Swayam Free Courses & Certifications

The Technical Textiles is provided on the Swayam online educational platform for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of textile engineering and technology, and material sciences. This National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning free online course is developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. The course is a study about the details of technicalities associated with the textile industry and to understand the characteristics and functional properties of textile materials and their implementation.

This faculty development program belonging to the field of textile engineering is a core course organized by the IIT Delhi for twelve weeks. The course educator to guide the students through the course is Prof Apurba Das, from the department of textile technology in IIT Delhi. The course is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and helps the students acquire three-course credits and a course completion certificate that consists of the logos of NPTEL and IIT Delhi representing their recognition of the ‘Technical Textiles’ online training.

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by the Government of India which seeks to remove the bridge of the digital divide for students who remained untouched by the digital revolution.

Geography is fundamental to the study of tourism because tourism is geographical in nature. 

The course in Geography of tourism follows a systematic approach that enables candidates towards their desired goal in Tourism. This course caters candidates with timely progress and makes them stand out in the field of tourism and services. This course helps people earn and socialize through tourism activities. The lessons are designed by remarkable instructors having great knowledge. Effective video lectures and timely self assessment programmes are provided ensuring proper knowledge.

The tourism and travel industry contributes significantly to the country's economic development since it can be perceived from both the business and the leisure perspective. India is one of the oldest civilisations and has a rich cultural heritage with very diverse features. The Tourism Resources of India programme offered by Swayam focuses on how the nature and history of India make it an appealing tourist destination. 

The Tourism Resources of India course talks about the diverse landscapes of India, varieties of mountains, hills, and valleys, and more. The curriculum features an overview of the famous monuments, sea-sides, traditional art and dances, and diverse festivals in India. Belonging to the category of multidisciplinary training it is an elective course intended for undergraduate students.

Professor H. Rajshekhar, a professor of Tourism and Commerce at the University of Mysore, teaches the course. Swayam's Tourism Resources of India programme takes around 12 weeks to complete.  The training is entirely online, rife with video lectures, assignments, and quizzes for self-assessment. You will also receive a certificate once you take the certification examination and secure the marks that meet the eligibility criteria. 

The Basic Course in Ornithology Certification is a 12-week online program. 

The Basic Course in Ornithology Certification is a 12-week online program. The course syllabus is prepared and verified by IISER Mohali, SACON, IISER Bhopal, IISER Tirupati, and IISc Bangalore even if Swayam is appointed to provide the course. This course certificate is presented by the IISER Mohali, SACON, IISER Bhopal, IISER Tirupati, IISc Bangalore, and NPTEL.

Basic Course in Ornithology training is a multidisciplinary elective course. Dr. Mousumi Ghosh, Dr. Manjari Jain, Dr. R. Jayapal, Dr. Anand Krishnan, Dr. Suhel Quader, Dr. V.V. Robin, and Dr. Umesh Srinivasan are the professors for this certification course.

The goal of the course is to expose students to the field of bird science (ornithology). It covers the fundamentals of a variety of subjects, including taxonomy, behavior, anatomy, and the conservation of birds.

Biochemical reaction engineering mostly deals with complicated life systems, when compared to chemical reaction engineering. The fundamental essence of biochemical engineering is to describe any life system’s behavior in mathematical form. The Aspects of Biochemical Engineering online course, in a real sense, is an interdisciplinary program since it involves topics from biology, physics, chemistry, technology, and mathematics.

The Aspects of Biochemical Engineering certification syllabus comprises topics like sophisticated advanced control systems and transport processes, along with physics, conventional biology, and mathematics. It also involves the production of biomolecules in two different ways: microbial cells or enzymes.

The Aspects of Biochemical Engineering certification course caters to all the aspects of the subject mentioned above. By undergoing this course, you will be able to differentiate between biochemical reaction engineering and conventional chemical reaction engineering. It also helps you develop the expertise needed to design biochemical processes that is an in-demand skill.

The Blockchain and its Applications certification course is offered using an online model by Swayam. The course is given complete support by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and NPTEL. The 2 professors Sandip Chakraborty, and Shamik Sural are in charge of teaching the programme.

