NPTEL Free Courses & Certifications

The ‘Appreciating Linguistics: A typological approach’ online course is developed for the students to study the language forms and functions, the process of language acquisition, and the description of natural language. This course will focus on the different languages and their linguistic attributes along with the grammatical implications. This free online certification course is provided by the Swayam online portal in association with the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

The course instructor for this online program is Prof. Anindita Sahoo teaching linguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The elective program for the undergraduate level students is categorized under the humanities and social sciences domain and enables the students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the concepts through the online classes aided by videos, lectures, and other online resources.

The ‘Appreciating Linguistics: A typological approach’ online certification course offers the students the course certification with credit points after successfully completing the program according to the qualifying standards.

Swayam’s Introduction to World Literature online course introduces its candidates to the vast world of writings, produced in various languages, cultural contexts, and nations. While the program doesn’t claim to cover all time periods and every single one of their literary traditions, it does aim to familiarise learners with the English Language’s representative texts, available today. This short, 12-week training belongs to the English Studies’ and ‘Humanities and Social Sciences’ categories, set at the postgraduate level. 

An elective program, the Introduction to World Literature certification syllabus covers numerous vital learnings. These include classics such as Don Quixote, Beowulf, Indian literature from the likes of Tagore, Kamala Das, short stories, American literature like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, critical theory, women writers, contemporary authors, and more. What’s more, IIT Madras’s renowned educator, Professor Merin Simi Raj, teaches this in-depth curriculum. 

Furthermore, the Introduction to World Literature program also furnishes course-end certificates to interested learners who sit for Swayam’s proctored exams. Upon clearing all the certification criteria and clearing the assessment, students can earn themselves an e-verifiable certificate to display their acquired knowledge in this subject.

Literary criticism is the analysis, study and interpretation of a literary text or school of thought. It is a medium for the critic to explain and defend her judgement and evaluation of a text and provide the readers with some relevant biographical and historical information. This enriches the reader’s understanding of a literary work and helps them appreciate it more. Literary Criticism (From Plato to Leavis) by Swayam is an attempt to provide students with an understanding of the subject by analysing some significant texts.

The Literary Criticism online course is an AICTE approved Faculty Development Programme (FDP). The training is designed by the accomplished faculty of IIT Madras. The course curriculum will take you on a journey through different literary works that have been studied and analysed for decades for their brilliance and relevance.

In addition, the Literary Criticism certification by Swayam includes a digital certificate verified by NPTEL at the end of the course for those who qualify for the certification exam. Candidates can verify their certification online.  The programme belongs to the English literature studies domain.

The Literature, Culture, and Media certification by Swayam is a part of the NPTEL scheme that provides free learning programmes for interested individuals. This course's curriculum aims to introduce participants to the intersections of literature, culture, and media through an interdisciplinary framework. Literature, culture, and media are responsible for generating new ideas and perspectives in the consumers and play a massive role in determining identities.

The Literature, Culture, and Media certification syllabus will touch upon and highlight some of the new forms of media that have reinvented and transformed the literary forms. Theoretical approaches and literary criticisms such as Marxism, Feminism, and Deconstruction will further explain some of the literary phenomenon and cultural aspects of popular culture.

Additionally, the Literature, Culture, and Media certification course by Swayam is suitable for all individuals interested in learning about the subject. No prior knowledge is required for enrollment. Further, the 12-week learning course falls under the Humanities and Social Science category.

The ‘American Literature & Culture’ online course is developed for the students to discuss and study American literature and the important social and cultural movements in American studies. The students of this course will get introduced to the eminent poets and writers of American literature. The online National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) training program is provided by Swayam, a free online education portal initiated by the Government of India. 

This online training is scheduled for a period of twelve weeks in this elective program for the postgraduate level students of the fields of humanities and social sciences, and English Studies.

The course instructor for this online program is Prof. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan faculty of film studies, drama, and popular culture at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The learners during the course of study in this program will develop a comprehensive understanding of the literary significance of American literature. 

The ‘American Literature & Culture’ certification course helps students get an E-certificate that can be downloaded and credit points at the end of this All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) approved course.

Literature and Life Certification are designed and structured in such a way that it helps learners make sense of their own lives through the prism of literature and get a better understanding of the relation of literature to life.

A selection of essays, poems, plays, and short stories from British, American, and Indian literature will be examined in Literature and Life Classes in order to understand and appreciate the complex but fragile human relationships at various levels, including the individual, family, society, business, politics, etc.

All students get a Literature and Life Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

Elements of Literature and Creative Communication Certification is ideal for those who are interested in tasting the nectar of literature. Because literature is directly related to life and keeping that broad vision in mind makes students aware of the finer sensibilities of human existence.

