Good morning, respected dignitaries from Best Innovation University, Andhra Pradesh and NPTEL IIT Madras. Participants from various colleges and universities from various states and outside the country. A very hearty welcome to one and all for this NPTEL awareness workshop organized by NPTEL IIT Madras in collaboration with Bharati Engineering Science and Technology Innovation University, Andhra Pradesh. This is Dr. Nagajyoti Spock and Director R&D from Best Innovation University. The current educational scenario is highly student-centric and definitely it is a need for every faculty member or student or research scholar to upgrade themselves every now and then in the recent trend so that they can succeed in the competitive world. And many of the educational government sectors and accreditation bodies, they always give a lot of thrust on MOOC courses and definitely NPTEL is one of the best and popular coordinator among the svayam courses because of the quality and the standard it maintains. Whether it comes to the lectures from IIT professors or the lecture notes, the translations, the way of conducting the exams assignments, it makes NPTEL a very unique one among the various MOOC courses offering platforms. And any certificate from any discipline which a candidate gets from NPTEL, definitely it will be a value addition to their career and there is no doubt in that. When I visit many state colleges in the role of Mark Dershik and Naag Pirati member, I observe that some of the colleges secure comparatively low marks because they don't have the awareness on the MOOC courses or the NPTEL or svayam. So everywhere I say that you need to develop the MOOC courses, the faculty and students should attend that. And they used to ask how to start the local chapter, how to do the MOOC courses. So definitely this workshop is going to be a best avenue for all those colleges to start the local chapter and motivate their faculty and students to do the NPTEL courses and svayam courses. And thanks to NPTEL for providing this platform when we gave the proposal immediately they accepted for this collaborative event. And once again I heartily welcome each one of you here. Now I invite our Honorable Vice Chancellor Dr. Sundarish Billigees to address the gathering. Thank you, sir. Over to you. Thank you so much, Dr. Nagujyoti. I hope I'm out of this. Good morning to all of you. Hearty greetings from Bharati Engineering Science and Technology University. In a short form we call ourselves the best IU, Innovation University. In fact, it's my pleasure to be here with all of you today. And it's a greater pleasure for me to be introducing my esteemed university, Best Innovation University. Because here is where we bring in innovation and multidisciplinary education, and we want to make it thrive here right here. We are about five to six years in the institution. We have embraced this opportunity to imagine the traditional educational landscape if you miss also. Because we want to foster an environment that nurtures creativity, collaboration and exploration. We want to have our students asking why, why not, whom, with whom, right, what. So these are the things that we want them to ask and pursue, asking these questions and seeking. India is a land of seekers and we want to promote that in a very big way. In fact, we are very proud to say that we have a diverse range of schools, and each is dedicated to a very specific discipline. And it's as diverse as we have agriculture, we have engineering, we have got coming up design, we have got humanities, we have got law integrated courses on law, we have got management and whatnot. So essentially if you look at all of this. So, the intersection of these fields is where true innovation is going to happen, right, other than basic innovations that we're looking at true innovations are going to happen here, which actually are required by the society today. And here is where lots of ideas collide new perspectives emerge, and we are trying to break down those barriers between discipline right here. And this in fact this is where we encourage our students to think beyond the confines of their very specific fields or chosen fields, and then embrace this cross pollination that we are looking at. And we proudly say that the multi discipline education is the cornerstone of our institutions of a university, and we wish we would like to leverage any P to the highest extent possible towards achieving this goal. Today we are in living in complex times and complex challenges, and definitely all these challenges cannot cannot be solved by a single discipline, the need multiple disciplines to come together and solve the societal issues. So one thing is about multidisciplinary institutions or education that we offer, but then we also promote the culture of innovation that permeates almost every aspect of our university. We value creativity. We value risk taking we value all of the box thinking. In fact, our students are increased always to question the status quo. And challenge the invention challenge existing paradigms, explored, you know unconventional solutions think out of the box think beyond go for the big. So this is where we believe that our university is going to contribute. In fact, we have state of the art facilities and we are augmenting these facilities almost every quarter, quarter on quarter we bring in things. We're looking at, you know, CEO is being formed across multiple disciplines we're looking at a cyber security CEO, we are looking at an artificial intelligence CEO and we have also set up for set aside almost about a crore towards, you know, crore of rupees Indian rupees towards, you know, innovation being We want to experiment, we want to become a hub for hands on learning, we want to collaborate with others. And this is in fact where you know we are looking at an impetal to be giving us a huge advantage and also for us to contribute to impetal from a multidisciplinary perspective. In addition, we also have quite a bit of industry partnerships. For example, we have types with IBM we have got types with Apple, Xebiya, Bosch, Colvium. See, these are the new, you know, collaborations that we have got and these are, they are going to bring in cutting edge technology and what is happening at the industry. Okay, that is being brought to the campus and students will be able to, you know, appreciate the latest developments in technology the trends that are happening and their employability or their professional development both are being addressed right there. In conclusion, we are a university and we are standing at the forefront of innovation and multidisciplinary education. We are committed to breaking the silos between disciplines, we want to empower our students to think critically, creatively, collaboratively. Diverse perspectives are encouraged. We want to cultivate a culture of innovation, and we would like to provide resources and opportunity to our students towards this. And in fact, we want to contribute towards NPTEL efforts, and also, you know, offer NPTEL programs as mooks to our students in augmenting their existing learnings, whatever happens in the traditional class classrooms are augmented by industrial resources as well as mooks that we are looking at. And NPTEL is a, you know, beacon of light towards that. Thank you for your attention. And I do invite all of you to seek, you know, the knowledge, the huge knowledge base that NPTEL has got. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Nagyoti. Thank you so, thank you VC sir, Dr. Sundarish Billighi sir for briefing about the university. Now I invite Professor Sip Shankar Ghaz to take over the session. Welcome to you sir. Thank you, Professor Sundarish, Dr. Nagyoti, respected other faculty members who are connected to this program, and my dear students, a very good morning to everyone on this NPTEL awareness workshop being organized by NPTEL along with in association with West Innovation University. I must thank Professor Sundarish for giving the total perspective of the university in detail what all the things they are doing, particularly in the emerging areas, keeping alignment with the industrial industry, and also Professor Nagyoti giving the perspective why NPTEL or online learnings are becoming important distress, not only for the students or faculty's career perspective, but for getting can say recognition for the university on the academic level. So let me just share my screen and move forward. So today, this program is being organized by NPTEL in association with West Innovation University on the page. I think the time schedule what has been given one hour is little less to talk about all the activities that takes place in the NPTEL front. We will just clap together the session plus the question answer time we'll clap together. And as we talk about NPTEL different initiative will also take the questions as and when they appear on the chat box. Okay, and we'll try to complete it within the timeline schedule. So, during that brief time, brief talk, we'll be talking about the NPTEL and give some introduction about this program. Online certification, which is our prime focus will talk from how to select the course of the certification that's hands on with stroke, credit transfer mechanisms, the domain certification internships of skill training gate quota. So the initiatives which directly impacts the students. Then there are other initiatives which helps the faculty equally. There's a faculty development program. In addition to the student and faculty development programs.  We'll talk about some NPTEL local chapter. We have started a new initiative called self based courses in the form of NPTEL class. And then we'll also talk about maybe one or two slides on the newer initiative launched by IIT Madras in the form of a four years degree program, which is an off campus model where a student irrespective of what she or she is doing currently for a faculty what they are doing. And then partially a parallel degree from IIT Madras. So with this, we'll conclude the session. So NPTEL, as you know, is an acronym. It's a national program on technology, Enance Learning, which was started in 2003 by seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore with an aim to provide high quality affordable education to a large section of academic community. So during this period that 2003 to 2014, this phase, we started recording the contents from the classrooms of IITs and making it available. But from 2014, in addition to just giving the lectures, we have also started offering sports level certification that is at the end of the course that learner should be able to produce a tangible out in the form of a certificate. That is, they can show it to the outside world. See, I have learned this course from this institution offered by this institution. And this is my performance or my level of knowledge. So although we have crossed 20 years of our journey together, and this is possibly the one of the largest multi institutional national level project that is running very successfully. In 2014, our mode of operation has changed in the form of online certification. So during this period, say from during the last 20 years, we have created about 3000 plus courses. These are unique courses. These contents are made available to the learners through primarily to our NPTEL.ac.in portal or through YouTube. And if you see the viewers or subscription numbers, that itself says that how popular these contents are across the global learner community. We have got 4.5 million plus YouTube subscription subscribers for our NPTEL HRD channels. Consider that this is not an entertainment channel, purely academic channel. This speaks volume about the quality maintained by NPTEL. We have got about more than 1.6 billion views in our channels. We have got more than 60,000 hours of videos. Many of the videos are now having English subtitles. So in addition to the developing the course and making it available to the learners communities across not only India, but for the global learners community, we are also taking say initiative to reach out to the universities and autonomous colleges for them to actually adopt these courses for the benefit of learners as per the guidelines provided by two higher education regulators, AICT and EUGC. So once we say that okay, we are from NPTEL, we are offering the courses, there should be a platform to offer the courses. Earlier these courses were offered during 2014-15-16. We were offering the courses from NPTEL.ac.in portal itself. But in 2017 actually a SMIM platform came to existence, operational. Now the Ministry of Education, Government of India, which is funding this project has said that all MOOCs courses, that is online courses, which are targeted for different segment of learners, whether they are school children or a researcher. Everyone