Ministry of Human Resource Development of India has been working very hard on one of its biggest initiatives, NPTEL – National Programme of Technology Enhanced Learning. For this initiative, LPU and IIT Madras collaborated and organized a one-day Awareness Workshop on MHRD’s ‘NPTEL’ at the LPU Campus, where 200+ Principals, Deans, HODs and faculty members from 109 universities and colleges took part.
NPTEL is an open platform through which thousands of lectures in engineering and sciences are available free of cost to all from world-renowned colleges and universities.
Prof Andrew Thangaraj and Prof Pratap Haridoss from IIT Madras were the key speakers at the workshop. They highlighted that the opportunities for education via NPTEL are accessible by everyone and that too free of cost. NPTEL contents have been created by 7 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs of Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Patna) and Indian Institute of Sciences (IISC Bangalore); whereas, coordinating Institute for the whole programme is IIT Madras.
LPU Pro-Chancellor Rashmi Mittal shared her views on this initiative by the MHRD and IIT Madras and said, “As education ought to be transformative, accessible to all, and of the highest quality; LPU always welcomes such endeavors by playing a leadership role. LPU already has a league of earnest collaborations with government bodies for many such initiatives.”
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