NPTEL ONLINE COURSES

AND CERTIFICATION
A project of NPTEL
Under NMEICT, MHRD
In association with NASSCOM
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NPTEL – Impact: One of the largest online repositories of engineering course
material and one of the most successful multi-institutional projects in the country
THE STORY SO FAR…
March 2014 -
What is an Open, Online Course?
• Exactly like a course you teach on campus
• Course starts on a certain date
• Course duration
• Lectures every week
• Tutorial problems every week
• Discussions every week
• Course ends on a certain date
• Except that, everything unfolds on an open, online
portal
• Start date and an end date
• Course duration
• Videos of lectures released every week
• Online assessments and assignments
• Online discussion forum
Campus vs Open, Online Course
On campus Open, online

Students come
through admission Anyone can click and
process, enroll
prerequisites

Course on campus
Course at a distance,
with peers, face-
self-motivated
to-face interaction

Recognition
Credit towards
mechanisms are still
degree,
evolving – credit
placements,
transfer, placement,
recognition
etc
onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
Course listing on the portal
Course Introduction Page
Components of a
MOOC
Course Lesson Page – videos and text
material
Assignment - autograded
Programming assignment
• Supports C, C++, Python, Java, Verilog
Subjective assignment
• Drive link:

• Essay Type:
Ask a question - Discussion
Forum
Progress tab – to know
assignment marks
Live sessions
Learner Engagement
Features of Final Certification
Exam

• Proctored exam
• run by a partner
• 120 cities across the
country
• Rs. 1100 per course exam

• Certificate
• from IITs/IISc
• e-verifiable – QR code or
through link
Scoring , Certification and
Credits
• Final score calculation for certification
• Online assignments: 25%
• Proctored exam: 75%

• Types of certificates
• Elite certificate with gold medal : >= 90%
• Elite certificate: >= 60%
• Successful completion : >= 40%
• No certificate < 40%

• 4 weeks course: Best 3 out of 4 assignments

• 8 weeks course: Best 6 out of 8 assignments
• 12 weeks course: Best 8 out of 12 assignments
We have put in SWAYAM Logo also in April 2018 certificates.
QR code since July 2017- can be scanned that takes you to the e-certificate.
Growth of NOC
 Courses offered so far
From March 2014: 16 exam runs; 740 courses completed
•Ongoing : 269 courses for July- Dec 2018– Enrollments
open – currently at 6 lakhs+!

Number of courses
Jul-Oct 2018 269
Jan-Apr 2018 226
Jul-Oct 2017 159
Jan-Apr 2017 130
Jul-Oct 2016 104
Jan-Apr 2016 64
Jul-Nov 2015 36
Jan-June 2015 54
Sep-Nov 2014 2
Mar-Aug 2014 1
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Enrollment - Assignment 1 submission – Exam
Registration
 Courses by Dept. and institute
Discipline Courses Institute Courses

Aerospace Engineering 22 IISc Bangalore 33

Agriculture & Food Engineering 7 IITB 56
Applied Mechanics 1 IITD 25
Architecture 12 IITG 41
Biological sciences & Biotechnology 56 IITK 220
Chemical Engineering 44 IITKgp 244
Chemistry and Biochemistry 40 IITM 226
Civil Engineering 73 IITR 106
Computer Science and Engineering 133
Design 6 Other Institutes
Earth Science 3
CMI 21
Electrical/Electronics Communication 124 IIEST Shibpur 2
Engineering
IIITB 3
General 5
IIITD 4
Humanities and Social Sciences 112
Management 80 IIITH 1
Mathematics & Statistics 52 IISER Mohali 4
Mechanical Engineering 125 IISER Pune 4
Metallurgy and Material Science 50 IIT Bhilai & IIT Ropar 1
Multidisciplinary 26 IIT Patna 4
Ocean Engineering 12 IIT Ropar 5
Physics 24
IMSc 1
Textile Technology 2
NIE 7
Mining Engineering 1
TOTAL 1010
TOTAL 1010
 Type of courses offered
MARCH 2014 – JUNE 2018 (740 JULY – OCTOBER 2018 (269
courses) courses)

