure to do them. Know your anatomy. So your head and neck anatomy. Okay, so this kind of area here. Yes, you need to know the muscles too, but try not to study all of them because you don't have time for that. Know specifically the head and neck muscles. For the muscles even more so, I would even stick to kind of your muscles along here and of the neck. So if you don't have enough time, know the main bones of the skull.  Know the main ones of the skull. Know your infection control. Know what you have to do when you're done cleaning a patient's teeth. Do you put the instruments in your ultrasonic to pre-clean, pre-soak? Know those steps. So from the ultrasonic, you have to rinse them. You have to let them dry. You have to put them in the sterile, or I should say, you have to package them after that. Put them in the sterilizer. Wait for the full cycle. Let them dry. Take them out and then store them. So that was just kind of a quick one there. But study those, that whole thing. So know your infection control. Know things like blood pressure. Know your normal vital signs for children and for adults. Children, I say too, because they do like to ask about that sometimes. But if you don't have enough time to study children, think that the children's numbers are usually a little bit higher. But that's normal for them. So no blood pressure, no pulse, no respiration. You know, know the vital signs. Know smoking. Make sure to know what to talk about to the patient about smoking. Know the common questions. And I do have a video or two on YouTube also. If you type in smoking in the search bar, you will find a couple of them on that. And what you have to know for the board exam. Know perio, which is what that kind of goes without saying, right? So perio, perio, perio. Make sure you understand that. Understand that even one four millimeter pocket means perio. Also know that if you're looking at the patient and you are trying to determine if the gums are still inflamed, bleeding is the best answer. Redness is an answer, but bleeding is the best answer. If you're looking for perio, check the pockets. If you're looking for inflammation, check bleeding points. Okay. Know your landmarks of a panoramic x-ray. Understand eruption patterns. Okay. Study that chart that tells you when the primary teeth come in, when the primary teeth are lost. Know when the adult teeth should come in. Know all of that. Okay. What else? What else? So there's tons of things, of course, that you have to know. There's a lot more than what I've mentioned, but those are kind of the main ones. Study those things absolutely. Make sure to know community, of course. It's not exactly the most exciting, but make sure to know that. Make sure to know that if on the board exam, they talk about gingival recession. Know that fluoride varnish is the best treatment for that. They love to talk about fluoride varnish. When in doubt, the answer is probably that. Fluoride varnish. Okay. So just something to keep in mind. Know the difference, which you all should know at this point, but know the difference between the bite wing, a PA, a panorax, a sep, things like that. Know the different toothbrushing methods. Honestly, I could talk about this all day and all night, but this will give you guys a good start of what to make sure to know for the board exam. But if you need help, you guys, do not hesitate. I will leave the links on the bottom. I have a board exam boot camp part one that I did live a couple weeks ago. I believe the end of April part one. That's all mock exam questions. A huge PowerPoint. It's amazing. And then I did the board exam boot camp part two, which is case studies and x-rays. So you do need two parts. Okay. So feel free to look at the links. It will help you prep for the board exam because I talk a little bit about everything plus more than what I've mentioned today. So I will leave the links at the bottom. Make sure to look. Trust me, you will be so happy that you did. And thank you guys for watching. Good luck. Please let me know how you do. Good luck. And I will see you guys very, very soon.


