NPTEL

January 2016
NPTEL
 A joint initiative of IITs
and IISc – initiated in
2003

 http://nptel.ac.in

 Learning anytime,
anywhere by anyone

 945+ courses
available for self-
learning
NPTEL Website http://nptel.ac.in
Features of NPTEL Courses

• E-learning through online Web and Video courses

in Engineering, Science and humanities streams

• http://nptel.ac.in

• Each NPTEL Course is for almost 40 hours

• Each course is equivalent to a full semester course

• Self- Study

• Anytime, anywhere by anyone

NPTEL - Web course
NPTEL - Video course
NPTEL Web and Video Courses

Web Courses Video Courses

 PDFs, HTML files  Video Files
 Lessons in the text  Classroom lectures as
format delivered in a IIT
 Files available for classroom is recorded
download and made available
 Files with animations/  Video files available
equations / diagrams for download as MP4,
etc FLV,3GP
 Some videos are
transcribed with
subtitles
 NPTEL Courses Discipline-wise
Web Video
Discipline Total
Courses Courses

Aerospace Engineering 14 20 34
Atmospheric Science 1 3 4
Basic courses(Sem 1 and 2) 17 21 38
Biotechnology 16 11 27
Chemical Engineering 34 30 64
Chemistry and Biochemistry 15 16 31
Civil Engineering 59 45 104

Computer Science and Engineering 32 56 88

Electrical Engineering 25 40 65

Electronics & Communication

26 48 74
Engineering

Engineering Design 8 3 11
Environmental Science 3 2 3

Continued….
 NPTEL Courses Discipline-wise
General 2 2

Humanities and Social Sciences 24 32 56

Management 13 25 38

Mathematics 24 30 54

Mechanical Engineering 63 66 129

Metallurgy and Material Science 13 17 30

Mining Engineering 1 1 2

Nanotechnology 3 2 5

Ocean Engineering 1 20 21

Physics 15 22 37

Textile Engineering 14 2 16

Total of 945+ courses are on the website for free learning…

Navigating the NPTEL website
http://nptel.ac.in
NPTEL Home Page
NPTEL Home Page
NPTEL – Find courses
NPTEL – Find course by discipline
NPTEL – Find course by content type
NPTEL – Web Course
NPTEL – Video Course
NPTEL – Find course by institute
NPTEL–Find course by searching course
name/ professor name
NPTEL – Search within video by keyword
NPTEL – Search within video by keyword
Search within video by keyword (for
videos with PPT)

Click
keyword,
Video
streams
from that
minute
Course - syllabus
Course - lectures
Course - Assignments/ Quizzes
Course - FAQs

Users can view

FAQs for the
course, lecture
wise
Course - Ask a Question

Students can
post
question..
Course
coordinator
will reply
Video Lectures – can be viewed on youtube too
Video lectures with Sub titles

Using input from Text

transcription of technical
video lectures - NMEICT
Video Lectures - Downloads in MP4, FLV & 3GP
Formats

Download
lectures in MPEG
4, flv, 3GP
formats
Text of Video website
http://textofvideo.nptel.iitm.ac.in
Course Videos - Speech to Text
Discipline wise videos with text
transcription
Course video with text transcription
Course video with text transcription –
PDF and Audio (mp3)
Text Transcription of NPTEL video courses (as
of Sep 30, 2015)
Description Phase I Phase II Total

No. of videos available in NPTEL 4985 15646 20631

web site

No. of raw transcripts 4963 11016 15979

No. of lectures edited 4875 11008 15883

Total no. of edited transcripts 4826 10470 15296

available for download as PDF in
ICT Website

Total no. of videos with subtitles in 3643 7663 11306

NPTEL Website and ICT Website

Total no. of audio format (mp3) of 4985 15646 20631

videos
NPTEL videos – aid for GATE exam
GATE Preparation using NPTEL material
GATE Preparation – Currently available on NPTEL website
GATE 2013 Question paper – Eg.Mechanical engineering with
NPTEL reference
 Special topic courses in NPTEL

• Learning modules of a shorter duration

(10/20/30 lectures)

• By SMEs of national / international

eminence and acclaim in their
respective areas.

Eg. Ayurvedic Inheritance of India

 Ayurvedic Inheritance of India By
“Padma Vibhushan” Prof. M. S. Valiathan
NPTEL – Future initiatives…in the
pipeline
Sub titles in various Languages
(being proposed)
 Sub title - Languages

Marathi Oriya
Sub title - Languages

Tamil
Accessing NPTEL
Accessing NPTEL
Accessing NPTEL-
http://nptel.ac.in/Harddisk/

Through Partner

From Internet

Contact - NPTEL
Office at the IITs
Glimpse of NPTEL Infrastructure
NPTEL Reach and Highlights
Highlights of NPTEL

 994+ courses across disciplines

 19,423,734 Users across the world
NPTEL Channel in Youtube
NPTEL Reach

Google Visits Google Analytics

Date Total visits

No. of visits to NPTEL
Jan 2008 – Dec 2008 6,939,361 website = 274,078,675
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009 11,898,397

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 20,273,740

Jan 2011 – Dec 2011 29,291,453

Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 39,482,461

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 53,541,773

Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 59,209,365

Jan 2015 – Sep 2015 53,442,125

Total 274,078,675
NPTEL Reach

NPTEL is the most visited academic

YouTube channel in the world.

 19000+ hours of NPTEL videos uploaded

 501,663 subscribers
 17,12,98,044 number of views
NPTEL Reach
YouTube Channel Views
Date Videos Channel Views Subscribers
available
(hrs.)

Jan - Dec, 2008 3198 41,41,141 -

Jan - Dec, 2009 3965 117,94,812 5,784

Jan - Dec, 2010 4618 192,75,385 25,723

Jan - Dec, 2011 6400 206,33,429 34,198

Jan - Dec, 2012 10,563 239,16,525 42,777

Jan - Dec, 2013 14,025 207,08,112 91,402

Jan - Dec, 2014 16,485 294,07,662 1,15,257

Jan till Sep, 2015 18,923 264,27,948 99,142

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