'''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 project's central idea is to put recorded lectures taught by its member institutes online withfor open access. It is alreadyhas of the most viewedextensive educational youtubeYouTube channel and largest online repository in the world of courses incovering engineering, basic sciences, and selectedsome humanities and social sciences subjects.<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}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://nptel.ac.in/about_nptel.html|title=NPTEL Home page- About}}</ref>
== History ==
NPTEL was initiated in 2003 by seven IITs ([[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay|Bombay]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|Delhi]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur|Kanpur]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur|Kharagpur]], Madras, [[Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati|Guwahati]] and [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee|Roorkee]]) along with theand [[Indian Institute of Science|Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://factordaily.com/nptel-india-edtech-mooc/|title=what makes nptel india's endtech}}</ref> Since March 2014, NPTEL began offering online courses along with certificates to those who completed the courses successfully. <ref name=":1" />
Since March 2014, NPTEL began offering online courses along with certificates from IITs/IISc to those who completed the courses successfully. <ref name=":1" />
== Statistics ==
According to [[Alexa rank|Alexa]], it’sNPTEL's rankedwebsite atis ranked 155 in [[India]] and 1472 globally.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nptel.ac.in|title=NPTEL- Alexa ranking}}</ref> Its YouTube channel, has more than 1,400,000 subscribers, 20000 videos, and over 332 million total views.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd/about|title=NPTEL Youtube channel}}</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}}</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" />