Hello, everybody, can you all hear me okay? Is everybody having a great summit so far? Glad to see so many of you here on a Thursday. You know, well done all of you for surviving the parties. Well done. How many of you, not that I can really see, but how many of you are actually attending the summit for the first time? It's pretty cool. How many of you are new to OpenStack and here to learn more? Oh, good, you're in the right room. How many here are just to heckle me? Yeah, figure that. Or am I just the warm-up act for Termi's brand tough to this one? You might wanna go for that talk, it's in the same room. So who am I? I'm a technical consultant specializing in OpenStack for the professional services team in the UK. I help businesses in the EMEA region basically be more successful with OpenStack. I help design their infrastructure and I help operate the infrastructure once it's all deployed. How many of you are from Europe and around that kind of area? Okay, that's cool. So if you ever chose Rackspace, you know, as a partner to work with, fortunately for you guys, you get to work with me probably. Yeah, I feel sorry for you too. So, I've been using OpenStack now for about five years. So yeah, that goes back to the really dark days. The candidates where you type in Overboot and you've got Hello World back. They were good days, that's when Hello World worked. But you may know me from such books as the OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, first edition, and the second edition. And also the OpenStack Foundation Architecture Design Guide. I've always wanted to say that. Just doesn't sound as good not in a trauma claw kind of accent. By the way, don't buy the Cookbook. Yeah, now I'm the world's worst salesperson. But there's a third edition coming out at all. If you've already bought it, great. You know, my kids will have their beans this week, but yeah, I'd wait for the third edition. So, how have I managed to persuade all of you people to come to see my talk early morning on the fourth day of the OpenStack Summit? Well, I think it comes down to the title of my talk. So, never has a true word been spoken. Especially if I tie that title into a, you know, one with a Disney theme tune attached. Bound to be picked. So, if you ever want to get a speaker pass for the next summit, that's how you do it. But thing is, have you ever known, do you ever know what happens after a talk gets accepted? Well, there's a little bit of a loophole. Because basically, I've got you all in a room right now and I can do anything I like. So, I mean, I could have, you know, I could have actually started and launched my career in comedy. It's always good to have a plan B. But, I thought after a few days of OpenStack, you must be all OpenStacked out. Well, I thought, you know, given the title of the talk, thought we'd just do a little bit of Disney karaoke. You want this. You know you want this on a Thursday morning. So, you're all ready. You think I'm joking? Do you want to build a snowman? Come on. Do you want to play? I never see you anymore. Come out the door. If like, I've gone away. Do you know what? Vancouver, you haven't half left me down. Seriously, right? If this was Tokyo, this room would be rocking right now. Right, I'm kidding, right? OK, so back to building snowmen. Right, just go with it, OK? So, I've got kids. You know, I've seen Frozen about a gazillion times. But, yeah, I know. Maybe I should have just let it go. Telling them that comedy career is looking good right now. And I want to talk about Snowman Stack. I guess I've got to use this somewhere in my talk. It just wasn't clever enough. So, Snowman Stack it is. So, what is it? Well, it's like OpenStack. Everything seems all rosy. Then halfway through, disaster strikes. Somebody breaks into a song. Obviously, none of you lot. Then after a perilous battle, your next tech team finally understands neutron. As Snowman Stack is, make believe. I want to give you five takeaways from this talk to get you there with OpenStack. So, number one. People. It's important that people are involved in your project. Ah, sorry. It's important the right people are involved in your project. How many people have heard of failed OpenStack deployments? You hear it in the press. Yeah, it happens all over and it's the doom and gloom. It just doesn't work. But when you dig deeper into some of those failures, you kind of understand, you know, what kind of went on behind the scenes. You hear that the developers didn't get what they wanted. But that's not surprising, because the developers weren't sitting at the table when you were designing the solution. It's unfortunate that that happened far too often. I go into organizations and you don't realize that it's a two-way conversation. You know, the requirements flow from all directions. And that's from the people that write the checks. They're important. To the people who rack and stack the boxes, to the people cabling the boxes to the developers or the end users of your system. Don't be surprised if some of the conversations that you have around that table make you feel a little bit uncomfortable.  I don't know why I'm picking on NetSec. They just seem like such an easy target. I'm sorry, if you've got any NetSec engineers in here, I do apologize. But OpenStack will only be successful in your organization. If you see it as an evolution of your processes, it will have to change and adapt. And the rule book will have to be rewritten. Education is vital here. Understanding what OpenStack is and what it isn't can make or break a project. I've seen many meetings where, as a pre-sales architect as part of my function, you know, I would sit there and I'd go into a full-blown design session. I'd go into a full-blown session on what is OpenStack, what is Nova, what is Cinder, how they all fit together. It's the kind of session that would make our training team a rack space really, really proud, apart from when they see the scrolls on the whiteboard. But that's important. Get educated.  Get all that information that you need to plan your next deployment. So the C word. We're all adult, right? We have to use the C word carefully. Cloud is a four-letter word. Do I need to bring that hand back up? It freaked me out as well.  