Swayam Free Courses & Certifications

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.

Contextualizing Gender Certification will analyze an outline not only of how the concept of gender has evolved and advanced over the last 50 years, but also of how ideas about gender are changing in complex ways and how they are reflective of the new ways of gender identification, contextualized meaning, and gender nonconformity. 

Contextualizing Gender Classes aim to introduce students to an interdisciplinary framework that enables them to explore and theorize the contextualized meaning and the intersectional nature of gender and culture. Gender is analyzed in a variety of ways, including as an institution, ideology, and process that organizes daily life.

All students get a Contextualizing Gender Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The main objective of the Financial Institutions and Markets online course is to teach about the financial system as a whole. It answers basic questions like how a financial market works, who are the participants and how returns are generated for investors. The course intricately explicates the role of regulatory bodies, insurance firm operations, risk and return concepts, the commercial banking system and mutual funds.

The Financial Institutions and Markets explores the significance, operations, growth and functions of distinctive financial institutions active in the country. Also, the impact of a financial system on the overall economic development of a nation will be explained. The programme covers the significance of provident funds, credit rating agencies, small savings and pension funds.

The Financial Institutions and Markets certification course impart valuable information on mainstream financial markets of bonds, derivatives, stocks and such financial instruments. This elective course also gives a digital certificate upon fulfilling certain criteria.

The Financial Mathematics programme is an AICTE approved FDP course. It will be influential for interested candidates who want to learn about the mathematical properties and relations between economic activities and investment markets. The programme is designed by IIT Roorkee in collaboration with the NPTEL team. Professor Pradeep Kumar Jha from IIT Roorkee will be the instructor and educator for the programme. 

Financial Mathematics certification course is a twelve-week course that uses video lectures, assignments, and an in-person proctored exam as learning tools. Participants of the course will be well versed in various topics such as financial transactions, portfolio investments, forecasting and analysing market developments, and much more. 

Financial Mathematics by Swayam offers certification and requires its participants to have a basic foundation of mathematics and probability. It also lists books that can be referred to for additional information. Candidates need to sign up on the Swayam website to gain access to this online course. All the course material and video lectures are available for free upon enrollment. 

The course is a thirty-hour-long course that takes up to 12 weeks of time to complete The Joy Of Computing Using Python certification syllabus. The training is an AICTE approved FDP course which is designed for the students of postgraduate and undergraduate computer science. The course is completely an online program that is made available to the students for free. The Joy Of Computing Using Python program allows the participants to have a self-paced learning experience through which they have the freedom to join or leave the session and pursue the course according to their schedules. 

The Joy Of Computing Using Python online course is provided by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras through Swayam. The training offers the candidates a chance of getting themselves a certificate towards the end of the program. The certification is e-verifiable and can be availed only after giving a scheduled exam which needs to be applied for by making a payment of the quoted amount as exam fees. The Joy Of Computing Using Python certification course consists of the study material such as video or audio lectures, assignments, case studies, self-assessed tests, and other activities to provide a better learning experience to the students. 

The Advertising and Public Relations Online Course provided by Swayam is a 4 credit course focusing on the aspects of advertising and public relations. The course is taught by Padmini Jain of Indira Gandhi National Open University and it discusses the techniques and tools related to public relations and media planning.

The Advertising and Public Relations Certification Course helps students get a thorough idea of the theories and models of advertising, its structure, functioning and applications. It helps students understand how persuasive information functions and reaches a wider audience in multiple ways. It is an apt course for students trying to explore the world of sales and marketing.

The Advertising and Public Relations Training Course is taught with the help of self-instructional learning material and e-books wherein the assessments will be based on assignments and quizzes. The course covers important aspects of marketing and advertising that will help students to build a successful career in the future.

With the rise in competition in the market, to provide the best customer service the demand for Data Mining professionals is at an all-time high. Data Mining is the process of collecting raw data from a business and turning it into meaningful information, which can be researched to detect customer buying patterns, launching campaigns, and even detecting spam and fraud. Data Miners break down the data provided to find patterns as requested. 