208
114
155
49 483

New Repurposed New Rerun

Rerun
 Duration of courses
MARCH 2014 – JUNE 2018 (740 JULY – OCTOBER 2018 (269
courses) courses)

39
151
237
126

104

352

4 Weeks 8 Weeks
12 weeks
Exam attendance percentage
 Pass
percentage
Reason for taking the
MOOC
Exam registration statistics -
gender
Exam registration - Faculty participation
Jan-Apr 2017: 5300+

July-Nov 2017: 12309

Jan-April 2018 : 16024

MOU with AICTE for NPTEL Course as
FDP
• Advanced courses will be approved as FDP
courses
• List is available on website - will be put up for
every semester.
• Notification from AICTE is expected shortly.
Procedure:
• Enroll to course, register/write exam, pass
• If interested, apply for AICTE-NPTEL FDP
certificate through separate link
• Fee of Rs 200/- if hard copy is desired
• No hard copy: fee is Rs 100/-
 FDP – a comparison between NOC
and short term course at an
institute
  Short Term Course at NPTEL Online Certification Course
other Institutes
Registration Typically between Rs. Zero Registration Fee
Fee 10000 - Rs. 20000
Travel Typically involves travel No Travel/Accommodation required. The entire lecture
and Accommodation content is available right at our desktop
Leave of Typically involves 8-12 No Academic Leave required; No disturbance of
absence days of Academic Leave regular duties
Learn anytime, anywhere
Exposure to All the participants are Registered Participants have
Lectures exposed to lectures only complete/anytime access to video content and may
once watch the videos multiple times
Evaluation No examination at the (a) weekly assignments and (b) end of the course
end examination which helps the faculty apply the learnt
skills
Interaction Involves interaction only Interaction is available with Course
with the during the short term Instructor/Teaching assistants/Other participants via
Instructor course an Online Discussion Forum during the entire duration
of the course
Frequency of Very Rare NPTEL re-runs Online Certification Courses that are in
the Offered great demand
Table created by Prof. GVK Sharma, SPOC, GITAM University, Vizag
AICTE-NPTEL FDP certificate
 Criteria for FDP Certificate
No. of 
Total No. o Equivalence of
weeks 
No. of  f Hrs.   
of 
lectures pe of  NPTEL course 
NPTEL 
r week engageme with regular F
Course
nt DP
s
 ½ FDP of 
4 3 12 one week
Full FDP of 
8 3 24 one week
12 3 36  1½ FDP
Selected Course Titles
Selection of courses
• Mathematical difficulty
• Based on duration of the course

• Rerun courses can be selected by colleges

participating the first time – content already
available
UGC/AICTE gazette notification – Aug 2016
Use of NPTEL online courses by some Universities –
student activity points, credit transfer, Btech Honors
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE
NAME
APJ Abdul Kalam Technological
University, Kerala (KTU)
Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam Technical
University – Lucknow (UPTU)
Gujarat Technological University
(GTU)
University Of Madras
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
University Of Technology,West
Bengal,Salt Lake,Kolkata
PROCESS OF CREDIT TRANSFER
As a part of STUDENT ACTIVITY POINTS , a student can gain a maximum of 50 points
from Online courses taken and completed as a self Initiative.
Courses taken through NPTEL and MOOCs are can be taken as a Pre-Ph.D course.
If a student earns 20 credits from NPTEL, he will get BTech (Honors).
As a part of Technical/ Research Skill, STUDENT ACTIVITY POINTS of 50 can be gained
on completion of MOOC with final assessment.
Inclusion of the UGC regulation for introduction of MOOCs courses NPTEL in the UG and
PG degree programmes offered in affiliated arts and science colleges.
1. B. Tech 8th semester students opting fully for MOOCs courses will not have to appear
for any internal examination of the 8th semester theory papers but have to submit the
MOOCs assignment completion documents.
2. They will also not have to appear for the end semester examinations of the B. Tech
8th Semester Theory papers but have to submit the final result obtained from
MOOCs.
3. Students will have to submit to their respective colleges the certificates obtained
from NPTEL after completion of continuous assessments and end course evaluation
2. BTech (Honors) degree for students who complete 20 credits from MOOCs courses
specified by them.
NPTEL courses for credit at the
IITs

