A brand new lecture series from NPTEL by experts! Today's Topic - FILM SENSE

Dear Learners

Join us for a brand new lecture series from NPTEL!

Today's session:

Topic : Film Sense
Speaker : Mr. Badri Venkatesh
Profession : Film Director
Time : 6:00pm
Link to watch : https://youtu.be/loBJPhlh4vA



NPTEL TEAM

NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 47 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear Students

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!
NPTEL offers 47 new open online courses (10 hr course, 20hr course and 40hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering&Science, Management and Humanities.

•    Duration of courses: 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks
•    Online course start date: Jan 18, 2016
•    Last date for enrollment: Jan 25, 2016
•    Certification exam dates: Mar 20, 27 (for 10 and 20hr courses) and Apr 24, May 1(for 40 hr courses)

Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

This site uses your Google account for authentication. You can select the course and click the join button to enroll.

After enrollment you will be able to see the course contents as and when they are made available by the course instructors.

List of 10 hr courses:

1.Probability and Stochastics for finance - Mathamatics/management
2.Introduction to Reciprocal Space - Materials Science
3.Introduction to Research - Multidisciplinary

List of 20 hr courses:

1.Microwave Integrated Circuits - Electronics&Communication
2.Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory - Management
3.Estimation for Wireless Communications –MIMO/ OFDM Cellular and Sensor Networks - Electronics&Communication
4.Airplane Performance- Aerospace
5.Basics of NVH and Its Measurement - Mechanical
6.Marketing I - Management
7.Manufacturing Process Technology -Part I - Mechanical
8.MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation - Chemical
9.Technical English for Engineers - Humanities
10.Introduction to boundary layers - Mechanical
11.Language and Mind - Humanities
12.Chemistry - II - Chemistry
13.Fundamentals of electronic materials and devices - Materials Science
14.Application of Spectroscopic Methods in Molecular Structure Determination - Chemistry
15.Analysis and Modeling of Welding - Materials Science
16.Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy - Materials Science
17.Information Security- II - Computer science
18.Project Planning & Control - Civil
19.Biostatistics and Design of experiments - Biotech
20.Principles of Human Resource Management - Management
21.Health research fundamentals - Humanities
22.Engineering Graphics - Civil
23.2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Computer science
24.2016: An introduction to Haskell Programming    - Computer science
25.2016: Programming, Data structures and Algorithm - Computer science

List of 40 hr courses:

1.Stability and control of aircraft - Aerospace
2.Basics of Finite Element Analysis - Mechanical
3.Electromagnetic theory - Electrical
4.Geology and Soil Mechanics - Civil
5.Phase Diagrams in Materials Science and Engineering - Materials Science
6.Risk and Reliability of offshore structures - Ocean
7.HSE for offshore and petroleum engineers - Ocean
8.Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics
9.Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics - Mechanical
10.Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Computer science
11.Introduction to Machine Learning - Computer science
12.Computational Fluid Dynamics - Chemical
13.Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer - Mechanical
14.Biochemistry - Chemistry
15.Probability and Statistics - Mathematics
16.Industrial Automation and Control - Electrical
17.Probability Methods in Civil Engineering - Civil
18.Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - Mathematics
19.Vibration of structures - Mechanical

Happy Learning!!!!

Warm regards
NPTEL Team
(For any clarifications, please contact nptel@iitm.ac.in)

NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 11 new courses open for enrollment!

2,70,000 registered users on the portal! 
3,83,000 enrollments!
7500+ certificates awarded! 
57 open online courses completed! 
Exams for 18 courses to be conducted in September!

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!

NPTEL offers 11 new open online courses (1 20hr course and 10 10hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering, Biotechnology and Humanities.


Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

Requirement: A google enabled email account


List of courses is:


10 hr courses: (Sep 14 - October 23 2015)

1. Principles of Downstream techniques in Bioprocess (Biotechnology)

2. Mass spectrometry based proteomics (Biotechnology)

3. Proteins and Gel-Based Proteomics (Biotechnology)

4. Basic Calculus for Engineers, Scientists and Economists (Mathematics)

5. Introduction to nonlinear dynamics (Electrical Engineering)

6. Probability and Random Variables/ Processes for Wireless Communications (Electrical Engineering)

7. Manufacturing Systems Technology part II

8. Language and society (Humanities and Social Sciences)

9. Brief introduction to Psychology (Humanities and Social Sciences)

10. Issues in Bioethics (Humanities and Social Sciences)


20 hr course (Sep 7 - Oct 31 2015)

Elements of Visual Representation (Humanities and Social Sciences)


Exam dates: 1 and 8 November 2015 (1-4 pm)

Enroll today at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in and learn from the course you are interested in. 


