'''National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)''' is an initiative funded by [[Ministry of Human Resource Development|Ministry of Human Resource and Development]], [[Government of India]] and coordinated by [[IIT Madras]] and Other IITs. The central idea is to put recorded lectures on engineering and science subjects taught by IIT professors for a particular course on its [[YouTube|youtube]] channel where students across the globe can freely access it. It is already the most viewed educational youtube channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/education/how-nptel-is-democratising-education-and-going-into-the-next-level/articleshow/46615577.cms|title=how-nptel-is-democratising-education-and-going-into-the-next-level|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
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== Statistics ==
According to [[Alexa rank|Alexa]], it’s ranked at 155 in [[India]] and 1472 globally.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nptel.ac.in|title=NPTEL- Alexa ranking|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. Its YouTube channel, has more than 1,400,000 subscribers, 20000 videos and over 332 million views.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd/about|title=NPTEL Youtube channel|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> In comparison, [[MIT OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseware]] has nearly 2 million subscribers, but fewer than half the views (164 million views).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/about|title=MIT OCW Youtube channel|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. But Youtube stats alone don’t give a full measure of this mammoth beast. Its content is also free to download, available on DVDs, and distributed under the CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license.<ref name=":0" />
