NPTEL – National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning was initiated by seven institutes of

technology along with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003.
Five core disciplines were identified:
 Civil engineering
 Computer science and engineering
 Electrical engineering
 Communication engineering
 Mechanical engineering
235 courses in wed/video format developed.
Process of certification
 Subject Matter Experts (SME) create recorded video content for courses.
 The courses uploaded on portal and opened for enrollments which is free.
 Every week about three hours of video content is released along with an assignment
which is evaluated and provides the student with a score.
 Teaching Assistants (TA’s) and faculty members support the discussion forum.
 If someone wants to get a certificate from IIT/IISc after doing the course he/she
should register for the in-person proctored certification exam. There is a nominal fee
of Rs. 1000
 A learned will pass and be certified only if average assignment score (out of 100)
>=40 and final exam score (out of 100) >= 40
 Civil engineering-IIT ROORKEE
Video courses
 Foundation engineering
 Digital image processing of remote sensing data
 Digital land surveying and mapping
 Digital elevation models and applications
 Environmental engineering – chemical processes
 Environmental remediation of contaminated sites
 GPS surveying
 Introduction to geographic information system
 Applied environmental microbiology
 Principles and applications of building science
 Modern surveying techniques
 Transportation engineering

Web courses

 Global positioning system

 Advanced hydraulics
 Soil dynamics
 Hydrological measurement and analysis of data
 Urban transportation planning
 Surveying
 Electrical engineering -IIT ROORKEE

Video courses
 Advance power electronics and control
 Electrical distribution system analysis
 Advanced linear continuous control systems
 Computer aided power system analysis
 CMOS digital VLSI design
 Facts devices
 Introduction to smart grid
 Optimal control

Web course
 Computer aided power system analysis
 Micro processor
 Mechanical engineering

Video courses
 Advanced manufacturing processes
 Metal casting
 Computational fluid dynamics
 Automatic control
 Industrial engineering
 Convective heat transfer
 Engineering economic analysis
 Failure analysis and prevention
 Financial mathematics
 Fundamentals of manufacturing process
 Fundamentals of surface engineering

Web courses

 Advanced manufacturing process

 Metal casting
 Processing of non-metals
 Manufacturing processes I
 Industrial engineering
 Computational fluid dynamics
 Strength of materials
 Welding engineering
 Vibration control
 Humanities and social sciences – IIT ROORKEE

Video Courses
 Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis
 Literature culture and media
 Perspective on neurolinguistic
 Sociology of science
 Soft skills
 Time value of money concept and calculation

Management – IIT ROORKEE

Video courses

 Business analytics and data mining modelling using R – part 1&2

 Business statistics
 Financial statement analysis and reporting
 Innovation, business models and entrepreneurship
 Manufacturing strategy
 Marketing research and analysis – I &II
 MSTM Techniques using R
 Project management for managers
 Global marketing management
 Supply chain analytics
 Working capital management
 Advantages of Online Educational Courses

 Flexibility: It gives convenience of completing their classes at any time of day or

night, even if they have 20-30 available any particular day.
 Reduced Costs: People wanting to progress through the company and become top
leaders and managers can enroll in online education courses that they complete while
they are still in their jobs, therefore they don’t have to worry about lost income. In
addition, people don’t have to front the financial costs that come with attending
universities on campus.
 More Effective Learning: Employees can learn at their own pace, rather than being
rushed to keep up with tutors or classmates. If some information is missed or not
clear, it is easy for employees to replay the videos or re-read details.
 Time Saving: Rather than needing to get a whole group of people together at the one
time, employees cam simply complete training whenever they have time during their
work day.
 Documentation: All the information that you will need will be safely stored in an
online data base, including things like live discussion documents, training materials
and emails
 Timely feedback: Employees are able to get real time feedback during an online
training course. And because everything is connected online, management can also
get up to date analysis on how courses are performing, and they track the progress of
individual employees.
 Improves retention: Online training courses make use of videos, interactive slides
and even games to create a fun and engaging course. These courses lead to better
results by helping employees retain more of the information learned.

Disadvantages

 Less interaction: Face to face interaction cannot be done all the time as employees
might prefer to learn during their free time – which is usually outside the working
hours.
 Demotivation: Employees’ tendency to underestimate the impact of not meeting their
instructor directly will lead to monologue learning which will eventually lead to
demotivation of employees.
 Lack of control: Employees with low motivation tends to fall behind because there is
no specific allocation of time for learning process, and there is lack of routine and
fixed schedule.
 Isolated: As the employees do remote online training, instructor cannot answer
questions directly. Online learning often doesn’t allow the instructor to answer bunch
of questions at the same time outside the working hours, while many employees might
prefer to learn after they get home.