But it brings clarity to everybody else. Cloud, the word cloud is designed to hide complexity and makes it someone else's problem. The reason I'm bringing this up is simple. You're designing services that are complex by nature in your date center. The outcome of your project should be to hide this complexity. If people are finding it difficult to use your OpenStack platform, we need to go back to the design. We need to go back to that day one and actually ask if you had the right people in the room. So they're all interlinked all these. But it's your job to understand that complexity or at least appreciate the complexity that OpenStack brings. OpenStack has a number of moving parts. So it's like a car. I'm no mechanic. But I appreciate that a car takes petrol or gasoline, depending on what country you're from, injects into my engine, you know, sparks happen, crankshafts move, the engine turns and then wheels move, and then, you know, pack it all together in a nice shell with a whole load of other electronics. That's my car. As a user, I just, I operate that car. I don't have to understand the inner details of it. OpenStack is no different. It's a suite of open source projects that are glued together by other open source projects. And operate as a cloud to my end users. Do you need to know that NOVA uses a message queue? You know, to understand what work it needs to do? Of course you do. Do you need to know how, for example, RabbitMQ actually works under the hood? Not necessarily, but you have to appreciate how that works if you're in that area of troubleshooting that. But do the end users need to know that RabbitMQ's being used? Definitely not. Do they need to know that there are three controllers wrapped around, you know, wrapped together with low balancing and Galera? Of course they don't. Do they need to know that computers are not fault tolerant in your particular design? Hell yeah. There's so many stuff which, for years, they might have been on a platform which has been doing a lot of that work for them. When are you going to surprise that one on them? Developers want to know what features are available. They want to know what API to use. So number three, be realistic. So, cloud answers all of IT's problems. All some introduces new ones. By the way, before I go any further, you know, obviously there's a little bit of a Disney undertone to my theme. Anybody see the sort of reference to Disney in that particular slide? Font is aerial. Little mermaid. I know it's 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, right? Just go with it, okay? Cheap laughs. Anyway, OpenStack has exploded in growth and interest. Of course it's a wide and open development platform. It's fantastic. The list of vendors supporting OpenStack now seemed like a pipe dream five years ago. I mean, there's challenges, especially for people who are new to OpenStack. It must be very daunting to actually see the paths you can go down to work out where you need to be. The list of OpenStack projects and programs is immense. It's also like a shopping list. You know, for people heading to the out-of-town DIY store.  You know, with the heated floors, little balcony, the bifold indoors, but OpenStack is what you hear if you're not careful. It'll work.  I don't know why I've got an obsession with ride-on mowers. I've got a tiny garden. I just really want a big garden for a ride-on mower. What we should have done is done your homework. Find out what works together and what doesn't work so well. So when we operate OpenStack for our customers, the projects that are highlighted in red are what we support. Sure, there are many others on there, which from other vendors or other people that's all well and good. But we found that they either cause problems in our environment or we're just not ready to bake them into our product that way. The point, choose your projects carefully, as well as who you want to work with in the industry to help you get there. Many developers and ops folk basically see that list and they're like a kid in a candy store. So it's important to understand the maturity with these projects. What I find is people tend to do research in OpenStack, which is obviously a good thing, right? So they go in and they find out how they think all these things fit together. And they come up with a great design and they might run it for a little bit in their environment and then they come along and ask for some rack space and say, hey, can you support this now? But we have reference architecture and products that we trust. We've done our experiences of running these things for quite a while. And that's based on different size organizations, many big, many small, a lot pushing the boundaries. What I say is if we don't support it, just approach with a little bit caution and pragmatism. It's not warning you off, it's just a case of, look, you're in here to actually, well, I want you to go away from here with success. So I would say just err on the side of caution. This is a simple view of what we support and operate for many organizations today. All of the software you see is open source. Or if you have the cheap seats in the back, maybe you can't, but it is open source. It's a very stable, scalable solution, surprising of a three-way, I can't really tell there, but there's a three-way cluster controller set up, a login server running, you know, what people see is the Elk stack, it's very common these days. And then scale out compute, Swift storage and Cinder storage. All we ask is we put this behind dedicated, highly available pieces of kit that you run and trust in your environment, like dedicated redundant switches, redundant firewalls, kind of stuff. But the point is, keep it simple. I wouldn't say stupid, although I just did, but kiss. You don't have to see the sessions available over the course of this week to start to get overwhelmed of where to start with OpenStack. Look at what you're trying to achieve. Remember, OpenStack is just compute, storage and networking. Please pick up a free copy of the OpenStack architecture design guide. You can even buy a tree copy. But that has reference architecture for a number of wide use cases. But have a look through that to see what additional expertise you might need to enlist for your particular project. But I spend most of my time talking to businesses through applications and environments that are on the cusp of an automation journey. They choose OpenStack for its OpenStack API. And many, many actually say it's a standard API these days. It's gone on the days of wondering where the Nova API and the OpenStack API is going to go. I have banks telling me this is standard these days. They choose it for flexibility and