Swayam Free Courses & Certifications

The multi-faceted field of psychology is centred around the study of the body and the mind. Analysing human behaviour through emotions, personality or feelings is a fascinating and complicated field of study. A psychologist is concerned about gaining knowledge over every theory and principle to apply the same in practical situations. Introduction to Psychology certification course by SWAYAM fulfils this objective under the pedagogy of IIT Kanpur.

The course has been crafted for acquiring a better understanding of oneself and others. Students of this course will be able to thoroughly determine how and why of feeling, action and thinking. This under-graduate, introductory-level psychology course will cover all the significant psychological constructs and principles. Introduction to Psychology certification syllabus will lay a pressing focus on perceptual processes, memory, learning, emotions, environmental and genetic determinants of one's behaviour and personality. All in all, this is a holistic teaching package for psychology scholars, enthusiasts, and professionals.

In this eight-week course, students will learn in an interesting way through the use of rich multimedia technology, discussion of case studies, regular quizzes to check their progress and online discussion forums to ask doubts and hold discussions on topics that interest them in this domain.

The Emotional Intelligence online course by Swayam talks about the numerous applications of this topic, accompanied by the theory and concept it resides upon. The emotional quotient is a critical value of any human being, whose utility and multiple uses at schools, workplaces, or homes have benefited countless people in varied disciplines. Therefore, this program encompasses all about this subject area, offering an AICTE-approved FDP study for a short eight-week span. 

The Emotional Intelligence certification syllabus aims to sensitize candidates with the necessary touchpoints to become fluent in this domain. Hence, undertaking it will enable learners to know about vital learning such as how EQ’S additional advantages, how our hearts rule us over our brains for creating anything innovative, the numerous emotional intelligence principles that help us navigate life’s various aspects, and so on. 

Furthermore, the Emotional Intelligence program will also explain its credo, making students aware of it to establish insights about their self-realization and regulation. Participants will familiarise themselves with life’s various unknowns, simultaneously realizing their optimum potential for performing better. The course also uses games, exercises, case studies, audio-visual instruments, etc., for an in-depth learning experience. Eligible candidates acquire e-certificates as well.

The Introduction to the Psychology of Language certification course by Swayam will focus on the process of language, language acquisition, and many more aspects. The course will provide a psychological understanding of language. The course is analysing the usages of language in our environment. The uniqueness of language will be discussed. The reasons which facilitate the acquisition of one language to another will also be discussed in the course.

The Introduction to the Psychology of Language training is verified by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. It is an AICTE approved FDP course. The course can be accessed in online mode. The course is offered on the Swayam platform. The course is free. The financially weak candidates will be benefited from the free accessibility of this course. The lecture series for this course will be 5 days a week. The course will be taught by the faculty member of IIT Kanpur.

The Introduction to the Psychology of Language certification is offered by NPTEL. The candidates can share the certificate on all platforms such as Linkedin, Facebook, and other platforms. The certification will help gain better professional opportunities and academic recognition. 

The psychological aspect of human behaviours will be covered in the Human Behaviour certification course by Swayam online course. The course consists of topics such as learning, perception, memory, language. The course will help the candidates to analyse the different reactions of the same people in different circumstances. The course will go skin deep and will provide a basic functioning of human behaviours. This course will uncover the reasons behind human actions. The human behavioural knowledge will help the candidates in making useful decisions based on human predictions.

The human Behaviour certification fee is negligible. The 8 weeks programme is conducted in association with the Government of India. The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati verifies the course. It is also an AICTE approved FDP course. The course will be recognised by the institutions of India.

Human Behaviour certification is offered by Swayam. It will be provided only in the e-format. The certification will carry the photograph, final marks of the candidates. The logos of IIT Guwahati and NPTEL. The programme completion certificate can be further shared on Facebook, Linkedin and other platforms. 

