Swayam Free Courses & Certifications

With the Rapid Manufacturing certification course, students learn about making products in today's fast-paced manufacturing world. It focuses on creating things that are easy to make and have special abilities. Students from different science and engineering fields explore advanced technologies, like fast prototyping and smart design, with hands-on practice. 

The Rapid Manufacturing certification by Swayam is 12 weeks long, and by the end, students should know how to make any model. It is open to students who have completed two semesters in their science or engineering program, making it a practical and valuable experience for those interested in making things.

The Social Innovation in Industry 4.0 certification course delves into Social Innovation, exploring the generation and implementation of transformative ideas and practices to benefit society. It navigates the landscape of Industry 4.0, emphasizing the urgent need for innovators to apply Social Innovation concepts, fostering positive change in tandem with technological advancements.

The Social Innovation In Industry 4.0 certification by Swayam equips students with frameworks, methods, and tools to maximize financial gains and enhance societal well-being. Supported by industry giants like HAL, NAL, SAIL, and ISRO, it bridges theoretical knowledge with real-world applications, preparing students to thrive in the evolving socio-economic sphere.

The Metal Additive Manufacturing certification course delves into cutting-edge manufacturing technologies, focusing on the expansion of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in metal across diverse industries like aerospace and medicine. It covers essential facets including AM basics, materials, and processes, equipping students, educators, and industry professionals to enhance their skills in modern metal production.

Catering to students across engineering and science disciplines, the Metal Additive Manufacturing certification by Swayam demands a prerequisite of two semesters in an undergraduate engineering or science program. With industry support from HAL, NAL, SAIL, and ISRO, the course equips learners to advance their skills, reduce production costs, and optimise metal product manufacturing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one wakes up in the morning and becomes a leader instantly. It requires strength and knowledge to become someone who leads others. People confuse the concept of leadership with motivating others but it starts with the person itself. Every field looks for people with extraordinary leadership qualities to become a help during an emergency. There is not a particular roadmap for learning leadership overnight. In the management field, stories about others' struggles or finding themselves play a vital role in giving a different viewpoint to the employees. 

By enrolling in The Essence of Leadership: Explorations from Literature Course on Swayam, candidates can learn valuable lessons from literary characters like Don Quixote, Saint Joan, and others who have come across as those who don't settle for less and take charge in bringing massive change. These stories fuel the leader inside a person to do big things in life. The candidate will learn the best way to deal with issues in their lives and change their perspective to find solutions. 

Companies consider leadership as a high-quality skill which they also seek in the candidates they hire. Having leadership qualities, candidates can impress the hiring panels of big and decent companies. This course will compel you to ask questions that no one dares to ask due to the absence of leadership qualities.

The Literature and Coping Skills certification course will be helping the students to explore the power in the field of literary experience. In the program, the students will be analyzing the strong coping resilience and strategies that matter the most in the present times. Over the course of eight long weeks, the Literature and Coping Skills certification syllabus will be covering details on - the psychology of fear and excitement. The online certification course module focuses on a wide array of human emotions namely - joy, pain, fear, happiness, anxiety and others.
The online certification program on Literature and Coping Skills by Swayam will be helping the applicants to overcome their- fatal strikes of fear, trauma, depression, anxiety and heartbreak. 

The session will be guiding the students to discover the beauty of life and overcome depression and anxiety through self-love and care. The program will be dealing with a range of human experiences that are universally accepted.

Indian Poetry in English Certification highlights the fundamentals and significance of poetry, which has historically served as a therapeutic medium to help humanity cope with life's stresses. India has such a rich history of literary expression, and those with the patience to listen have always been drawn to its lyrical voices.

Indian Poetry in English Classes aims to delve into the oceanic aesthetic of Indian poetry and spread its waves among poetry enthusiasts. The course was created with the learners' desire to comprehend in mind the journey of Indian English poetry, and how it began and continues to make its presence felt, struggling at times and overcoming hurdles while yet succeeding, in mind.

All students get an Indian Poetry in English Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The Nuclear Astrophysics Certification consists of an 8-week online course. Even if Swayam is assigned to teach the course, IIT Roorkee advances and validates the course syllabus. This course certificate is licensed to be issued by the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and NPTEL. Nuclear Astrophysics training is offered as a physics elective. Anil Kumar Gourishetty is the instructor for this certification program.

The goal of the course is to educate students on the newly developed subject of nuclear astrophysics, which has the ability to discover novel observational signatures probing the universe. It has been demonstrated that this field has the ability to classify the circumstances at the centre of stars and to provide details on stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, and energy generation. 