working with the tools that the developers have been using for years. They choose someone like Rackspace for their ability to help realize these automation and DevOps goals with OpenStack. DevOps. We know that this is just a mechanism for efficiency. OpenStack is a link in that chain. For those just starting out though, start out simple. You don't have to automate everything from day one to realize the benefits of OpenStack. Take each project in turn, migrate to OpenStack, then move to a more efficient model. But it's imperative to have your developers work with your ops teams throughout the whole of this cycle. Rackspace, we can help you with that transformation. So number four for takeaways, the OpenStack community. The OpenStack community loves you. Everybody in this room, everybody in this conference, the OpenStack community loves you. I love you. How are you looking? And you're in a room with locked doors. The OpenStack community exists because of the successes and even the failures of everyone involved in OpenStack. We wouldn't be here today if we didn't have a vibrant and very active community. I love this picture when I saw it paid into it the other day. I love it. It's got nothing to do with what I'm about to talk about. It's no secret that to successfully run OpenStack, you need to get your hands a little dirty. OpenStack has a rapid and regular release cycle, and jumping on that conveyable can be daunting to some. But what it means to operators of it is a change in mentality, maybe a change in risk, a change in how you operate your infrastructure. At Rackspace, we embrace this change. On the backdrop of a very stable core platform, our latest architecture of OpenStack allows for seamless upgrades from one version to another. Community has a very big, very active development community. You can see it as you walk around this conference this week. The thing is, you can participate without even knowing a single line of Python. Raising bug reports are crucial to generating resilient code that ultimately you consume and the people next to you consume. There are lots of eyes on open source projects, and OpenStack is one of the biggest out there. Can you go one step further and actually create patches? Even the documentation is part of this process. If you see a mistake or a typo or even commands that just no longer work, click that little bug in the corner. Very important that documentation, along with everything else, is kept up to speed with the rest of the development. To be fair, the reason why I'm bringing this out is documentation is very, very hard from an author, and it's incredibly frustrating. If you have a question that needs asking, there's a very active mailing list. Very, very active mailing lists. There's a busy forum Ask.OpenStack.org and many IRC channels with the specialist teams. You can actually ask direct questions.  Is there a feature that is preventing you from adopting OpenStack? If so, blueprints are your friend. Whilst you're off partying the night away, the OpenStack developer community are hard at work discussing the features, the blueprints for the next release. You should get involved. You should join those discussions to ensure the success of your project and many others by your contributions. That brings me on to my last point, support, because of Rackspace we can help you in that, raising those blueprints. I've worked with a number of organisations big and small, young, old. A lot of the old ones are coming out of the woodwork these days and think OpenStack is the right thing to do. But they've had great success but it hasn't all been a smooth ride before they come and approach us. Many either start out on their own, in fact lots start out on their own or they've chosen some other vendor who design and deploy OpenStack but basically just give them a phone number to call if anything goes wrong. There are many vendors at the summit this week that offer different ways to help you with your OpenStack journey and different levels of support. All I ask is that you choose the right one that works for you. You didn't get the subtle thing before so I went a little bit more in your face with this one. But yeah, seriously, understand how they can help. They're all different. They all offer their own bits of support on top of OpenStack. But I do hear that Rackspace is pretty darn good at this thing. But it's crucial to have that partnership in place, not just to support contract. Understanding business drivers, long-term strategies, how you upgrade, how you want to do business is what we actually do. I actually went through that pretty quickly. I should have put more jokes in, obviously. But the key thing here is I want to give you... It was the five takeaways. So let's recap. It was the people. It's making sure that the right people are in the room when you're making the decisions. It's so easy to forget that very, very simple message because it happens time and time again. The C word. Use the C word liberally. Use it appropriately. And where it makes sense when you're talking to other developers, the end users of your cloud, or whether you're talking to the system integrators. And that's about education. But be realistic in your plans as well. I say OpenStack basically solves all of the world's problems, apparently. But just make sure you keep it back in reality and what works for you. Certainly embrace the community. Obviously, for those in the room here, you're doing the right thing. For those who are watching at home through a web browser, shame on you. But join next time, okay, in Tokyo. Enlist the right support that works for you. I say all vendors offer different levels of support. Different ways to make sure that you're successful. Just go around talking to the ones that make sense for you. Think of it to us. But that's it. I went through that very quickly, I'm sorry. But that means there's plenty of time for questions. So anybody who has any questions, and if so, do you want to go up to the mic? Or we can just do karaoke again, in which case, go up to the mic. Any questions? If you don't have any questions, you can feel free to come and see me, get business cards and all that kind of stuff and chat strategy, Disney films, all that kind of stuff. But since I know that some of you were disappointed about not doing any Disney karaoke, I just want to leave you a little something. You don't actually need the words, I'm pretty sure everybody knows this one.  Thank you, everyone.