should be getting access from a single window called SMIM, which is an acronym again, Study Webs of Active Learning for the Young Aspiring Minds. So this is an umbrella under which different national coordinators have been created to cater to the needs of a specific group of learners. Okay, NPTEL is one of the learners along with NIS, NCRT, EGNOM, NIEE, AICT, EUGC, CIC, IAM, Bangalore. NPTEL is one of the national coordinators and whatever courses we offer, they are actually called SMIM courses too. Okay, we are primarily mandated to offer engineering courses both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. However, since all IITs or ISCs, they have other disciplines like basic sciences, humanities social sciences, and management disciplines, we do offer courses in large numbers from these disciplines too. So this online certification program started from 2014. We follow the MOOCs format, that is massive open online courses. What is that? The number of students who can enroll in a program are not limited by the classroom size, that is brick and mortar classroom. Okay, it may accommodate 60 to 100, 200, 300 maximum. Whereas in MOOCs format, the numbers could be 100 or hundreds of thousands of people enrolling in a course, the courses are absolutely open, offered through an online MOOC, that is if I am an interest to learn the course, I should be able to access the content freely. That is open. And the courses are structured exactly in the same way how a regular university course is structured, that is it has a start date, end date, a fixed syllabus. It has got a weekly format like how many hours of lectures are to be delivered. What are the other activities during the runtime that is in place of face to face interaction, there should be some mode of interaction so that the students can actually get their queries answered by the faculty. Okay, then periodical assessment, supplementary study materials, all these things which form a four quadrant are available and anyone irrespective of his or her academic background age, they should be able to join to any course anytime from anywhere. So we follow a triple A model. All the NPTEL courses since they are offered through the SWAM platform are also called SWAM courses. Now, I should be able to see what all courses are forthcoming in a semester before I actually approach to that semester. So we'll show this link, maybe in the later slides, we offer the courses primarily aligning with the university semester system of January and July. Okay, so for the January run courses the enrollment starts two months ahead of time that is in November and for the July run courses will open the courses for enrollment by May. Anyone irrespective of, as we said that we are offering the courses in a triple A model, say irrespective of what a student might be presently learning in a regular academic program, they should be able to take any course that they intend to or they love to do. Okay, they can enroll in multiple number of courses so the courses on which they can enroll is not limited, they can choose to join in any number of courses 5, 10, 15, whatever it is depending on their interest and without paying any charges for learning purposes. That is, since the program is fully funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, so they don't have to pay anything for learning purposes. However, they will be joining the courses and learning free of cost through SWAM, but if they want to go for a certification, then they have to register separately to NPTEL and certain charges are to be paid for certification examination. So the course features, if you see, every course has a syllabus and the timeline, okay, which time it will be offered. Our courses are structured in three different formats, either they are in terms of hours if you say, it is 10 hours, 20 hours or 30 hours, but if you see the timeline of offering, how much time does it take to offer the course? It is 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks. That means at the rate of 2.5 hours of lecture, we are in a position to complete a 10 hour course within 4 weeks time. It will take 8 weeks time to complete 20 hour course and within 12 weeks we will be completing a full semester based 30 hour course. So we follow the four coordinate uploads. One of the quadrant is the pre-recorded lecture videos. Second one is a supplement to what is actually done in a regular classroom that is face-to-face interaction. Since in an online mode that face-to-face interaction cannot be incorporated, so there is a web-based interaction with the course instructor and the teaching assistants. Whatever doubts they may have, they will post it onto the forum and it will be answered by the faculty and the teaching assistants in a time bomb manner. Periodically, the faculty is also available for interaction with the learners in the same way what we are doing today with the learners who are connected through YouTube. So the faculty will be available once in a month and the students will be opposed to their queries through YouTube chat box which will be answered by the faculty. Additionally, PMRF scholars are supposed to do certain teaching activities, to take certain teaching loads. So as part of that, they are mandate, what they are doing, they are actually supporting the NPTEL students in learning how to solve numerical problems. So periodically sessions are conducted by PMRF scholars on different courses to help the students how to solve different assignment problems. Because in a lecture, in a course, most of the time the faculty will be discussing on the theoretical aspects during the lecture, but the problems will be part of the assignment. So the students are supposed to know how to solve different problems. So these PMRF scholars will be conducting a session to address that particular problem. Okay. Additional supplementary study materials are provided in the form of pop and slides, text transcripts of the lectures, free web resources, etc. First, our target is to provide text transcript in English. Then we try to convert this English text transcript into different Indian regional languages so that the students who might have studied up to that 10 plus two level in their mother term. Are not inconvenienced to follow the lectures in the early stage of their MOOCs journey. Okay. Additionally, after going to the video clarifying their doubts, reading through the supplementary study materials, they will be provided a set of questions in the form of a weekly assignment. The questions could be 10, 15, 20, depending on the faculty's choice and it could be multiple choice, multiple select, that is more than one correct options. It could be numerical problem where the problem is to be solved and the answer has to be put. Or maybe one or two words have to be written there. So different types of assignments are there, which are usually computer graded out of 100 months. There could be some assignments where the faculty might be asking the students to answer something in pen and paper and upload the scan copy for manual evaluation. So that is offline assignment. Once a student joining to the course to swim, complete all four quartets for four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks, depending on the course at which he or she might have enrolled. If they want to join or write the certification exam, then they have to register separately for the exam through NPTEL portal. The things are provided periodically to the students for the all 690 plus courses that are available for enrollment from July and now open for exam registration at this point of time. Okay, so the exams, although I can take the courses from the comfort of my room, but for writing the exam, it is an in person center based exam. That is within the country more than at more than once 80 to 100 cities, the students will be going and writing the exam. Okay, so it is a center based exam where the proctoring will be done there will be representative from the IITs to see the exam is done in a fair manner by the exam partner TCS. Okay, the exam can be conducted in two modes that is online or offline. By means of online we say that the question papers and answer everything will be taken care through computer. Whereas in an offline, the questions will be appearing on the screen, whereas for writing the answer the students will be or the learners will be given a conventional answer script where they have to write the answers. And this scan copy of that will be sent to the faculty for manual evaluation. We'll be having a designated date of exam. During the semester we conduct the exams on three days on each day, there will be two sessions one in the morning morning between night to 12 and one in the afternoon between two to five. So, in a semester on those three days one should be able to complete six sessions and six exams. That is the maximum number they can write the exam for. Exam fee as I say for learning purpose one don't have to pay anything for certification examination, they have to pay a fee of 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the duration of the course. Whether it's four, eight or 12 weeks, the fee remains same. However, certain category of students like SCST and persons with disability are given 50% fee waiver in their examination fee. So they will be paying 500 rupees and filling up the registration form. Once the examination is conducted, we try to publish the result within a timeline of 30 days from the date of examination. Certificates will provide which are some copy of the certificates are issued as soon as the results are declared. And the certificate will be a keyword which can be scanned for checking the authenticity of the certificate directly from the NPTEL portal and certificate will be issued by the institution that is offering the course. If the course is offered by the faculty from IT Madras, it will be signed by the signatories from IT Madras. The certification criteria is that since during the runtime of the course there is an weekly assignment. So for a four weeks, four, for eight weeks, there are eight assignments and there are 12 assignments in a 12 weeks course each graded out of 100. The performance in each of the assignments impacts the final certification because 25% of the average assignment score is actually taken for the final certificate. So if it is a 12 weeks course, we take the best eight assignments score that is out of 800, what is the final score, take an average of that and 25% goes into the final certificate. It will mark there that out of 25, what is your score? Similarly, say consider a situation that the students might have not submitted 12 assignments or not even the minimum number what we are saying eight. Say they have submitted six. In that case, what we'll do? We'll just take that the remaining two, we are considering a best out of eight. Okay, eight best scores out of 12. So if the candidate had submitted only six assignments in that case, we'll be considering that the remaining two assignment the score is zero. So score out of 600 will be considered a score out of 800 and according to the average score will be calculated and 25% score also will be calculated accordingly. There is a question is it possible to write exam when we are unable to travel to the exam location in person. No sir currently if you are registering for the examination, which is an in person center based examination in India. Remote proctored examination is currently not possible. Okay, so you have to choose the exam center depending on where you are supposed to be in the days of your examination. Either relocation at the last moment or is really impossible because the centers are choosing the you can say bookings are done almost a year back. Okay ahead of time. So it may not be possible. And as you said the programming, sorry, from the assignments we take 25% weightage and the final examination will carry either 50% or 75% weightage depending on whether the course is a programming in nature or non-programming. So programming courses like Java, Python, C, C++ and all are in that case the 50% weightage will come from the final certification and 25% will be coming from the non-proctored programming test which will be conducted before the final examination. Okay, on a designated day you'll be having two slots one during the day one during the evening slots. So one can actually take non-proctored programming test from either college school or home depending on the convenience and if they want to write they can write for both the sets whichever score is higher that will be taken and 25% will be coming from there. If you score say 40% score individually in all these segments whether say final exam, assignment, non-proctored programming exams then only you are eligible to get a certificate even if you get 100 out of 100 in all same