Warm regards

NPTEL Team

(for any queries: email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in)

Video feedback from students for online certification courses

Dear student

Thank you for enrolling in this course and hope you are continuing with us in this journey of learning from certification courses.

We value your feedback very much and thank you if you have filled the feedback form.

We wish to now create a video on student feedback..

So please record your views about your experience of having gone through the course using the online mode of learning - your motive behind registering for the course, how you came to know about it, where do you think you could use the certificate, etc - as a video, upload it on youTube and send us the link in the url given here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YEFQ2h26EWrxTLmm0xIh_tS-D5DzxRlrI90JPU0vA-k/viewform?c=0&w=1

we would go through them and select the best videos for upload on our portal as testimonials and in other videos we create about NPTEL.

We request you to give your name, if you are a student or a working professional and other details (such as college name or work place, if you would want to), the course you took and your feedback about the same.

You can record this using your mobile phone or your laptop/desktop using a webcam or with the help of a friend. If a group of you had applied and given the exam, you could all make the video together too.

Warm regards
NPTEL team, IIT Madras

Feedback about the course

Dear student

Thank you very much for enrolling to this course and being with us through it.
Hope you enjoyed the experience and benefited from it.

Those who have not given the feedback, Please give the feedback, it will be useful useful for us.

We wish to get your feedback about the course, which is very important to us - as it gives us an idea of you found the course (the teaching, the assignments and exams), the areas where we need to improve, the processes we need to change to make it easier for you all and also other inputs on the courses you would want offered, etc.

Kindly follow the link given below and fill in the feedback form and help us improve the service we render.

We hope you continue your journey with us by taking up more courses with us. Good luck for your future.

Warm regards
- NPTEL team

Certificate Format

Dear student

We have made a small modification in the certificates.

1. The certificate for a student scoring lesser than 60% - no changes

2. A student who scores above 60% gets the tag "Elite" printed at the top of the certificate. (Please note that the silver star is not being printed for students scoring between 60-90%)

3. A student who scores above 90% will have "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

The new formats are attached here for your reference







-NPTEL Team

Announcement !!!

Dear Students,

E-Certificate will be available on  http://nptel.ac.in/noc/  portal within a week. 

NPTEL Team

Scores for the exams conducted on 22 and 29 March 2015 by NPTEL

Dear Student

Here is the much awaited announcement on scores for the NPTEL Online certification exam.Your score has been published on the NPTEL website. 

Url: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/

Please follow the steps below:

Goto http://nptel.ac.in/noc/
Click on the tab "Completed courses"
Select the course for which you wrote the exam.
On the right side of the course page, you can find the option "Candidate login"
User Name is your email id registered for the course. Your password is your date of birth in the format – ddmmyyyy
Only candidates who registered for the certification exam and wrote the exam, will be able to login here to view scores.

E-Certificate will be available on the same portal by tomorrow evening. You can download and use this too, if required.
 
Hard copy of the certificate will be sent by speed post to you by the end of this month.


Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Online Certification Team

Feedback about the course

Dear student

Thank you very much for enrolling to this course and being with us through it.
Hope you enjoyed the experience and benefited from it.

We wish to get your feedback about the course, which is very important to us - as it gives us an idea of you found the course (the teaching, the assignments and exams), the areas where we need to improve, the processes we need to change to make it easier for you all and also other inputs on the courses you would want offered, etc.

Kindly follow the link given below and fill in the feedback form and help us improve the service we render.

We hope you continue your journey with us by taking up more courses with us. Good luck for your future.

Warm regards
- NPTEL team

Mar 22nd/29th NOC Exam - Download your hall ticket!

