NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING (NPTEL)

July 2003 June 2007 Project Document

Executed by Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) And Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Department of Secondary and Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India, New Delhi.

July 2007

Table of Contents Section 1: Background 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) 1.3 The IIT Initiative 1.4 The Current Programme Page No. 3 4 4 5

Section 2: The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning 2.1 Objectives 2.2 Action Plan 2.3 Target Groups and Their Needs 2.4 Identification of Course Contents 2.5 E-Learning Material 2.6 Video Material 2.7 Deployment and Follow-up Services Section 3: Project Activities 3.1 Identification of Courses and Faculties 3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.5 3.1.6 3.2.1 3.2.2 Core Sciences and Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Mechanical Engineering Video Software and Hardware for Web Courses 14 15 17 19 21 23 25 30 30 31 35 6 7 9 10 11 12 13

3.2 Infrastructure Development

3.3 Creation of NPTEL Website and its mirrors 3.4 National Workshops Conducted Annexures Annexure 1 National Programme Committee (NPC) Annexure 2 Programme Implementation Committee (PIC)

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Annexure 3 NPTEL Coordinators for Each Participating Institution Annexure 4 Feedback from Workshops Annexure 5 Infrastructure Created Using NPTEL Annexure 6 Hardware Configurations Recommended for User Institutions List of Abbreviations (Acronyms) Used Additional Publications: (available from the NPTEL Website) 1. Module-wise Syllabi for All NPTEL Courses.

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2. Lecture titles of video courses recorded till June 30, 2006 3. NPTEL National Workshops Summary of Programmes 4. Feedback from one of the workshops (two documents)

Section 1: Background 1.1. Introduction The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) was first conceived in 1999 to pave the way for introducing multimedia and web technology to enhance learning of basic science and engineering concepts. Significant infrastructure has been set up earlier for production of video-based teaching material by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and Technical Teacher Training Institutes (TTTI). In the first phase of the NPTEL project (June 2003-June 2007), seven IITs and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have worked together to develop web and video based material for basic undergraduate science and engineering courses order to enhance the reach and quality of technical education in the country. The concept of multimedia based courses with high potential of interactivity has become a popular and a viable option for both the developed and the developing nations, though for different reasons. Offering multimedia courses in technologyassisted modes has not only become invaluable for the learner, but also an attractive and creative option for faculty. Such courses have the potential to enhance the onand off-campus learning experience for students and in a distance learning mode. Technology opens up several interesting avenues for innovation in design and delivery of courses as also for sharing expertise among faculty in different parts of the world. In India, where a large number of private institutions have entered the field of engineering education with inadequate faculty support and training, the project is aimed at providing a standard for academic content for both the teacher and the student. in

Many of the courses, especially basic core courses in science and engineering are similar across the IITs and to a lesser extent across many institutions in the country. Most institutions offer programme in traditional branches of engineering with a large number of similar courses forming a substantial part of the undergraduate curriculum. There is clearly a lot of advantage in sharing the development work in these courses. The NPTEL initiative in this regard is to help institutions all over the

country to substantially increase the number and quality of the engineering graduates. 1.2. Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) The objective of TEL is to enhance the way students learn concepts, to enhance the learning component and to reduce the tedious and mechanical aspects of some of the current learning methods through the use of technology in a variety of forms: a) Computer applications include: Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) that uses the computer as a selfcontained teaching machine to present individual lessons. Computer-Managed Instruction (CMI) that uses the computer to organize instruction and track student records and progress. The instruction itself need not be delivered via a computer, although CAI is often combined with CMI. Computer-Mediated facilitate the classrooms, Education of mail, (CME) consisting Examples boards, of applications include real-time that

delivery electronic

instruction. discussion

networked computer

conferencing and World-Wide Web (WWW) applications. b) Voice - Instructional audio tools that include interactive technologies of telephone, audio conferencing, and the passive (i.e., one-way) audio tools of tapes and radio. c) Video - Instructional video tools that include still images such as slides, prerecorded moving images (e.g., film, videotape), and real-time moving images combined with audio conferencing (one-way or two-way video with two-way audio). d) Print instructional print formats that include textbooks, study guides, workbooks and case studies. 1.3. The IIT Initiative Technology enhanced learning initiative involving IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) was first proposed by IIT Madras in the year 1999, immediately following a Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning (WoTEL) conducted in Chennai in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA. The

vast experience of CMU in setting up a successful virtual university in Mexico was useful in drawing up the initial proposal which envisaged four initiatives, namely providing distance education, developing interactive and electronic resources for core courses for undergraduates, conducting joint Ph. D. programmes and setting up a digital library focused on the role of technology in knowledge accumulation, storing and disseminating content for education in three sectors: university, industry and government. A formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between five IITs, four IIMs and CMU established a Virtual Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning (VCTEL). It was the first initiative in which all IITs and IIMs shared a common vision and proposed to work together to improve the quality of science, engineering and management education all across the country by offering courses through VCTEL. This proposal was submitted to MHRD in 1999 and revised several times. 1.4. The Current Programme The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India considered a modified proposal favorably and approved funding of 20.47 crores (204.7 million) of Indian Rupees in Phase I for three years from June 2003 till June 2006. Due to the complexity and the heterogeneous nature of the Partner Institutions with respect to Multimedia and video production capabilities the project was given a one year extension till June 30,2007 when it has been completed. The digital library project was de-linked from the proposal and funded separately. Indian Institutes of Management have been provided additional funding for distance education in core areas of management. Seven IITs and the Indian Institute of Science have been working together in Phase I to develop web and video based material for basic undergraduate science and engineering courses in order to enhance the reach and quality of technical education in the country. In order to facilitate the distribution of course material, two modes of operation have been suggested, namely, digital video lectures of courses and web based courses. 110 video based courses and 129 web based courses have been prepared for distribution to Institutions in India by December 2007. The courses have been made available from July 2006 as and when they are complete with video lectures being broadcast through the Eklavya channel provided by Gyan Darshan (Door Darshan Television, Govt of India enterprise). The web courses are currently available through the official NPTEL website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in. Efforts are underway to provide free access to video lectures

through

Google-YouTube

as

video-on-demand

for

anyone

with

broadband

connectivity. Section 2: The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning 2.1 Objectives The broad aim of the project NPTEL is to facilitate the competitiveness of Indian industry in the global markets through improving the quality and reach of engineering education. The operational objective of NPTEL is to make high quality learning material available to students of engineering institutions across the country by exploiting the advances in information and communication technology. The target group for this project consists of students and faculty of institutions offering undergraduate engineering programmes in India. The educational goals are: Make video lectures in a format appropriate for broadcasting that would provide quality content through the Technology channel named the Eklavya channel by the previous Honorable Minister for Human Resource Development in recognition of the first student of distance education named in the great Indian epic Mahabharata thousands of years ago. Create web-based (e-learning) material and make it available in the form of a portal / DVDs that would be tailored to meet the needs of engineering students across the country. Create a website for NPTEL activity. Make e-learning material available in the web for the video lectures to supplement class room teaching. Advise target institutions with regard to the software/hardware requirements for benefiting from the national project. NPTEL has developed curriculum based video courses (110 new courses and 109 existing courses encapsulated in digital video format) and web-based e-courses (129). This has been undertaken by IITs (Seven) and IISc Bangalore as Partner Institutions (PI) and other selected premier institutions as Associate Partner Institutions (API) through a collaborative effort.