Data Mining is decoding sequential patterns and associations to highlight any growing trend in customer behaviour. Companies can use Data Mining software to classify and detect information as requested. Such a technique is used in many industries such as restaurants and supermarkets.

The process of data mining involves different steps. First, data is loaded in data warehouses, then data is managed or stored in the cloud or in the company. The data is accessed by management teams, business analysts, and information technology professionals to determine how it will be organised. Then, the software forms the data on the basis of the user, and the data is then presented in an easy to share format.

The broad content of the Financial Accounting Certification course includes introductory aspects (which consist of key concepts and terms, the definitions of those key terms, the need and the necessity of financial accounting), a brief introduction to the theoretical part of double-entry accounting cycle/accounting process, and a thorough understanding about every stand of the double-entry accounting process that includes Ledger posting, Journalizing, preparation of final accounts, Summarizing. 

The online course also deals with the treatment of adjustments during the preparation of final accounts. Giving lectures and using demonstrations are the basic methods of teaching adopted for this online course. The primary objective of this online course is to provide a thorough conceptual understanding of the double-entry system accounting process to target learners, who are undergraduate management students.

Financial Accounting Certification is an undergraduate-level course offered online. It comes under the category of Management studies. It is an elective course. C.S. Dr. Manish Sitlani, Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore is the instructor for the Financial Accounting Certification course on the NPTEL website.  He holds a PhD in commerce and he is a qualified company secretary. He also has two post graduates in Commerce and in Management (Finance).

Financial accounting - IIT Mandi Certification is about that branch of accounting involving a process of recording, summarizing, and reporting the transactions resulting from business operations over a period of time.

Financial accounting - IIT Mandi Classes will enable a student to read and analyze financial statements of a business, companies, and corporations. 

All students get a Financial accounting - IIT Mandi Certification by Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The Management of Power Distribution Course is a massive open online course that deals with the nuances of the power sector and its management of resources. The course discusses in detail the various steps involved in the management of the power distribution process.

The Management of Power Distribution Online Course is available on the Swayam portal through expert video lectures taught over 12 weeks. The course will help learners in exploring their managerial capabilities by providing valuable insights into the role of a manager.

The Management of Power Distribution Certification Syllabus is prepared in a way to include major components of management like customer relationship management, communication skills, and financial accounting principles. The course is coordinated by Prof. Subhasis Maji of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

The ‘Educational leadership’ online certification course is offered as a massive open online course to enhance the significance of leadership in educational organizations that leads them towards development. The students are given an opportunity to discuss the tools and techniques to gain leadership skills within the context of an educational institution. This free online course is provided by the Swayam online portal and the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). This elective course is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and is conducted for eight weeks through an online virtual environment.

The course instructor for this program is Prof. Atasi Mohanty from the center for education technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The candidates of this training will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of the concepts of educational management and administration. The students of the ‘Educational leadership’ online training program are given the certificate and credit points for this humanities and social sciences program.

Leadership and Team Effectiveness Certification will discuss understanding by leadership, who is the leader? What type of leadership can a person do or perform? And what a leader has to perform as a leader of the group. 

Also the difference between a manager and a leader: who is a manager? His job in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling and how a leader performs the job of a leadership activity will be taught in the course.

Leadership and Team Effectiveness Classes aim to explain the patterns of leadership roles for team effectiveness in noneconomic organizations compared to economic organizations.

All enrolled candidates get a Leadership and Team Effectiveness Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The Electromagnetism programme by Swayam is an undergraduate course of twelve weeks. In this, students will learn, apply, and analyse how Maxwell’s equations govern electric and magnetic fields’ dynamics. This comprehensive curriculum falls under the ‘Physics’ domain and covers critical topics such as electrostatics, magnetostatics, electrodynamics, a magnetic field’s energies, dielectrics forces, spherical coordinate systems, and Faraday's law.