In this era of globalisation and mongering threat of cybersecurity attacks, developing secure and efficient computer systems and the regime has become inevitable for every organisation touched by the digital revolution. Information Security - 5 - Secure Systems Engineering by SWAYAM discusses everything one needs to know about information security and the engineering of secure systems to build a strong conceptual idea of the same.

The syllabus deals with various challenges and issues in systems and mechanisms by which they can be mitigated. The first part will cover such security threats which can hamper the system health and can lead to major cyberattacks. To understand them in-depth, the course will also discuss how such vulnerabilities could arise from simple programming flaws like a buffer that overflows to complicated application runtime characteristics that are demonstrated through side-channels like the power consumption of the device and execution time. 

It will also deal with the case analysis of recent cyberattacks like Heartbleed, Stagefright, and Meltdown and Spectre. The course will be taught by adopting multimedia technology and aims to reach every person looking for quality education at minimal to no cost. It will be taught by a faculty from IIT Madras.

International Marketing Certification is about a social and managerial process by which individuals as well as corporate offices obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others internationally or across the borders.

International Marketing Classes will provide basic theories of Internal Business, various types of entry strategies to the International Market, International marketing management, understanding risk associated with expansion & risk mitigation plans. 

It will also help in making social & cultural exchange possible between different countries of the world alongside goods and services, cultural integration is achieved at global level.

All students enrolled get an International Marketing Certification by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) under the Swayam Initiative by Government of India. 

Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink certification is an 8-week course developed with the associative efforts of institutions like Swayam, NPTEL, and IIT Roorkee. The main idea behind his certificate programme is to help the participants understanding the basics of the advanced concepts of linear continuous control systems. This e-certificate course is taught free but the exam is offline and chargeable.

Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink training will be teaching the ways advanced control engineering is used in the multidimensional facets of engineering. Along with the above topics, the candidates will be controller design, observability, learning controllability, and observer design with the support of both practical, and numerical examples where the credit points designed is 2, and which is significant for both the certification or credit transfer.

The key connection between the hardware of a device and the programmes that run on it is given by operating systems [OS]. This enables us to write programmes without thinking a lot about hardware. It also guarantees that the resources of the computer, such as its CPU, memory and hard disc are used sufficiently. In this programme, it is concentrated on how the OS is able to do all this effectively. For candidates with previous computer organisational experience, this is an introductory programme. The Introduction to Operating Systems programme will focus on an OS called xv6, which is similar to the Linux operating system in many aspects.

For the Introduction to Operating Systems programme, SWAYAM is not charging any learning fee. Candidates can learn the programme for free but to get a certificate they have to pay a fee. Candidates will get an e-certificate with the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras.

The curriculum of the Introduction to Operating Systems programme is designed by experts of IIT Madras and it will be containing all necessary details for a candidate. The programme will be having 8 weeks of duration and candidates will be able to learn from any where.

The Introduction to Launch Vehicle Analysis and Design certification course is an AICTE approved course which is available on the website at zero cost. The course deals with the topics of aerospace engineering which includes launch vehicles that are used in space for transporting objects. Participants will get deep knowledge and information on the topic as each topic is discussed separately with examples and activities throughout the Introduction to Launch Vehicle Analysis and Design certification syllabus. The course is available throughout the year in the online mode for the students. The course takes 8 weeks to get completed, however,  candidates will get access to the program after the mentioned time. 

Candidates get to be certified participants in the Introduction to Launch Vehicle Analysis and Design training. The certificate can be achieved through the registration fees for the exam and a qualified proctored exam. Students can learn from the program according to their conditions. Students do not have to meet any deadlines or requirements for this course and can study from the program without any limitations. The Introduction to Launch Vehicle Analysis and Design online course not only includes lectures but also provides discussion groups, tests, quizzes, etc. for a better understanding of the subject to the students. This is self-paced training and students are allowed to learn from the provided notes whenever they require.

This Econometric Modelling online course offered by Swayam is intended to introduce students to the fundamental ideas of econometrics. The fundamental material, on the other hand, makes an attempt to address certain aspects of time series analysis.

Econometric Modelling training is designed to be largely theoretical in nature, with the goal of providing knowledge of the mechanisms, economics and mathematics underlying the tools and approaches employed. The ideas will be shown using examples, primarily in MS Excel.

The Econometric Modelling syllabus will provide students with a solid theoretical foundation that will allow them to better comprehend the application of various methodologies and instruments in diverse economic scenarios or contexts.

Design is an emerging discipline that has gained recognition in the last two decades. It is the study of the transformation of utilitarian products to fit the needs of a service or system. It bridges the gap between technology and the needs behind using said technology. Design Practice programme is an online postgraduate beginner course that will dive into the various concepts of product design. 