Elements of Literature and Creative Communication Classes intend to teach the students by introducing them to literature, which represents profound and beautiful expressions of mankind, we hope to help them better comprehend and enjoy life. It includes carefully chosen readings of drama, fiction, and poetry. 

All students get an Elements of Literature and Creative Communication Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation certification is an eight-week elective course. This multidisciplinary program falls under the disciplines of chemical engineering and computational biology. IIT Madras has thoroughly curated this curriculum, which their renowned professor, Niket Kaisare will teach.

The MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation certification syllabus discusses one of the most popular languages used for numerical computation and teaches about its scientific computation usage. Candidates will learn about the practical use of computational techniques through several coding problems and examples. Enrolled candidates will have access to MATLAB online, which is a browser-based version of MATLAB and consists of all its features. 

The MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation training will offer weekly assignments, course lectures, and practical problems using this MATLAB software. The curriculum focuses on teaching undergraduate students to solve computational problems and familiarising them with the engineering problem’s numerical methods. Besides, candidates can also opt for the final exam and gain the course-end digital certificate.

The Immunology course is an online course being offered by Swayam. Swayam is an initiative of the Government of India to provide education to students who do not have the required resources. It intends to provide the resources to bridge the digital gap between the students.  

This course by Swayam has been built to provide the learners with a broad introduction of the fundamentals of Immunology. Participants of the course will learn about various concepts of immunology starting from cells of the immune system, antibody structure and function, innate and adaptive immune systems, hypersensitivity, TCR rearrangement, humoral immunity, basic immunological techniques, autoimmunity, monoclonal antibodies and vaccine production. 

This course is a blend of the basics of immunology as well as the advanced topics. This course will be useful for undergraduate students of Life Science and Biotechnology and students from any branch of life science keen on gaining knowledge about immunology.

Maternal Infant Young Child Nutrition is a free course on infant young child nutrition and takes on malnutrition which is one of the greatest challenges in India. The online course longs for 12 weeks and demands 2.5 hours of online sessions per week. Maternal Infant Young Child Nutrition Certification Course will cover malnutrition, nutrition science, newborn care, anthropometric assessment, maternal nutrition, techniques of breastfeeding, and the like. 

Maternal Infant Young Child Nutrition Certification is a joint venture of Swayam and  IIT Bombay. The course is approved by AICTE and can be enrolled by undergraduates and postgraduate-level learners. So far, more than 2,000 people have registered and taken the online program. Though the Maternal Infant Young Child Nutrition Certification by Swayam is free, the students will have to pay the fee and appear for the exam to get the certification.

Deep Learning for Visual Computing course’s aim is to educate the student about the stratified recognition task. This is a free course that covers topics including visual computing, ResNet, PyTorch, Python, GoogleNet, and more.

Swayam Deep Learning for Visual Computing is an appropriate option for people who want to become deep learning scientists, get into research, computer vision engineer, AI research scientist, etc. Join this course to make a career as a software engineer, deep learning engineer, IT artificial intelligence intern, research scientist, computer scientist, etc. 

The course type is ongoing and the length for this course is 12 weeks. There are no strict fee charges to enrol or study the Deep Learning for Visual Computing course, but for the certificate, the student needs to register and appear in an examination conducted in person at a chosen center. Regular assessments and one-on-one doubt clearing sessions are held by IIT-affiliated teachers.

Over the past few years, Deep Learning has received a lot of attention due to its wide-ranging applications in data analytics, natural language processing, and computer vision. Many professionals who are well versed in deep learning technologies have been employed by leading companies like Google, IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter. In this Deep learning – IIT Ropar online training, you will get familiar with the building blocks of deep learning algorithms and solutions.

The Deep Learning – IIT Ropar course syllabus places a particular emphasis on neural network topics like attention mechanisms, convolutional neural networks, feed-forward neural networks, and recurrent neural networks. Various deep learning optimisation algorithms such as Nesterov Accelerated Gradient Descent, Gradient descent, Adam, AdaGrad, and RMSProp are also covered. Learning these algorithms and methods will help effectively train deep neural networks.

After completing all the lectures and assignments of the Deep Learning – IIT Ropar programme, you’ll have a robust grasp of deep learning architectures, which you can employ to carry out various computer vision and Natural Language Processing tasks. You can also test your understanding by applying for the final proctored exam. Passing this test will also grant you a certificate by Swayam, which can be used to display your skills and get lucrative jobs.