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Action Plan an advisory role for NPTEL. The constitution of NPC is given in Annexure 1. It has the overall responsibility for policy decisions under this Programme. The Committee has ensured inter-institutional coordination at the national level by nominating at least one Coordinator for the NPTEL project in each Partner Institution (PI) (Seven IITs and IISc). NPC has also functioned as a grants-in-aid committee and has recommended release of funds under the Programme in a phased manner.

1) A National Programme Committee (NPC), constituted by the MHRD has played

2) A Programme Implementation Committee (PIC), constituted by the MHRD has held the executive authority for all activities under the NPTEL. The constitution of the PIC at the time of closure of the first phase is given in Annexure 2 along with all those who served the committee since its inception. All NPTEL coordinators are members of the PIC. Annexure 3 contains the list of current NPTEL coordinators along with their predecessors. 3) The PIC constituted a subject level expert group in July 2003 for each of the subjects covered under the programme and nominated Principal Discipline Coordinators (PDC) based on subject matter to ensure harmonization of curriculum so as to maximize the number of students who will benefit from this initiative. A definite mechanism for assurance of quality and certification of courseware produced under the programme was also put in place. 4) There are two national coordinators, one for video courses and another for web courses who are members of both the NPC and PIC. They have been coordinating with all PIs and APIs and all faculty preparing content and have provided standards of design and format arrived at by the PIC. In addition, one faculty from each of three target Institutions chosen has been nominated to be a member of the PIC by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. 5) Each PI has a TEL Committee (TC) consisting of faculty from different departments/centres. This Committee has been promoting the use of technology, both internally and externally, to enhance learning effectiveness. 6) An NPTEL Project Cell (PC) has been created in each Institute. The cell has created special classrooms fitted with networked computers developed expertise in multimedia production through the digital format and in developing courseware for the Internet,

developed a support system - essential hardware and software, and with the support of a software programmer, communication designer and instructional editor- to help the faculty in the design, implementation, and assessment of effective learning systems and

recruited technical staff for support in programming, designing, editing, documentation and maintenance and to conduct training programmes for the faculty.

7) The faculty comprising the subject-level expert group were nominated from each Institute for the six disciplines, namely, core courses, civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, and mechanical engineering. The PDCs and the subject matter expert group in each discipline have drawn up the detailed curriculum for each discipline in consultation with the faculty in each PI and have been interacting with faculty in their institutes and in the APIs to ensure content development with minimal duplication. 8) Effective training and learning programmes have been organized in order to enable the faculty both to understand and leverage this technology and to recognize that in the long run TEL techniques are effective and represent a saving in time and effort. 9) All courses developed under the project have been thoroughly reviewed by experts in the area nominated by the subject coordinators group. The review has been incremental and has provided sufficient mid-course correction strategy to faculty who are involved in the content development. 10) Workshops for faculty on web design and choice of appropriate software were conducted in the initial stages. The TC of each PI has ensured that all project associates in the PC underwent training in the use of standard software. In addition, one or two associates in each Institute have been trained in programming and designing two and three dimensional professional animation software, Java, network and server management packages for web courses and interactive web design. 11) During the second year of the project, workshops were conducted for teachers from other institutions who would like to use the contents. The course development team interacted with the teachers closely and made relevant changes in the content to enable its use by the largest spectrum of faculty outside IITs.

12) Four National workshops were conducted in Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (for IIT Madras, January5-6, 2007), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (March 30, 2007), Indian Institutes of Technology Guwahati and Kharagpur in Guwahati (May 19-20, 2007) and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (June 27-28, 2007). Well over 500 teachers, several Vice-Chancellors and a number of Principals from many engineering Institutions all over the country participated in the workshops along with numerous faculty coordinators from various IITs who developed course contents. The feedback form used in some of these workshops reprinted in annexure 4. 13) Existing facilities for video recording in the Educational Technology Cells (ETCs) of three IITs (Delhi, Kharagpur and Madras) have been upgraded using funds allocated in the project. In addition new video recording studios with state-of-the-art recording and video-editing facilities have been created in all IITs and IISc Bangalore under this project. A uniform format is being emphasized for video courses so that they can be delivered as capsules for the Eklavya channel and for streaming the content through video server for access outside the specific broadcast schedules. The conversion of video lectures to streaming lectures is currently being undertaken in the PIs ahead of the second phase of NPTEL project. Video archives of lectures are currently available in all PIs. Annexure 5 consists of pictures from some the PIs on the infrastructure created with NPTEL funds. 14) A web studio has been created in each of the PIs and standardized hardware and software maintained for content creation for the web based courses. 15) A website has been created detailing the activities of the NPTEL and materials are being distributed through Compact Discs (CD) / Digital Video Discs (DVD). 16) The list of 110 video courses and 129 web based courses was finalized in consultation with all member institutions and content development has been completed in nearly all of them. They are constantly being updated in the website. 2.3 Target Groups and Their Needs The primary target group is students and faculty of institutions offering undergraduate engineering programmes.

As the colleges are affiliated to a university, and different universities have different curricula and syllabi, one set of learning material would not meet the needs of all engineering colleges. Even when the topics are the same in a learning unit, the scope of the topic could be different from one university to the other.

Students would accept and use the learning material only if it is according to their syllabi, and conventions followed are the same as in their prescribed textbooks. Hence, even if the topics are the same, the content needs This constitutes significant particularization with regard to each university.

amount of work. In this area, faculty from APIs would be encouraged and offered financial incentives to interact with TCs in the PIs for creating the necessary variants from a model modular content. The quality of learning is dictated by evaluation. In most universities

evaluation is through public examination and students are expected to write standard answers. The design of support material has taken this factor into consideration while concentrating on student learning. Good international textbooks are prescribed and available at low cost. But students in many colleges often find the methodology adopted in them to be quite difficult. Both teachers and students in these colleges would like to have support materials in the web in this regard. 2.4. Identification of Course Contents Course contents were identified through the following process: Choose universities with a large number of affiliated colleges, paying attention to their distribution across the country. The syllabi of major affiliating Universities such as Anna University (Tamil Nadu), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Andhra Pradesh) and Visvesvaraya Technological University (Karnataka) were examined along with the model curriculum of the All India Council of Technical Education. Subjects common in many Universities were selected to ensure that the undergraduate core curriculum development is reasonably complete.

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The syllabi of these common courses were pooled for development work to be shared across all PIs.

Modules were identified (not more than three classroom sessions worth of material) and their minor variants (with regard to scope) to account for the needs of the identified universities (This is a major task which was undertaken by teams of specialists, with the support of faculty from the APIs wherever possible).