This week is entitled Seeking Justice. It is an ambitious title, and at the same time it conveys the idea that justice is still a task ahead when it relates to international law. And let me give a few words of explanation about this title and about the topics of this week. After having studied who makes international law during the second week of this course, after having closely considered how international law is made and how it is applied during respectively weeks 3, 4 and 5, and also after having studied in the course of last week what are the legal consequences in terms of international responsibility, what are the consequences for those who make international law when they do not respect it, it is time to take the latter question one step further, see how responsibility can be enforced and turn to an issue which is inseparable from the idea of any law that is justice. Justice for breaches of international law is one of the most crucial issues when addressing the effectiveness of international law and indeed much of the criticism about international law is that it very often fails to be real and to be effective, that international law is all nice and well on paper, but that it crucially lacks redress mechanisms when it is not respected and furthermore that double standard exists, that justice is not the same for all which actually is the very negation of the idea of justice. Unfortunately there is undoubtedly some truth in that criticism and it would be simply wrong and dishonest to pretend that international law is a perfect system and that international justice can always be achieved and is always achieved. But it would also be wrong to consider that international law is just a fiction that it is never applied and that its violations are never sanctioned and an honest assessment of reality requires both to admit that a lot of progress has been achieved over the last decades while at the same time to understand why it is very difficult if not impossible to have an international law justice system which is as efficient, as fair, effective and impartial as the one that exists in some rare national jurisdictions around the world. And it is also important to recognize that it is often the failures or the lack of justice at the national level that will stir the desire for international justice or for trying to find justice in foreign courts. So let me submit to you that it would be a mistake if the quest for justice in this world were to concentrate all hopes at the international level and stop there without addressing the immense needs of justice at the domestic level in many countries around the world and saying that I'm not contesting that international law has something to say about the obligation for states to provide judicial redress nor am I contesting that in certain circumstances international or foreign justice adequately remedies or supplements the lack of justice at the domestic level and as we shall see this is sometimes the case. But always and immediately jumping at the international level to improve it without first demanding much needed constitutional improvements could unduly encourage to shirk responsibilities while at the same time running the risk of back clashes and leading to even higher disappointments in a certain way. And of course this course cannot address the challenges facing domestic justice in many parts of the world and how to remedy them. But in order to have a sound judgment about justice in international law and about the relationship between justice and international law it is important to look into the matter a bit closer and see what are the redress mechanisms that are available, how they function and why they have limits. Seeking justice for breaches of international law can be done at the national level or at the international level and at both levels it can relate to criminal justice or not. Because of the limited scope of this course and because of its introductory character it will not be possible to cover all international courts and tribunals nor to detail all the legal issues and all the legal hurdles that may result from bringing claims for alleged breaches of international law before domestic courts in the various jurisdictions around the world. Therefore I shall concentrate on some essential elements. At the international level I'll address on the one hand what is usually called in textbooks the pacific settlement of disputes. After having said a few words about political means of settlement will quickly turn to arbitration before paying more attention to the international court of justice and today there are of course other standing courts and tribunals in the world and the course will name some of them but will take the ICJ as a model. It is the oldest standing international court it has a general jurisdiction not limited to a specific field of international law nor to a certain type of disputes and as you know the ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the UN and that is why we're going to look at it deeper. On the other hand always at the international level but turning now to criminal justice some basic elements about the international criminal court will be surveyed. Now at the domestic level and because the organization of the judiciary and the powers of national courts vary to a great extent from country to country I shall concentrate on the international law hurdles that exists when bringing a claim in domestic court against a state a foreign state or an international organization or when starting criminal proceedings against foreign officials. In other words immunities and the customary rules of international law relating to immunities will be studied.


