Free Courses & Certifications

The Academic Research & Report Writing certification course is spread over eight weeks and throws lights on the beneficial tools and techniques that can be used in report writing. The course has also been approved by the AICTE. It falls under the domain of Teacher education.

The Academic Research & Report Writing course curriculum extensively covers all the topics ranging from different reports and presentations to various word processors and plagiarism detection tools. The course proves worthwhile to all the researchers and teachers who need to hone their report writing skills for effective dissemination (both academic and research-oriented).

The Academic Research & Report Writing online training is offered by Dr Samir Roy. He is currently working as the professor and the head of the department of computer science and engineering at the NITTTR, Kolkata. He has over twenty-five years of academic teaching experience. Thus, the learners can be completely assured of being trained by one of the best minds that the field has witnessed.

The Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations course by edX is a service-based programme which makes the candidates involve more in services towards society. Service to people is service to God. This  Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations training course offers the candidates a new perspective towards the customer service that includes hospitality towards customers and their satisfaction. These two factors are important which any candidate can learn through this programme. 

Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations certification course will make the candidate understand customer service and the importance of quality of service through videos taken in real service organisations such as restaurants, hotels. The certificate given is signed by the instructor and carries the institution logo. Candidates can also share their certificate. They can also add it to their resume or LinkedIn profiles to catch job opportunities. Candidates with these certificates can also go ahead in their careers. 

Learners can attend the Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations training course anytime as it is a self-paced programme. Scholarships and financial aids are also provided to the economically weak students in order to support their willingness to learn something new.

The Management of Medical Emergencies in Dental Practice Certification course is an 8-week online program. The course syllabus is prepared and verified by Tagore Dental College & Hospital, Chennai even if Swayam is appointed to provide the course. This course certificate is presented by the Tagore Dental College & Hospital, Chennai, and NPTEL.

Management of Medical Emergencies in Dental Practice training is a part of the dental core curriculum. This certification course is taught by a multi-faculty.

The Natural Hazards certification course throws light on the phenomena of natural disasters. Processes like land-level changes, ground deformations, event recurrence intervals, sedimentation patterns, and the associated environmental and depositional changes are discussed. The course is spread over eight weeks and falls under the domain of civil engineering. 

The Natural Hazards online training lets students explore the different types of natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, and storms, etc. Through this activity, they will understand the natural hazards caused by disasters in the associated landscapes. This elective course has also been approved by the AICTE. 

The Natural Hazards certification syllabus also includes how different regions like floodplains, mainland, hilly terrains, coastal areas, etc., feel the impact of the disasters. The course concludes with dedicated lectures on the various measures and approaches to assess and mitigate these natural hazards properly. The training is offered by Professor Javed N Malik and Prof. Santiswarup Sahoo who are specialises in active tectonics and paleoseismology.

The Disaster Recovery and Build Back Better Certification is an 8-week online course. Even if Swayam is assigned to teach the course, IIT Roorkee creates and validates the course syllabus. The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and NPTEL are the organizations accredited to issue this course certificate.

Disaster Recovery and Build Back Better training is a part of the architecture and technology elective curriculum. This certification course is taught by Ram Sateesh Pasupuleti, and Subhojyothi Samaddar.

This course takes a comprehensive and integrated approach to post-disaster restoration and regeneration in order to deal with a wide range of issues and ensure that the impacted community is rebuilt in an adaptable manner for the upcoming years. It exposes research concepts, methodologies, industry experience, field observations, rational analysis, and vital findings on the following areas of disaster recovery Build Back Better (BBB).

The Geomorphic Processes: Landforms and Landscapes certification course is designed for those particular students who want to learn about processes in the geomorphic field in detail, this course will help them to learn about different segments involved in the processes engaged in this particular field. The course exposes the pupil to the underlying concepts of geomorphology and the physical world associated with it.

The modules of this course would encourage the student to have a deeper understanding of processes that work within the earth and even on the surface of the earth. The Geomorphic Processes: Landforms and Landscapes certification will be given as assurance that the candidate has successfully completed the particular programme. A student should be well prepared with the knowledge of the numerous landforms and processes that exist in fluvial, glacial, karst, aeolian, coastal terrains after this course.

More focus will be done on engaging students in a more analytical approach towards learning the concepts more clearly that will give them better understanding about the concepts in a more detailed manner. The Geomorphic Processes: Landforms and Landscapes training will be given as per the weekly structure of the syllabus for the programme.  