Five branches of engineering (Civil, Electrical, Electronics and Communication, Computer Science and Engineering, and Mechanical) were addressed in the first phase. Each Institute identified the courses in which it would like to participate as video (V) or Web (W) based content contributor. The core courses common to all these disciplines including basic science and engineering were addressed by a core courses group also formed of members from all PIs. The courses were allotted to PIs as per the following: The TEL coordinator from each Institute prepared a list of courses for which he obtained the consent of faculty from that PI. The discipline coordinators in each discipline met and then determined the allocation of courses to PIs. The TEL PIC finalized the allotment of courses to the Institute. In content creation each PI was also able to involve faculty from other PIs with experience and willingness to jointly develop the course with its own faculty and encourage it as much as possible. However, the PIs were responsible for the delivery of courses assigned to them. 2.5. E-Learning Material The following summarizes the programme for web supplement materials: E-Learning material have been created in such a form that it can be expanded and updated continuously. Currently it consists of one or more of the following: Localization of examples Elaboration of key concepts and theorems to facilitate clearer

understanding Case studies to provide more comprehensive design experience than that offered by simple numerical examples Examples that require the use of different categories of engineering knowledge under different sets of assumptions

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Question

banks

to

assist

instructors

to

design

good

tests

and

examinations Additional reading material for underperforming students, especially those with difficulties with English Additional reading material for over-achievers Historical information and anecdotes related to specific topics Creation of the e-learning material in those formats which ensure that the content creation and course management platforms are decoupled. Simple course management packages that provide features like e-mail queries by students, bulletin board and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are being incorporated. Every module was prepared preferably by a team of faculty. The material is organized to create CDs/DVDs to meet the needs of students of different universities. The same material can be suitably restructured for printing if needed.

2.6. Video Material: The following summarizes the programme for video lectures: The course consists of around 40 video lectures. Each video lecture is of one hour duration. To enhance the longevity of the video lectures, it was suggested that they should not be too specific to syllabi but should be confined to core concepts. Its contents were suggested to be distinct from text book and web support material. The video lectures utilize a multitude of facilities of the video medium such as chalk-and-talk, tablet writing, power point, two and three dimensional animations, interactive codes etc. The lectures were intended to motivate the student by emphasizing why he/she must study a topic in a subject, and often related to industrial practice as appropriate.

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Creation of video lecture units was not tied necessarily with the scheduling of regular courses in the Institution.

The review process is similar to that of web material.

2.7. Deployment and Follow-up Services The following actions have been taken towards the deployment of the web and video courses for the benefit of students teachers and professionals. Host the e-content on a web site that students have free access to. E-content can be made available in the form of CDs/DVDs. Colleges will be encouraged to host these materials on one of their servers and allow students to access. E-content can be converted into print form and then distributed at a low cost. But this format will not allow the flexibility of e-material, where one can navigate from one point to the other in a module, and also, when the courses contain animations or interactive templates or both. Some or all of the following simple course management features are being introduced, namely Keeping track of the extent of usage of the material (feedback for the project) Collecting feedback, from both students and faculty, on the content Answering specific queries on the subject.

This would require creation of an elaborate structure and network that can be sustained beyond the project period as well. Engineering institutions all over the country will be encouraged to obtain NPTEL contents and make them available to their faculty and students in their campus intranet. All video courses will also be provided to them in a format ready for streaming in campus networks as videos-on-demand. The minimum hardware configuration needed for this purpose is suggested in Annexure 6. A fee will be collected from private institutions which will be used to provide technology support and content up gradation in the immediate future.

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Section 3: Project Activities 3.1. Identification of Courses and Faculties

One of the first tasks of NPTEL was the identification of faculty and courses in all the disciplines mentioned above. The first meeting of the PIC in May, 2003 in New Delhi adopted the procedure introduced earlier and finalized the names of the faculty coordinators in each discipline from each PI. Also all activities in each discipline were coordinated by PDCs chosen by the PIC. The names are given in the Annexure 4. The following tables give the final list of courses in Web/Video format prepared by faculty in each discipline along with their names and affiliations A table is given below which describes courses distributed as web or video across various PIs: This is followed by a more comprehensive list of courses discipline-wise and Institute-wise. List of NPTEL Courses by the Institute and by the Discipline Institute Discipline Core Civil Computer Electrical Electronics Mechanical Total IIT B W 3 3 1 2 4 3 16 V 0 3 2 2 4 2 13 IIT D W 2 3 2 2 1 3 13 V 3 2 3 3 3 3 17 IIT G W 3 3 3 0 4 3 16 V 0 2 0 0 1 2 05 IIT K W 4 3 2 2 4 4 19 V 3 3 4 3 3 4 20 IIT KG W 0 3 4 5 3 3 18 V 1 3 4 6 5 3 22 IIT M W 5 5 6 3 1 4 24 V 3 3 3 2 4 4 19 IIT R W 0 1 0 0 2 3 06 V 3 3 0 0 0 3 9 IISc W 0 5 5 2 2 3 17 V 1 0 1 2 1 0 05

W- Web, V- Video

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List for total number of Web and Video Courses by Discipline - Wise S. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Total Core Civil Computer Electrical Electronics Mechanical 17 26 23 16 21 26 129 14 19 17 18 21 21 110 Discipline Web Video

3.1.1 Core Sciences and Engineering Institute IIT Bombay Course Engineering Chemistry I Mathematics I Engineering Physics II IIT Delhi Engineering Chemistry II Environment and Ecology Applied Mechanics Material Science Management Science I IIT Guwahati Engineering Physics I (theory) W Mathematics III Web/ Video W W W W W V V V W Faculty Coordinators Prof. B. L. Tembe (Coordinator) Prof K. Mangala Sunder (IITM) Prof. Inder K. Rana Prof. D. K. Ghosh Prof. H. M. Chawla Prof. R. N. Ram Prof. (Ms) Anuradha Sharma Prof. V. B. Upadhyay Prof. R. K. Mittal Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi Prof. S. K. Gupta Prof. (Ms) Anuradha Sharma Prof. M. Guru Prem Prasad Prof. Durga C. Dalal Prof. Alika Khare Prof. Pratima Agarwal Prof. S. Ravi

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Engineering Physics I (Experiment) IIT Kanpur Numerical Analysis in Computer Programming W W

Prof. Alika Khare Prof. Pratima Agarwal Prof. S. Ravi Prof. Rathish Kumar Prof. V. Raghavendra Prof. M. K. Kadalbajoo Prof. P. B. Sunil Kumar (IITM) Prof. Peeyush Chandra Prof. Arbind K. Lal W Prof. Alok K. Maloo Prof. V. Raghavendra Prof. G. Santhanam

Mathematics II

Basic Electronics Engineering Mechanics Engineering Mechanics Mathematics I

W W V V

Prof. Y. N. Singh Prof. Manoj K. Harbola Prof. Manoj K. Harbola Prof. Swagato K. Ray Prof. Shobha Madan Prof. P. Shunmugaraj Prof. V. Ravishankar Prof. S. Raychaudhuri Prof. S. Bharadwaj Prof. K. Mangala Sunder Prof. T. S. Natarajan Prof. P. B. Sunil Kumar Prof. T. S. Natarajan Prof. M. Thenmozhi Prof. R. Madhumathi Prof. M. S. Subramanian

Engineering Physics II IIT Kharagpur IIT Madras Physics I Oscillations and Waves Engineering Chemistry I Basic Electronics and Lab Numerical Analysis and Computer Programming Basic Electronics and Lab Management Science I Management Science II Environmental Chemistry

