SWAYAM -NPTEL – LOCAL CHAPTER
Local Chapter for SWAYAM-NPTEL has been established by Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University, Lucknow from December 2024, a project initiated and funded by Ministry of Education, Government of India. NPTEL is a joint initiative between IITs, IIMs and IISc to offer online courses and certification in humanities, basic sciences, computer science and management.
The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology. In order to ensure best quality content are produced and delivered, nine National Coordinators have been appointed: They are AICTE for self-paced courses, NPTEL for engineering, UGC for post-graduation education, CEC for under-graduate education, NCERT & NIOS for school education, IGNOU for out of the school students and, IIMB for management studies.
This allows students to join in the SWAYAM-NPTEL Courses and the certification exam through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate from the Institutions of National Importance such as IIT’s, IIM’s NIT’s. The main objective of Local Chapter is to provide wider dissemination of the SWAYAM-NPTEL initiatives and integrate MOOCs to mainstream education. The Local Chapter acts as an extended arm of SWAYAM-NPTEL platform. Students are encouraged to enroll in the courses provided in SWAYAM platform under the University Local Chapter.
This will facilitate our students and faculties to use SWAYAM-NPTEL Videos and Web Contents at our campus and also avail the certification exams. Some of the courses offered by SWAYAM-NPTEL are leadership, financial accounting, python for data science, operations research, stress management, cloud computing, human resource development, consumer psychology, population studies, etc.
Instructions for Course Enrolment:
- Visit the SWAYAM-NPTEL course portal.
- Choose the course you want to enroll.
- All registrants have to use their email id while filling their profile.
- While filling the Profile, tick ‘Yes ‘ in Are you a part of an NPTEL local chapter and choose our College name correctly from the drop down menu.
Here are a few resources that will help you in enrolling courses online:
Particulars | Helpful Links |
SWAYAM website | www.swayam.gov.in/about |
NPTEL website | www.nptel.ac.in/initiative |
All Courses | www.swayam.gov.in/explorer |
Details of Local Chapter | www.nptel.ac.in/localchapter |
SWAYAM Plus | www.swayam-plus.swayam2.ac.in |
New Courses in the coming Semester | https://storage.googleapis.com/swayam2_central/assets/pdf/January%202025%20Semester%20Course%20list.pdf |
FAQs | www.swayam.gov.in/faq |
In case of any further clarification or help, Contact
Dr. Ruchita Sujai Chowdhary
Single Point of Contact (SPoC)
Local Chapter / LC ID – 6845
E-mail: swayam-KMCLU-U-0547@kmclu.ac.in