A Project funded by MHRD, Govt. of India
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD 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, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. The main goal was to create web and video courses in all major branches of engineering and physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level.NPTEL provides Online Certification Courses through an online portal with 4 to 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. NPTEL provides FDP courses also. The significance of Local Chapter in an institution is to develop a local link between students/faculty in the institution and SWAYAM-NPTEL. Once an institution becomes a SWAYAM Local Chapter, they will be able to better facilitate the MOOC adoption of the students as the portal provides sufficient features for allowing monitoring of learner progress to the faculty and SWAYAM coordinator (or Single Point of Contact) within the institution. Recently our college has been established as Local SWAYAM-NPTEL chapter co-ordinated by IIT Madras with ID (LC ID) 4027 and Dr. Shemeena Basheer N, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics has been selected as the single point of contact (SPOC). Please go to the following link for information on NPTEL online certification courses through local chapter