assignments. Okay, sorry. In final exam 100 out of 100 in assignment but you don't get 40% that is 10 marks out of 25 in the assignment you will not be given any certificate. We are going for 5 point ratings that is if the cumulative total is less than 40 we don't issue any certificate. The scores between 40 to 59 is a successfully completed 60 to 74 we call it allied 75 to 89 along with the allied tag we also put a silver we can say medal symbol and between 90 to 100 elite gold that is a gold symbol is also cool. Just to answer to one additional query that was that okay, I am living outside India is that we are now exploring the possibility of conducting the exam in a remote proctored manner for you can say for the learners who are not within the India. In that case, if you feel that you will be in, I will be abroad, there are certain documentation that needs to be provided you can write back to us so that we are in a position to arrange in person that the remote proctored exam for the candidates were staying abroad. Another question from Sudha is, can we get the list of information who is first second who got silver gold like yes, if you are actually go to if you go to the course page I will possibly show you once you go to the course page for the read on course you'll be able to see in a course who all have actually topped in the courses. The photograph of the candidates, what is the performance in that what is the affiliation of that every data will be provided in the course page. For Sudha what your question is, I'll be showing you that all this information are available in the public domain and I'll show you into the portal itself. So, additionally, what we say that in addition to elite, elite silver, elite gold, if the score is within the top 1% 2% or 5% of the total score are we also put it top or silly the certificate, the symbol is shown here. This is how a sample certificate looks like the top word elite means that the score is above 60. You have put online assignment score procter examination score everything is given photograph of the candidate name codes. How many students actually taken the course in which time and how many have satisfied the QR code the roll number of the candidate everything is provided in the certificate. Another question from someone who is pro what is procter program please repeat procter means you will be writing that you can take the say assignments from the comfort of form. We are not going to see actually who is doing the assignment, but proctoring means you'll be coming to the examination center with your photo identity card and writing the exam so there is a means to check whether the person who is doing the exam. The person who has enrolled in the course is actually writing the exam or not so it is procter. Okay, when will be the courses started for this academic year in the next slide will be sharing the details please hold on for a minute. So important points to remember is that NPTEL will identify each of the learners by their unique email ID you don't identify by your name will be only saying. You can say you'll be checking your email ID and what whenever you are using the same email ID will be able to see what all courses you have done using the same email. Exam enrollment before you enroll into the course just see if you're taking these courses for the certification. In that case, which are the exam dates you cannot take or select the courses in such a way that both than two courses have got the same date exam. If you have got chosen two courses whose exam dates are on the same date in that case there is nothing to worry you'll be writing the one exam in the morning one in the afternoon so there is no issue. So that's not why I say that there are three exam dates and you'll be able to take six exams in a semester if you choose that courses in such a way that one a particular date you have got two exams on a particular date. You should use the same email ID for the course enrollment and the exam registration. Always use a formal passport site for exam registration because the certificate will get that same photograph and if you use this certificate for say you can say create transfer or want to show it to the prospective employer you should be able to use it. I have completed my exam in the month of February but I have not issued certificate I have secured 62 marks that is clarified. Sir as soon as the as I said as soon as the exam is over within 30 days we declared the result. If you have not received the same first 62 mark is not important. You need to ensure that you have got at least 10 marks in assignment and 30 marks in a final examination for a non proctor. If that comes out to be 40 plus in that case you should get the certificate you're saying 62 please check whether your assignment score is more than 10 or not. If you have got more than 10 in assignment but still haven't received the certificate to do right back to us will check and report back to you. So maximum two exams per day and six exams per semester. One of the important point is that there are many courses where you'll be requiring the uses of calculators but in an DCS exam center they will not allow you to use physical calculators. So you need to actually practice the uses of on screen calculators before coming for the examination. And if your college is taking these courses for credit transfer it is always advisable to alert NPTEL beforehand. Giving the indication on the number of students that may be doing the course so that NPTEL is ready with the logistics that is exam center allocation related all activities beforehand. Otherwise it may be difficult to accommodate number of students in a particular city of their choice. Someone was asking about when the courses will be offered and another question right now it's appearing is that if I apply for two courses in the NPTEL how much of chances if have that I'll get different exam dates. No exam dates are mentioned on the course page itself so before choosing just check what is the exam date of that particular course I'll show you in the course page itself. So for the July run which is starting from 21st of July 24th of July we are offering 690 courses the enrollment page is open. So if you are interested to join any of these courses do visit the portal and enroll. In the next slide I will be showing different links how to where to go and how to enroll the complete picture I'll give you. So we have actually segregated the four weeks eight week courses into two parts one set of four weeks courses and one set of eight week courses along with all 12 week courses will start from 24th of July. Okay and the second set of courses of four weeks and eight weeks will start one month later from 21st of August. The first sort of courses which is starting from 24th of July the enrollment process will close exactly one week later that is on 31st of July by 5pm enrollment will close. For the first set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks the exam will be conducted on 24th of September and for the remaining courses you'll be having exam on in October on two days that is 28 and 29 of October. So while choosing the courses see that your dates are not more than that means the courses have got dates exam dates on each day you should not choose more than two courses. Exam registration dates are mentioned here at the last column exam registration for the first set of courses that is four weeks eight weeks and 12 week courses will be closing by. 14th of August without paying any late fee and without late fee for the second set of courses is the 711 September. So if you have decided to take a course what are the steps that we should follow first go to the go to nptl.ac.in to check the course list and timelines. The pre-release event of I think is something really not related to nptl. So visit nptl.ac.in if you just scroll down you'll find the list of courses and timelines and guidelines these timelines and guidelines I have just shown in the previous slide. Now if you just click on to the list of courses what all information is available here again the timelines are provided. Course ID discipline course name which the faculty then you have got which institute is offering the course what is the duration of the course and next type of course you find there are some courses which are new and summer rerun. So this rerun means this course was created sometime earlier it was offered earlier is being offered a second time third time or more number of times has been offered earlier. And new means the contents have been created very recently and it is being offered where for the very first time so for rerun courses you have got all the videos you have got access to all the videos one set of assignment questions are available. So if you are going into say before joining itself you should be able to see the videos and some idea about the assignments but for a new courses this will not be available because the contents will be released as and when we progress in week one week two week three week four and so on. Then which is the start date end date of the course exam date enrollment closer date exam registration date what is the level of the course with that it is under graduate level or postgraduate level with the course is elected or poor. Whether the course is marked as the faculty development program whether the course is applicable for the NPTEL domain all this information are there. Let me just read out the screen I have completed my meeting in 2000 and exempted as I completed and because you can use that we consider and can I add that to my existing certificate. At the message I really can't read at this point of time to repeat it once again I'll be able to see it. I request you to again rewrite it so all this information are related to a particular course are available in a single page along with the links to join the course is given here. Okay, so you can check here and join directly from here itself. The question is that Sir I have applied for two courses in the semester which have same exam date. So should I write only one exam or will I get two different sessions. I would categorically that on each exam date you have got two sessions we use two sets of question papers of equal toughness level. So if you have selected two courses for writing the exam will be given once course in the fall moon another will be in the afternoon examination question pattern will be similar pattern as that of weekly assignments. You should have some idea what type of questions are forthcoming for general student but there could be some question which are of little tougher in nature, particularly to test the understanding of the students if they want to aspire to get, say 80 90 100 that is usually the case in even regular institutions also. So you just check the course list and timelines from here. Then you also get a chance to see what all courses are forthcoming from January 2024 and what is the timeline. If you want to see just go to NPTEL semester information. Click on January 2024 will be able to see the timeline here. In January the courses will start from 22 January exam will be on 24th of March. This is particularly important for the universities who are taking these courses for credit transfer. And the course list particularly the rerun course list and some of the new courses as and when they are approved, they are actually updated in this so that you will be able to decide on the courses that we wish to take during the next semester. Then if you are selecting a course for the first time in rerun, in that case, you can go to NPTEL.ac.in slash courses. Okay, say you want to take a course on Python. Say this is the course joy of computing using Python. What all information is available in the portal? You can see about the course information is given under the download section. You'll be able to see one set of assignment when the course was offered last time. In that case, what type of assignment questions were given. So just let me take that question before it goes off. If I complete the certification course, can I add that certificate credits to my existing certificate since NPTEL provides provision of credits. See credit transfer mechanism has been in place as per the regulation provided by ICT and LTC. It is a prerogative of the universities and auto institutions to implement that. So NPTEL is telling that if you take say a 30 hour course is equivalent to three credits. Now these three credits, whether this will be taken by the university is the decision of the academic council of the university or academic institution. Okay, so we just provide the facility. Rule is there by say approved by the ICT and LTC. The college or university have to accept it. If that is accepted, many of the universities have accepted that 20% credit transfer. Some of the universities have said that okay, if