IIT Madras: students are allowed to take

upto 7 credits from NPTEL courses (for
BTech/DD alone, only credit and not GPA)

IIT Roorkee, IIT Tirupati and IIT Palakkad

also have adopted NPTEL courses for
credit transfer.
 Internships for Toppers

Summer internship was started in May-June 2018

IITM - 6 candidates
IITB - 1 candidate
IIITB - 1 candidate
IIT Kgp - 4 candidates

http://nptel.ac.in/noc/internship/index.php
How colleges use NPTEL online courses?
• For credit transfer within colleges

• For internship opportunities with faculty at IITs/IISc

• Some companies are starting to consider recruitment of the

NPTEL course takers.

• For internal assessment marks

• Faculty – for identifying research areas, to strengthen their

fundamentals, widen their knowledge base
 Industry – NPTEL Co-offered
Courses

1. With IBM - a course on BlockChain

Technology
2. With Glass Academy - a course on Glass
Manufacturing and use of glass in buildings

Working with more companies on similar lines.

Statistics of Completed
courses

nptel.ac.in/noc
 Nptel.ac.in/noc website
• Portal where the statistics of completed courses
are archived
• Time of course offering
• Syllabus, about the instructor
• Statewise enrollment and registration statistics
• Assignment submissions, exam scores

• Toppers in the course are highlighted

• Name, photo, organization of top 5% of exam
registrants are displayed as toppers
The data displayed for each
course
Student profile on NOC website
 Consolidated Marksheet
Multiple courses completed - a
consolidated transcript can be generated

Courses to be included can be chosen

Link: From inside the candidate login on

nptel.ac.in/noc

No fee for this – only ecopy

Generating Consolidated mark
sheet
Model Consolidated Marksheet
nptel.ac.in/noc: Course toppers
Cloud computing course: toppers are students, faculty and industry people
 Steady State of Course Offerings
• What is a desirable steady state?
• Repeat core courses in all major disciplines in July and Jan
semesters
• Offer interesting and new electives regularly
• By July 2019 – we should reach steady state
• Atleast 10 core courses/discipline every semester

• Where are we now?

• Not all core courses are available as MOOCs
• Electives are getting offered
• Our schedule of courses should be available ahead of time
• This helps colleges to plan credit transfer etc.
July 2018 – 269 courses being
offered
• Enrollments opened on 15 April 2018
• Enrollments to close on 30 July 2018/6/13/27 aug

• Exam dates: 07/28 Oct 2018

• 2 sessions: 9am-12 noon; 2pm-5pm
Timeline and Tentative list for July-Nov 2018

No. of
Start date Duration courses Exam date
Monday, August 13, 2018 4 Weeks 19 7-Oct-18
Monday, August 06, 2018 8 weeks 71 7-Oct-18
Monday, July 30, 2018 12 Weeks 126 28-Oct-18
Monday, August 27, 2018 4 Weeks 20 28-Oct-18
Monday, August 27, 2018 8 weeks 33 28-Oct-18
January 2019 semester
• Course and exam schedule will be discussed with
Local Chapters and finalized by September 2018