V V V V V W W W W

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Engineering Chemistry III W

Prof. S. Sankararaman Prof. N. Narasimhamurthy Prof. K. M. Muraleedharan Prof. Santosh Gharpure Prof. Jagdish Rai V Prof. Ishwar Singh Prof. G. D. Verma Prof. K. L. Yadav Prof. H.G. Sharma V Prof. Sunita Gakkhar Prof. Tanuja Srivastava Prof. P. N. Agarwal Prof. Tanuja Srivastava Prof. K. B. Akhilesh

IIT Roorkee

Engineering Physics I

Mathematics II

Mathematics III IISc Bangalore Management Science

V V

3.1.2 Civil Engineering

Institute

Course

Web/ Video W W W V V V W W W V V

Faculty Coordinators Prof. R. S. Jangid Prof. Dipankar Choudhury Prof. Tom V. Mathew Prof. P. Banerjee Prof. T. I. Eldho Prof. B. V. S. Viswanadham Prof. Ashok Gupta Prof. Mukesh Khare Prof. Y. Nath Prof. Ashok Gupta Prof. B. Bhattacharjee

IIT Bombay Structural Analysis I Foundation Engineering Transportation Engineering I Structural Analysis II Fluid Mechanics Soil Mechanics IIT Delhi Strength of Materials Environmental Air Pollution Mechanics of Solids Structural Analysis I Civil Engineering Materials

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IIT Guwahati

Construction Planning and Management Fluid Mechanics

Prof. Arbind Kumar Singh

W W V V W

Prof. Subhashisa Dutta Prof. N. Sahoo Prof. Baleshwar Singh Prof. Damodar Maity Prof. Arup Kumar Sharma Prof. Purnendu Bose

Soil Mechanics Design of Steel Structures Hydraulics IIT Kanpur Water and Waste Water Engineering Advanced Transportation Engineering Modern Surveying Techniques Environmental Air Pollution Water Resources Engineering

Prof. Partha Chakraborty Prof. Animesh Das Prof. Onkar Dikshit

W V V V W W W V V

Prof. Mukesh Sharma Prof. Rajesh Srivastava Prof. P. Mohapatra Prof. Bharat Lohani Prof. L. S. Ramachandra Prof. J. N. Bandyopadhyay

Surveying IIT Kharagpur Structural Analysis II Design of Concrete Structures Water Resources Engineering Strength of Materials Introduction to Transportation Engineering

Prof. Dhrubajyoti Sen Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya Prof. Bhargab Maitra Prof. K. S. Reddy

Engineering Geology IIT Madras Design of Steel Structures I

V W

Prof. Debasis Roy Prof. A. R. Santhakumar Prof. S. R. Satish Kumar Prof. A. R. Santhakumar Prof. S. R. Satish Kumar Prof. Devdas Menon Prof. A. Sen Gupta

Design of Steel Structures II

Pre-stressed Concrete Structures

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Hydraulics

Prof. B. S. Thandaveswara Prof. B. S. Murthy Prof. A. Veeraraghavan

Infrastructure Planning and Management Construction Planning and Management Pre-stressed Concrete Structures Water and Waste Water Engineering

Prof. K. N. Satyanarayana Prof. K. Ananthanarayanan Prof. Devdas Menon Prof. A. Sen Gupta Prof. Ligy Philip

Prof. C. Venkobachar Prof. B. S. Murty

IIT Roorkee Surveying Foundation Engineering

Prof. J. K. Ghosh Prof. G. Mahendra Singh

Prof. N. K. Samadhiya Prof. Priti Maheswari

Advanced Transportation Engineering Modern Surveying Techniques IISc Bangalore Fundamentals of Environmental Geotechnology Optimization Methods Reliability Engineering Composite Materials Computational Hydraulics

Prof. Rajat Rastogi

Prof. S. K. Ghosh

Prof. T. G. Sitharam W Prof. P. V. Siva Pullaiyah

W W W W

Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar Prof. G. L. Sivakumar Babu Prof. P. C. Pandey Prof. M. S. Mohan Kumar

3.1.3 Computer Science and Engineering

Institute

Course

Web/ Video

Faculty Coordinators Prof. Abhiram G. Ranade

IIT Bombay Design and Analysis of Algorithms W

Prof. Ajit A. Diwan

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Prof. Sundar Viswanathan Software Engineering V Prof. Rushikesh K. Joshi Prof. Umesh Bellur Prof. N. L. Sarda Design and Analysis of Algorithms V Prof. Abhiram G. Ranade Prof. Ajit A. Diwan Prof. Sundar Viswanathan IIT Delhi Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming Principles of Languages Computer Graphics Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Architecture IIT Guwahati Computer Organization and Architecture Data Structures and Program Methodology Theory of Automata and Formal Languages IIT Kanpur Compiler Design Computer Organization and Architecture Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming Theory of Automata and Formal Languages Parallel Algorithms Bioinformatics Algorithms IIT Computer Networks Programming W Prof. S. Arun Kumar

V W V V W

Prof. S. Arun Kumar

Prof. Prem K. Kalra Prof. Naveen Garg

Prof. Anshul Kumar Prof. Jatindra Kumar Deka

Prof. S. V. Rao Prof. Pradip K. Das Prof. Diganta Goswami

W W W

Prof. Sanjeev K. Aggarwal Prof. Bhaskar Raman

Prof. Deepak Gupta

V V V W W W

Prof. Somenath Biswas

Prof. Phalguni Gupta Prof. Somenath Biswas Prof. Ajit Pal Prof. Rajib Mall Prof. S. Sarkar Prof. P. Mitra

Kharagpur Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence

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Real Time Systems Computer Networks Artificial Intelligence

W V V V V W

Prof. Rajib Mall Prof. Sujoy Ghosh Prof. S. Sarkar Prof. Anupam Basu Prof. Indranil Sengupta Prof. Ajit Pal Prof. D. Janaki Ram

Internet Technology Data Communication IIT Madras Object Oriented System Design Introduction to Database Systems and Design CAD for VLSI Design I CAD for VLSI Design II Principles of Communication Computer Networks Database Design

W W W W W V V V W W W W W V

Prof. P. Sreenivasa Kumar

Prof. Shankar Balachandran Prof. V. Kamakoti Prof. Shankar Balachandran Prof. V. Kamakoti Hema A. Murthy Hema A. Murthy Prof. Srinath Srivasthava (IIITB) Prof. D. Janaki Ram Prof. Sukendu Das Prof. Kamala Krithivasan Prof. N. J. Rao Prof. Krishna Kumar

Computer Graphics Discrete Structures IISc Bangalore Digital Systems Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Operating Systems System Analysis and Design Data Communications System Analysis and Design

Prof. P. C. P. Bhatt Prof. V. Rajaraman Prof. H. S. Jamadagni Prof V. Rajaraman

3.1.4 Electrical Engineering

Institute

Course

Web/ Video V

Faculty Coordinators Prof. S. D. Agashe

IIT Bombay Control Engineering

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Power Electronics

V W W W W V V V W W V V V

Prof. B. G. Fernandes Prof. Kishore Chatterjee Prof. S. A. Soman Prof. A. M. Kulkarni

