Clarifications on SWAYAM and NPTEL online courses

[Local Chapter Announcement Forum]

Dear SPOCs,

There have been a lot of questions from you about NPTEL and its role in
SWAYAM. This email is to clarify the relationship between the two.

SWAYAM (a national MOOCs portal - swayam.gov.in) is an initiative of
the MHRD. Under the SWAYAM umbrella, several organizations (see
https://swayam.gov.in/About) create and offer MOOCs. These courses are
from high school level and upwards.

NPTEL is the National MOOCs Coordinator of SWAYAM for engineering
UG/PG education, and all NPTEL courses are being made available on the
SWAYAM site as well. Therefore, NPTEL online courses are available on
2 portals - SWAYAM as well as onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

The following are important aspects to remember:

1) Some of the features necessary for the certification process
carried out by NPTEL are at present available only on the NPTEL site.
Therefore, it is necessary and mandatory to enroll at
onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in to access these features and obtain a
certificate from NPTEL.

2) If your board of studies has already approved credit transfer for
NPTEL online courses, there is nothing new for you. You can continue
as before.

3) If you are not interested in credit transfer, there is nothing new
for you. You can continue as before.

4) An important benefit of SWAYAM is that UGC and AICTE have issued
gazette notifications for allowing credits for SWAYAM courses up to a
limit of 20% per semester. NOTE THAT THIS APPLIES TO ALL NPTEL courses because they are also on SWAYAM.

5) If your board of studies approves the UGC/AICTE gazette
notification on credit transfer for SWAYAM courses, your students can
automatically get credit for NPTEL online courses for which they have
earned a certificate. To facilitate credit transfer through SWAYAM, we
recommend that the student enroll for the same course on SWAYAM as well
as on onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

6) SWAYAM allows Google account login. So, the same login can be used
for both portals. NPTEL will send a list of SWAYAM URLs for each of
its courses to facilitate the enrolment process for NPTEL courses in
SWAYAM.

- Team NPTEL