The Electromagnetism training also helps course-takers familiarise with vector calculus, Stoke’s theorem, Divergence theorem, and Dirac Delta function. Students will study the motion of charged particles in magnetic and electric fields, and gain fluency about the equation of continuity. With merely a prior knowledge in Calculus, aspirants can gain admission into this programme and start learning these concepts.

Moreover, the Electromagnetism certification course is an undergraduate-level one, and it is targeted at first-year B.Sc. students. This core programme offers a holistic syllabus and is free to learn from. However, candidates can achieve a digitally-verifiable certificate for this course by appearing for the proctored exam and completing the course.

Applied and Economic Zoology is a specialised branch of zoology which is associated with the economy, healthcare, and the welfare of human beings.  It deals with the culturing of animals for human use and mass production. It also covers control or eradication of animals that are directly or indirectly injurious to man. In the Applied and Economic Zoology online course, all these topics are dealt with in a scientific way.

Other topics covered under the Applied and Economic Zoology online programme include poultry, animal husbandry, aquaculture, parasitology, the relationship between insects and man (productive insects and vectors of human diseases). Also, students will learn about fish culture, lac culture, apiculture, sericulture, and dairy science.

The Applied and Economic Zoology training course is approved by the University Grant Commission (UGC), as part of the curriculum for undergraduate students in Zoology. But undergraduate students from other biological science courses can also opt for this course. It is a 12-week course with a comprehensive curriculum.

The Basics of Materials Engineering Course by Swayam is a 12-week integrated course that covers essential topics of material engineering in today’s engineering sector. This is a first-level course designed to share insight into the foundational themes of the subject. 

Get your Certificate in Basics of Materials Engineering to gain knowledge about important topics like the structure of crystalline components, the defects in such materials and their implications on mechanical behaviour in practicality. The course also highlights how to process materials through practical phase diagrams amongst other themes like heat treatment levels, mechanical theories and properties. 

The Basics of Materials Engineering Course by Swayam will help you create a strong base for your future studies in the field of material engineering. The course is an undergraduate level programme with specially curated syllabus to build a concrete foundation in interested students. The course will be taught by Prof. Ratna Kumar Annabattula, IIT Madras.

It is significant for any engineer or an aspiring engineer to have at least all the basic knowledge when it comes to the mechanics of bodies that are deformable. The knowledge of it is even tested by employers when looking for new candidates to hire but not all manage to pull through the exams.

This is where this course Mechanics of Materials comes in. The very first course that introduces the mechanics of deformable bodies deals with a handful of concepts like strain, force, displacement and stress which forms the basics of the subject and later connects to the more important calculations such as equilibrium equations, strain displacement relation and compatibility condition.

The course has been offered by one of the best institutions in India, IIT Madras and thus the quality of the course speaks for itself. It offers the most industry relevant skill sets consisting of clear understanding of all the important concepts like uniaxial stress, twisting, bending and inflation. Moreover, the possibility of a structural element failing is all taught in great detail.

The study of diffusion began in the 19th century. Diffusion is the fundamental process that controls phase transformations in metallurgical processes. Thus, it is of utmost importance to understand diffusion to manage and design new processes. Study the diffusion process and its different types and applications in the Diffusion in Multicomponent Solids online course.

IIT Kanpur has created the Diffusion in Multicomponent Solids certification syllabus offered for free on Swayam. It is a 12-week elective course. In this course, candidates will study the phenomenological and atomistic processes, study alloys and diffusion in material made out of three or more systems. The syllabus is designed to enthral those interested in studying metallurgy and material sciences.

Candidates will derive and solve equations in the  Diffusion in Multicomponent Solids programme. The curriculum is aided by regular graded assignments and an optional final exam. Candidates can choose to obtain the certificate by passing the exam and paying the fee.

The Carbon Materials and Manufacturing Online Course is focused on the structure-property relationship and preparation of different carbon materials for the purpose of device manufacturing. The course contents are designed in a way that each type of carbon is taught in a “material-manufacturing pair”. All the topics will be covered, pertaining to the properties of various carbon allotropes, raw materials, carbon fibers and composites, carbon nanomaterials,  crystallinity and hybridization, and bulk industrial carbons.