Your NPTEL Online Certification Exam hall ticket for March 22nd/ 29th is available for download at the registration URL :https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html.  This is for proctored exam in India
It is available in another tab. Please download, print, read the instructions and carry it with you for the examination. Note that the timing is1 pm to 4 pm. NPTEL wishes you good luck.

Announcement for Non-Proctored Honour code Exam (for students not residing in India)

Dear Student:


Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the NPTEL Online certification Non-Proctored Honour code Exam for students not residing in India. Registration is open from 3rd March 2015 to 15th March 2015.  
The non-proctored honour code exam is on March 29th 1 PM IST to March 30th 1 PM IST and is open only for students who have enrolled with their country as Non-India. Students in India, please do not send us email requesting for any inclusions. The Non-proctored honour code exam is not for students in India.

Please do a money transfer of INR 1500 (or) 25 USD equivalent per course that you are registering for the certificate exam, to the account given below. You can register for a maximum of 2 certification exams only. Please fill the registration form only after doing the money transfer.

The Registration URL is: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/Non-Proctored_exam/. Please read the below Instructions carefully before registering. 

Bank account details for money transfer:
Account number: 10620824305
Bank and branch: State Bank of India , IIT Madras- 600036
SWIFT Code: SBININBB453
IFSC Code: SBIN0001055
Account type: Savings bank
Beneficiary Name: Registrar,IIT Madras

Instructions for Registration:
1) Registration login available only to candidates whose have enrolled for the course with a non-India country. The Non-proctored honour code exam is not for students in India.
2) You can only register for certification exams, for courses that you have already enrolled.
3) Exam date is March 29th 1 PM IST to March 30th 1 PM IST.
4) Please do a money transfer of INR 1500 (or) 25 USD equivalent per course that you are registering for the certificate exam, to the account that has been given above. You can register for a maximum of 2 certification exams only.
5) Please fill the registration form only after doing the money transfer.
6) You would have to upload the screen shot of the money transfer in the registration form to complete it. Incomplete forms will not be accepted.
7) Only e-certificate will be published on the website- http://nptel.ac.in/noc on your login. The e-certificate will only be published for the exams which you have registered, paid and submitted the answer sheet.
8) The e-certificate will have your final score- which is a combination of your assignment score - based on best of 3 assignments (50%) and final exam score (50%).
9) Your test score will be available only after April 15th 2015 and this will be sent as a email to you.
10)Your e-certificate will be available on the NPTEL website only after April 27th 2015.
 
Instructions for Non-Proctored Honour code Exam:
1) Download the PDF of the question paper of the course exam (s) you have registered from the websitehttps://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in in the suitable "Exam" Course that would be available for this purpose. The Question paper will be made available from 29th March 2015 1 PM to 30th March 1 PM IST - 24 hours.
2) Only PDFs will be accepted as the final answer sheet. Answer PDFs must be uploaded back in the websitehttps://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in in the suitable "Exam" Course that would be available for this purpose. This upload would be possible only from the email id with which you enrolled and registered. Format of answer PDFs to be submitted:
(a) Hand written and scanned (or)
(b) Typed and converted to PDF.
3) Only 1 PDF per course will be accepted. Ensure readability/clarity of final PDF document uploaded.
4) Evaluation will be done only for answer sheets for courses registered.
5) Last submitted answer PDF will be considered for evaluation.
6) Answer sheets cannot be submitted after 1 PM IST on 30th March 2015.

IMPORTANT NOTE :- (FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE ENROLLED IN MORE THAN 1 COURSE) -  Please note that once the registration form is submitted, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course(s) is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please make the payment suitably and fill in the registration form. Once the registration form is submitted, your registration form will be non-editable. 

We do hope you will use this opportunity to write the NPTEL Online Certification exam. NPTEL wishes you the very best. Email us at: nptel@iitm.ac.in if you have any specify queries.

Thanks and Best wishes,
NPTEL team

Registration deadline for certification exam extended!

Dear students,

The registration deadline for the certification exam has been extended till midnight of March 01, 2015!
Register now for the certification exam on March 22nd / 29th 2015 to earn your certificate from the IITs!

Registration Link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html

Hope you are enjoying the course and good luck with the exams.


