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    NPTEL provides free online courses and certification through its portal. It began as a collaboration between 7 IITs and IISc to improve engineering education quality and access. Over 875 courses are available, covering a wide range of topics. Students can earn a certificate by completing proctored exams. This benefits students through flexible, low-cost learning and benefits employers and universities by recognizing the certificates. Over 1,80,000 users are registered and 7,000 certificates awarded. NPTEL aims to further integrate its courses with colleges and universities for credit and with industry for job opportunities. Donations are requested to create new courses, fund exams, and translate materials.

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    NPTEL provides free online courses and certification through its portal. It began as a collaboration between 7 IITs and IISc to improve engineering education quality and access. Over 875 courses are available, covering a wide range of topics. Students can earn a certificate by completing proctored exams. This benefits students through flexible, low-cost learning and benefits employers and universities by recognizing the certificates. Over 1,80,000 users are registered and 7,000 certificates awarded. NPTEL aims to further integrate its courses with colleges and universities for credit and with industry for job opportunities. Donations are requested to create new courses, fund exams, and translate materials.

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    NPTEL provides free online courses and certification through its portal. It began as a collaboration between 7 IITs and IISc to improve engineering education quality and access. Over 875 courses are available, covering a wide range of topics. Students can earn a certificate by completing proctored exams. This benefits students through flexible, low-cost learning and benefits employers and universities by recognizing the certificates. Over 1,80,000 users are registered and 7,000 certificates awarded. NPTEL aims to further integrate its courses with colleges and universities for credit and with industry for job opportunities. Donations are requested to create new courses, fund exams, and translate materials.

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    NPTEL Online Certification Proposal

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    NPTEL provides free online courses and certification through its portal. It began as a collaboration between 7 IITs and IISc to improve engineering education quality and access. Over 875 courses are available, covering a wide range of topics. Students can earn a certificate by completing proctored exams. This benefits students through flexible, low-cost learning and benefits employers and universities by recognizing the certificates. Over 1,80,000 users are registered and 7,000 certificates awarded. NPTEL aims to further integrate its courses with colleges and universities for credit and with industry for job opportunities. Donations are requested to create new courses, fund exams, and translate materials.

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    NPTEL

    About NPTEL
    The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) was initiated by seven
    Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and
    Roorkee) and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The core project is coordinated by IIT
    Madras.
    Objectives
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    Facilitate the competitiveness of Indian industry in the global markets by improving the
    quality and reach of engineering education
    Make high quality learning material available to students of engineering institutions
    across the country, free of cost

    Highlights
    -

    875+ courses
    230+ million Google visits
    144+ million YouTube hits
    18000+ hours of video
    15000+ hours of text material

    NPTEL Online Certification Courses


    Need for NOC
    Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is essentially a process of teaching using pre-recorded
    lectures, resource video materials, lecture notes, assignments and quizzes which are usually
    online and provide the user, self-assessment at regular intervals during learning. The learning
    involves the simultaneous participation of teachers and a large number of students and is
    similar to a classroom and on a much larger scale, through the Internet. This methodology is
    well suited to the current generation of mobile-Twitter-Facebook-YouTube savvy students.
    NOC NPTEL Online Courses
    -

    NPTEL began offering certification to students for participating in online courses in


    March 2014 through its new portal https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/. The portal is

    powered by Google India. This new effort has been termed NPTEL Online Certification or
    NOC, in short.
    Through an online portal, 8-12 week or full-semester online courses, typically on topics
    relevant to students, preferably in their final years of higher education along with basic
    core courses in sciences and humanities and relevant exposure to tools and
    technologies are currently being offered by NPTEL.
    The enrolment and learning from these courses involve no cost.
    An in-person, proctored certification exam will be conducted and a certificate is
    provided through the participating institutions and industry, when applicable.
    This project uses both fresh learning materials and existing NPTEL contents already
    developed for more than 860 courses thereby reducing reinvention of the wheel for
    online education.
    The proctored exam provides a viable means of delivering authentic certification
    following online education.

    Who will benefit?


    Students - by receiving quality instruction and education in select topics and skills, they can
    improve their employability.
    Faculty may utilize this opportunity to connect with a wide spectrum of student community.
    Industry - Online learning can not only train the workers of the future, it can also provide a
    career path for someone employed who may learn new skills.
    Incidental benefits
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    Low cost for the student since learning material is free of cost.
    Less pressure on the student to keep up with other students in the class.
    Flexibility for the student as he/she can prioritize his/her time and work at ones own
    pace.
    Variety of programs and courses From engineering to music to film appreciation.
    Students will be able to choose from a wide variety of online courses. They can try
    pursuing learning in areas other than their expertise.
    Access to faculty Student will have access to faculty via email, discussion forum and
    other online media. He/she will not be intimidated to ask questions unlike in a
    traditional classroom setting.
    Networking Opportunities Students can make connections with their peers no matter
    where they are located. This will provide insight and different perspectives on the same
    topic.

    Location Online Courses will give a student in remote village an opportunity to take a
    class at a college or university that he/she may not have realistic access to,
    geographically.

    Potential value of certification


    1. Industry recognition Talks are on-going to have corporates recognize NPTEL Online
    Certification as part of their recruitment process.
    -

    Recognize NPTEL Online Certificate (Elite) in recruitment


    Advertise job/internship positions on nptel.ac.in/noc

    2. University credit - NPTEL Online Elective courses for credit with college faculty as
    mentors
    Highlights
    https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in - The portal was opened in March 2014.
    -

    Registered users: 1,80,000+


    Course enrolments: 2,00,000+
    Courses completed: 57 (as of July 2015)
    Certificates: 7000+
    New courses open for enrolment: 24
    Faculty: 50+ (IITM, IITK, CMI, IMSc)
    Top enrolment: 53807 for Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms

    Portals
    https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
    http://nptel.ac.in/noc
    http://nptel.ac.in/studycentre
    Going Forward
    Integration with colleges > Starting NPTEL study centres at colleges; identifying Special Point of
    Contact (SPOC); Credit Transfer through Collaborative Course Delivery
    Integration with universities > Allow students to take an NPTEL Online Elective for credit
    Integration with industry > Recognize NPTEL Online Certificate (Elite) in recruitment; Advertise
    job/internship positions on nptel.ac.in/noc

    Proposal
    In the context of the background given above, alumni are invited to sponsor for the following
    content creation and skill building, thereby enhancing quality of education in India.
    1. Creation of new courses

    The cost involved in creating the contents of a course and running it = INR 6 lakhs

    INR 2.5 lakhs as honorarium for the faculty


    INR 1 lakh as honorarium for the TAs
    INR 2.5 lakhs for production + admin costs

    2. Aid for financially needy students to register for the certification exams

    The exam registration fee for programming courses / candidate = INR 1250
    The exam registration fee for non-programming courses / candidate = INR 1000
    3. Transcription/translation of the courses

    Transcription into English for a 20 hour course = INR 50,000


    Translation of the English transcript into one local language for a 20hr course = INR 2 lakhs
    (approximately)

    Contact
    Prof. Andrew Thangaraj
    NPTEL coordinator and Professor, Department of Electrical engineering

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