you do additional say 18-20 credits, you earn a beta-corner's degree or maybe a minor degree in some other discipline depending on type of courses that you might have done. So just going back to the slide. So once again, under the download section, in addition to the link to your previous assignment, you'll be getting the transcripts. And transcripts you can see here, you can select the language. It is not only available in English, but these are available in multiple other regional languages also. In all courses, you may not get all the versions, but in certain courses, this has already been done. So if you are taking a course where you have got different language transcripts, it definitely can help you to understand the contents better. You can download these contents on a say weekly basis, that is course basis. Also, you will be able to download the things in the form of a book. Say this particular content is available in Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam in all these languages. You can download it also. Then comes, okay, I have decided on the course. Now I want to join this. How do I proceed? Endowment will take place through the swam.gov.in portal. So I just go to swam.gov.in. Here I can select all courses. Here there are national coordinators. There, as I said, there are 90 national coordinators. If I want to take NPTEL course, I'll select NPTEL. Now here all courses will have the NPTEL logo here. That means these all courses are coming from NPTEL. So if I want to take a course, say from a particular branch of engineering, say I want to take a course from management discipline. Okay, in that case, say business analytics or say brand management, I want to enroll into this course which is coming from say this one. Business and Sustainable Development. It is coming from IIT Bombay. It is a four weeks course. Endowment starts on 21st of August. Exam is on 28th of October. Exam registration ends on 15th of September. After this basic information, he just go to this page. Click on to that course card. Go to the course page. Just to answer to the query, to whom should I mail to clear doubt about getting certificate? You can write to localchapter at the retentptl.itm.sc.in or support at the retentptl.itm.sc.in with the details so that we are in a position to check and revert. So once you go to the course page here, you will be having further details like what is the course. So let's say core course, elective course, undergraduate course, course, graduate course, all the dates and this is an AICT approved FDP course. Okay, all these details are there about the course. The faculty has recorded a small video. Who are the intended audience? Industry support that means which organization or industry may appreciate this particular knowledge. Then you have got the books and references, instructor biography. After going through all these things, if you feel that okay, you are interested to join the course, click on to the join button. You have got multiple options, but I prefer to go through the Google account. Before the question goes up on rerun courses, would we be able to use the existing question assignment or there will be new assignment? Every run, the assignment and final exam papers will be different. So in a rerun course, the previous assignments will give you just an idea. But the assignments which will be coming in that particular runtime will be different, but of that level, that's an indication. So once I click the Google account, it will take me to the Gmail account page. I select my personal Gmail ID or institutional Gmail ID and now I go to the course enrollment page. Here some of the data has already been taken from my Gmail account. Name, mobile number, email ID, age group, I can select from the dropdown from 13 to 200. Everything is their gender. I can select country I am deciding. Pin code I have to select based on that, select the state and city. Then I have to select whether I am a, what is my profession? I could be student, faculty, employed or other. If I am a student or faculty, I'm supposed to inform whether I am connected with the institution and if that institution is part of a SWAM local chapter. So if I select student or faculty, in that case, I have to select here part of a SWAM local chapter, ES or NO. If my college is a local chapter, I will select ES. If my college is not a local chapter, still it does not bar me to attend the course, I will select NO. And at the end of either I select NO or if my college is, I am a student or faculty but my college is not local chapter, in that case I will write NO. And go to the course list from that dropdown menu and at the end, there is an other option. In the other option, you can write the name of your institution. There is another question is that, are there reference question papers of previous years in the site? No sir, these are not published. Okay, you will have to get some idea from the assignment. No questions, papers, final exam papers are made available in the public domain. Okay, profession you have selected, you can select your highest qualification at present. It could be 10th, 12th or any. You have done undergraduate degree, you select that one. Then academic bank of credits, you may require, you may not require, depending on if you are just only doing the NPTEL courses. In that case, you may not need NPTEL, the ABC ID, but if you are doing the courses for credits from other coordinators, you will have to create the academic bank of credits and use it. Because as far as the NPTEL is concerned, we will be going ahead with your email ID only. So then you select your local chapter from state. If you say local chapter, select the state and select from the dropdown menu, your college name, college roll number, degree that you are pursuing currently, department, you can just select from the dropdowns. In department, you will find not, you have just selected some poor departments which are available across the country. So you select the department which is closely resembling or closely associated with a given discipline list. Okay, don't say that, okay, triple E is not there. So you can select either electrical or electrons, okay, whichever you feel is appropriate. Study here, whether you are in first year, second year, third year, fourth year, you can select it, select these two check boxes that is you agree to SWAM terms and service, terms of service and I agree to follow the one article. Then join into the course. Immediately you will get a message that you have enrolled into the course. Thank you for registering for the course, click the announcement tab for more information. Here you have got an, say, announcement that exam registration for this course is already open. Now this is the course page where what you will be visiting regularly during, say, runtime of the course. Okay, so what are the things available here? Under these things you will be finding, say, on the left hand side week zero. Now here you have got a practice week zero assignment. This is if the faculty has said that, okay, there is a prerequisite knowledge requirement for understanding the course, not for joining. In that case, you can just test that, okay, whether you know the prerequisites or not, these are not actually graded for final certification. Okay, but in the coming weeks, you will be finding, at least we will be releasing the first week contents 10 to 15 days ahead of the program start date. And you will be seeing week one, week two, week three, these tabs will come and under this week, you will have weekly videos, weekly assignment, supplementary study materials, all will tag together. Okay, I'll answer about your query on ABC after closing this part. So here what all things are available? Whenever we release the weekly videos assignment announcement is made, which is available in this particular page, as well as you'll be able to see the, you can say, all announcement informations in your email ID, personal email ID that you have used for enrolling into the course. About the course, you will be asked a question if you're after going through the videos, if you have any questions, when you post the queries, you click on to the ask a question button, it will button, it will be opening A, you can say something like a block situation where you will be posting your queries. And the answers may come from your peer groups, other friends, if you know that someone has posted a query, and you know the answer, you can respond here, or if you have not responded correctly, the faculty may correct you. Okay, so this is a very good platform for inter, say peer group interaction. What else is available here? We say that you'll be getting an assignment here, you'll have to solve it yourself. Then, once you submit the assignment where you'll be given 10 days of time. In that case, after 10 days timeline expires, that is, Monday we come Monday to next week's Wednesday 1159 is the timeline. After 1159, you'll be able to see the progress or your marks in that here. Say assignment one, what is the score out of 100, you'll be able to see under the progress tab. If your college has assigned a faculty to help you in the learning phase, as a first level of escalation point, in that case, the faculty will also enrolled into the course. The faculty will be marked or identified as a mentor by the SPOC of your local chapter college. From the dashboard, college dashboard, the SPOC will mark that this faculty will be acting as a mentor. And once that part is done by the SPOC, his or her name will be available under this mentor tab. And if you want that you need to be mentored by that faculty, you have to select that faculty name from here. Okay, this is all what is your available here. Now, after you have joined into the course, you're going to the videos, weekly assignments, all these things, then you are writing the examination or registering for the examination to a separate link examform.nptl.sc.e You will be selecting your exam center, you'll be giving three choices. We'll try to provide you the first choice, but in some cases, if it is not feasible, we'll be giving the second or third choice, depending on the number of candidates that are aspiring. That is a challenge for us to say provide exam center as per your first choice. So if you have got more number of students who will be registering for the exam, it is always advisable that you notify IIT Madras or nptl saying that how many people from your college is likely to write the exam and for which paper that will help us. Okay, here only you have to pay the fees. Some statistics. So far, I have been very seriously talking about all these things. Now, before I go into this slide, let me explain a query which was there in ABC trading. It's an academic bank of trades. Say there are nine national coordinators who are offering the courses in the SWIM platform. And your institution may opt to choose only courses from nptl, but they can say, okay, you can take the courses from other SWIM platform. So CEC, UTC, IIM, Bangor and all. In that case, there should be a mechanism. As we say in nptl, we only identify you with your email ID. That means if you tell your email ID, or if you log on to the portal using your email ID, you'll be able to see what all courses you have done using that email ID. Whereas if you are taking the courses from other coordinators, in that case, it is something like our Adharkar. Okay, you create an ABC ID, which through which all courses that you do from other institutes or other coordinators will be connected. So if you use a ABC ID in that case, if you are planning to take the courses from other coordinators, then only it becomes useful. In that case, if you do courses from other coordinators, this will be linked to your ABC ID. So by giving the ABC ID, you'll be able to see or your college will be able to see what all courses you have completed as part of the credit mechanism. Okay, this is clear to you. So we have created 3,000 plus courses, unique courses. But many of the courses, as you can see that we are offering from a rerun. So taking the rerun courses into account, so far we have offered 5,372 courses for certification. How many were enrolling into the courses for learning purpose? Number is huge. It is 2.3 core plus. More than 28.6 lakh learners actually registered for the examination and you can see the percentage. 