National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning

NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING [1] NPTEL is a quality Indian e-learning platform for university-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is jointly developed by Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science.[2] The initiative is funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) , Government of India. The project's central idea is to put recorded lectures taught by its member institutes online for open access. It operates one of the most extensive educational Youtube channel covering engineering, basic sciences, and some humanities and social science subjects.[3]

History and About

NPTEL was launched in 2003 by seven IITs Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee and Indian Institute of Science (IISc).[4][5] Since March 2014, NPTEL began offering courses along with in-centre and proctored certification examinations. Course credits can also be transferred to HEIs/ Universities/ student Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) under the UGC guidelines. It is the largest e-repository in the world of courses in engineering, basic sciences and selected humanities and management subjects. The initiative runs through MOOCs model so that students outside IIT system can also participate in learning quality content and get certified provided they meet the passing criteria in the exams conducted at the end of the NPTEL semesters. All courses are free to enrol and learn from. The certification exam is optional and comes at a fee of Rs 1000 per course exam.

The headquarter of NPTEL is located inside IIT Madras.

References
  1. National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
  2. Ananth, M. S. (July 2011). "National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL): The Vision and the Mission". 2011 IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education: 8. doi:10.1109/T4E.2011.9. ISBN 978-1-4577-1521-1. S2CID 7045958.
  3. Pulakkat, Hari. "How NPTEL is democratising education and going into the next level". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  4. "Nptel, online courses and certification, Learn for free". nptel.ac.in. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  5. "What makes NPTEL India's EdTech hero — without newsy fundings and valuations". FactorDaily. 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
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