The Blockchain and its Applications training course have been of recent interest amongst organisations that include enterprises, governments, and different academics as this provides a tamper-proof solution to establish an interconnection between the different stakeholders. This online training programme in blockchain provides different kinds of tutorials in the application of these techniques including Ethereum, and one permission.

In the Analog Communication course by Swayam, candidates will learn about the two building blocks of communication - Signals and Systems. They will understand how information is generated, how it can be transmitted to a distant user, and how the user interprets it. The information that needs to be transmitted and delivered to the user is known as a Signal.

Candidates will learn about different channels or media for transmission of signals. They will learn about the inherent imperfections of these media and how to combat and overcome them to facilitate effective communication. Also, they will learn about Noise, which is an unwanted, random signal that hinders communication.

Candidates participating in the Analog Communication programme will learn how to design systems that can filter out the noise and deliver effective communication. This is an undergraduate level programme created by IIT Kharagpur, and focuses on the engineering aspects of analog communication.

The ‘Management Accounting’ online course is developed by the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) for the students to engage in discussions and gain valuable insights on the tools and techniques that ensure an improved decision-making process at the management level. This management studies certification course is provided by Swayam online education portal and the course modules and classes are designed to be completed in twelve weeks.

The course is conducted by sixty lectures, videos, and several other online exercises along with assessments done on a weekly basis. The program instructor is Dr. Anil K. Sharma, a finance and accounting professor from the department of management studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The ‘Management Accounting’ online certification program enables students to gain a course certificate and credit points after successful completion of this core course. This program helps students gain a comprehensive understanding to gain an advantage over the competitive edge in the business market.

An intelligent agent must know how to solve real-world problems. The key to intelligence is creating visualizations of the domain of interest and reasoning with these representations. In this Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning certification course, you will explore various associated algorithms for reasoning and representation formalisms. 

The Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning certification by IIT Madras available on Swayam starts with a basic language of propositions. After that, it moves on to first-order logic, and subsequently, to representations for reasoning about change, situations, actions, and other agents in cases where there is a lack of information. This course is a companion to the course “Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving” that was offered recently and the lectures for which are available online.

Along with the lectures, Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning online course also provides links to supplementary reading materials. After 12 weeks, you will also have a chance to appear for a proctored exam. Passing this exam will get you a course completion certificate, which you can employ to showcase your skills in Artificial Intelligence.

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence certification by IIT Delhi is an FDP-approved course that runs for 12-weeks. Based on AI and Data Science, this AICTE study has been developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Students can learn from the video lectures and references given by the mentor of the programme.

Students will learn various concepts, philosophies, and models that fall under the An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence certification course. Per week, one learning module is assigned for the duration of the course. It comprehensively touches on algorithms, reinforcement learning, decision processes, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and Data Science.

Prof. Mausam, Associate professor of Computer Sciences at IIT Delhi and available on Swayam, instructs the course. Candidates need to pay a fee to write the certification exam. For the An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence certification, learners need to secure an average score, which is ascertained through assignments and the written test. Students shall receive an e-certificate for fulfilling the requirements.

The Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving online course is a 12 weeks program offered by Swayam under the initiative of the Government of India. An autonomous agent should be capable of solving issues in order to behave intelligently. They should be capable of making decisions that change a given circumstance into a desired or target condition. To find the ones that work, the agent must be able to imagine the consequences of its actions. This first section of the Artificial Intelligence course covers a wide range of search strategies that agents may use to solve problems.

In the second section of the Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving training: Reasoning and Knowledge representation, candidates will learn how an agent may represent its domain and explain what it understands. The course provides a solid basis for artificial intelligence from which the student may develop their understanding. The third section of the Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving syllabus provides a somewhat different framework for problem-solving, wherein the reasoning processes and previously stated search can coexist.

The Computer-Aided Applied Single Objective Optimization program aims to focus on different topics so that students have ample knowledge on the subject line. The course tries to touch on mathematical as well as computational aspects related to the subjects. Candidates will gain information on regression, computational algorithms, genetic algorithms, a toolbox of high-level programming languages like MATLAB, etc. This is a professional-level program and can be pursued by students as well as professionals. The duration of the Computer-Aided Applied Single Objective Optimization certification syllabus is 12 weeks. 