Indian economy is one of the top five emerging economies in the world. Thus, it becomes an interesting topic of study for both economics and non-economics students. While for the former category, the study will accentuate their academic knowledge, the latter will be benefitted by the understanding of the mechanism of the economy for general awareness, if not anything else.

Understanding economic activities in a lucid manner can be challenging and finding the right course which covers all the essential aspects of the same could be another challenge. Indian Economy: Some Contemporary Perspectives programme has been designed for undergraduate students to help them gain a conceptual foundation of the functioning of India's mixed economy, historical developments and ongoing reforms. 

Through Indian Economy: Some Contemporary Perspectives certification syllabus, learners can make a mindmap of the evolution of the Indian economy since independence while witnessing periods of India’s economic development. It would discuss tax, industrial, financial and agricultural reforms while dealing with Indian banking sector crisis. Students would analyse along with the faculty recent policy initiatives and will have the opportunity to examine additional resources like economic survey issued by the Ministry of Finance and relevant research reports from leading organisations

IIT Kharagpur has developed the Managerial Economics programme to teach modern microeconomic theory at the UG/PG level. You will study the behaviour of households and firms and the interaction between the two to understand the interaction in different market structures.

Moreover, Managerial Economics certification syllabus has been purposefully crafted over eight weeks to cover crucial topics of management studies besides the foundational ones. The primary coursework includes weekly lectures, assignments, and a proctored exam towards the course end.

You will learn how different agents like consumers and producers interact in the economy and how various interventions impact the market scenario. Other significant concepts covered in the Managerial Economics course are demand & supply, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly, and cost curves.

There will also be a proctored exam when the programme ends. You can take the exam to obtain the Managerial Economics certificate from Swayam, which will help you land lucrative managerial positions in banks and public policy organisations, among others.

The Economic Growth and Development program is an introductory-level course that aims to teach you significant ideas related to economic development and growth. You will study theories, concepts, indices, and debates about economic growth and development. This eight-week-long online course is developed by the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

During the Economic Growth and Development certification course, you will become familiar with many topics like economic development indices, inclusive growth, distinctions between underdeveloped and developed countries, contemporary controversies on economic growth versus development, and more. 

The Economic Growth and Development online course will discuss many major models and theories of economic growth, such as the Solow growth model, the Big Push theory, Harrod-Domar model, Schumpeter’s analysis, and the critical minimum effort’s thesis. You will also learn about the gender development index, multidimensional poverty index, and gender empowerment measure.

The ‘Energy Economics And Policy’ online course is delivered to focus on the various aspects of energy that affect the producers and consumers of energy. This course enables students to discuss the application of the principles of the economy. It is about the concept of energy as a resource and its relevance with the environment and climate to analyze the policies governing energy supply. This certification program is provided by Swayam and the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) for a period of eight weeks.

The free online course is an elective program for undergraduate and postgraduate level students. The tutor for this massive open online course is Prof. Shyamasree Dasgupta from the school of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. The classes of this course are offered through video, lectures and assessed by weekly assignments and a final certification exam. 

The ‘Energy Economics And Policy’ certification course enables students to get a course certificate and credit points by the end of this course. 

Microfoundations of Macroeconomics Certification aims to provide an understanding of the behavior of aggregate economic variables — consumption, investment, employment — rather than understanding a single economic unit or market in isolation.

Microfoundations of Macroeconomics Classes help to grab the goal of macroeconomics and it becomes interesting when we analyze the size of the government and when to analyze the money supply, inflation, and unemployment.

All students get a Microfoundations of Macroeconomics Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur).

Infrastructure Economics Certification is designed to introduce the role of infrastructure in economic growth and the development of a country wholly depends on the availability of its infrastructural facilities. Infrastructure plays a vital role in the improvement of the country’s standard of living and in contributing to a higher rate of economic growth.

Infrastructure Economics Classes give a broad view of physical as well as social infrastructure will be dealt with in depth which will be helpful for the students along with the economic infrastructure meaning.

All students get a Infrastructure Economics Certification by Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna) under the Swayam Initiative by Government of India. 

The Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks certification is a multidisciplinary course which can be pursued by graduate or postgraduate students. Students who decide to pursue this course will get to know about fuzzy clustering, fuzzy reasoning, neural network, etc. The programme does not have any limitations regarding the admission process and can be joined by the interested students throughout the year without having to pay any amount. The course is provided as well as mentored by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. The teachings of the course are in online mode throughout the Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks certification syllabus of the course.

The Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks programme is conducted by the platform of Swayam which is a government-initiated platform and gives free courses to all the students across the country. The duration which is needed to complete the course is 2 months. Candidates can learn from the programme as per their schedules since this is a self-paced course. The online training authorizes the students to be a certified user of the programme by obtaining the certificate through the mode of an exam fee followed by the offline exam. The Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks online course also provides interactive sessions through case studies and discussions which can be done through the discussion groups created for the user of the course.

The Advanced Computer Architecture certification is offered under the Department of Computer Science and engineering. Swayam offers this program in association with IIT Guwahati. Participants who take admission in this course come to know about high-end microprocessors, cache memory, cache optimization using gem5, etc. The course does not ask the students to pay any fees to access the course. The Advanced Computer Architecture training given through this program is completely online and there is no requirement of attending the video sessions at any specific time. The video lectures can be joined by the students at any time. Similarly, candidates can leave the sessions too according to their requirements. 

Students also get the chance to acquire a verified certificate for the online course which can be availed by paying the registration amount as exam fees and qualifying for an in-person exam. The approximate time which will be taken by the mentor of the course to complete the Advanced Computer Architecture certification syllabus is 8 weeks. Students can also learn from the course on their own if they want to choose a longer period of time than 8 weeks. The program is available on the website throughout the year so that students can apply to the course whenever they feel the need. 

The Design, Technology, and Innovation online course is an eight-week-long program created by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay's IDC School of Design. The course sheds light on how innovation links together various sectors, including technology, management, design and humanities. You will gain insightful information about innovation through theoretical concepts, case studies and real-world examples.

Several well-renowned scholars from multiple departments are a part of this course. They will impart practical knowledge through their own research-to-information journey and how it benefited society as a whole.

The Design, Technology and Innovation certification course will walk you through the entire innovation process. You will learn essential topics like innovation methodology, pitfalls of innovation, collaborative innovation model, the transformation of research into innovation and its stages, etc. The course is sure to spark curiosity and encourage you to innovate in your work field.

Ethnography, one of the most interesting forms of qualitative research, has gained popularity in academics and other areas in the last decade. The Understanding Ethnography online program aims to help you explore the uses of ethnography in several practice-based disciplines such as management, engineering, design, and social work. You will be acquainted with many tools and techniques of ethnographic practice.

Understanding Ethnography certification course also discusses the debates and theories of ethnographic research. The concepts taught in the course are based on real-world examples and case studies. During the course duration, many experts from numerous fields will share their unique experiences of research. So, you will get an enhanced perspective of various dimensions of ethnographic practice.

The Understanding Ethnography program throws light on the application of the ethnographic approach in multiple areas like education, craft, and product design, and film-making. You will learn how this approach enables you to gain knowledge from phenomena, people, and places that focus on study.

The Employment Communication A Lab-Based Course training aims to provide aspiring workplace professionals with a finishing school to prepare themselves aptly. This core curriculum focuses on undergraduate students who are about to become employees. The training strives to equip them with all the necessary skills and techniques to ace the three-stage Employment Communication process. 

These three include CV writing, where candidates will learn about drafting compelling CVs to capture the recruiter’s attention. Secondly is group discussion (GD), where students will learn about the fundamental strategies to ace GD and showcase excellent team-working. The third is the interview questions. Learners will undertake a lucid lecture on tackling interview-round problems and participate in personal interview (PI) sessions for real-time practice, eliminating the fear factor. 

IIT Kharagpur and Swayam have jointly created the Employment Communication A Lab-Based Course certification syllabus, that falls under the ‘Humanities and Social Sciences purview. This eight-week curriculum also features industry-recognition amongst several companies, assisting learners seeking employment in such sectors. Interested students can also acquire the Employment Communication A Lab-Based Course certificate by fulfilling its criteria and clearing Swayam’s term-end examination.

The Introduction to Modern Indian Drama training is an online programme that provides all its learnings at zero cost. Candidates who enrol for this programme get to know about the historical theatre practices, political issues, and its development with the passage of time. The course provides a postgraduate level of training to the students and is provided by the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. The Introduction to Modern Indian Drama certification course does not have any time limits and can be joined by students as per their convenient time slot. The programme will be delivered via online mode wherein the candidates will be given activities such as assignments, tests, debates, etc.