18.8 lakh plus got e-verifiable certificate after writing the exam. So although you may feel that the courses are coming from IITs, you may be a little scared. Nothing to scare. There are a good number of people who are getting a certification because you'll be exposed to a number of assignments. So if you solve the assignment problems on a daily basis, you will have a lot of confidence on you that there is nothing can stop you actually in getting good marks in the final exam. The only criteria is that you need to solve your assignment problems yourself. Otherwise, what will happen if you take the help of your peer student group or faculty in solving the problems, you may not understand the assignment questions properly. But if similar questions are asked in the final exam, although you may get 100 out of 100 in assignment, but you will not be scoring even 40% marks in the final exam. And that is evident in many of the colleges where a bulk number of students, even after getting very high score in assignment, do not get 40% marks in the final exam. This has been our journey since 2014. You can see in 2014, we offered just three courses with little more than one lakh people enrolling and 3000 plus registering for the exam. But see the number of courses that we offered in a full year that is into 2022. We offered 1213 courses with more than 40 lakhs people enrolling and more than 7.58 lakh registering for the exam. In last semester, in January 2023 result, we had more than 24 lakh people registering for 665 courses and more than 5.16 lakh registering for the examination. We are not offering the courses only from popular disciplines. It's only four disciplines we are offering. If you just compare with many of the global online platforms, they offer very popular courses because these are business-centric whereas this is funded by the ministry. So definitely we target to provide depending on the requirement of each and every segment of learners at the UG and PG level and researchers. So you find the courses coming from mechanical, computer science, electrical, electronics. This engineering disciplines along with other engineering disciplines like your even agricultural engineering, particularly this university was having agricultural engineering. So we are offering good number of agricultural engineering courses also aerospace, ocean, textile engineering. All these areas are covered. Equally you find good number of courses being offered for humanities, management. You can say basic sciences like physics, mathematics, economics, even you have courses from psychology. All these courses whether the courses are taken by thousands of students or taken by few hundreds. We offer the courses because the people those are taking certain courses. They is absolutely specialized one required for very high level researchers that also is offered here irrespective of without looking at how many people might be taking the course. The exam registration percentage is 90% on an average that speaks that the confidence that students will have in writing the exam. Because after going through the six, four, eight or 12 weeks of assignments, they will have enough confidence to write the exam and without fail they will appear for the examination in the center. Passing percentage has been around 80% plus earlier. But after we saw that okay there are cases where you will be having students scoring very high in assignment but not that is not being deflected in the final exam which is also configured in the similar pattern that indicates there is some say drawback in the assignment stage. So now we have changed the policy like you have to score 40% individually in the assignment and final exam. And because of that we are seeing a slight deep but still almost 70% pass percentage is a good number. Exam registration if you see on a gender scale we have got 40 to 60 consistently from the beginning. It is a very good indication for against each 40 girls student there are about 60 students from the male category. If you see the diversity of engineering students across the country, this is very good reflection that more number of college students are actually taking these courses. Now what are the reasons why they should take the courses. People may say, as the SPOC during the introductory phase was saying that there is always a rapid change taking place in the industry, particularly we are in the era of industry 4.0 for the fourth industrial revolution. This is changing the whole you can say industry front whether it is a business process outsourcing supply chain management everywhere there is a change because of the implementation of industry 4.0. And yes the best innovation university might have incorporated or has got certain you can say disciplines from the emerging areas but not all universities or academic institutions. Have changed that means actually that would include those courses in their curriculum because they will have to follow the ICD curriculum or UCC curriculum. So these platforms gives an advantage to the learners that irrespective of what they are learning as part of their BA become BSE or BTA Chemtech degree, they can learn the courses from the emerging areas and be ready for either for the internship or job market. Or better preparation of the gate examination or competitive examination. Or you can say whatever the carrier options they have they can fulfill it through these taking these courses. And if you see the train, we have listed some 20 courses where you have got maximum environment and exam registration. So these definitely indicates possibly when the jobs are presented live. We all know currently more jobs are in the IT sector or you can say particularly having people having knowledge of data science AI machine learning. Python and all. So all such courses along with the soft skill courses are extremely popular amongst the community. Okay, challenge because in if you see the top 20 list of the cities where we are conducting the exam. Chennai has got last time we had about 48,000 students enrolling into the study for the exam. If these students are to be actually accommodated on three days, not uniformly distributed in that case 16,000. We may not have 16,000 notes for accommodating 16,000 students in Chennai city. So that time it becomes difficult for us to give you the city of your choice for center which is very close to me. So we need to either shift you to a different city, which is far off or may have to conduct the examination for you on a different date other than the specified one. To avoid all these, we suggest that register for the examination as quickly as possible so that we have time to take the corrective measures. Now we have taken the help of we can say PMRF scholars who are conducting say live sessions. Live session means directly to different like zoom Google Meet and all where the students can directly interact with the PMRF scholars and get their doubts clarified, particularly in the problem solving. Whatever doubts they may have, they can get it clarified. We are replacing their services for more and more courses. They are conducted on a regular basis. You can say the publicity is done. They're giving the details when the session will be conducted. If you cannot attend the session, try to arrange, attend it live so that you can get your doubts clarified. If not, at least the recorded sessions are made available to you through that, which will be very beneficial. Those sessions are conducted from Friday to Tuesday every week from the course start day. We may announce the, you can say when the sessions will be conducted. As we said, the recording sessions are also uploaded. And these are the few feedbacks a glimpse I'm saying that how the students have written that okay, how these sessions were extremely beneficial for the learners. Now the different other aspects, if we say we call NPTEL starts. It's not that people join for the courses, they complete just one course and go out. As it is evident that many of the learners are mentioning that NPTEL courses are very beneficial or good. Yes, definitely if we see the number of learners who are writing back to us, they say they are getting a lot of benefit out of it. But over the period of, you can say, since 2014 we're finding the students sometimes they take courses from here and there. They might be doing seven, eight, 10 courses, but they are not linked to, you can say in a particular pattern. So they may not be following a particular pattern. Just to help the students to gain a deeper understanding of the course from a particular area, which will help them to maybe say pursue their career in that particular area or go for higher studies. We have created domain, NPTEL domains. We'll talk more about this in the next slide. Along with that, based on your number of courses that you are attending or your performance in the course or how long you have been continuously associated with NPTEL, we rate or mark your learners as NPTEL stars in different categories. That is NPTEL superstars, evangelist, motivated learners, enthusiast, discipline stars and NPTEL believers. If you are completing, say if you are writing the exam for four to six exams in a semester in top one in at least three exams, then we call it NPTEL superstar. Similarly, if you are associated with NPTEL for a long time and complete certain courses, we rank you or mark you as NPTEL star in different categories as we have said. NPTEL domain as we are saying that we are trying to guide the students in a focused area so that you get an expertise in that area. Mastery to pursue higher education or become more employable in your opted area. What do we do? We specify if you want to gain mastery in the data science, what are the courses that you should offer. So we have selected a set of core courses and set of elective courses. If you can complete those say allocated courses within a timeline of three years with an average score of 60%, then you can get a domain certification. Okay, if you want to see more on that, there are 12 domains, we have 12 disciplines and out of these we have created 51 domains. You can go through the video or you can also see the, you can say different domains created from the disciplines. Okay, say if you are taking, say from civil engineering, I say I am taking structural analysis. It has got 60 weeks of learning is to be completed. I have to complete four courses from the list. Some of these courses are now available for enrollment and I have to complete two elective courses. So if I can complete these four plus to six courses within three years timeline, then average score of 60% with individual score not less than 55, I will be getting a domain certificate. Okay. And if you want to see, okay, who are the domain scholars, you can just visit this page, our domain scholars. Here you will be able to see, okay, it is not only the students, a large number of domain scholars are actually faculty members but yes, the students like here, this is a student, from biotechnology, bio science, bio engineering is a domain scholar. So it's a mix of student, faculty and employed professionals who are taking benefit of focused learning from a particular area. Okay. And I was talking about, I think, here, if you just see, I think one point I missed it, someone asked in the beginning that whether we publish or where can I see whether we can say the top of details is available. If you just go to this course page for a reading course, you'll be able to see the top of list like here, we didn't talk one person, the student photograph and the affiliation, which means to the university, the student belongs to. So the top of data is available and these top parts also get a benefit for internship that will talk little later. So the top of details are available in the public domain is also available under the local chapter page if there are any top are from your college. So these are the domains that you can see from the imperial domains connectivity. This is how a sample domain certificate looks like. You'll have your photograph, it's domain your completed name, the courses from that particular domain you have completed your performance and keywords. Other people complete only one domain, there are many people who are completed more than one domain, like 32 scholars have completed two domains, there are four scholars who have completed three domains.  