The availability of massive amounts of image and video data on the internet has made data interpretation and analysis a challenging affair. However, deep learning has proved to be an excellent solution to such a mammoth task. Moreover, deep learning is not only applicable to data analysis but also computer vision and natural language processing tasks. This Deep Learning - IITKGP course will help you get familiar with the concept and its applications.

The Deep Learning - IITKGP course syllabus starts with traditional machine learning methods like multilayer perceptron and Bayesian classification. Towards the end, the course will discuss modern deep learning approaches like autoencoders and convolutional neural networks. After completion, you will have the knowledge and confidence to take on challenging, real-world problems related to data analysis and automation.

By opting for the Deep Learning - IITKGP certification course, you also get industry support from Adobe, TCS, Google, and DRDO. Moreover, the course’s scheduled nature also provides you with enough motivation to study the modules and complete the course. After every module, you can find challenging assignments, which help you gauge your understanding.

The Six Sigma online course focuses on the operational and strategic issues observed in process development. Students will understand Six-sigma as a measure of quality that enables them to achieve perfection through disciplined and data-driven approaches in eliminating defects. The process proves beneficial in almost all the procedures involved in transactional, manufacturing, and services. 

Spread over twelve weeks, the Six Sigma training throws light on the systematic approach of Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) for improving processes. This online course will provide students with a detailed understanding of different issues concerning each phase of DMAIC. This training also includes real-time industry examples, cases, and MINITAB software applications to offer learners practical knowledge. 

IIT Kharagpur has specifically designed the Six Sigma certification syllabus to align with the current industry standards. Thus, the course can equally satisfy both university students' and industry-experienced professionals’ needs. Students can also obtain accreditation for this AICTE approved FDP curriculum, built for postgraduate/undergraduate learners.

The IT sector has witnessed immense growth in a relatively short period. Naturally, the demand for skilled programmers to develop useful and sophisticated software has risen. Object-oriented programming system (OOPs) was developed to meet this demand. Java is one of the best languages based on the OOP paradigm. Programming in Java certification course is designed to teach the fundamental concepts of the Java programming language.

The Programming in Java course by Swayam is a 12-week-long online certification program crafted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. It covers all the basic concepts of Java by providing suitable examples. The course focuses on providing theoretical proficiency and practical skills so that participants can implement their learnings.

The Programming in Java program also offers sufficient helping material and learning resources for an extensive understanding. Learners will study how Java is being utilized in internet programming, mobile applications, gaming, scientific studies, and more.

The Engineering Graphics and Design Certification course is a 12-week online program. While Swayam is utilized to deliver the course, the course syllabus is devised and endorsed by IIT Delhi. This course certificate is also conferred by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and NPTEL.

 The IIT Delhi is responsible for creating and approving the course syllabus, although Swayam is used to deliver the course. Once more, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and NPTEL are the organisations that award this course certificate.  

Engineering Graphics and Design training is a part of the mechanical engineering core curriculum. Professor S.R. Kale is the instructor of this certification course. This course is designed to assist students to acquire basic visualisation skills as well as the capacity to represent ideas on paper and on a computer.

The Feminism: Concepts and Theories programme is a 12-week-long online course designed to explain notions related to feminism. During this course, you will examine the growth, journey and entire history of the feminist movement. You will develop a vision to look at the ‘emotion’ that is characterised as a one-dimensional movement. 

The Feminism: Concepts and Theories training by IIT Madras aims to explore the feminist theory through written works, ethnography and case studies. This programme will also describe how gender works as a strong force in the world. Development of feminism through the years will be discussed in great detail.

The last four weeks of the Feminism: Concepts and Theories certification course will include lectures from various experts. These people belong to multiple areas of expertise such as writing, filmmaking, painting, and individuals who deal with questions of gender in many ways. This e-learning course is brought to you by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

As a noble initiative by the Government of India to achieve access, quality, and equity in education policy, Swayam has brought the Twentieth-Century Fiction programme as an engaging and comprehensive course for English and Cultural Studies graduates and postgraduates. Throughout the course, learners will experience the best teaching-learning resources; even the less privileged can avail themselves online learning from top IIT Madras faculty in their own comfortable spaces.

Twentieth-Century Fiction certification syllabus has been distributed over twelve weeks where learners can learn at their pace and examine along with the faculty the interplay between imperialism, embodiment, identity, and other related issues and nineteenth-century and twentieth-century fiction, wherein they will read stories, poems, and more. A calculated and thorough study of selected literary texts and their corresponding cultural contexts will help learners draw a vivid picture whilst exhaustive learning of fiction, representation, and reality.

The course is highly interactive and falls ideal for Humanities and Social Sciences students as well. Moreover, as per the UGC (Credit Framework for online learning courses through SWAYAM) Regulation 2016, certain universities might even designate the course as one from which credits can be transferred to the academic record of students.