This course is mainly intended for the degree holders in advanced B.Tech./ M.Tech. M.E./ Ph.D. from materials/ manufacturing/energy sciences. The Carbon Materials and Manufacturing Training has high industrial relevance. Almost all the companies, manufacturing carbon materials and carbon-fiber composites will be beneficial for the students. This course is instructed by Prof. Swati Sharma (IIT Mandi). 

The Material and Energy Balances course by Swayam extensively covers the fundamentals of material and energy balances, along with their applications in bioprocess and chemical industries. You will study examples of biochemical and chemical operations in addition to other biological systems.

Offered at the undergraduate level by IIT Madras, the Material and Energy Balances online course is a core course. It falls under the domain of Bioprocesses, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biological Sciences.

In the span of 12 weeks, the Material and Energy Balances programme will cover the basic terminologies, units, and dimensions of Material Balances. Moreover, anyone pursuing a bachelor's degree or teaching a Biotechnology course at the UG level can join.

Students enrolled in a Chemical Engineering course will also benefit from joining the Material and Energy Balances course by Swayam. You will receive a well-researched list of books and references for further learning. Post-completion, you can also obtain a course certificate to validate your learnings.

Swayam offers the Material Characterization certification course at both UG and PG level. The training is provided under the category of Electronic Materials, Metallurgy & Material Science, and Mining Engineering. It is the first course on the microstructural characterisation of materials at the undergraduate level.

Moreover, the Material Characterization certification syllabus is spread across 12 weeks. The curriculum covers the basic techniques and principles of scanning electron, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy. Other core topics covered include Optics fundamentals, image formation, and X-ray scattering.

The Material Characterization course also provides instrument details demonstrations and imagining experiments using video examples. Numerous technique demonstrations are also included to provide practical examples of sample preparation techniques for microstructural analysis and optical microscopes. If you are a postgraduate or undergraduate from a relevant field, then you can join the Material Characterization programme to gain a comprehensive knowledge of microstructural characterisation. And earn a course certificate to testify your newly acquired learnings.

The online programme will be providing the students with the knowledge of the-bituminous materials and their mechanical response and their importance in the field of pavement engineering. The course on Mechanical Characterization of Bituminous Materials by Swayam will be including the concept of the- introductory elementary linear viscoelasticity. The programme will also be introducing the use of that framework while grading the various systems available for the bitumen rocks available.

Also in  the Mechanical Characterization of Bituminous Materials certification course the students will be taught the use of polymers to enhance the rheological properties of the bituminous rocks so that the quality of the pavements can be introduced. The mechanical characterization of bituminous mixtures will also be discussed for modulus determination for design purposes. The course has been structured as an elective and will be conducted on the online platform. The students after completion of the course will have their skills enhanced in the field of dynamic modulus.

The Mining Machinery certification course is a programme extensively designed for candidates who want to acquire knowledge on different aspects of machines. The course closely works upon looking at the factors necessary for mining. Mine pumps, pumping ranges, and fittings fans have been given special emphasis.

The course will help candidates learn about several different terminologies. The candidates will be going through discussion forums which will help them learn better. The experts are experienced and will be helping out the candidates at every step. The course also includes illustrated examples of some of the topics in this domain. The experts have also combined and worked upon the latest needs of the industries.

The Mining Machinery online course also prepares the candidates for several industries by making them aware of industry exposure in these fields respectively. The course also offers certificates for all the candidates looking for certification. The end-term exam is merely based on the learning the candidates will acquire.

The online session on Non-Metallic Materials by Swayam has been structured with the primary aim of providing the students the basic understanding of the relation that exists in the nonmetallic materials and also its wide range of applications.

For the easy convenience of the students, the entire Non-Metallic Materials certification syllabus module has been divided into twelve weekly modules that further contains- five lectures with each duration of thirty minutes to help the applicants learn in a comprehensive manner.