Now, as a part of new initiative, which has been recently launched, in principle it has been accepted that if you are a star learner, NPTEL star, then in that case, you may join for a regular course in IT Madras along with the IT Madras students. So this is a new initiative for the details will be sent to the local chapter colleges shortly. So, after taking the course, they can write the exam, pay the exam fee, and get the transcript also. Most popular courses as we say that the courses if you see is about 18 to 20% cups from the faculty about 70 to 75% of the students and the remaining 5 to 8% are from the industry. So industry people not only take the courses for their is killing or upscaling requirement, which is required every within after every five years is absolutely essential just to be ready for the job or be competitive in the job market. Otherwise, simply my skill is not relevant. So I may be actually thrown out. Just to be ready I really need to risk skill and up skill and there are certain courses which are identified by the industry as popular or important courses, you can see the courses from AI machine learning data science, Industry 4.0 cloud computing, Python and all. Now the other initiative that we talk about is that transfer. The UGC has permitted 40% credits to be taken from NPTEL or SWAM courses. AICT has permitted 20% as well as permitted. We take honors on minor degree for students taking 20 or so extra credits from online courses. So here the policies that NPTEL is creating the courses that it is mentioning in the certificate that okay, this course is equivalent to three credits, two credits or one credits that is 10, 20, 30 hour courses are identified as one credit, two credits or three credits equivalent respectively by NPTEL. However, the credit transfer is the decision of the academic council of the university. So the academic council will take a decision whether this three credits will be equivalent to three or more. Okay, so they have to take a decision on the choice of courses and the credit equivalency, which will be published for them. Now, our recommendation is that it's better to avoid, say, implementation of credit transfer in the final semester, because if they do not clear the examination. In that case, since NPTEL does not conduct any supplementary exam, it may create a problem for the students. Okay, then comes, we say that okay in the first semester, the students are very new to the college environment. Maybe the first semester, they may be given the time to adjust into the new environment. And from the second semester, initially, it's good to give them some courses, maybe on the English language or soft skills so that of four to eight weeks. So they can compete in their comfort zone, as well as understand how a move actually works. And then from third semester onwards, they can be given courses on the skill-based courses. That is either the programming course, AI machine learning, depending on what they are learning on a day-to-day basis in the college or based on the background. Okay, we have signed up an agreement with AI City saying that some of the courses which are offered in NPTEL could be taken as a faculty development course. I have shown you this tag in the NPTEL course page in the SWAM platform. So most of the UG elective and advanced level courses are equipped as APB courses. For these, you can see the list of courses from the list in the NPTEL.ac.in portal. The faculty who is interested for the APB certificate, you can actually come to the portal, enroll into the course, complete the course, then apply for APB certification separately by paying a fee of 100 rupees. Okay, just to take another question, someone is asking, can we repeat the same course here? Again, yes sir, you can actually take the courses as many times. If you want to improve on your performance, you can definitely write the course once again. Okay, then the criteria for the APB certificate as per the agreement, AI City has said that four weeks course is equivalent to half APB of one week. Eight week courses are equivalent to full APB of one week and a 12 week course will be one and a half APB. During every semester defined in January to April semester, we offered 665 courses out of that 561 courses were marked as APB. Similarly, the same trend goes for 692 courses, 690 courses we are offering this time, a majority of the courses are actually marked as APB courses. And APB courses marking does not mean that these courses can be taken only by the faculty. These courses are open for everyone, only thing if faculty members are taking these courses, then they have an option to apply for the APB certificate. That's the only difference, but these courses can be taken by anyone. This is the sample APB certificate given to you. The faculty exam registration, as you said, was 20% comes from the faculty and the numbers are before you. They learn it, they take it not only for the, we can say, APB purpose, sometimes they want to brush up their knowledge, maybe they want to offer a course in the next semester and take this one as a reading material to build up on their foundation so that they can prepare better and offer the course to their regular students in the next semester. Okay, so very existent, the faculty might be taking the courses. Now, we know that in a college, for a local chapter college, there is a concept called single point of contact, which is the contact person for APB. So, whatever initiatives you take, we directly pass the information to the SPOC who in terms of being used to the north bookies of administration or to the stakeholders, the students and faculties. So, the rule of SPOC is extremely crucial for the implementation of this credit transfer or you can say taking the benefit of this government initiative. We cannot really pay anything for their efforts. So, what we do in the career advancement, if they are attending any conference that are conducted in certain institutes like IITs, IICs, NITs, the list is provided for T4E conference in any institution. And if, say, their paper is accepted for, say, presentation there, we can support them in their, say, attending a conference to the extent of 25,000 rupees per conference. That is towards the registration fee, the travel expenses and accommodation related expenses. For these, the SPOC can apply with the, if they fulfill the criteria, then they can apply within the first 10 days of every month. That's a window. They have to apply, get an approval, and once the conference is over, they can submit the documents for reimbursement of expenses. If the SPOC is not utilizing this benefit, then if any other faculty is attending a conference in designated institutions, approved by IIT NPTEL, in that case, SPOC can actually recommend the name of that person also, that faculty also to take this benefit. So it's not only restricted for the SPOC, but if your college has another faculty who is taking interest in NPTEL and is keen to attend a conference, taking the support of NPTEL, you are most welcome. Now for the gate examination, many of the students will be writing the gate examination for doing their highest studies in an organization with scholarship, or they are looking for, say, you can say, jobs in public sector and reticence, which are now linked with the gate examination. So for gate examination, you have to have a solid foundation of your core courses. That's important. You need to know how to solve the problem. That's also important. So what people do, they not only go through the regular classes, they also take assistance of certain coaching institutes or take support of the library resources. Now here, since most of the NPTEL courses are curriculum based, so we have now mapped the syllabus. Say you are taking a gate examination and on a particular topic, you want to have a deeper understanding.  The direct link is provided, that you call syllabus mapping. Also, during the part of, say, preparation, we always refer to the previous years or question papers. How to solve those problems? If there is a solution, video solution, that's really fantastic. So NPTEL provides the video solutions of previous gate question papers. You can refer to that. What additional thing we do before the examination, we try to actually test to what extent our preparation level is. So we actually end on into certain portals and appear for the mock test. NPTEL provides that mock test facility also free of cost in this portal. Similarly, if you have got any doubts, PMRF scholars are there to provide live mentoring sessions for the students who are aspiring to do well in the gate examination. So these facilities are available in the gate portal. Let me go to the gate portal before going. You can see the gate mapping has been done for 10 disciplines. These are ongoing process. As and when newer things are coming up, you can just refer to the portal for the taking the benefit. This is being done with help form. You can say, Amadas, who is supporting us in this initiative, just go here. Here you can say, get syllabus mapping. What is there? You select a discipline. You can say, I am from a physics department. I want to take the course. So I am to know more about electromagnetic theory, which are the topics I am looking say separation of variables, which are the videos that will give me solid foundation on this particular topic. Link is directly given. You can directly click on the link and view the video. Similarly, if you want to see previous year's question papers, solutions, you can go to video solutions. Select which discipline you are looking for, say, looking for the chemistry, which year I can choose on a year basis. Say 2018 video solutions are available. Additionally, other points are given here, like you can do practice test that is mock test and live mentoring session. So we would suggest the students, particularly the third year and fourth year students to explore this particular portal. And if you have got any suggestions, the students as well as the faculty members can definitely write back to us for improvement of the portal. NPTEL class is a new initiative. We started about a year back. What we are doing here? What about doing NPTEL? That is we offer certain courses which are curriculum based, offered during January and July. In between, there is nothing. Say if I want to enroll in a course, say in April, I don't have an option. But most of the time we see that there are a large number of employed professionals are taking the benefit from NPTEL. So they may actually want to complete the course at their time. Whenever they want and complete it, not within 12 weeks, but the 12 week course, they want to complete it within, say, 15 days start. NPTEL class platform gives that flexibility. That is in addition to what NPTEL offers, you have got a little more flexibility. You can do the courses whenever you want. In addition to that flexibility, these courses are not limited to the curriculum based courses. Here you will be getting a lot of skill based courses. Maybe training on certain software, certain equipment, maybe certain workshops which can be, say, division could be 2 to 4 hours to a few months. All these things are available and these are available round the year. Okay, but definitely it comes with the cost. Here the contents, accessing the contents are not fee as it is in NPTEL. You have to pay certain fees for accessing the content depending on the duration of the content. So 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks certain charges are taken. Similarly, I should be able to write the exam as per my convenience. So only every week we are conducting the exam. NPTEL class portal provides that flexibility for the learners to take the course, complete it at the earliest and write the exam at their convenience. These are remote proctor. You can actually complete it 12 weeks course, maybe as early as 7 days. Only difference is that in NPTEL, the pass is 40%. Here it is 50%. Okay. So these are the basic differences that we have already talked about. Then internship is a very good initiative for the learners who are court stoppers. If you are a court stopper, we provide you an opportunity to work under the faculty, the same faculty whose course you have done well in IITs or ISC or whichever institute the faculty is connected to. Okay. So they can be actually allotted that faculty where the student will go and work there for a period of 4 to 12 weeks time. What is the criteria? You should be top one. If you are top one, then NPTEL will directly first contact, contact the faculty. The faculty is interested to take the student for internship. Then we'll write back to you saying that if you are interested, give your willingness and submit your resume statement of purpose. That is what you intend to do during the internship.  