Design Practice certification is an industry-supported course that will be ideal for faculty and students studying mechanical engineering and product design. It is an elective course of eight weeks, where participants will be provided with assignments and video lectures to help them capture the maximum benefit this course has to offer. 

Design Practice course syllabus has been designed by IIT Kanpur in association with NPTEL. The course will be taught by Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya of IIT Kanpur. This is a free audit programme that offers certification to interested candidates who qualify for eligibility.

Design and Analysis of Algorithms program is an undergraduate course in the field of Foundation of computing and Computer Science and Engineering. It is a free MOOC that will be held on the online learning platform Swayam. Swayam is a learning portal and an initiative by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

The syllabus of the Design and Analysis of Algorithms certification has been designed by Chennai Mathematical Institute in association with NPTEL. The program will be taught by professor Madhavan Mukund, the Dean of Studies at Chennai Mathematical Institute. Along with video lectures, candidates will have assignments and a list of books and references to understand the course contents better. 

During the Design and Analysis of Algorithms training, candidates will explore various topics such as Intractability, Design techniques, asymptotic complexity, data structures, algorithm on graphs, sorting, and searching. The course also offers a certification for interested eligible candidates. However, certification is granted only if students pass the final test.

The Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms Using Python certification course imbibe Python problem-solving and programming fundamentals in its students. A Chennai Mathematical Institute offering, this eight-week curriculum features robust industry recognition amongst programming-oriented companies. Primarily built for undergraduates, this program falls under the following purviews - ‘Foundations of Computing’, ‘Programming’, ‘Artificial Intelligence, ‘Computer Science and Engineering, and ‘Data Science’

The extensive Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms Using Python certification syllabus cover multiple concepts, including introductory concepts like loops, conditionals, functions, strings, etc. Candidates learn about sorting algorithms, backtracking, using files, exception handling, and more. Regarding data structures, the course also discusses Python dictionaries, objects, and classes to define various data types, including binary search trees and linked lists.

The Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms Using Python training also offers an optional certificate to help candidates actively seek employment or educational growth. Aspirants can acquire this by clearing the requirements. These include scoring well in the weekly assignments and clearing Swayam’s two examinations.

The Traditional and Non-Traditional Optimization Tools training is designed to explain the optimization process and its principles in depth. You will study traditional optimization tools during this course, including their subgroups, namely - direct search and gradient search methods, steepest descent, random walk method, etc. You will become aware of the significance of optimization to develop the most efficient product at the lowest cost.

The Traditional and Non-Traditional Optimization Tools online program also provides insights into non-traditional tools of optimization such as the genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization, simulated annealing, etc. It is an eight-week-long course with 20 hours of video lectures, where these methods will be explained along with relevant numerical examples.

The Traditional and Non-Traditional Optimization Tools certification course teaches working principles of multi-objective optimization. These include goal programming, distance-based Pareto-GA, weighted sum approach, and more. You will also understand techniques to handle constraints, benefits, and drawbacks of GA. This elective course also provides a completion certificate when you fulfill certain criteria. 

The SWAYAM, an initiative by the Government of India, is a platform developed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), NPTEL and IIT Madras assisted by Google Inc. and Persistent Systems Ltd. is a Government initiative. The prime focus of this programme is to avail specialized and practice-based learning to all the people, including the underprivileged through the digital revolution.

The Introduction to R Software programme by SWAYAM is prepared to form an essential foundation of R software. There is no worry about the cost aspect of this software because it can be used free of cost. R has its own programming language that is very strong in nature, making it capable of performing the computations, simulations, data analysis and manipulations of mathematical and statistical tasks. The Government certification provided at the end of this course is valid in all industries involved in the field of mathematical and statistical computations, programming and simulations making it professionally beneficial.

The teaching methods are really interactive and the execution of all the commands is explained using slides, which ensures practice-based learning, contains on point audio/video modules and weekly assignments for effective learning. In the present scenario of software and programming, the learning of R software is highly recommended.

The Introduction To Haskell Programming online course is offered by Swayam, an initiative by the Ministry of Education. Functional programming is an elegant, powerful and succinct programming model. This Introduction To Haskell Programming training approach promotes breaking down programming tasks into logical pieces that can be readily converted into provably accurate code. Introduction To Haskell Programming syllabus combines the greatest aspects of functional programming which is rapidly being utilized by Haskell language professionals in the industry, both for quick prototyping and for practical deployment.

