NPTEL offers professional courses free of cost

VIJAYAWADA: National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a joint initiative of IITs and IISc, on Friday launched several free of cost new July-December semester courses, including electric vehicles, internet of things, business & sustainable development on the SWAYAM platform in order to give an opportunity to everyone to learn from anywhere and anytime.

The faculty comprises experts drawn from IITs and IISc. The last date for enrolment for the first set of NPTEL courses is August 2.

Highlighting the unique features, Prof. Vignesh Muthuvijayan, NPTEL Coordinator at IIT Madras, said, “SWAYAM-NPTEL is currently working with more than 4,000 educational institutions in engineering, arts, science, commerce, and management across the country. Some of the certification courses through the MOOCs format. include data science for engineers, programming in Python, C, C++, introduction to machine learning, soft skills, project planning and control, among others. Overall, there are 51 domains across 12 disciplines, presently.”

A nominal fee is for the physical proctored exam for the certification.

NPTEL has received more than 1.4 crore enrolments till date. He said NPTEL has initiated the concept of ‘domain certification’.

Enrolment can be done on https://swayam.gov.in/NPTEL.