The Non-Metallic Materials certification benefits the enrolled candidates by providing them real-world application knowledge about- diffusion, polymers, glass, ceramics, economics, corrosion, and other such topics that are directly or indirectly related to the subject of non-metallic materials. Upon completing the online course the students will have learned the various ways of measuring the electrochemical properties of non-metallic materials. They will also study the phase transformation involved in non-metals.

The Rock Engineering online course by Swayam is an introductory curriculum, dealing with how rock masses and rocks behave. This 12-week elective programme familiarises candidates with the design and analysis fundamentals of rock foundations, slopes, caverns, and tunnels. Industries that actively operate in mining and hilly terrain’s infrastructure development recognise this course. 

The Rock Engineering certification syllabus comprises critical topics like rock formations, rocks’ laboratory testing, strength criteria, analysing rock-slope stability, weak rocks’ foundation, geological data projects, tunnelling, etc. An AICTE-approved FDP course, this training is an IIT Roorkee offering, with Professor Priti Maheshwari as the instructor. The programme welcomes all learners currently pursuing their undergraduate degree, irrespective of which background they’re from. 

What’s more, the Rock Engineering programme also features an NPTEL and IIT Roorkee certification, enabling candidates to display their verified knowledge in this domain. Learners can opt for this by paying a certain fee, sitting for Swayam’s proctored evaluation, and scoring adequately in their 12 assignments throughout the curriculum.

The quality of steel plays an enormous role in imparting specific characteristics of a product. The absence of any defects and cleanliness are the two significant facets of steel quality. Therefore, the Steel Quality certification course is developed to help you understand the importance of casting processes in the cleanliness and surface quality of steel. You will realize this by using two techniques as examples – Secondary refining and continuous casting. 

The Steel Quality program is provided by Swayam in collaboration with IIT Madras. This course, spanning over 12 weeks,  tackles many topics pertaining to steel quality, quality issues, how to control quality issues, and steel manufacturing. AICTE has approved the course as an FDP (Faculty Development Program) course.

A digital certificate is also awarded if you manage to clear the exam and submit all the assignments satisfactorily. The certificate is industry-recognized and can be used to enhance your career prospects. The Steel Quality online course is perfect for postgraduate or undergraduate students pursuing their degree in the field of Metallurgy and Materials.

The Advanced Materials and Processes online course is an 12 weeks program offered by Swayam, an initiative by the government of India’s Ministry of education. The course covers the classification and basic foundation of functional and structural materials; high-temperature materials: processing, structure, oxidation resistance, and mechanical behaviour of stainless steels, co and ni-based aluminides superalloys and silicides, ceramic composites and carbon-carbon.

The Advanced Materials and Processes training teaches about shape-memory alloys: mechanisms of one and two-way shape memory effect, pseudoelasticity and thermoelasticity, reverse transformation, applications, and examples; bulk metallic glass: stability and criteria for glass formation, mechanical behaviour and examples; nano-materials: size effect on functional and structural properties, classification, properties and processing of nanocrystalline materials, multilayered and thin films coatings, multiwalled and single-walled carbon nanotubes.

The Advanced Materials and Processes syllabus covers hard and soft magnetic materials for storage devices: processing and design; piezoelectric materials: properties and processing; advanced material’s advanced processes: rapid solidification, single crystal growth, chemical and physical vapor deposition of thin films, inert gas condensation, etc.

The Aqueous Corrosion and Its Control online course is a 12 weeks training program offered by Swayam, an initiative by the Government of India’s Ministry of Education. Aqueous Corrosion and Its Control training teach about corrosion failures of components which affect all industries and cost a country around 3.5 percent of its GDP. Furthermore, it has an impact on the environment, component safety, limited resources, and dependability. Aqueous Corrosion and Its Control syllabus cover Effective corrosion control which provides a fundamental grasp of electrochemical concepts, metallurgical features, and a thorough comprehension of the industrial situation. This course covers all of these topics in depth.