NPTEL team

Static mock questions

Course name: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/Mock/Template/index.html?885@@9
The purpose of the mock is to familiarize yourself with the pattern of the paper and the online exam platform. 
The static mock has been published with few sample questions (some are repetitive also) and is not exhaustive of the course content.


Language and Mind :  ( Total 100 Marks )


Section I: 

Questions 1-15 (15 questions): 

Objective: word/phrase as answer should be entered – each 2 marks

Section II:

Questions 16-35 (20 questions): 

True or False – each 2 marks

Section III:

Questions 36-50 (15 questions)

Multiple choice questions - One correct answer (one option only) – each 2 marks


Registrations for certification exam still open. Register today!
Registration link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html

Register now! Last date of registration is Feb 27th 2015.

PS:Tentative mock has been provided above,there may be last minute changes in the question paper.

Toppers of 3 completed NPTEL online certification courses

Dear students

The list of student toppers who have scored 90% and above in the completed courses - namely "Programming,Data Structures and Algorithms", "Basic Electrical Circuits" and "Introduction to Programming in C" has been published on the NPTEL website. Url: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/

Register today for the certification exams and get a chance to feature in the toppers list of your course.
https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html

Hope you are enjoying the course and good luck with the exams.

- NPTEL team

Only highest 3 assignment scores to be taken and question paper will include questions from assignments

Dear student

Hope you are enjoying the course, learning and submitting the assignments.

Some latest update about the certification exam.

1. Only the average of the highest 3 assignment scores will be considered for calculating the final score that will be printed on the certificate.
This has been decided based on feedback from students stating that they could not complete all the assignments and requesting us to consider an alternate method of evaluation.

2. Atleast 50% of the questions asked in the certification exam will be taken from the assignment questions posted in the course so far or be based on it.

We hope this announcement encourages you to be more confident in appearing for the certification exam and also for registering for the exam, if you haven't already done so far.

The links for the exam have already been posted along with the model of the certificates in the Announcements section of the course. 

Warm regards
NPTEL team

Assessment Four

The due date for the fourth assessment has been extended to the 12th of this month.

Certificates from the IITs! Register for exam now!

Dear All,

Registration Link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html
Register now for the certification exam on March 22th / 29th 2015 to earn your certificate from the IITs!

Above 90%


Above 60%



Others



Regards
NPTEL

Assessment three

Dear Students,

The due date for the third assessment has been extended to the 6th of this month. Please make well note of the deadlines (time included) and make sure you submit your assignments within the same. A suggestion would be to finish your assignments well before the deadline to avoid last minute inconvenience and technical difficulties. This is to reiterate that excuses, such as given for past assessments, will not be entertained in the future at any cost. 

Fee transaction status

Hello ! Students who are planning to write the exam and have made the e-payment can check your transaction status. This is hosted in the following url. http://nptel.ac.in/noc/noc_payment_track.php Students are categorized according to their transactions (success/failure/incomplete) for all courses.

Course Materials

Dear Students, Please find the materials for week three and four uploaded on the website.

Session rescheduled

Dear students

The Google hangout session scheduled for 24th January has been rescheduled. Date and timings would be communicated at the earliest. We request you to keep up your enthusiasm and continue posting questions on the forum. The questions will be taken up for discussion in the session to follow.

Have a nice weekend!

Registration open for certification exam

Dear Students,

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the certification exam. 

The registration for the certification exam is open to all students enrolled in the course. 

Registration will be open from 22st JAN 2015 12 noon (Thursday) until 27th FEB 2015 5 PM (Friday).  

The certification exam registration URL is : https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html 

Dates of exam: 22nd March 2015 (or) 29th March 2015 (exams for all 12 courses will be conducted on both the dates)
Exam Session time: 1 PM - 4 PM
Examination Centers: The exam is to be conducted in 100 cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Registration fees:Rs 1000/-
Mode of payment: Only online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking
Hall ticket: The hall ticket will be available for download from 2nd week of March 2015 onwards.

Where to check your payment status?
In the following url, http://nptel.ac.in/noc, we shall be posting the status of your payments.
Your status will be updated within 2 business days of your transaction.

If your status is not a success and you have not received an email confirming payment, this means that your payment has not reached us.
So kindly re-register and make the payment again. Any funds deducted will be reverted to your account by the payment gateway.