Power System Protection Power Systems Operation and Control IIT Delhi Control Engineering Industrial Drives Embedded Systems Bio-Medical Engineering Circuit Theory IIT Kanpur Power Systems Analysis High Voltage Engineering Intelligent System Modeling and Simulation Power Systems Operation and Control IIT Kharagpur Basic Electrical Technology

Prof. M Gopal Prof. K. Rajagopal Prof. Santanu Chaudhary Prof. S. Anand Prof. S. C. Dutta Roy Prof. Arindam Ghosh Prof. Ravindra Arora Prof. Laxmidhar Behera Prof. Laxmidhar Behera Prof. S. N. Singh

Prof. G. D. Roy W Prof. N. K. De Prof. T. K. Bhattacharya

Industrial Automation and Control Illumination Engineering Power Electronics

W W

Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay Prof. S. Sen Prof. N. K. Kishore Prof. D. Kastha

Prof. D. Prasad Prof. N. K. De Prof. S. Sengupta

Embedded Systems W

Prof. Amit Patra Prof. Rajib Mall Prof. A. Routray

Chaos, Fractals and Dynamic Systems Energy resources and Technology

Prof. S. Banerjee

Prof. S. Banerjee

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Industrial Instrumentation Industrial Automation and Control Illumination Engineering Power Systems Analysis IIT Madras Electrical Machines I

V V V V

Prof. Alok Barua Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay

Prof. N. K. Kishore Prof. A. K. Sinha Prof. Krishna Vasudevan

Prof. G. Sridhara Rao Prof. P. Sasidhara Rao

Electrical Machines II W

Prof. Krishna Vasudevan Prof. G. Sridhara Rao Prof. P. Sasidhara Rao

Industrial Instrumentation Electromagnetic Fields Electrical and Electronic Measurements IISc Bangalore Non-Conventional Energy Systems Numerical Analysis Industrial Drives Basic Electrical Technology

W V V

Prof. V. Jayashankar Prof. Hari Ramachandran Prof. V. Jagadish Kumar

W W V V

Prof. L. Umanand

Prof. Vittal Rao Prof. K. Gopakumar Prof. L. Umanand

3.1.5 Electronics and Communication Engineering

Institute

Course

Web/ Video W W

Faculty Coordinators Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar Prof. D. K. Ghosh Prof. V. M. Gadre

IIT Bombay Optical Communication

Signals and Systems

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VLSI Design Transmission Lines and EM Waves Broadband Networks : Concepts and Technology Information Theory and Coding Transmission Lines and EM Waves Digital Communication IIT Delhi Semiconductor Devices Wireless Communication Principles of Communication Digital Signal Processing IIT Guwahati IC Technology Digital Circuits

W W

Prof. A. N. Chandorkar Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar

Prof. Abhay Karandikar

Prof. S. N. Merchant

V V W V V V W

Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar

Prof. D. Manjunath Prof. G. S. Visweswaran Prof. Ranjan Bose Prof. Surendra Prasad Prof. S. C. Dutta Roy Prof. Anil Mahanta Prof. Roy Paily Palathinkal Prof. Roy Paily Palathinkal Prof. Indrajit Chakraborty Prof. Prabin K. Bora

Probability and Random Processes Electromagnetic Fields Basic Electronics IIT Kanpur Digital Signal Processing High Speed Semiconductor Devices Microcontrollers and Applications Digital Image Processing Analog Circuits

W W V W W

Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee Prof. Chitralekha Mahanta Prof. Govind Sharma Prof. Anjan Kumar Ghosh

W W V

Prof. Shyama P. Das

Prof. (Ms) Sumana Gupta Prof. B. Mazahari Prof. J. John Prof. R. N. Biswas

Optical Communication System

Prof. Yatindra N. Singh

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Signals and Systems IIT Multimedia Processing

V W W

Prof. K. S. Venkatesh Prof. Somnath Sengupta Prof. S. L. Maskara

Kharagpur Communication Networks and Switching Digital Communication

Prof. R. V. Rajakumar Prof. S Chakrabarti Prof. Mrityunjoy Chakraborty

Probability and Random Variables Digital Systems Design Digital Image Processing Digital Voice and Picture Communication Adaptive Signal Processing IIT Madras Principles of Communication Digital Circuits and Systems Solid State Devices High Speed Devices and Circuits VLSI Circuits IIT Roorkee Basic Electronics Analog Circuits IISc Bangalore Information Theory and Coding Basics of VLSI VLSI Design

V V V V V W V V V V W W W V W

Prof. D. Roychoudhury Prof. P. K. Biswas Prof. S. Sengupta

Prof. M. Chakraborty Prof. V. Venkat Rao Prof. S. Srinivasan Prof. S. Karmalkar Prof. K. N. Bhat

Prof. S. Srinivasan Prof. Pramod Agarwal Prof. Pramod Agarwal Prof. Pavan S Nuggehalli

Prof. H. S. Jamadagni Prof. H. S. Jamadagni

3.1.6 Mechanical Engineering

Institute IIT Bombay

Course Advanced Strength of Materials

Web / Video V

Faculty Coordinators Prof. S. K. Maiti

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Robotics W

Prof. C. Amarnath Prof. B. Seth Prof. K. Kurien Isaac Prof. P. S. Gandhi Prof. P. Seshu

Dynamics of Machines W

Prof. P. Seshu Prof. K. Kurien Isaac Prof. C. Amarnath

Heat and Mass Transfer

Prof. U. N. Gaitonde Prof. S. V. Prabhu Prof. C. Amarnath Prof. B. Seth

Robotics V

Prof. K. Kurien Isaac Prof. P. S. Gandhi Prof. P. Seshu

IIT Delhi

Product and Production Management Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing Kinematics

Prof. Arun Kanda Prof. S. G. Deshmukh Prof. Anup Chawla Prof. P. V. Madhusudan Rao Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee Prof. A. K. Mallik (IITK) Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee Prof. A. K. Mallik (IITK) Prof. Arun Kanda

Kinematics

Project and Production Management Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

Prof. Anoop Chawla Prof. P. V. Madhusudan Rao

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Engineering Mechanics

W W V W V V V W V W W V

Prof. U. S. Dixit Prof. Rajiv Tiwari Prof. S. K. Dwivedy Prof. U. S. Dixit Prof. A. K. Das Prof. Rajiv Tiwari Prof. S. K. Dwivedy Prof. A. K. Mallik Prof. Amitabha Ghosh Prof. Gautam Biswas Prof. S. K. Som (IIT Kgp) Prof. C. S. Upadhayay Prof. P. M. Dixit Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya Prof. Sanjay Mittal Prof. R. Srivastava Prof. Gautam Biswas

Guwahati Mechanical Vibrations

Engineering Mechanics Fluid Machinery Vibration Engineering

IIT Kanpur

Kinematics of Machines Dynamics of Machines Fluid Mechanics

Finite Element Method Finite Element Method Materials Selection and Design Fluid Mechanics

Fluid Machinery W

Prof. Subrata Sarkar Prof S. K. Som (IITKgp)