Whoa, alright everyone what is going on welcome back to another video in today's video we're going to look at Josh Jacobs for one last time we're gonna look at his rookie season highlights for the Raiders first time I saw him was in the combine then it was the draft we've just watched his run-up to the draft and to his first season where he came from his upbringing with his dad five kids extremely tough he backed himself the whole way he finally got noticed he got picked up by Alabama played three years there and now he's playing for the Raiders so I haven't seen him play for the Raiders I've seen a few actually no so far all I've seen is his first game highlights he scored two touchdowns he got to keep the game ball and well now I want to see if he's been balling out as much as he did in college because if it's anything close you know I'm expecting some Saquon Barclay type runs here so let's have a look at Josh Jacobs Raiders and see what comes up okay so we've got week one week five week nine week 10 by the NFL and those videos are guaranteed to be and week four okay it looks like it looks like he's got four or five different games worth of highlights here probably is four or five best games and so they're the four or five games that we're gonna watch because we're gonna see absolutely everything he did not just a few highlights here and there so with that set we've looked at week one he got a hundred and three total yards and two touchdowns now we're gonna go to week number four and then we've got week five week nine and week 10 let's go week four against the Colts that was his first run of the night it's pretty good man he's got a nice cut nice step see and now when I'm watching these highlights I'm always looking at the fullback because that was the position that I was suited up in when I went down to Melbourne so I'm thinking all right so Jacobs is gonna see that line but is he gonna divert off of that line when he sees an opening or is he gonna stay behind his fullback corks screws his way I'll be happy with that bit of fast feet couple of tackles broken be more happy with that really go son this is the NFL now this is not college football man yeah nice block get through there look for the pass stay open stay alive bang off the right flip the ball into the other hand and try a stiff phone I love this commentator looking tackles I actually love this guy fuck he came through there like Adrian Peterson first down he's a first-down machine come on man going in numerical order here we'll let's go week five week five against the the Bears in London believe it or not starting playing on a soccer field to Jacobs you'll have the first down as he crashes inside the bear 30 yard line for a rookie in the league yeah and Jacobs right here on the cutback he just has that vision he's got that sense of so I mean we only they didn't show his highlights of the second and third game but he must have pulled out as well because through four games he's got the record for the most rushing yards as a rookie and so we're in game number five now and he's still keeping that up and now he scored a thousand yards this season well done talk to me wishes he had him defensive unit after the three yard game by Jacobs and there is the swing pass to Josh Jacobs love that step man at first cut is nice very efficient lovely toss toss play spies again beautiful spin there court screws his way down the line usually reliable bears defense and they run five times and pass for four occasions where we got twins left toss play spies again and he's through against this onslaught by the Raiders on this drive you just watch the movement you get up front guy I love that pass man that's this it's like a rugby pass isn't it it's backwards it's a little toss it gives the running back time it gives them space in the backfield to eye up what's happening and that's exactly what he did what did he do on this drive you just watch the movement right he's got the ball here he's looking up he sees a C he sees a C got the ball here he looks up he's seeing the majority of the players heading to the left he is going to straighten up big time and cut right through let's have a look okay so we still um he let the blocks develop and then he's swerved I wouldn't say that's a cup I'd say it's a swerve 90 degrees up the field where this massive gap has just opened guys on the ground guys get into the second level I mean you're running back has eight yards and Jacobs seven yards 31 just Jacobs put your hand up and they're gonna run it any will Jacobs and Jacobs will have a first down it inspired team no question on first down Josh Jacobs he gets out to the 31 yard line a gain of six on first down Josh Jacobs straight ahead for the first down I've been since first touchdown catch at a first down let's have a look at this line Jacobs good game by Jacobs of eight yards so my question would be what are the Raiders do now Jacobs Jacobs with a good game he's got no fear man the penalty he goes in hard with the screen pass Jacobs trying to break the tackle he's stopped at the 44 second down that's a beautiful route Jacobs Jacobs will have first down got stopped up at the 23 yard line and that may be the last play of the third quarter now the Raiders are on the three yard line it's time to shine baby oh beautiful run first down they needed those yards badly they needed those two for a good gain of fourth quarter trying