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== 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]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras|Madras]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati|Guwahati]] and [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee|Roorkee]]) and [[Indian Institute of Science|Indian Institute of Science (IISc)]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2017-07-24|title=What makes NPTEL India's EdTech hero — without newsy fundings and valuations|url=https://factordaily.com/nptel-india-edtech-mooc/|titleaccess-date=what makes nptel india's endtech2020-08-06|website=FactorDaily|language=en-US}}</ref> Since March 2014, NPTEL began offering online courses along with certificates to those who completed the courses successfully. <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=NPTEL Home page- About|url=https://nptel.ac.in/about_nptel.html}}</ref>

== Statistics ==

According to [[Alexa rank|Alexa]], NPTEL's website is 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 164 million views.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/about|title=MIT OCW Youtube channel}}</ref> Its content is distributed under the CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=what makes nptel india's endtech|url=https://factordaily.com/nptel-india-edtech-mooc/}}</ref>

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