About the platform!
NPTEL provides with more than 10,000 courses available in weekly based schedules. We can register the courses for free and are typically taught by professors and faculty members from various prestigious institutions in India, primarily from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
The courses are categorized based on weekly batches. There are 4 possible batches available which is decided based on the course content and the credit points earned by the course. The categories are 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 6 weeks and 12 weeks.
NPTEL categorizes its courses into various disciplines and topics such as
- Engineering
- Science
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Management
- Computer Science and Information Technology
- Basic Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Courses.
So students from various domains can make use of this platform and improve their knowledge by which can get benefit of extra credits too.