COVID-19: HRD minister encourages students, working professionals to opt NPTEL online courses

COVID-19: HRD minister encourages students, working professionals to opt NPTEL online courses

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New Delhi, Updated on Mar 30, 2020 14:25 IST

Calling the lockdown period ‘a perfect time take up online courses’, Mr Pokhriyal stated that students, faculty members as well as working professionals can browse through the official web portal of NPTEL and look for amazing e-learning courses. 

While academic institutions are shut and examinations are postponed due to the nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus, HRD minister, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' recently shared the best way to utilize this lockdown period. In his recent tweet, the minister talked about the NPTEL online courses available across 23 disciplines. Interested candidates can take up the course by visiting the official website of NPTEL i.e. 'nptel.ac.in'.

Calling the lockdown period ‘a perfect time take up online courses’, Mr Pokhriyal stated that students, faculty members as well as working professionals can browse through the official web portal of NPTEL and look for amazing e-learning courses in various disciplines including engineering, basic sciences and selected humanities and social sciences.

These certification courses are offered twice a year (Jan-Jun, Jul-Dec). Joining a course is free. Anyone can learn from these courses anywhere anytime. No pre-requisites, no age limit, no entrance criteria to enroll.

Learning can be done by watching videos and this is tested by the weekly assignments that are to be submitted online within the prescribed deadline. Any queries/doubts you may have, you can post in the respective discussion forum, which will be answered by the faculty and his/her team.

What are the benefits of opting NPTEL online courses?

  1. For students, NPTEL online courses will get decent credit transfer and help in improving resume quality.
  2. Faculty can take up refresher courses and AICTE recognized FDP courses.
  3. Working professionals can use NPTEL online courses to upskill and reskill.

What is NPTEL?

NPTEL is an acronym for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science. NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams.

For more information related to NPTEL online courses, candidates are advised to visit the official website of NPTEL.

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