The National Programme on Technology Enhancement Learning (NPTEL) has started the registration process for more than 500 online certification courses.
As per the statement released by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, NPTEL is a joint initiative of the IITs and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru to offer 500 online certification courses.
The online courses being offered on SWAYAM for January-April 2021 Semester are free of cost and open to everyone including students and working professionals. However, a nominal fee is charged for the in-person proctored exams to receive the certification.
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Andrew Thangaraj, coordinator, SWAYAM-NPTEL-IIT Madras, stated, “In order to streamline the efforts of learners and to guide them to obtain expertise in an area, NPTEL has initiated the idea of ‘domain certification.’ A domain comprises a set of core and elective NPTEL courses.”
“Those who complete a domain with an average score of 60 will get a domain certificate from NPTEL. There are no additional charges or fees involved in obtaining domain certification. There are 44 domains across 12 disciplines available now and more are in the pipeline,” he further said.
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The popular courses among the students are programming, data structures and algorithms using Python, engineering thermodynamics, basic electrical circuits, constitutional studies, and health research fundamentals.
Prathap Haridoss, Professor and Coordinator, SWAYAM-NPTEL-IIT Madras, informed, “NPTEL has been working towards bringing in an industry perspective to its technically rich courses and started partnering with companies through NPTEL Industry-Associate initiative. Companies can partner with NPTEL and use NPTEL courses to train their freshers, cross-skill and up-skill their existing workforce.”
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The statement also stated, over 1.2 crore learners have enrolled for NPTEL courses so far. The NPTEL videos have got more than 1 Billion views till date. SWAYAM-NPTEL is working with more than 4,000 colleges in engineering, arts, commerce, science and management fields across the country.
Many students are participating in these courses as it helps them in improving their job opportunities. In a survey held by NPTEL with the colleges to know the impact of NPTEL courses on employability, 82.9% of the colleges mentioned that NPTEL courses had a great positive impact. Students who took up these certification exams improved the confidence level to qualify the technical interviews and technical assessments.
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