Based on this data, the faculty will select the candidates and we will offer the internship. You go to the institute of the faculty, do the internship, get connected with the good researchers there, get exposed to what all facilities available in that institute. Okay. So you'll have a very good connectivity with that learner groups. And at the end, we'll be immersing you a stipend. That is 5000 rupees is paid to take care of your lodging, boarding expenses. It's a token stipend given in the form of 5000 rupees for four weeks of internship. If it is eight weeks and you get 10,000 rupees, or if it is 10 weeks, 7,500 rupees or so. Okay. Texas Instruments, people, those who are from electrical electronics, computer science background, they are aware that Texas Instruments is a leading integrated circuit manufacturer. So NPTEL has tied up with NTI for an internship opportunity for the course stoppers. Not course stoppers. If you do certain courses, which are relevant for the IC industry, and if you can complete it within certain timeline, you are eligible to be considered for the TI internship. There are certain courses. If you go to the nptl.sc.in slash TI, it will list out the courses. Like say basic electrical circuit and analog circuit or analog IC. So if you complete these two courses, then you are eligible to apply for that. But they have also mentioned that if you have to, if you complete certain other courses, you have got preference over others. Like circuit analysis for analog designers, introduction to time-bearing electrical networks, phase lock loops and power management integrated circuits. If you complete this within six semesters, you are, you can say, better equipped to take the opportunity. Soft skill training. We understand for getting an employment, only knowledge of the particular discipline is not adequate. Almost 50% weightage goes on your soft skill. That is how to prepare your resume. What is your communication skill? Both retain as well as verbal. What is your body language? What are the common questions asked by the editor? How to present them? All these tricks, many of our young learners, they really do not know before they go into the interview board. For an exam, we do mock test. But for an interview, we really do not have too many choices of the mock test. Just to improve on that, for the holistic development of the students, what we do, we train the students in soft skill. If the students have done NPTEL courses and there are about 30, 40 students, if the college is interested to take benefit of this internship soft skill training, they can write back to us. We can conduct the soft skill training by our panel of trainers where the students will be exposed on employability assessment days. There will be a lot of interactive session with the say, trainers where they will be told what are the shortcomings in the students. They will be taking English language test. Okay, mock interview. All these things will be done within a period of either one week or two weeks. So there are two variations, either one week duration or two weeks duration. So these are extremely beneficial for the students to know the shortcomings in them and how to improve on that. Okay, because the soft skill will play the most crucial role in cracking the exam. I know the subject, but I really need to express myself, what are the tricks that will be taught as part of the soft skill training. The students who have taken this soft skill training, they read these benefit very highly. Some of these, you can say, comments that we have received are just before you. You can see more number of such comments in the feedback section in our different social media. We are also connecting with the industries. As we said that more than 5 to 8% people enrolled into the course for their risk killing or killing purposes. So that's the reason we try to take inputs from the industry by associating with them. Either they send their employees for say, or recommend their employees for training through NPTEL. They can collaborate with us in developing certain courses. Plus, that they may actually, the experts may come and give talk on your leadership qualities. What is expected from a new learner who wants to step into the industry. Okay, so different reasons for different reasons we get in touch with that. Additionally, we also get in touch with the industry bodies who are called as NPTEL industry associate to take benefit of the CSR initiative. We'll see in the next slide. That is, we are connected to currently about 87 industries companies who are not only from the government sector, but from other sectors like IT sector, oil and gas, power transmission generation. You can see the list is just before you. We're conducting the live session as we said, these are the companies who actually send their representatives to conduct the live sessions. CSR initiative is another support that we get from the industries. As you might be aware that the students from the certain communities like SCST and PWD persons with disabilities get 50% fee waiver, others pay 1000 rupees. But there could be many say first generation learners or maybe the students coming from very poor background from the TR to TR3 cities who cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees exam fee. To help those category of students, we provide some fee waiver. For this, the support comes from certain industry and individuals. Okay, whatever fund we get from that CSR, we try to provide this fund in supporting fee waiver to the extent of 50% of fee to the needy students. How the needy students are selected. We open a time slot and the colleges, if they feel that okay, these students are needy and cannot afford to pay. They will judge that, say they will be having certain criteria to judge the financial strength and recommend them. Initially the store students, all students will write the examination by paying or registered for the exam by paying 1000 rupees fee. But the students whose names were recommended and approved by NPTEL, recommended by the institute and approved by NPTEL will get 500 rupees paid back or reimbursed after successful completion of the course. Okay, fee waiver, many people have retained how the fee waiver actually been very helpful for the learners and how many students have actually benefited. So far you can see more than 1.5 lakh, 4 lakh students have benefited and number of beneficiaries in the last semester was 14,447 from 244 colleges. So if you feel there are certain students from your college who needs this support, you can definitely check the background and write back to us. Translation, as we have seen in the rerun course, the video, say text transcripts of the videos are available in multiple regional languages. Yes, NPTEL definitely cannot do everything on its own and it needs support from the experts from different local chapter colleges. If you know that, okay, this course translated version in different languages is not available and you have got good, say, command over your local language, as well as on a particular, say, lecture that we are teaching, or you have got, you know that particular course, you can write back to us to take up this job. Okay, initially we will be giving you some sample videos of sample text material, which will be transcribing into your local language. If it is cleared by the committee, then you can do the needful. So with your support, you will be able to complete the translation, which can help the students, particularly those who have studied in monocular media up to their 10 plus two level. You can see it's an ongoing process. We are targeting different languages, as some is Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Uriya, and all these languages. Okay, so if you are confident of handling a particular course, you know, a good command over a particular course and a local language, you can join in this initiative, which is a paid service. NPTEL, whatever we do, we publish all our details in our social media handles. We are present in LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, everywhere, so that, say, our initiatives are not only published, whatever response we receive from the students or the learners. We also publish it for the benefit of others who intend to join. If you are a star learners, whether it is NPTEL Domain Scholar, or different other categories, Superstar, Evangelist, Motivated Learners, we provide you a sample token memo in the form of t-shirts that are perfectly sent to the learners. Okay, which they can probably show that they have done very well in the NPTEL courses. Lab workshop is another initiative. We say that we conduct workshop primarily of one week duration that is conducted in certain institution. When the students select batch of students, we'll be going to the center of the particular institute. During the one week period, the first five days, they will be taking theoretical courses and doing two experiments every day, the morning and afternoon. And on the last day, they'll be writing an examination, lab-based examination. Okay, if they successfully complete the whole tenure, then in that case they are given a certificate which is of one credit equivalency. For these, the students have to pay a 2200 rupees fee to NPTEL, and we are the accommodation and food expenses of that institution. If they try to accommodate you in the hostel, so worst hostel fees towards the accommodation and food have to be owned by the candidates. Now, local chapter, just to take that local chapter, if someone is interested to become a local chapter, the option before them is that let me go to localchapter.se.in. If you go there, to become a local chapter, you don't need anything else other than interest. That is a simple letter from the head of the institution is what is required to become a local chapter. By becoming local chapter, what are benefits comes with it? First of all, whatever repository of the videos, if we say that we have created 3000 videos, if you want that all 3000 videos are to be kept in your institution, in your local digital library, you can send out the hard disk of required capacity. Our team will copy the contents in our hard disk and you can put it in your local server. So that the students for the rerun course can actually access the contents directly from there instead of coming into the portal for downloading. I think there is some question, is that providing a certificate for students or not? I'm not very sure whether we're talking about the participation certificate or not. Participants certificate, you can actually post it there, whether it is for the participation certificate or not, then people will be responding. So for the local chapter, besides getting your whole contents copied in your hard disk, you can also ask for a local examination center if your college is located in a region where you really do not have an exam center nearby. In that case, you can actually ask for a local examination center if there are good number of students who are going to write the exam. Okay, there is a question someone is asking, I am 29 years old. Can I attend the class and apply for job in triple E branch? See, you can take whether you are in triple E or computer science or mechanical or mining irrespective of any branch. If you feel that for your job, you need to gain certain knowledges. In addition, what is being taught in your institution, you can definitely take the courses, at least for learning, if not for the credit transfer. Okay, sometimes the institution may not take the courses for credit, but consider a scenario. If you are actually facing a prospective employer comes and wants to interview a batch of 60 students, they may take five students. Who are the five people who should be selected? Everyone, if you consider the raw merit of all the students are saved. Then consider the scenario like, okay, in industry, once you join, every after a few years, you really need to learn your things. If you move from one project to another project, you will have to learn new things. And there will not be any teacher to teach you that particular subject. You have to learn it yourself. So there is a need to learn the things from college itself. You show the outside world that, okay, this was the course I have done, which was not mandated by the college to earn my BTEC degree, but I have learned it on my own. That gives you a little age over others, saying that the student has the tenacity or interest to learn the things on their own. So tomorrow, if there is a need, he or she will be able to learn the things what is required to sustain in the workplace. So it is always beneficial if you do it for this. Yes, someone is asking for the pharmacy courses. We are in touch with a few institutions who are recognized in India as the best institutes. They have concentrated. We are trying to provide at least one or two courses in the coming semester. But if not in January 2024, we are running out of time there. We'll be definitely trying to give more courses on pharmacy from next semester from definitely from July 2024 pharmacy courses will be there. But from January 2024, we are trying to provide some courses at least one or two with that sort endeavor. Okay. And in PTO local chapters, another benefit is that you can actually recommend the names of your needy students for fear that is only available for the local chapters. What else is available if the college is recommending the courses for credit transfer. And if you want to get the complete details of the students who have enrolled into the course, you can get their details, their performance. They are safe. All details like your exams, all tickets, your final certificate, every data will be available at the local chapter page. So once you write to us saying that you are interested to become