This is a free online course and candidates are awarded certificates at the end of the course if they complete the requirement for the exam. Students will be provided with the study materials for this course by the creator on the platform. Along with the study material, candidates will also be given a discussion platform, assignments, and tasks to understand the modules properly. The Computer-Aided Applied Single Objective Optimization certification course is entirely an online program and is a self paced training so that students have ample time to learn about the subject from the platform. 

The ‘Introduction to robotics’ online course is a study about the state-of-the-art technologies and techniques associated with designing robots and their applications. This National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) free online course on robotics is provided on the Swayam online education platform. The online training is offered by the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

The program is conducted for twelve weeks and is a core course for the undergraduate and postgraduate level students of design engineering or robotics. The course instructors of this certification program are Dr. T Asokan from the department of engineering design, Prof. Balaraman Ravindran teaching computer science, and Dr. Krishna Vasudevan of the electrical engineering department. This AICTE approved faculty development program enables the students to receive three credits after completing the online training. The ‘Introduction to robotics’ e-certificate is issued to the qualified students with NPTEL and IIT Madras logos on it.

This Hospitality Industry in Tourism programme is provided by SWAYAM, which is an initiative by the Government of India. This 12-week undergraduate level which will be teaching about hospitality service in tourism and related industry.

The basic need for travellers, wanderers, pilgrims or tourists is hospitality. Hospitality gives them a good sense of home away from home. During overnight stays at destinations far from home, it is important. Hospitality and tourism services are thus interdependent. In general, hospitality facilities consist of food and accommodation services.

The hotel industry plays a very important role in delivering the most valuable elements of total tourism services in the field of hospitality services. Modern hotels are run by highly qualified supervisors and line staff. Front Office, food and beverage, housekeeping, safety and security, administration and accounts, and more are the major departments in a modern hotel. The Hospitality Industry in Tourism programme provides details about the hotel's structure and operations.

This Basics Of Language Science Online Course manages major parts of the language. In the course the candidate will develop an understanding connection between language, brain, and the general society that we reside in. The students will feel like they realize how to respond to a ton of inquiries regarding different complexities or various kinds of miracles about language.

This course assists the candidate with managing the three significant parts of language specifically, the construction at the degree of sounds, words, and sentences, securing or learning of it, and the varieties inside and among dialects. The Basics Of Language Science Programme offers answers to a large portion of the interests that strike major when we consider how we gained the limit of language as a child.

This course will guide the candidate in depth of language science. In the Basics Of Language Science Training candidate can also take up the course certificate by giving the exam which will be held after the course completion. The course timing is flexible and candidates can study according to their time preference and the course faculty will be professor Rajesh Kumar from IIT Madras for making understanding easy to candidates.

The Cloud Computing training, curated by IIT Kharagpur, is an elective undergraduate-level course. The programme is based on the disciplines of computer science and engineering, programming, and systems. This is an twelve-week course, and lectures will be conducted online only.

The Cloud Computing certification course teaches about the delivery and scalable services consumption platform that offers computing provision for a shared pool of resources. These include database, storage, software, networking, servers, applications, and so on. 

This platform requires the least possible management effort by providing on-demand availability of a shared pool of configurable computing sources. Some of the aspects covered in the course are the fundamentals of cloud computing, security challenges, management problems, and future research possibilities. This is one of the best cloud computing courses taught by Swayam.

Cloud Computing online course by Swayam will work well with candidates who have a basic computer organisation background, networking, and architecture. Students of electronics and communication engineering, computer science and engineering, and electrical engineering will benefit from the cloud computing course.

Strategy and Technology: A Practical Primer Certification is crucial for professionals to assist their companies and organizations in defining the vision, mission, and goals and crafting a strategy that can achieve the goals through execution.

In order to provide various frameworks for business growth and sustainability, Strategy and Technology: A Practical Primer Classes combines the fields of strategy and technology.