Advanced Foundation Engineering program primarily focuses on the design of shallow foundations on layered soil, on eccentric loading conditions, and under inclined soil. The course will also provide an overview of lateral loading conditions and piles under uplift. These topics are especially useful for engineering students and working professionals as they are not covered in the conventional engineering degree courses. 

Advanced Foundation Engineering certification courses will be most beneficial for final-year undergraduate engineering students and postgraduate and doctoral students in their first semester. It will also prove useful for individuals who are preparing for competitive examinations. 

Advanced Foundation Engineering is a twelve-week course that uses online lectures, weekly assignments, and a final exam to motivate students to complete the course and gain maximum knowledge out of it. Candidates can achieve a certificate by completing the assignments satisfactorily and scoring higher than the cut-off in the final examination.

Advanced Soil Mechanics program is an excellent course for anyone who wants to brush up and reinforce their foundational concepts learned during their undergraduate training. It deals with various topics related to geotechnical engineering that are studied by postgraduate students from the basics. Topics such as continuum mechanics and geomechanical characteristics of soil will be explored.

Advanced Soil Mechanics certification is an elective course in the field of civil engineering and structural analysis. It has been approved by the All India Council for Technical  Education as an FDP for the faculty development program. The course syllabus has been developed by IIT Guwahati in association with Swayam. 

Advanced Soil Mechanics is a twelve-week long course that employs assignments and a final exam to motivate students and help them evaluate their progress. The course also offers an e-certificate which will be awarded after completing the course successfully. While all the lectures will be held online, the exam will be held in person at the various designated exam centers.

The Basic Construction Materials online course is intended for those candidates who are working or studying in the construction sector. The course is about the structural elements of construction materials.  The course will emphasize forming the basic understanding of the relationship between material compositions and the constructed structures. The candidates of this course will be thoroughly guided by construction engineering experts.

The course has scheduled start and end dates. The course is offered on the Swayam platform. It is verified by NPTEL. The course will be instructed by two faculty professors of the Indian Institute of Technology. The course will have weekly graded assignments. The candidates must register for the certification examination.

The Basic Construction Materials certification will have logos of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and NPTEL. The candidates who wish to go for higher studies in construction-related engineering will be benefitted. The engineering professionals can gain promotional help from the certification.

The Geographic Information Systems certification course is structured with student favourable modules that will provide them with an easy environment to learn about the respective field. Detailed understanding of geographic information systems and their uses in civil engineering and earth sciences is offered in the proposed course.

In this course, all topics from data input to modeling will be addressed. Different datasets, like DEMs, their source, generation strategies, derivatives, errors and limitations, will be thoroughly explored in the proposed course. In the complete Geographic Information Systems training, the candidate will be given the continuous support that will help them to complete the whole curriculum along with timely submission of assessments.

The candidate will be given practical knowledge along with theoretical understanding of the particular concepts and the candidate can get the chance to be more creative in implementing their understanding that they will get while learning the course in respective assessments designed for the completion of the programme. The Geographic Information Systems certification will be provided in the last of the programme to give the students credit and accreditable for the course so that they can pursue the further courses in the respective field.

The Geology And Soil Mechanics certification course will help candidates gain insights on the basic properties as well as index properties of soil. The course has been extensively designed for the candidates with mechanics of solids where they will be exposed to the industry learning as well.

The candidates will be learning all the various terminologies and the experts will be assessing the learning and participation of the  participants in every module. The candidates will have effective learning in every module. The topics have been considered as per the latest trends in this industry.

The Geology And Soil Mechanics certification benefits all the topics which have been well explained. The candidates will be receiving certification for the course as well. The Geology And Soil Mechanics certification course will help candidates to get jobs and recommendations in other industries as well. The theories have also been added in the course and fundamental of consolidation.

In the Geomorphology program, candidates will learn about the numerous behavior of natural surfaces as well as subsurface agents involved in the removal of the old and new landforms on the surface of the earth. The candidates will learn how to bring in sustainable development and the importance of every area while making any changes in the development. 

The candidates will be learning the usage of the knowledge in the industry. 

It will help candidates in the control of floods, disposal of waste, and the development of a smart city. The discussion forums will help candidates to have better learning and knowledge about the implementation of knowledge. The different layers of geomorphology have been well explained by the tutors.

The Geomorphology certification course also offers the candidates certificate after they complete the course successfully and give the end term examination. The importance of geomorphic evaluation has been well discovered throughout the syllabus. The certificate boosts up the resume or learning of the individuals.