Candidates can pursue this programme as per their available time slot to complete Introduction to Modern Indian Drama certification syllabus but the mentor or guide will be able to complete the same in only 8 weeks. The platform does not demand any extra payment in order to gain extra access to the course. Candidates will be able to achieve a certificate for the course if they wish to do so. The Introduction to Modern Indian Drama programme needs the candidate to go through the payment of the exam fees and an offline examination to be able to get certified for the course. This is a self paced course and can be accessed when the duration of the course has expired and students can learn from the programme on their own.

The course is structured way that emphasizes the justice system and the effectiveness of law from the psychological perspective. The students will be provided a fictional case so that they gain first-hand experience in crime-solving and learn in-depth about law psychology and the various misconceptions in the domain of crime.

The program will help students to identify the various myths that involve the justice system. The way to identify empirical evidence in a crime scene will also be taught to the registered participants. The Certificate Course on The Psychology of Criminal Justice by edX is structured introductory so that students can learn more easily. Also, during the course, the curriculum includes- suspecting the criminals, the process of trial, the ways of interrogating a criminal also gathering information that will help to solve a crime scene more professionally and judiciously. The candidates will get the option of selecting their path while learning the course. The two paths are the audit track and the verified track. When in the audit track, the access to course materials while in the verified track, the access becomes unlimited.

The Document Processing and Organisation Certification course by Prof. Jaideep Sharma is authorized by Indira Gandhi National Open University. This detailed course on organizing library documents is offered by Swayam. The course is four weeks long and will give a clear picture of the different processes involved in the classification and cataloguing of documents in the library.

The Document Processing and Organisation Training course discuss the two major operations involved in processing library documents. The students will learn about the different steps involved in library classification and library cataloguing. The course will give a detailed understanding of the theory of classification, mainly focusing on Dewey Decimal classification.

The Document Processing and Organisation Online Courses explain in detail the concept of cataloguing, different forms of library catalogues and the process of cataloguing books using AACR2R Anglo American Cataloguing Rules. The course will also provide an overview of different filing and shelving systems that helps in maintaining an orderly arrangement at the library.

Fundamentals of Financial Management certification is a free online course. The course is offered by the forum of Swayam which provides free courses to its students. Students will learn about the topics such as the basics of finance, how financial management should be done in a business, etc. in this course. Participants are supposed to spend up to 8 weeks for the completion of the Fundamentals of Financial Management certification syllabus of the course. The course is a self-paced program and can be accessed at any point in time without any disturbance from the side of the platform. There are no restrictions regarding specific timings to attend the classes, students can do that as per their wish. 

Candidates can achieve certification for the same course if they are ready to give a proctored exam by paying the quoted amount as Fundamentals of Financial Management fees which will be announced on the platform. This is an undergraduate level of the course and thus involves all the basics of the topic which will be taught throughout this course. The study material related to the Fundamentals of Financial Management certification course will be provided to the students by the platform only.

The online certification session on Behavioral and Personal Finance by Swayam will be elaborately covering the behavioral aspects that are involved in personal finance planning and also financial decision making. In the Behavioral and Personal Finance certification syllabus, the participants will further be introduced to the - mathematical, theoretical, and empirical underpinnings of the anomalies and the biases that the investors are facing in the financial markets. The eight-week certification program further focuses on the- personal financial planning and behavioral approach to investment. 

The online session will be helping the enrolled candidates to explore the most common mistakes and biases that the professionals make while dealing with finances. The session will be training the students to frame, strategize and also implement strategies to ensure proper financial implementation. The course will also conduct discussions on- mathematical illustrations, related theories, and experimental exercises which will help the candidates in their professional careers.

The Introduction to Accounting and Finance for Civil Engineers certification course will be covering the details of the changing paradigm of the present-day construction industry. The programme serves as an introductory course to the different contracting models and discusses the role of the government as a regulator. 

The Introduction to Accounting and Finance for Civil Engineers certification syllabus contains important topics such as- systems of accounting, provisions, cash book, profit and loss account, accounting equation, cash flow statement, reserves, journal and ledger entries, trial balance. During the eight-week programme, the students will be getting to work on regular assignments. 