IIT Kharagpur

Manufacturing Processes II W

Prof. A. B. Chattopadhyay Prof. A. K. Chattopadhyay Prof. S. Paul

Design of Machine Elements I W

Prof. S. K. Roychowdhury Prof. B. Maiti Prof. G. Chakraborty

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Manufacturing Processes II

Prof. M. Ramgopal

Prof. A. B. Chattopadhyay V Prof. A. K. Chattopadhyay Prof. S. Paul

Design of Machine Elements I

Prof. B. Maiti Prof. G. Chakraborty

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Refrigeration and Air Conditioning IIT Madras Mechanical Measurements and Metrology Applied Thermodynamics

Prof. M. Ramgopal

Prof. S. P. Venkateshan

Prof. T. Sundararajan W Prof. J. M. Mallikarjuna Prof. U. S. P. Shet

Machine Design II

W W V

Prof. K. Gopinath Prof. M. M. Mayuram Prof. M. S. Sivakumar Prof. S. P. Venkateshan

Strength of Materials Mechanical Measurements and Metrology Applied Thermodynamics

Prof. T. Sundararajan V Prof. J. M. Mallikarjuna Prof. U. S. P. Shet

Machine Design II

V V W

Prof. K. Gopinath Prof. M. M. Mayuram Prof. G. Srinivasan Prof. S. C. Sharma Prof. H. S. Shan

Advanced Operations Research IIT Roorkee Strength of Materials Manufacturing Processes I

Prof. S. R. Gupta Prof. Pradeep Kumar

Industrial Engineering W

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Prof. H. S. Shan (retd.) Prof. P. K. Jain

Strength of Materials

Prof. Prof. S. P. Harsa Prof. B. K. Mishra Prof. D. K. Dwivedi

Manufacturing Processes I V

Prof. Indradeep Singh Prof. Pradeep Kumar

Industrial Engineering V

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Prof. D. K. Dwivedi Prof. P. K. Jain

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IISc Bangalore

Basic Thermodynamics

W W W

Prof. Pradip Dutta Prof. K. Srinivasan Prof. Pradip Dutta Prof. Satish V. Kailas

Heat and Mass Transfer Materials Science

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3.2 Infrastructure Development 3.2.1. Video The software and hardware required for both the video and the web program were identified based on the facilities which exist in IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras. The equipment consists primarily of Sony Digital Video (Camcorders) and associated non-linear editing equipment. All video equipments have been installed and all IITs and IISc have been recording lectures routinely. Pictures of video studio created by the PIs under the NPTEL project are included in Annexure 5. The PIs have added state-of-the-art non-linear video editing facilities which can produce video materials with broadcast quality. Industry-leading software such as AvidXpress, DPSVelocity and Final Cut from Apple are some of the professional software used for video editing. 3.2.2 Software and Hardware for Web Courses Web content requires considerable design and quality production. Though one would like to use and suggest as much free software as possible, the lack of compatibility between different operating systems and lack of uniform standards are major issues with open software. Those who have strong anti voices to the above statement are all professional developers themselves or their expertise in this matter was built over several years. There is a big learning curve for most faculty and students with open systems. Also strict adherence to quality control, IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) and Internet standards (which are built in a layer that one does not have to worry about) and professional support that institutions can receive from commercial software developers, are too important factors to ignore. One must also note that most of the "good" freeware eventually transform to shareware and finally to commercial products. Hence the Programme Implementation Committee which met at IIT Delhi in May 2003 and later at IIT Kharagpur in August 2003 authorized the national web coordinator to suggest the required hardware and professional software for web courses based on the experience IIT Madras has had in creating the web studio for its own faculty to design and offer courses in the web. Software programs suggested below are among the best in the market and have been obtained by PIs based on volume discount prices negotiated under the umbrella of NPTEL.

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A set of Macromedia (now an integral part of Adobe Inc.) suite containing the following six commercial products discounted heavily for academic Institutions in India, namely Authorware Professional 6 (Academic license), Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks MX, Director 8.0, and Freehand 10

Mathtype by Mathtype Inc. which is a web based equation editor Adobe Acrobat Standard for making pdf files Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for photo and video editing 3D Max Studio by AutoDesk Inc. for three dimensional animations and digital movies A web server (E-learning platform) such as WebCT, Blackboard, Acado for hosting courses. IIT Kanpur has developed its own open source e-platform called Brihaspati which was developed by Professor Y. N. Singh in the Electrical Engineering Department under a Ministry of Information Technology Project on e-learning. The server Acado, also developed by Alumni of IIT Kanpur under the direction of its former Professor in Electrical Engineering (Professor K. R. Srivathsan, currently Director, IIITM Kerala) is not only a web server but has other administrative functions built in and is the least expensive among full-fledged commercial e-servers as above. There are a large number of open source and free learning management systems available from the web which can be used for each IIT's own program of creating web content and supplements for its own students besides hosting the NPTEL course contents.

One web server (hardware for the project as part of the Web program). IIT Madras has purchased two 64-processor (128 GB RAM and 4 TB storage space) SunFire 15K from Sun Microsystems Inc. for its projects on e-learning and digital library and has allocated a large domain of one of these servers for hosting NPTEL contents under open access. The NPTEL website is currently accessed from this server. Mirrors of NPTEL website are being set up in all PIs.

3.3. Creation of NPTEL Web Site and Its Mirrors A website with the following URL (Uniform Resource Locator) was registered with the Computer Centre of IIT Madras for hosting NPTEL programme. The URL is http://nptel.iitm.ac.in. The website contains extensive information about the programme including the curricula on the basis of which the courses have been

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designed. All web courses that have been developed under the first phase of the NPTEL project are currently available freely from this site for everyone. Each web course is also associated with a discussion forum for generating interactions between faculty developers and users and also for peer to peer interactions among users. This document is also available from the website as a Pdf file. Mirror sites of the IIT Madras website are being created all over the country and a simple mirror site integration and updating protocol will be employed to continuously update mirrors. The website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in was launched officially earlier on September 3rd by the Honourable Minister for HRD, Shri. Arjun Singh in a function held in IIT Madras. From September 5, 2006, it has been updated with course materials periodically. Visitors to this website were earlier requested to register themselves free of charge. The site is being continually updated and within ten months from its launch date in September, more than 1,60,000 users have registered and more than 5,80,000 visits have been recorded. This is a sign of the expectations building up among the users and their interest in using the contents developed so far. The profile of the users is given below, and covers geographically 140 countries or more (numbers rounded to nearest 100).