a local chapter with all documents will create a separate page for the local chapter. You can go to the local chapter, how many students are enrolled into the course in a semester basis, what is the performance on NPTEL related activities will be published there. And also, the SPSU will have a dashboard access where from the performance of the students of their college who have taken these courses will be available. We have got more than 5,500 local chapters spread across the country with whom we are interacting based on the number of students enrolling in the course from local chapters. Based on the performance of those students, the local chapters are rated and top 100 local chapters are felicitated in the regional workshops that you conduct after the, after the declaration of the results. Taking another question is that any practical classes provided like MATLAB etc. Yes, there are certain courses where you will be having MATLAB. The free access will be given to the MATLAB, you will be having a lot of experience on that. Programming courses, you will be having a lot of like C, C++, Java, Python, all these courses you will be having hands on practical sessions on programming skill. So for certain courses, definitely you will be having a lot of practice. Okay, we are also participating with a large number of local chapters which are outside India. There are about 48 in numbers. Local chapter participation has been the highest, about 90% participation in the NPTEL activities comes from the local chapters. And thanks to the colleges, the university officials who value the courses coming from the NPTEL. We rate the colleges as your active local chapter once the college becomes a part of NPTEL, depending on number of students who are registering for the exam and their performance. If at least 25 candidates write the exam and if 50% of them, that is a minimum of 13 students write the exam, then we say that they are active local chapter. Okay, you can see the top 10 states where you have got maximum registration. State-wise enrollment is not uniform. Yes, there is a variation. We really need to reach out to the university officials so that they help the students to take these courses, not only for credit transfer but also for learning purposes. Suggestion for the new local chapter is that first semester try to avoid, second semester onwards, you can motivate them to take courses from the English or soft skill, then later on you can actually expose them on the programming courses or skill-based courses like artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, IoT and all this. You can possibly give them a basket, okay. If you do these courses, complete this, then you can credit transfer it. Okay, that would be helpful. You can actually encourage the students, as I said, you can encourage the students to explore more on the gate portal so that they have good foundation, not only for the gate examination but also for the other competitive exams and interview. Because in interview, many of the times they will be checking the foundations. Your knowledge, solid knowledge on the basics. Initially, you can definitely explore the rerun courses, the videos are before you. You can learn it at your own pace. One set of assignments is available for you to explore. Definitely helping the students through mentor is a very good initiative. Many of the colleges who have taken these courses for caddies have identified a spot in their curricula or in the timetable during which the mentor will be available and the students, if they have any doubt, they will be interacting with the faculty who is acting as a mentor. Since our timelines, as I have shown you earlier, for January 2024 also, you can see the timelines. July 2024 also you can see the timelines. So try to, if you are encouraging your students to take these courses for whatever reason it may be. Please ensure that your semester activities are not clashing with your NPTEL exam dates. We also provide certificates to the faculties who are providing mentoring support depending on the performance of the student. One should get at least 10 mentorship points. For getting mentorship points, it is linked to the performance. 20 mentorship points is given to the students who are, say, top or or you can say 90 plus score. 8 is given to, so 5, 8, 1, 2, they are given to the students, sorry. Okay, this is how we actually provide the mentorship support to the students. I think we are running out of time. I'll just take two slides to tell you that there is a new initiative by IIT Madras to offer a four-year degree program that disciplines by data science and applications and electronic systems. The students who have done, say, English course and mathematics course at the 10th level, they can join for the data science course. And if they are done physics and mathematics for the 10 plus two level, they can join electronic systems. This joining into the program is not linked to J advance. There is a separate qualifier process in which if you enroll for the qualifier, it will be given four weeks of content. You go through the contents. After every week, you'll be writing an assignment. There will be interactive session to clear your doubts. If you can get at least certain percentage of marks, which is cut off marks in four assignments, the best two assignments out of four. And then there is a final examination. If you get certain percentage of marks, you are admitted into the program. This program is a flexible structure. That is, it has got multiple entry exit points. It has got four levels. First year is called foundation. Second year is diploma. Third year is degree. Degree means BSC. Fourth year is BS. You can join and quit at any point. Say, after two years, you can quit with a diploma degree from IIT Madras. Okay. For the first course, it's purely your recorded lectures and regular. Regular means daily interaction with the faculty on doubt learning sessions. Okay. For the other course, electronic system, in addition to the lecture and interaction, you'll be having a physical base. You have to come to IIT Madras during the semester breaks to conduct live, say, laboratory sessions. So it has got additional component. Okay. There is no age limit. Anyone irrespective of his or her age should be able to join. And you can earn a degree within a period of eight years. So a four years course, since you are already in some institute or organization, if you want to spread the course, you can take it within a period of eight years. Okay. By taking, instead of four courses, you can take two courses if that can be seen. So this is the process. We initially apply study four weeks of qualified content, pass the qualifier exam and join the foundation. You can quit at the diploma level for first program data science program. You have got a BSC program they were in between and at the end you can also quit at the BS level. So the degree holders, they are considered as equivalent to regular degrees. That means they become alumni of IIT Madras. They also come to IIT Madras campus to take part into live interaction in physical, say, interacting with the faculties here, doing different other activities that are available for the in-campus students. They stay here in the campus. And this is one of the snapshots that was taken sometime back. With this, I'll stop here. Already I have paused the timeline. Extremely sorry and thank you for being with me. There were some questions. I have tried to answer if there are any questions. I will definitely try to answer to that over to the SPOC to take the stage. Thank you so for explaining about the various NPTEL MOOC courses, how to start the NPTEL local chapter. And they have also explained in a very simple and understandable manner that everybody can understand it. And you have explained about the most important, the gate coaching, soft skill training and how to become NPTEL's task. Apart from that, we have also explained about the various internship opportunities and other allied courses of NPTEL. Thank you very much sir. Now I will brief about our local chapter of Bharati Engineering, Science and Technology Innovation University. So our LCIT is 4255 and since ours is a budding university, Bharati Engineering, Science and Technology Innovation University, we started the chapter two years back and we have taken utmost steps to improve our local chapter and increase the students and faculty doing these courses. And the students who are taking up in the last two years, we have different streams like engineering, agriculture and we also have part time PhD program. We can see that the students and faculty members taking over various NPTEL courses during the last two years, three years, it has been increasing prominently. And we also have an agriculture school, but the enrollment is comparatively less because we get the feedback that the agricultural courses are less compared to other technical courses. So you also request our NPTEL team to give more of agricultural courses based on ICR so that we can also implement the credit system to our agricultural students. And we also have part time PhD scholars for whom we have made this NPTEL course as compulsory one. So this enrollment also is increasing and now we have made it mandatory that we have to do at least one NPTEL course during their first year course work. And we motivate in all the dimensions to our faculty and students. We have very encouraging and supportive management who always says that MOOC courses are very important and especially these NPTEL courses. And we also conduct various awareness sessions. We circulate about the NPTEL details and we are very happy that NPTEL also sends various posters and all to the colleges for displaying and circulating. So we do that. And we also have apart from SPOC, that is myself, we also have coordinators from each discipline. We have an e-learning coordinator who coordinates all the schools and we also have one coordinator from the engineering and one agriculture and from PhD stream. Apart from these, the mentors are always in continuous process to motivate the students in taking up the NPTEL courses. So the first two years we can see that there is a lot of development and improvement of taking up the NPTEL courses. Definitely, we will do more bundles in the future so that it is very beneficial for the students and faculty members. These are some of these certificates are faculty members and students and scholars have received just sample certificates. So here we can see all the types. Some of our students and faculty, they have got silver medals also. And they have also done the AACT FDP programs also by doing NPTEL course and opting for FDP courses. And now recent one, which we have implemented in 2022 years, we are giving two credits to all our Parthen PhD scholars. In the first year, they have to complete any one NPTEL course in their core branch. So just one word to all the students and faculty, some of you may be saying that in our core area, we don't have subjects. We can also do all eight courses like sir has told now about soft skills and we can also do other common subjects like stress management. Also, they offer different languages like German and all the offer we can even take up those courses. And thanks to NPTEL for giving this opportunity in presenting about our university. Thank you. If there is any other activities from your end select what up thanks and all. Yes, we have a lot of time. You can go ahead with that. Yes, we shall proceed with the vote of thanks. I hardly thank NPTEL team IIT Madras for accepting our proposal in organizing this NPTEL awareness workshop. My sincere thanks to Professor Shiv Shankar Ghazji for elaborating and briefing about NPTEL MOOC courses and related programs in very easily understandable manner. I thank our Honorable Chairman Shri Bharathlal Veenaji, our respected Chancellor Dr. Rupa Vasudevan madam for their extensive support in promoting the quality and innovative education. I thank our Vice Chancellor Dr. Sundaresh Billighi, Pro Vice Chancellor, registrar, directors, deans, faculty members for motivating the students and faculty members towards the MOOC courses and NPTEL. My special thanks to NPTEL team, Mrs. Bharathi madam, Kamala madam for their support in establishing our local chapter. I thank Divya mam and Jayeshri mam for an excellent support and coordinating in organizing this event. My sincere appreciation and thanks to all the participants from various colleges and West IU for attending this workshop and making it success. All the best to all of you. Thanks once again to all of you for attending and thanks to NPTEL for the support. Thank you. Thank you. We can close the session. Yes sir. Since there are no other questions, recording team, you may kindly stop live streaming. I'll just stop the live streaming. Yes sir. Sure sir.