The modules covered under the programme will facilitate the students in formulating financial analysing statements. The course will be providing real-world case studies that will especially be helping the practising engineers. The programme on Introduction to Accounting and Finance for Civil Engineers by Swayam will thus help the students to build up their skills in accounting and finance.

The Corporate Finance online course’s goal is to prepare students to comprehend, interpret, and apply corporate finance principles and applications in the context of management decision-making. Students in the program should be able to grasp capital structure, capital budgeting, dividend policy, and working capital management choices at the end of the course by acquiring tools and strategies to handle sophisticated numerical issues in real-world business scenarios efficiently.

The Corporate Finance training will be divided into four modules: finance decisions, investment decisions, payout decisions, and working capital management decisions. Investment decisions are made to aid in the understanding of the value of financial assets, as well as the importance of the risk-return relationship in capital structure decisions. Financing decisions aid in selecting the best source of money while keeping the shareholders’ interests in mind.

Considerations on working capital management are centred on the best management of inventories, receivables, debtors, and payables. Finally, payout decisions are connected to whether or not to pay dividends or maintain earnings in the firm. As part of the discussion on the financial decision-making process, the Corporate Finance syllabus also explores some other pertinent problems.

The ‘Mutual Funds Primer’ certification course is offered for the students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical concepts and other functional details associated with mutual funds. This online course is provided by TCS iON digital learning hub and the Centre for Investment Education and Learning. The course study is planned for eight weeks and the candidates are required to spend two to three hours every week. 

The students of this TCS iON certification course are given the opportunity to learn on their own through the innovative and experimental online methods of learning. The online course materials and curriculum are provided in the English language for easy access of the students. The valuable insights delivered in the program are beneficial for the investors and other individuals to make wise decisions on investments.

The ‘Mutual Funds Primer’ online certification course equips the participants with the course completion certificate and expertise on the fundamentals of mutual funds.

The Educational Video Production online course will teach you about the different aspects of video production elements. You will learn how to plan and manage a script, what are the different techniques in lighting, camera & recording, and other post-production requirements. There will be dedicated lectures on graphics and animation and tools for an e-content generation. There will also be a special section on the nuances of video editing.

Further, the Educational Video Production certification course has been designed by the faculty of the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh. Professor Maitreyee Dutta and professor Shyam Sundar Pattnaik will be your educators for the course. The programme is online and all the course materials are accessible on Swayam's portal.

Educational Video Production has a course duration of eight weeks with an optional certification exam. All the course materials are free to access. Besides, there will be weekly assignments to help you evaluate your progress.

The Analysis and Design Principles of Microwave Antennas certification by IIT Kharagpur via Swayam is an 8-week online course. The course deals with the basics of microwave radiation to numerical computation of antenna currents, antenna pattern synthesis, and Impulse Radiating Antennas (IRAs). The Analysis and Design Principles of Microwave Antennas certification syllabus provide undergraduate and graduate students with fundamental concepts of antenna theory. It will also help the design engineer to acquire different state-of-the-art techniques of antenna analysis and design.

The Analysis and Design Principles of Microwave Antennas certification course requires candidates to have basic knowledge and understanding of Electromagnetic Theory, Electronic network theory, and Transmission line. Students will be provided with a digital certificate on the successful completion of the exam. Undergraduate and graduate students from an engineering or science background can enrol in the Analysis and Design Principles of Microwave Antennas online course offered by IIT Kharagpur via Swayam.

Phonetics and Phonology: A broad overview program offers a foundation to develop one's knowledge of phonetics and phonology. It provides a conceptual framework and theoretical underpinnings of sound system analysis. Candidates joining this course will learn about articulation, phonetic properties, acoustic descriptions, International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions of different languages in the world, phonological theory, and much more. It will include Indian language examples for relevance as well. 

Phonetics and Phonology: A broad overview certification is an elective undergraduate course in humanities and social sciences.  It is an eight-week course designed by the IIT Guwahati faculty in association with NPTEL. This online program will be available on Swayam, an online learning platform initiated by the Government of India’s Ministry of Education. 

The syllabus of the Phonetics and Phonology online course is designed by professor Shakuntala Mahanta of IIT Guwahati. The course has no prerequisites and is free for all to audit. It also offers a certification for interested candidates. There will be regular assignments and an optional offline exam at the end of the course for participants.