NPTEL trains engineering faculty ( A national programme for all ) -Be the part to get the best.

The National
Programme on
Technology
Enhanced
Learning
(NPTEL) is a unique online
programme for training young
inexperienced engineering
faculty. The web based
training program has been
created jointly by seven Indian
Institutes of Technology and
the Indian Institute of
Science.
The web portal have quality
content in five engineering
branches — Civil, Computer
Science, Electrical, Electronics
and Communication, and
Mechanical —based on the
model curriculum suggested
by the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE)
and the syllabi of major
affiliating universities in the
country.
NPTEL content has been used
by many universities to train
the young and inexperienced
faculty. The content has been
populated by IITs, IISc, NITs
and other leading universities.
The aim of the program is to
disseminate teaching/learning
content of high quality. Under
NPTEL, which is implemented
by the National Programme
Committee headed by the
Joint Secretary of Higher
Education, MHRD, and the
Programme Implementation
Committee headed by M.S.
Ananth, Director IIT Madras,
open course materials for
engineering and science
students and teachers have
been provided free of cost.
There are 125 web courses
accessible through the
website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
and 135 video lecture courses
in addition to the large
repositories of video lectures
prepared by the IITs. The video
content is available in MPEG-4
format with a bit-rate of 512
kbps.At the end of the second
phase of the program in which
participation of over 1,000
faculty members from NITs
and major universities have
been enlisted, there will be
about 400 video lecture
courses (with about 16,000
hours of lectures). When it is
completed, the NPTEL will
carry the distinction of being
the largest video repository of
technical lecture-courses in
the world.
"The value addition to the
courses will be enormous if
right partnerships are forged
between industry and
academia. Alongside training
students on specific subjects
and offering them financial
rewards and career
opportunities, industries can
contribute to the process of
creation of contents in several
new courses and create
courses that are not part of
the AICTE curricula but which
would address their
requirements," said Salem K.
Muthucheliyan, VC of Periyar
University.
The several mechanisms
proposed for promoting NPTEL
include conduct of course-
specific workshops by bringing
together the faculty who have
developed the course and the
teachers who are likely to use
the lecture material; creating
subject index and keyword
search for both video and web
materials so that students
can search for relevant
material across courses
through a search engine;
encouraging teachers in
various colleges to adapt to
the materials for preparing
localised versions suitable for
their respective examination
system.

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