NPTEL
NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) is a joint initiative of IITs and IISc. It has been offering self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams for more than a decade. These are available at: https://nptel.ac.in. From March 2014 NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses, the highlight being the certification exam through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate form the IITs. These are available at: https://swayam.gov.in/NPTEL
To take this initiative forward and to encourage more students of Don Bosco College of Engineering to participate in this initiative, Director, Don Bosco College of Engineering inspired for setting up NPTEL Local Chapter in the college under the NPTEL Nodal center at IIT Madras This local chapter is led by a faculty member of the college, who is single Point of Contact (SPOC) to NPTEL center at IIT Madras. DBCE, being a ‘Local Chapter of NPTEL’ appeal you to take the benefits of this initiative and enjoy the E-Learning, where you can study as per your mood and play/pause/forward/backward/stop your teacher as per your grasping limit. The aim of this local chapter is to uplift the knowledge/ expertise level of students and faculty members to national/ international level.
- Flexibility of time, place, topic and university
- Excellent professors can reach more students all over the world
- Slow Learners can review the videos, pause it to understand as per their pace
- Low Income participants can acquire knowledge from professors of high class institutes
- Interaction through peer review and group collaboration helps social network building
- Appoint a faculty as a coordinator from each department to form NPTEL committee members
- Meeting of NPTEL coordinators regularly to discuss the Activities
- NPTEL Faculty coordinators from various department students were encouraged to join the certification courses.
- Conduct NPTEL Awareness Program and respective departmental coordinators encourage students to enroll a course from the NPTEL/Swayam list and also encourage students to choose NPTEL course to earn Credits
- Keep a track of students undertaking courses and appoint a mentor of their choice of course
- Encourage students to benefits fee waiver
- Department NPTEL coordinators maintains a record of course completed students and also credit course record
- College Level SPOC in charge clubs the record together and document it properly.
- NPTEL is offering the online courses with a timeline of 4, 8-, or 12-weeks through an online portal.
- Each week, you need to watch 3 to 6 video lectures (of length 20 to 30 minutes) and attempt one online Assignment quiz at your convenient time and submit with in a deadline.
- The enrolment to and learning from these courses involves no cost watch video lectures and attempt. Assignment online quizzes.
- After 2-3 weeks of starting of the course, an option of Registration for Final Exam with the fees of Rs. 1000/1100 will be given. If you’re confident enough, you can proceed to the Exam Registration.
- A scholarship is provided to the participants from a Local Chapter for SC/ST and low income (5 lakhs per annum). For last semesters, Some of our college students received 50% fee waiver in the exam fees. As per the availability of funds by the sponsors, it may be given this time also.
- E-certificate from organizing IIT/IISc will be given to the successful candidates of the Final score=25% assignment score(online) + 75% exam(offline) score. To be eligible for a certificate, the learner should have scored >=40% final score. E-verifiable certificates are made available on nptel.ac.in/noc
- NPTEL conduct final (proctored) exam at different exam centers all over India.
Benefits of NPTEL Course Certificate :
- You can learn the subject from the expert faculties of IITs/IISc.
- You can get certified by NPTEL and IITs/IISc.
- In most of the courses, there is a list of industries that will consider this course certificate. NPTEL also shares the toppers’ list to those industries for recruitment purpose.
- Students can review and assess their own progress through assignments(weekly).
- Inculcate mode of self-learning and get access to lectures of IIT/IISc distinguished Faculty
- You can review and assess their own progress through assignments(weekly)
- Continuous assessment and interaction with course faculty
- The certificates issued bear the stamp of CCE, IIT and hence are valuable additions when the student is applying for jobs.
- On successful completion of advanced NPTEL course by the faculties, AICTE approves as FDP so that they can get the points for the same. This FDP certificate is given full consideration for promotions under CAS as per AICTE notification.
- Students can use the NPTEL programmes for GATE and High Studies preparation.
- Goa university considers the completion of NPTEL courses for credit transfer [4 Weeks – 1 Credit, 8 Weeks -2 Credit and 12 Weeks – 3 Credit]
- Certificates recognized by Companies and research centre to give internship opportunity.
- Faculty members who teach the course or in relevant discipline can be a mentor .Should enroll to the course
- Mentor can only choose upto 2 courses.
- No minimum number of students to be a mentor; Maximum ratio of 1:50
- Students have to select the mentor on the portal
- Mentors can see the assignment scores of mentees
- Mentors Can help with explaining gaps in taught concepts.
- Mentors can give more practice assignments
- Facilitate resources for viewing the lectures
- To enroll NPTEL Online Certification Courses using SWAYAM App: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el7ikFNHDww
- How to enroll NPTEL online certification courses: https://youtu.be/T9Sygoof14E
- How to fill NPTEL Exam form: https://youtu.be/_mmVruoRzUM
- NPTEL Stars: https://nptel.ac.in/nptelStars/index.html
- Domain Certification: https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Domain/discipline.html
- NPTEL Summer/ Winter Internship: https://nptel.ac.in/internship/
- Gate Preparation papers link : https://nptel.ac.in/gate_paper.html