NPTEL JANUARY TO APRIL 2019 SEMESTER COURSE BOOKLET

A B O U T NPTEL

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD created to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. NPTEL was initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003. Five core disciplines were identi ed namely, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. 290 courses in web/video format were developed in this phase. The main goal of NPTEL Phase II (2009-14) was to build on the engineering and core science courses launched previously in NPTEL Phase I. An additional 600 web and video courses were created in all major branches of engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level. Several improvements such as indexing of all video and web courses and keyword search were implemented.

NPTEL ONLINE CERTIFICATION

From March 2014 onward, NPTEL started offering online certification courses. Every January and July, anywhere between 250-300 courses are offered online - free of cost - for anyone to enroll and learn from. The certification involves writing an exam that is proctored and conducted in 120+ cities across India. 1010 online certification courses have been completed as on date with 288+ courses currently open for enrollment at onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in. Through an online portal, 4, 8, or 12 week online courses, typically on topics relevant to students in all years of higher education along with basic core courses in sciences and humanities with exposure to relevant tools and technologies, are being offered

NPTEL-SWAYAM

Local Chapters (nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter) NPTEL partners with 2000 + colleges (Engineering / Management / Arts and Science / Polytechnic colleges) in the form of SWAYAM-NPTEL Local chapters. Each college has a coordinator with whom NPTEL works closely to encourage maximum participation of students as well as faculty. Local Chapters are rated in each semester based on performance, further motivating the colleges to participate in full rigour.

NPTEL ONLINE CERTIFICATION COURSES FOR CREDIT TRANSFER:

UGC and AICTE have approved that colleges can take these MOOC courses for credit in their Gazette noti cation of August 2016. These courses are being used by students to avail internship opportunities and prepare for the GATE exam too. About 15-20% of the total exam certi ed participants are faculty members from various colleges and hence these programmes are helping in faculty development and improvement. The advanced courses are recognized by AICTE as FDP.

NPTEL JANUARY TO APRIL 2019 SEMESTER COURSE BOOKLET