Working Professionals, 80900, 50%

Student, 68800, 42%

Student Teacher Working Professionals

Teacher, 12200, 8%

Fig.1 User Category (till July 2007)

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140000 120000 100000 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 India Not mentioned other

Registrants 121200 31100 9600

Fig. 2 User distribution (global, till July 2007)

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4500 4000 Australia 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Australia Canada Germany Iceland Indonesia Kuwait Malaysia Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore UAE UK Canada Germany Iceland Indonesia Kuwait Malaysia Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore UAE UK USA

No. of Registrants 300 200 200 400 300 200 100 100 200 300 500 1000 600

Fig. 3 User Distribution (International, till July 2007)

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More than 90 percent of the users are from India and they are distributed among three classes, namely, teachers (8%), students (42%) and working professionals (50%). The users outside of India are mostly from the United States, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, United Kingdom and Australia with the remaining being distributed globally. The number of registrants to this website has been seeing a steady increase on a daily basis and the trend is only likely to continue. The practice of registering new users and restricting access through login id and password has been withdrawn since November 2007. Users can freely browse the contents and are requested to provide their e-mail optionally if they wish to participate in feedback, discussions etc. 3.4. National Workshops Conducted Several workshops have been conducted under the auspices of NPTEL. A workshop on web content development has been conducted in IIT Madras on August 25-26, 2003 to introduce to the faculty coordinators, simple web design and creation of static and dynamic course content. It also addressed the issues on copyrights of authors on the web. The proceedings of the workshop have been digitally recorded and made available to all PIs for distribution to all the faculty developing courses for the NPTEL. IIT Kharagpur conducted a Web content development workshop in November 20-21, 2003 for its faculty along similar lines. IIT Guwahati has also conducted a session with the help of the national web coordinator for its faculty on December 8, 2003. IIT Madras conducted two workshops in 2004 in which approximately 90 faculty members in various disciplines from colleges in the South zone participated and were appraised of the development of course work. Their feedback was later incorporated by course developers. IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay have also conducted two workshops each for faculty users in the respective states and nearby area. Four national level workshops were conducted after launching the NPTEL programme by the ministry. Several workshops will be conducted in the near future for faculty members in the use of interaction and feedback by students who might use the developed content. The utilities of Content Management System (CMS) and Learning Management System (LMS) will be explained. It will also expose them to the modular design of learning and encourage them to work closely with course coordinators for tailoring the contents for their institutions. This series will be in all six disciplines and

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will be spread between PIs. A workshop will be held on emerging e-learning standards to all faculty coordinators of the NPTEL project in IIT Madras in the near future. The web site http://nptel.iitm.ac.in will post all announcements.

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Annexures Annexure 1. National Programme Committee (NPC) (2003-2007) 1. Shri Ravi Mathur, Joint Secretary (Technical Education) MHRD Current Chairman 2. Prof. M. S. Ananth, Director, IIT Madras & Chairman, PIC, NPTEL 3. Two TEL Coordinators from the Resource Institutions (by rotation) 4. Representative of the Department of Information Technology 5. Nominee of the Chairman, University Grants Commission 6. Nominee of the Chairman, All India Council of Technical Education 7. Director, Technical Teacher's Training Institute, Chandigarh 8. Prof. K. Mangala Sunder, IIT Madras, National Coordinator-Web based Courseware 9. Prof. Kushal Sen, IIT Delhi, National Coordinator - Video based Courseware 10. Prof. N. J. Rao, CEDT, IISc Bangalore 11. A Nominee of Indira Gandhi National Open University 12. Prof. K. R. Srivathsan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala 13. Financial Advisor MHRD or his nominee 14. Director, MHRD as Convener.

The Committees mandate is as follows: 1. Approve the Programme Implementation Plan to be prepared by the PIC 2. Function as a grants-in aid committee and release funds under NPTEL to PIs based on their need and level of participation 3. Constitute subject-level expert group (s) (for each of the common core subjects, namely, electrical, mechanical, civil, electronics and communication and computer science and engineering) to ensure harmonization of curriculum 4. Ensure quality and certification of courseware produced under the programme 5. Finalize deployment of the developed learning material 6. Establish procedures for Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and related issues 7. Ensure inter-institutional coordination with other Ministries/ Departments and AICTE at the national level and assume overall responsibility for all activities under this programme and

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8. Take decisions on all other matters related and incidental to policy matters. The Chairman, with the permission of the Committee, may co-opt or invite such other person(s) as deemed appropriate to participate at any of its meetings as its special invitees. The Committee shall meet at least half-yearly. The department of Secondary & Higher Education would provide necessary secretarial and other assistance to the Committee.

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Annexure 2. Programme Implementation Committee (PIC) (2003-2007) 1. Prof. M. S. Ananth, Director, IIT Madras - Chairman 2. Representative of the MHRD 3. ALL TEL Coordinators from the PIs 4. Director, National Institute of Technology, Calicut 5. Prof. D. Acharya (formerly Vice-Chancellor, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi) Director, IIT Kharagpur 6. Prof. K. Rajani Kanth, Head, Information Technology Department, M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore 7. Dr. Pradeep Kaul, Director, Consortium of Educational Communication (University Grants Commission) 8. Prof. Kushal Sen, IIT Delhi, National Coordinator - Video based Courseware 9. Prof. K. Mangala Sunder, IIT Madras, National Coordinator - Web-based Courseware 10. Prof. K. R. Srivathsan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala 11. Prof. N. J. Rao, CEDT, IISc Bangalore. This Committee shall be responsible for: 1. Preparation of the Programme Implementation Plan. This document shall define specific goals and activities, identify resources needed, delineate responsibilities and establish procedures and norms for programme activities, set up a time-table for action, outline mechanisms for quality assurance of the developed courseware and forecast outcomes with a definite time line. 2. Allocation of activities to different resource institutions and ensuring interinstitutional coordination 3. Selection of courses both for video (new as well as updating existing) and web-based development [at least 100 existing video courses to be updated and a minimum of 100 new video courses and a minimum of 100 web-based courses to be developed] 4. Finalization of equipment support for PIs

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5. Taking decisions on standards, conventions & notations and all aspects related to instructional design to ensure consistency in the entire effort 6. Finalization of courseware development, authoring and simulation tools 7. Devising strategy for updating courseware developed already 8. Recommendation of a package of financial and academic incentives for faculty to motivate them to participate in courseware development 9. Planning and organizing orientation and training programmes and workshops 10. Collecting and collating reports in a predetermined format, and providing the needed interface with the Ministry and National Programme Committee 11. Advising on strategy for deployment of the developed learning material 12. Advising on Copyright and IPR issues 13. Ensuring timely and effective implementation and 14. Overseeing all other matters related and incidental to implementation of the programme. The Chairman with the permission of the Committee may co-opt or invite such other person(s) as deemed appropriate to participate at any of its meetings as its special invitees. The Committee shall meet at least once every three months. Expenses for travel of outstation members will be met from the grants provided under this programme.

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Annexure 3. NPTEL Coordinators for Each Participating Institution (2003 onwards)

Institute IIT Bombay IIT Delhi

Names Prof. R. K. Shevgoankar Prof. Kannan Moudgalya Prof. Kushal Sen Prof. Anupam Dewan (till

E-Mail Address [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

IIT Guwahati

2005) Prof. Rajiv Tiwari Prof. Arbind Kumar Singh Prof. Gautam Biswas Prof. Satyaki Roy Prof. A. K. Ray Prof. Bani Bhattacharya Prof. M. Singaperumal Prof. K. Mangala Sunder Prof. Vinod Kumar (till 2004)

IIT Kanpur IIT Kharagpur IIT Madras

[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected]

IIT Roorkee

Prof. Pradeep Kumar (till 2006) Prof. B. Mohanty Prof. N. J. Rao (till 2006) Prof. K. Gopakumar

IISc Bangalore

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Annexure 4 Feedback from Workshops. The four National workshops which were conducted for a little more than 500 faculty members from engineering institutions all over the country were designed to provide one-to-one interaction between them and the subject matter experts from IITs and IISc. The participants were requested to give their feedback on the values addition that the NPTEL course materials might provide and the extent to which the institutions would adopt the course materials. The following feedback forms were designed to be used in all the four National workshops. The outcome from one such workshop has been made available as a separate document along with this. Participants Feedback form NPTEL Workshop Techno park, Trivandrum Jan 5-6, 2007 The Participants Kindly help us in effective implementation of the NPTEL web course materials by answering all the questions in this survey. General 1. Would you like to identify yourself/remain anonymous for the purpose of this survey?