All students get a Strategy and Technology: A Practical Primer Certification by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

A four-credit course, the Principles of Genetics course by Swayam has been specially designed for undergraduates of all life science programmes. The online course aims to equip candidates with the fundamental knowledge of heredity, genetics, and inheritance. And to build a foundational understanding of the various biological principles. 

Spread over 12 weeks, the Principles of Genetics certification syllabus broadly covers the genetics' fundamentals, Mendelism and its extensions, Linkage and Extranuclear inheritance, and sex determination. Each unit, spread across three weeks, contains 15 hours of teaching for a comprehensive understanding of the concepts. 

Other core topics covered in the Principles of Genetics programme are laws of inheritances, gene functions, Mendel's principles, gene interactions, genetics' framework, among others. 

However, they can only avail of the Principles of Genetics certification after paying the certification fee and meeting the minimum marks criteria in the internal assessment and end-term exam. 

Geography, in general, is the study of lands, people, and all the phenomena which take place on Earth. In this course, the focus is the country of India. The Geography of India course by Swayam provides a more detailed perspective about the formation of the physiography and the physiographic features situated throughout India. The course also details various details about the natural features of India including its changing topography, the composition of different types of soil, study about various landforms, water bodies such as rivers and their tributaries, basins, and so on. Geography does not only deal with physical features but it also deals with ecological features. 

In this course, the candidate will also gain knowledge about the climate, developments across many regions, irrigation systems, agriculture throughout the country, settlements in rural and urban areas, how the demography is formed, and the presence of migrants, trades, commodities, and industrialization at different scales. The main goal of this course is to gain a very in-depth understanding of Geography as a whole, specifying India.

The certificate programme in Biogeography is a 12-week online course by Swayam, offered at the undergraduate level. Candidates can also pick this online programme as an elective. Moreover, Dr P.T. Bharathi instructs the online programme. She is the Principal Investigator and course coordinator for the Biogeography course under Massive Open Online Courses.

The Biogeography certification programme by Swayam will teach the candidates about flora and fauna of a region. Also, they will learn about the geographic factors that affect the natural inhabitants of an environment or surrounding, including world climate zones, type & distribution of forests, natural vegetation & ecosystem, among others. 

Furthermore, the online course has a vast and extensive curriculum which covers core topics like Darwin’s theory of evolution, along with other topics like human races, the relationship between man & environment, Glaciations cycles, and population & settlement.

Upon successful completion, candidates will acquire expertise in the world biomes. Also, a certificate in Biogeography by Swayam can lay a concrete base for a career in Biogeography. 

The ‘Conservation Geography’ online certification course is developed for the students to discuss the theories of geography in detail to understand the various aspects of conservation and biodiversity that enable development. This biological sciences and bioengineering program of the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) is provided by Swayam online education portal. The course classes are offered free of charge and are scheduled for a period of twelve weeks.

The instructor for this elective course at the undergraduate or postgraduate level is an academic and industrial expert, Dr. Ankur Awadhiya from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. The training consists of a virtual mode of learning enabled by videos, online lectures, and other resources that include working on case studies to understand the conservation intended development.

The ‘Conservation Geography’ online training program ensures the participants of the program with a course certificate and credit points after completing the course successfully according to the qualifying criteria.

The Microwave Remote Sensing in Hydrology Remote Sensing in Hydrology certification course is a three months online program. Even though the program is provided using the Swayam platform, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and NPTEL firms have established this certification program, which was created by IIT Bombay.

The  Microwave Remote Sensing in Hydrology training covers the fundamentals of passive and active microwave remote sensing with applications in civil engineering (hydrology, meteorology), as well as the ideas of processing microwave images using free and open-source programming languages like Python.

This course will give a general overview of how to get students ready to read and understand microwave data for difficult water-related scientific and policy problems. This course will be valued and commended by ERDAS, RMSI, and other companies with a remote sensing and GIS applications division. Prof. J. Indu explains this certificate course.

Are you interested in knowing the essential concepts of remote sensing? Here you have a chance to learn from one of the reputed IITs. Remote Sensing Essentials is a 12-week-long online course on remote sensing offered by Swayam in association with  IIT Roorkee. The online course will guide you through different aspects of remote sensing and will help you explore the fundamentals of satellite-based digital image processing and remote sensing technologies and tools. 

