IIT Madras Professors Launch Initiative To Teach Online Lectures On Engineering Streams

Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has launched an initiative in which eminent professors from various departments will deliver online lectures about engineering streams.

This step is likely to benefit 12 graders who clear the Public Examinations this year and will be taking up counselling shortly, the institute said. This will be available to everyone free of any charge.

Besides, the institute has also begun enrolment for more than 400 online courses, which will provide for 20% credit transfer as per the AICTE guidelines, to be offered in collaboration with the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

“NPTEL currently works with more than 3,800 colleges across the country that includes Engineering, Arts, Commerce, Science and Management colleges. If universities and autonomous colleges want to take advantage of credit transfer, they must implement the credit transfer policy in their institutions. Some universities and autonomous colleges have already started taking advantage of the credit transfer policy” Coordinator, NPTEL-IIT Madras, Professor Andrew Thangaraj said.