About VPCOE Baramati
VPCOE has student centered institutional
development as a motto and committed
to pursue academic excellence to develop
a student with comprehensive technical
knowledge and integrated personality.
VPCOE is a Remote Center of IIT Bombay and
IIT Kharagpur under the National Mission on
Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India),
through which more than twenty workshops
and five CEP’s were organized during last two
academic years. Around 2000 students and
faculty members of VPCOE & surrounding
institutes were benefited from these workshops.
VPCOE is also recognized as a center for the
project Quality Enhancement in Engineering
Education (QEEE) by IIT Madras and MHRD
Govt. of India.
Accommodation
The accommodation will be provided by VPCOE
on sharing basis. For more assistance kindly
contact coordinators or visit http://vpcoe.org/
pages/NPTEL.html
Key Resource Persons
Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar
Director,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Prof. Mangala Sunder Krishnan
Web Coordinator (NPTEL),
Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras
Engineering, Science & Management (Principal,
Head of the departments & Faculties)
Prof. Kushal Sen
Coordinator (NPTEL),
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
REGISTRATION
There is No registration fee for the workshop.
Kindly register online at http://vpcoe.org/
pages/NPTEL.html on or before Wednesday 10
September 2014.
NOTE
Travel Allowance (TA) & Workshop Kit would
be provided to all the participants as per
NPTEL rules and regulations. Only outstation
participants are eligible for Travel allowance as
per NPTEL norms.
CERTIFICATE
Participation certificate will be given to all the
participants.
National Programme
on
Technology Enhanced Learning
Prof. A. N. Chandorkar
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
ONE-DAY
WORKSHOP ON
NPTEL
Jointly organized by
NPTEL, IIT BOMBAY
&
Vidya Pratishthan’s
College of Engineering, Baramati
on
Thursday 18th September 2014
at
Contact
Dr. S. B. Deosarkar, Principal
principal@vpcoe.org
Phone : (02112) 239503
Coordinators
Vikas Deshmukh - 9881448595
Rajveer Shastri - 9975393409
Shantanu Jagdale - 9422403881
remoteiitb.vpcoe@gmail.com
The workshop details are available at
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in and www.vpcoe.org
Vidya Pratishthan’s
College of Engineering, Baramati
Vidyanagri, Bhigwan Road Baramati,
Dist. Pune (Maharashtra)
E-Mail : principal@vpcoe.org
Website : www.vpcoe.org
What is NPTEL?
NPTEL is an initiative by the IITs (IIT Bombay,
Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras
and Roorkee) and IISc along with full financial
support by MHRD.
The main objective of the National Programme
on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
is to enhance the quality of engineering
and science education in the country by
developing contents for undergraduate and
postgraduate curricula using video and
web based courses. These courses cover
the syllabi prescribed by universities and
approved by AICTE.
 The basic objective of science and
engineering education in India is to devise
and guide reforms that will transform
India into a strong and vibrant knowledge
economy. In this context, the focus areas
for NPTEL project have been i) higher
education, ii) professional education, iii)
distance education and iv) continuous
and open learning, roughly in that order
of preference.
 Manpower requirement for trained
engineers, scientists and technologists
is far more than the number of qualified
graduates that Indian educational
institutions can provide currently. Among
these, the number of institutions having
fully qualified and trained teachers in all
disciplines being taught forms a small
fraction. A significant fraction of teacher
population is young and inexperienced.
Therefore, it is important for institutions
like IITs, IISc, NITs and other leading
Universities in India to disseminate
teaching/learning content of high quality
through all available media..
 India needs many more teachers for
effective implementation of higher
education in science, technology and
professional courses. Therefore, methods
for training young and inexperienced
teachers to enable them carry out their
academic responsibilities effectively are a
must. NPTEL contents can be used as core
curriculum content for training purposes.
 A large number of students who are unable
to attend scholarly institutions will have
access to quality content through NPTEL.
All those who are gainfully employed in
industries and all other walks of life and
require continuous training and updating
their knowledge can also benefit from
well-developed and peer-reviewed course
contents by the IITs, IISc and other partner
institutions in NPTEL.
NPTEL project has more than 770 courses in
which about 398 courses have been developed
in video format, with each course comprising
of approximately 40 or more one-hour
lectures. The remaining are web courses in
engineering/science and humanities and have
been developed in text format with animations
and other interaction. The project will complete
this task for a total of 1619 courses by next
year.
NPTEL video repository is the largest and
most viewed/accessed educational repository
in the world. It has been visited by 11.4 crore
(11 million) viewers in the YouTube alone. They
are available for use and free downloads by
anyone from the NPTEL website. The videos
cover more than 20 science and engineering
branches and also extend to management,
humanities and social sciences. The videos
are being supplemented by text, quizzes and
assignments. The web courses are complete
courses with text, quizzes and animations.
How NPTEL help the community ?
Course contents are useful for teacher
training and help improve the quality of
students. In addition, course materials (both
web and video) are freely accessible by
everyone independent of their geographic
location. These courses are currently used by
professionals and industry also for updating
their academic background. Open and
distance education using NPTEL contents are
long term prospects for IITs. The contents will
help evolve criteria for focused learning and
a common set of standards for arts, science
and professional education in India through
participation by everyone concerned with
teaching and learning. Link for accessing
NPTEL Courses
http://nptel.Ac.in/ & http://www.youtube.com/iit
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES :
• Discuss ways of accessing NPTEL course
material - free and easy downloads from
NPTEL website
• Identify faculty / institutions interested
in creating / supporting courses
• Familiarize the user community with
courses in their respective areas of
interest
• Discuss ways of integrating NPTEL
courses with existing teaching
• Obtain feedback on course quality &
ways of improving NPTEL courses