• Tentative course list – available from August 2018

• Can send suggestions for Rerun courses/New

courses
Students writing multiple Exams
Mar-17 Sep-17
1 exam – 19000 (92.72%) 1 exam – 37330 (92.14%)
2 exams – 1494 (7.28%) 2 exams – 3186 (7.86%)
Apr-17 Oct-17
1 exam – 19729 (94.56%) 1 exam – 23353 (93.32%)
2 exams – 1133(5.44%) 2 exams – 1673 (6.68%)
March-April 2017 September-October 2017
3 exams – 287 (0.69%) 3 exams – 571 (0.87%)
4 exams – 132 (0.31%) 4 exams – 241 (0.36%)
Apr-18
1 exam – 63486 (89.52%) 3 exams – 1473 (2.07%)
2 exams – 5193 (7.32%) 4 exams – 780 (1.09%)
 Course topper in 3 and 4 courses
Jan – April 2018 – 12 candidates!!
COURSE
NAME ROLE Organization COUNT
BIMAL MOHAN T C Others Freelancer 4
JOMESH GEORGE Others PURPOSE TECHNOLOGY 4
DHAVJEKAR TUKARAM ALIAS GOA COLLEGE OF
SAURABH PRADIP Student ENGINEERING 4
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF
ARAVIND S Student TECHNOLOGY MADRAS 3
DHARANKAR AISSMS COLLEGE OF
CHANDRASHEKHAR SURESH Faculty ENGINEERING, PUNE 3
ROBERT BOSCH
ENGINEERING BUSINESS
HEMANTH KUMAR G Others AND SOLUTIONS PVT LTD 3
M B M ENGINEERING
SHAURYA AGNIHOTRI Student COLLEGE 3
ST.THOMAS COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING &
KASTURI SAHA Student TECHNOLOGY 3
MAULANA ABUL KALAM
AZAD UNIVERSITY OF
NITISH AGARWAL Student TECHNOLOGY 3
PAVAN P D Student LOYOLA COLLEGE 3
INDIAN OIL CORPORATION
SAURABH MISHRA Others R & D CENTRE 3
FR. CONCEICAO RODRIGUES
 Toppers in 4 courses: Jan –April
2018
NUMBER OF
COURSES AS
S.NO NAME TOPPER ORGANIZATION TOPPER
Outcome based pedagogic
1 BIMAL MOHAN T C 4 principles for effective teaching 5
Introduction To Research 5
Business English Communication 5
Effective Engineering Teaching In
Practice 2
2 JOMESH GEORGE 4 Introduction to Machine Learning 5
Business analysis and data mining
Modeling using R 5
Data Mining 2
Data Science for Engineers 1
DHAVJEKAR
TUKARAM ALIAS
3 SAURABH PRADIP 4 Control engineering 5
Principles of Signals and Systems 5
Power System Engineering 2
Basic Electronics 2
Highest Number of NPTEL Course
Takers
Number of Number of
Courses Taken Candidates
5 764
6 309
7 126
8 66
9 26
10 18
11 11
12 10
13 4
14 3
15 1
16 1
18 1
19 2
21 1
 Highest Number of NPTEL Course
Takers
Number of
Name Role Organization Courses
KONGUNADU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
P K P AADITYA VIGNESH Student AND TECHNOLOGY 21
ARUN PRAGASH H Employed DRDO 19
SIKINAM
VENKATESWARLU Employed TSGENCO 19
GUNASEKARAN
GOPALAN Faculty Velammal Engineering College 18
PRINCE SHRI VENKATESHWARA
P ASHOK Faculty PADMAVATHY ENGINEERING COLLEGE 16
VIJAY MORE Faculty SHRI SHIVAJI COLLEGE 15
GURPREET SINGH Employed PUNJAB GOVT 14
DR MANDA GODAVARI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING &
VARAPRASADA RAO Faculty TECHNOLOGY 14
PANKAJ JOSHI Employed DRDO 14
ASHWANI KUMAR
KANSAL Employed DTTE 13
NETAJI SUBHAS INSTITUE OF
KARTIKEYA MITTAL Student TECHNOLOGY 13
M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF
PRAJIT T R Student TECHNOLOGY 13
INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
AMULYA SHARMA Student UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 13
 Candidates from Abroad
From Applied Materials - 2 project leads from Austin
Texas and Singapore

From South Africa - 2 candidates

An engineer from Turkey – Noise and vibration control

course

A faculty member from Saudi Arabia – Emotional

Intelligence course exam
FAQ -
http://nptel.ac.in/noc/faqnew.php
• Where do I get information about up-coming certification courses?
• How many courses can I enroll for at a time? How many course exams can I
write in one semester?
• How old should I be to register for an online course?
• I just came to know that an online course that I wanted to join has concluded
its run. Is there any chance of this course being offered again?
• Will exams be offered for completed courses in the next run?
• If I enroll to a course this time and miss writing the exam, next time the
course is offered, do I have to enroll again?
• If I don’t submit any assignment, can I register for the exam?
• What if I have limited internet access? How do I watch videos online?
• Will supplementary exams be conducted for courses taken for credit
transfer?
THANK YOU