IIT Madras-NPTEL to offer 400 online courses free of cost

Amid the ongoing lockdown, IIT Madras along with NPTEL will offer 400 online courses free of cost to the students. Students can apply for the same on or before July 27.

To avoid any academic loss during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is inviting applications for 400 free online courses for July-December semester 2020. The students can apply for these free courses through onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

Students can earn around 20 credits with these courses. Those students who are interested in taking examinations for certification will have to pay a nominal fee of Rs 1,000.

All the 400 free online courses will be conducted on the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) portal under SWAYAM. All the courses are open to all and the duration of the courses ranges from 8 weeks to 12 weeks.

While talking about the courses being offered, Professor Andrew Thangaraj, Coordinator, NPTEL-IIT Madras, said, “NPTEL currently works with more than 3,800 colleges across the country. These colleges include engineering, arts, commerce, science and management colleges. If universities and autonomous colleges want to take advantage of credit transfer, they must implement the credit transfer policy in their institutions. Some universities and autonomous colleges have already started taking advantage of the credit transfer policy.”

The students can apply for all the 400 courses on or before July 27, 2020, and the courses will start from July 20 onwards. The courses will end on September 1, 2020, and the examinations for the courses would commence on September 27, 2020. The exam would be conducted in two shifts- morning shift from 9 am to 12 noon and afternoon shift from 2 pm to 5 pm.

To get the certificate student will have to get 25 percent of the best six assignments out of the total eight assignments, and a score of 75 percent out of 100 in the proctored certification exam.

For more details, students can check the official website of IIT, Madras too.

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