The Introduction To Programming In C certification course is offered in a fully online mode by Swayam for a period of 8 weeks. The introduction to c++course also has NPTEL, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur that support Swayam in providing the learnings. Professor Satyadev Nandakumar of IIT Kanpur leads this course successfully.

The Introduction To Programming In C training admission is taken without any prior programming experience or background. Only a maturity in maths at the graduation second-year level of a science or engineering background is expected for a proper understanding of this course. The introduction to c language course emphasizes solving problems by using languages, and standard introductory techniques like iteration, alternation, and recursion.

The Supply Chain Analytics certification course proves exceptionally beneficial in the current era of supreme global competition. The course throws light on the crucial aspects that will enable students to understand how to bring better quality and service at lower prices and increase customer demand. This program falls under the shared domain of management studies and operations. 

The Supply Chain Analytics certification syllabus perfectly suits the academic requirements of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Moreover, this FDP course has also been approved by the AICTE. Professor Rajat Agrawal, an associate professor of the Department of Management Studies at IIT Roorkee, offers the course training. He has guided thirteen Ph.D. thesis papers related to operations and has also published several international journal articles. 

The Supply Chain Analytics online program is scheduled for eight weeks and makes sure that the curriculum is comprehensively covered. Students are presented with the opportunity to utilize analytics to bring greater functionality to the supply chains. 

The Introduction to Uncertainty Analysis and Experimentation certification course will begin with fundamental subjects on the study of complexity and its applications and offer an outline of exploration. This course would learn from professional engineers, scholars, and engineering students at UG, PG, and Ph.D., from many disciplines. The course is divided into different segments as per the week's scheduled curriculum that will intellectually focus on every particular module and sub-chapter in a more comprehensive manner. 

The Introduction to Uncertainty Analysis and Experimentation training will be given more importance to promote analytical learning in the course. The subjects include the method of experimentation, measurement errors, measurement and outcome uncertainty, the transmission of uncertainty, pre-and post-test uncertainty analysis, set-up configuration uncertainty analysis, and regression and correlation. The approach would adopt the "performance test code" of ASME and the ISO "Guide to the expression of measurement uncertainty." The Introduction to Uncertainty Analysis and Experimentation certification will provide a brief structure of the field and each core segment that is essentially included in the particular major. A selection of practical applications and the use of national and international principles relating to engineering and research and their importance to education will be addressed in the programme.

Data analysis is very critical in biology and one of the key skills of biologists for academic research and industry. Data Analysis for Biologists can guide you on the possession of data analysis needed for biology practitioners. The online course is an 8-week long program. Data Analysis for Biologists Certification Course will walk you through the concepts of data analysis and its application in biology as well as the concepts of linear algebra, statistics, and the whatnot. 

Data Analysis for Biologists Certification is offered jointly by Swayam and IIT Guwahati which can be enrolled by the learners without paying any fee. However, the certificate of completion will be provided to those who sat for the exam by paying the fee. The course is meant for undergraduate and postgraduate level learners who are from the background of biology and biotechnology.

The Database Management System online course throws light on the backbone of all major applications used today, i.e. databases and their models, design paradigms, and structured query language (SQL), to name a few. Students get the opportunity to closely examine the file organizations, data structures, database designs, implementation, models, and more!

IIT Kharagpur has curated the Database Management System certification syllabus so that learners get familiarised with a wide array of concepts. These range from relational data models and SQL to entity-relationship modeling, database designs, and data normalization. Moreover, learners will also work on weekly assignments to explore query coding practices using MySQL or any other open platform. 

The Database Management System training is spread over eight weeks. Students will be undertaking this curriculum with Professor Partha Pratim Das and Professor Samiran Chattopadhyay as their instructors, who have years of academic teaching experience. With their combined professional expertise, students can be assured of being trained by some of the country’s best minds!

The innovation in robotics and applications has led to a rising stimulation of interest amongst teachers and students of engineering. IIT Roorkee and Swayam have created the Robotics and Control: Theory and Practice certification course to offer students the opportunity to learn more about this growing field and build a career in robotics research. You will learn about modelling, control and planning. 

The Robotics and Control: Theory and Practice syllabus by IIT Roorkee is taught over eight weeks. It is divided into two parts. The first part on fundamentals of robotics discusses topics like homogeneous transformations, DH algorithm, rotation. The second part on applications of robotics includes topics like exoskeleton and robotic needles. 

The Robotics and Control: Theory and Practice by Swayam is an eight-week course with verification from AICTE as an FDP course. IIT Roorkee’s top professors from the Departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering will be leading this online program. Candidates will receive eight graded assignments. In the end, there will be two exams for those who want to receive the certificate.

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

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

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

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