Yes / No

If yes, please provide: If No, please proceed to Q.2 a. Your name b. _______________________________________________ c. Your contact address / phone no. d. _____________________________ e. Your institutional affiliation

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__________________________________

g. Email address h. ____________________________________________ i. Your current position and discipline of interest. (Please tick all that apply) Core Sciences Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Mechanical Engineering Science and

2. How did you come to know of NPTEL? a. Through the announcement of this workshop. b. Other Please specify.____________________________________ 3. Would you be interested in making the course content available locally in your institutional intranet? Yes / No

4. What subject(s) do you teach? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____ 5. Did you find supplementary contents for the course(s) you teach?

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Yes / No Article I. 6. What topics would you like to suggest for further content development? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____ 7. Does your institution provide facilities for localized content development in electronic forms? Yes / No Article II. 8. Would you participate in the process of course development in your specific subject areas? Yes / No

9. Please describe in a few sentences the infrastructure available for curriculum development and internet facilities in your institution. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

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Course specific feedback Use a scale of 17 ( 1 Poor, 2- Strongly disagree, 3- Disagree, 4- Neutral, 5 Agree, 6- Strongly Agree, 7- Excellent ) 1. Course materials are relevant to your University program. 2. Courses materials are clear and understandable. 3. Course materials are modularized for you to use parts of them as stand-alone teaching materials. 4. Courses materials contains sufficient visuals and images 5. Course materials contain sufficient animations and illustrations. 6. Course materials are sufficiently interactive. 7. The difficulty level for the students is appropriate for the subject considered. 8. You would like to design courses in a similar fashion in your area (as open resources) 9. The course layout on the web facilitates easy access.

Feedback on the arrangement: 1. Communications regarding the workshop were promptly made to you. 2. Your accommodation arrangements are satisfactory. 3. Conference venue provides the necessary ambience for your active participations? Yes / No Yes / No

Yes / No

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4. You would like to participate in a similar workshop in which other IITs/IISc faculty who contributed to NPTEL would be present. 5. You would recommend to other faculty in your institute, participation in similar future workshops. Yes / No Yes / No

Thank you very much for the time taken. We look forward to interacting with you in the future. Participants Feedback form NPTEL Workshop Techno park, Trivandrum Jan 5-6, 2007 Feedback form 2 1. Please describe how you propose to use the course contents from NPTEL

2. Please state what needs to be added to the course contents / how they need to be modified for enabling your use. 3. Would you like to be part of a team for further intensive interactions with course developers? Please give your thoughts on how this can be achieved. 4. Would you be interested in setting up web based NPTEL discussion forum in your college / encourage your students for participation in the forum to be set up by NPTEL? 5. Would you be interested in designing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for

NPTEL courses of your interest? 6. In order to increase effective usage of NPTEL courseware, question banks are

needed. Would you participate in this process?

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7. On the current workshop format, please give your thoughts on the following: a. Workshop organization b. Sequence of presentations c. Relevance of presentations d. Adequate time for expression of your views/ appropriate response to your queries e. Parallel sessions how useful they were how they can be restructured etc. f. Facilities at the conference site and reception/help offered.

g. Any other 8. If you think that this workshop, to be replicated in the immediate future, should be in different format, please suggest alternatives.

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Annexure 5: Infrastructure Created using NPTEL This gives below some of the facilities which were created in various IITs and IISc Bangalore through funds provided for the development of courses and the hardware. IIT Bombay:

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IIT Delhi

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IIT Guwahati

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IIT Kanpur

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IIT Kharagpur

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IIT Madras

58

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IIT Roorkee

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IISc Bangalore

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Annexure 6 Hardware Configuration Recommended for User Institutions (to host NPTEL video-on-demand in the intranet) This Annexure provides information for setting up local sites for NPTEL web and video content in engineering institutions in India. Network Infrastructure: The institutions need to have a local area network set up either using cables (100 mbps) or using fibre-optic cable (1-10 gbps) with about 50 nodes for concurrent access. Desired environment: 200 or more nodes connected to the network. Hardware needed: A server with minimum memory support of 2 GB and preferably between 4 and 8 GB. Storage capacity should be a minimum of 2 terabytes and expandable for future additions. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disk) is a must. SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) 250 GB to proprietary 750 GB per hard disk configurations are acceptable). The storage is usually available as SAN storage. This will host all video files. Desired environment: Dual processors/cluster of processors (4-6) each with about 2 GB. UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) rating between 2-4 KVA expected and air conditioning and other clean lab requirement for the servers. Software: OS is specific to the vendor that the college may choose. Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac are all working environments. Streaming video server is a must and should be integrated with the purchase of the hardware. NPTEL video contents will be made available in MPEG4 format with H.264 compressions at 512 kbps bitrate. Current free players which support viewing are Real player, Quick Time (windows/Mac) and VLC players. Hence the OS should be chosen accordingly Windows media player 9 may need additional codecs. Check with the hardware vendor that the streaming software and the players that they suggest conform to this requirement. Web content does not need additional hardware but a few free players (that can be downloaded from the internet) such as Flash player, mathML player might be needed. A learning Management system such as Moodle may be installed in the server and the contents streamed through the LMS for better accountability and monitoring. It is not a must, however. Each software vendor may also offer other suites of software which must be evaluated by the college for the

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Distribution of video content: IlTs / lISc. will arrange for copying of hard disk and distribution. Colleges will be informed of the procedure to contact the nearest lIT / IISc. for content transfer. The web content will be available by the end of December 2007 and the video contents by March 2008. Human resource requirement: At least two faculty members in each institution to supervise the activity and two project associates to maintain the server centre. The faculty and the associates will be the nodal individuals if the Institution wants to contact NPTEL content developers. Announcement of workshops will be made from time to time through the website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in.

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List of Abbreviations (Acronyms) Used API CAI CD CME CMI CMS CMU DVD ETC FAQ GB IEEE IIITB IIITM IIT IIM IISc IPR LMS MoU NPC PC PDC PI PIC RAID TB Associate Partner Institution Computer Assisted Instruction Compact Disc Computer Mediated Education Computer Managed Instruction Content Management System Carnegie Mellon University Digital Video Disc Educational Technology Cell Frequently Asked Question Giga Byte Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala Indian Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Management Indian Institute of Science Intellectual Property Rights Learning Management system Memorandum of Understanding National Programme Committee Project Cell Principal Discipline Coordinator Partner Institution Project Implementation Committee Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks Tera Byte

CEDT Centre for Electronics Design and Technology

MHRD Ministry of Human Resource Development

NPTEL National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning

SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

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TEL Committee Technology Enhanced Learning Target Institution Technical Teachers Training Institute Uninterrupted Power Supply Uniform Resource Locator Video Web

VCTEL Virtual Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning WoTEL Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning WWW World Wide Web

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