Remote Sensing Essentials Certification Course, administered by Swayam, is an FDP programme that is approved and recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The Remote Sensing Essentials online course is an elective programme that is prepared and supervised by Prof. Arun K. Saraf who is a professor at IIT Roorkee. The course is basically a free online programme and the learners can pursue it completely free of cost except for certification. To be eligible for the certificate of completion, the learners must appear for an exam that demands an exam fee of Rs 1,000. The expected candidates for the course are undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students in the civil engineering field who want to learn more about remote sensing.  

What makes the Soil-Structure Interaction program unique and compelling is that it discusses the details of the soil structure models in more detail than in any undergraduate degree courses. The course will explore the models for a shallow foundation under various subgrade characteristics and loading conditions. The training receives industry support from civil engineering companies.

Candidates enrolling for the Soil-Structure Interaction certification will learn about elastic foundation problems on beams and plates and using FDP methods to understand different foundation models. They will spend twelve weeks in this AICTE approved elective course in civil engineering and structural analysis. 

Soil-Structure Interaction is an online course available on the Swayam learning platform. The syllabus is designed by professor Kousik Deb from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He will also be the educator of the course. Candidates can either audit the course for free or opt for a certification. There are assignments and an end-of-the-term examination that they will have to successfully complete. 

In a qualitative and quantitative way, the German - I certification course is designed in the most innovative and comprehensive manner. The course will focus on enhancing the learning capability of the students that will make them more fluent in the field of the German language and so that later they can fluently use it. The course is based on an overview of the German language and a core German orientation mainly and according to that only the whole curriculum is structured according to the week-based program. 

The ultimate goals of the course are to learn to understand and express oneself in daily real-life circumstances in the German language. Through this course, serious learners should be able to understand the simple sentence structure and develop a strong fundamental vocabulary in the German language. 

The German - I certification that a candidate can attain at the end of the program via completing all the criteria will help them to achieve high-peak growth in their respective career and usage of the German language can help them to attain a better and effective position in the particular field. The German - I training is weekly based and associated assessments to the programme will help the candidate to learn the specific curriculum in a better way.

The German – II by Swayam is the A2 level course designed to help the participants gain the A level language competence according to the European Common Language Framework. It will help the participants broaden their learning and understanding of the German language. The candidates will further build their grammatical structures in German. The candidates will enrich their German vocabulary. The candidates will be able to communicate better in daily life situations and develop intimacy with the German culture.

The course is offered through NPTEL on the Swayam platform. The candidates will receive practice materials and book references on the course website. The course is practice-based and focuses mainly on practical implications. The Swayam platform is government-initiated. This course is approved by AICTE. The program has been verified by The Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

The German – II certification is a government-approved authentic certificate of achievement. It will be provided in the e-format. It can be shared on all kinds of platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and many more. The certification will help those candidates who are working with German organizations or have plans to work there. It will also help students aspiring to study in Germany.

The goal of the German-III Certification is to achieve a level of competency in German that corresponds to B1 on the European Common Framework of Reference for Languages abbreviated as CEFR or CEF.

German III classes are designed to increase your proficiency in the language to the point where you can pass B1-level exams offered by certifying organizations.

All students get a German - III Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The Engineering Drawing and Computer Graphics course is available online on the Swayam platform. Swayam is an initiative by the government of India to bridge India’s digital divide. The courses are free of cost and the course material is prepared by some of India's best teachers. 

Candidates who wish to earn the Engineering Drawing and Computer Graphics certification need to complete the required assessments for the course and pay the fees to sit for a proctored end-term exam. All steps of the manufacturing process of a product involve presenting ideas in graphical formats known as engineering drawing and computer graphics. The course is designed by Professor Rajaram Lakkaraju, a faculty member of the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of IIT Kharagpur.

The Engineering Drawing and Computer Graphics training course by Swayam gives candidates a base in computer design, 3D designing, and the basics of technical drawings. Swayam certified candidates can find jobs in various petro, automotive, and process industries like TATA Steel, TATA Motors, SHELL, ONGC, HAL, SAIL, BARC, BHEL, GE, Airbus, Reliance, etc.