Who will get a certificate?
Any candidate who registers and attends the certification exam will get a certificate. 

Will the score appear on the certificate?
Yes. The scores obtained by the student in the assignments and in the proctored exam will be used to compute the final score printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website, where on logging in, your assignment scores and your score in the proctored certification exam will be displayed. Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTE :- (FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE ENROLLED IN MORE THAN 1 COURSE) 
Please note that once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment. It is not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable. 

Help desk option
Toll free number application technical support :  18002660317 ( Monday to Sunday - 7AM to 11PM)
Help Desk Email Id: iitmnptelonline@gmail.com 

Thanks and best wishes,
NPTEL team

Google hangout session

Dear Students !

The discussion forum is open to all. Kindly make use of this space not just to post your queries, but also to help others clarify their doubts. In addition, selected queries posted on this forum will be answered by Prof. Rajesh Kumar via a live video session through goggle hangouts. The first session will happen this Saturday (24.01.2015) at 5PM. Make use of the forum to post questions for the session. It would be appreciated if you could post your questions by Friday evening. Details regarding the session will be sent out shortly.

Reading materials and exam details

Dear Students,

 

Please find the materials for week II uploaded on the site. We couldn’t deliver the week II course material on time due to technical difficulties encountered on our side. You can find all the materials on the website now.

 

We have extended the deadline for the submission of the first and second assessments to the 28th of January. However, please note that this concession will not be granted for the upcoming assessments. The answer keys to the first and second tests would be published by the end of this month. 

 

The course contains a final exam worth 100 marks. The pattern would be that of MCQs. The exam is scheduled for 2 days- 22th March, 2015 and 29th March, 2015 (1pm-4pm). The students have the option of choosing either of these dates. The exam fee for the course is Rs 1000/- and the payment mode that of online (net banking/credit card/debit card). More information on the centers for the examination and the registration process will be shared in due course.

Second week assessment

Hi all !

Please find the second assessment uploaded on the site. Due to technical problems, we could not release it last night. We are sorry about that.The assessment is based on the video lectures of week two and the due date for the submission of this assignment is Friday, the 23rd of January 2015. Note that the assessment is graded, allows only one time submission and is mandatory for the successful completion of this course. Good luck!

Assessment One

The due date for the first assessment has been extended to Friday, the 16th of Januray 2015. Goodluck.

Clarifications

Dear Students,

With five video lectures and one assessment, we have successfully completed the first week of ‘Language and Mind’. Lot of you have mailed us inquiring about many things. Replying to all your mails individually was a difficult task as you guys are around three thousand in number. A couple of important things that you guys were repeatedly asking us were mostly about the course duration, exam, outline, materials and videos.
 1. Course duration and exam dates: The duration of the course is 8 weeks starting from 5th Jan to 27th Feb and the final exams would be held on 22nd and 29th of March. You can choose any one of these two dates to give your final exam.
 2. Course materials and outline: Sorry, we are still working on the course outline. You can find it uploaded on the site in a few days. However the course materials required for the first two weeks have been uploaded on the site. Kindly go through them.
3. Video lectures: For those of you who are unable to view the videos, the answer is as simple as YOU ARE NOT ON THE RIGHT SITE. Seems like some of you are relying directly on the You tube channel of Language and Mind. Please note that we are not running the course on You tube. Kindly go to the NPTEL website (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in) and log into the course to view the video lectures, assignments and course materials. And to those of you who are unable to play the videos, kindly try using a different browser. Also avoid bookmarking the site for later use. The bookmarked page will not be updated as a result of which you might not be able to access the newly uploaded videos of the course.
   
Hope this is enough clarification.

Assessment details

Five videos shall be released every week; one each day. The weekly assessment shall be uploaded on Friday, the deadline of which shall be the following Wednesday.This weekly assessment  is graded and is a requirement for the successful completion of the course. 

The course has began - Have fun learning!

Dear Students,

Welcome to the course  " Language and Mind "

The course has began and lessons have been posted. Please go through them and answer the assignments which will be posted shortly.

If you have any questions, please ask in the forum and we shall answer them.

Check on the announcements to know the latest updates about the course.

Good luck!

-- NPTEL team --