This course will give an understanding of the concept and the idea of geosynthetics and their production and their conduct with the applications in various structural designing plans. In Geosynthetics And Reinforced Soil Structures Online Course will be under the guidance of professor K.Rajagopal a retired faculty in the department of civil engineering from IIT Madras.

The Geosynthetics And Reinforced Soil Structures Certification Syllabus will provide the candidate knowledge in the field of reinforced soil slopes, soft foundation soils, and many other aspects. The candidate will learn about the seismic loads and internal stability analysis of reinforced soil walls.

The candidate can access the Geosynthetics And Reinforced Soil Structures Programme for free of cost and they will be getting a certificate having the logos of Andhra University and NPTEL. The course will give the candidate clarity in the design of reinforced soil retaining walls supporting a bridge abutment with geosynthetics for the construction of municipal and hazardous waste landfills. In addition to this, the candidates will be able to access this programme for free which will enable them to take it at any point in time.

The Hydraulic Engineering certification course provides an undergraduate level of training and it is an essential part of the AICTE civil engineering curriculum. The course gives a detailed explanation about hydraulic engineering and involves topics like viscous fluid flow, turbulent and laminar flow, dimensional analysis, boundary layer analysis, computational fluid dynamics, etc. 

The course also talks about the various problems that are continuously faced in the industry such as hydraulic machines and open channel flows. Candidates who have some pre-knowledge in the field and about fluid mechanics would be able to understand this course properly, however, the Hydraulic Engineering online course gives an introduction and covers the fundamentals of fluid mechanics too so that other students have an understanding of the topic. 

The course is free of cost programme and there are no timings for attending classes or any requirement regarding attendance. The provider of the Hydraulic Engineering training also provides a certificate of the course to the eligible candidates who qualify the exam as per the requirements of the platform. The course can be accessed anytime from anywhere and students can pursue this course till the time they understand it completely even when the mentor of the course will complete the syllabus in the given time of 3 months. 

The Geotechnical Engineering - 1 certification course is designed in a subjective and analytical manner. It focuses on the fundamental dimensions of substances from different engineering uses, starting from their roots. The fundamental classification, characterization, mechanical and mechanical characteristics of soils in detail are discussed in the course.

The intended outcome of the course is to familiarize students with the soil and to demonstrate their behavior during various industrial applications, such as frameworks. The Geotechnical Engineering - 1 certification will give a comprehensive framework of the field along with industrial and practical support. The course is designed for students who are already enrolled and studying the civil engineering field.

The Geotechnical Engineering - 1 training will bring advanced learning modules to the student’s perspective that will make them more effective and efficient in the respective field. The course will include practicals, assessments that will bring the student's individual learning perspective to the syllabus criteria of the programme throughout the course. The course will specifically target enhancing the learning of the student towards a particular topic of the curriculum. The course can make students more effective in a particular field.

The Geotechnical Engineering II Foundation Engineering by Swayam covers up the civil engineering segment. The civil engineering segment is a vast discipline. This course will cover foundation engineering and geotechnical engineering. Geotechnical engineering will cover up the construction and design of various structures, tunnels, rail embankment, and offshore structures. The course will first cover up the soil mechanics and then move towards foundation engineering.

The Geotechnical Engineering II Foundation Engineering fee for the course is free of cost. The course is offered in the Swayam platform certified by IIT Kharagpur and NPTEL. The course will be taught by the faculty member of IIT Kharagpur. The students who are appearing in the GATE, engineering services, or any other important competitive examination will be benefitted as this course covers up the examination syllabus for these exams.

The Geotechnical Engineering II Foundation Engineering certification is useful and rewarding for both students and working professionals. This certification is e-verifiable in the NPTEL platform. The certification can be shared on social media such as Linkedin, Facebook, and many more. This certification will help claim promotional benefits for the candidates working in the civil engineering sector.

The Introduction to Fluid Mechanics certification syllabus lays strong emphasis on the fundamental concepts outlining fluid mechanics’ principles. This fluid mechanics branch is widely recognized for its various applications in different fields of science and engineering. With a course duration of twelve weeks, the training falls under the common domain of mechanical engineering and computational thermal fluids. 

The Introduction to Fluid Mechanics online course is an undergraduate-level program, paying special attention to this subject’s critical equations derivation. Students will benefit significantly from the appropriately-balanced coverage of the mathematical operations involved and vital physical concepts. Besides, a number of exercise problems and examples will be discussed to enhance practical understanding. 

The Introduction to Fluid Mechanics training is provided by Professor Suman Chakraborty, currently working as a professor in the Mechanical engineering department of IIT Kharagpur. He has published over 380 journals and received several awards. Thus, students can clearly obtain crisp clarity in this subject and understand its fundamental concepts.