to come back need a touchdown they need a touchdown big time come on Jacobs tell me he scores a touchdown to win first in 10 to 40 to go and off is to Jacobs and Jacobs three yards leaping touchdown to win it possibly be there up and over right there and look at the minute to go to London across the pond to see the Oakland Raiders trying to run out of victory here hey that's nice I like that one which one's next what have we got here week number nine is that right week number nine against the Lions now for whatever reason I still don't hear anything about the Lions still it's been almost two seasons I've followed this and I've heard nothing of the Lions except for Barry Sanders and you know I'll never forget him he was probably the fourth or fifth player I ever reacted to and it was recommended to me multiple multiple times because people saw how much I loved juke and I loved you know speed and and there's nothing like Barry Sanders running at full speed with that canter that he had you know it was like a like an interlock or a gazelle or a train anyway week number nine Josh Jacobs against the Lions let's go seven yards oh I like that good first down line is so good now watch that milk change the line of scrimmage the thing they do well get on the double teams and change the line of scrimmage drive look at that man that's that's the thing I'm whenever I see the two Lions offensive and defensive line come together it's like if the offensive line can get the advantage and start pushing them back it just creates that much more room for the running back and for the quarterback it's like what do you do if your line is being over overpowered what do you do you go to your passing game I guess but it doesn't make things easy does it and that's why these guys are so huge the Lions are so massive but they still work together just as much as any other player on the field in Josh Jacobs because of the sustaining blocks by the Raiders on the first down and give it to Jacobs he's able to slip inside the town nice cuts first down that's what counts now it's a first in goal and he's gonna go leaping over the top no he's not didn't even get touched he's got that threat of judging over that you tell them he's pulling that I watch Richie here incognito pull and get enough of a block right there just enough of a knockback on Miles Killabrew signing off the practice squad oh there's big 64 a putting in the block so far this year he's got company he's huge carry up to the 40-yard line we thought Dean Blantino he'll be part of our broadcast team throughout the afternoon Jacobs rips one off and still on his feet Great play Oh Marks Jacobs again thought about the outside turns it back to the inside and makes it a four-yard pickup on first down I like this I like this oh we got flaccid but it's all right What are you doing up there 45 It's almost like everybody needs one right he's gonna attack Oh he's the full back That's why And it was his Yeah it was his fucking He can take credit for that actually Nice Big time momentum right there First time I've seen the full back and the tail back Or is it half back and tail back The two backs The blocker and the runner celebrate together after scoring a touchdown that's pretty damn cool Not much of it for Jacobs on first down Because what I will say is when I had a very very brief stint playing football down in Melbourne very recently they put me in as the full back and I can confirm that the feeling you get of putting in a block and seeing your running back rush straight past you is almost as good as the feeling you get actually rushing the ball Almost 27 maybe the 27 28 yard line by Christian Jones Both their guards have been selling all year at Jackson to make top 8-0 There's an example of opening up a hole They've had a hard time scoring points the offense has moved the ball well There was a little gap there And that's it Okay Last one A minute 58, 101 total yards, one touchdown versus the Chargers And the Chargers have one of my favourite receivers which is Keenan Allen Last video for today guys, let's get into it Oh full backs there, beautiful block by 45 Be happy with that, there he is Where you going man? There he is There he is Now what are you going to do?  Yes he is, oh yes I think 45 deserves a touchdown Another good block It was a big hit but it was a first down Okay Guys, alright, that's it That's it for today Josh Jacobs, we have done and as I've mentioned in the next one we're going to do Hunter Renfrow as well as a whole heap of other players but today was me just getting back into things I've got a brand new setting here I'm back in my apartment, I'm feeling good My daughters have actually just arrived I'm going to look after them for a few hours and I'm going to have a great time So have a fantastic day guys Thank you for being here Thank you one and all If you do want to support Major Key Physiques head to www.majorkeyphysiques.com and purchase yourself something We've got free shipping worldwide not only that but you can become a channel member here on YouTube and you can also go over my Patreon become a Patreon You can also go to Twitch and become a subscriber there So there's four ways that you guys can actually support me and the growth of this channel and I appreciate every single one of you guys So I'll see you next time Peace out You want to read a book? 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