In the Language and mind certification course, the students will be learning about language under three broad perspectives. They will be studying about the ways of pairing the syntax and lexicon to formulate the languages. The candidates in the Language and mind certification syllabus will be dealing with the set of rules and the word formation structures and will also learn the ways to define them and formulate them to generate words in language. The eight week online certification course will be covering details pertaining to- Sounds, Features of sounds, Vowels/consonants, Places and manners of articulation, D structure, Binding theory, Constraints, Passive morphology and NP movement and other topics that are related directly or indirectly to language and mind. In the programme, the students will be familiarized with the relationship that exists between the human mind and language. The session will further be helping the students to understand the concept of langue as a special purpose with respect to cognitive ability.

The Student Psychology certification course is an excellent programme to learn about modern students’ psychology who belong to this technology era. It’s vital to know about their abilities, attitudes, interests, development stages, needs, and previous learning levels. That way, teachers can redefine their classroom activities accordingly to provide an effective learning experience for today’s technical students. 

The Student Psychology certification syllabus spans eight weeks. It touches upon all the vital topics such as the teaching-learning process, student motivation, psychological inventories, counselling skills, social development, student characteristics, and more. This curriculum is AICTE-approved too and belongs to the ‘Teacher Education’ domain. 

What’s more, the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai, has curated this Student Psychology training. Hence, you will learn from their trained educator and also get a chance to earn a verified e-certification that will display the Institute’s official logo. The curriculum is entirely online, self-paced, and there’s a sample YouTube video available as well on student psychology. 

The ‘Social Psychology’ online course is provided on the online free education Swayam portal which is an initiative of the ministry of India. This free online program is developed and offered by the English and Foreign Languages University for the students who are interested in knowing about the theories, concepts, and research associated with the aspects in social psychology.

This core course is scheduled for eight weeks and is part of the humanities and social sciences division,

The course instructor for the Social Psychology online training program is Dr. P. Swathy from the department of Psychology at Osmania University. The course study will be concentrated on the aspects of group performance, decision-making aided by groups, and group leadership. This undergraduate program enables the students to get a clear understanding of the psychological principles involved in social behaviors and group dynamics. This training will provide the students with three credit points.

The ‘The Psychology Of Language’ online course is provided on the Swayam free online education portal initiated by the ministry of education in India. This program is a National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning online certification course offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati for students who are interested in knowing about the nuances of the cognitive idea of language.

This is an elective course conducted by Dr. Naveen Kashyap who is an Associate Professor who teaches psychology in IIT Guwahati. The students of this undergraduate or postgraduate level course will gain two credit points after course completion. 

The ‘The Psychology Of Language’ training program is part of the humanities and social sciences and psychology category. The eligible candidates of this faculty development program approved by the AICTE will be provided with the course completion certificate with consists of the NPTEL and IIT Guwahati’s logo on it. 

The ‘Introduction to Advanced Cognitive Processes’ online course is provided on the Swayam online education platform, an initiative of the ministry of education in India. This is an elective course offered as the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning online free course by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for the students interested in learning in detail about cognitive processes.

This course is a twenty-hour program conducted across eight weeks by the course instructor Prof Ark Verma, an assistant professor of psychology in IIT Kanpur. This online training course is an undergraduate and postgraduate level program that enables the students to gain two credit points after completing the course. The students can also take the certification exam to receive the course completion certificate after the required eligibility criteria have been fulfilled. The ‘Introduction to Advanced Cognitive Processes’ program is categorized under the humanities and social sciences and psychology courses that help the candidates to know about the modern cognitive psychological techniques.

The ‘Introduction to Basic Cognitive Processes’ online course is a faculty development program approved by the AICTE, provided on the Swayam online educational platform initiated by the ministry of education in India. This course is developed and offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning. This online program is scheduled for eight weeks for students interested in learning about the basics and primary concepts in the domain of cognitive psychology.

The course educator for this online training course is Prof Ark Verma, assistant professor of Psychology at IIT Kanpur. The students of this course will gain two credit points after completing the course which is a part of the humanities and social sciences division. At the end of this undergraduate or postgraduate level training program, the students will receive a certificate that contains the NPTEL and IIT Kanpur logo which represents their acknowledgment.

The Health Research Fundamentals Training course offers the candidates the fundamental concepts in biostatistics related to research methods and epidemiology with an overview of the qualitative research methods and experimental study design respectively.  The course provides a depth study of the principles of data collection and data management.  The course deals with topics like qualitative research methods and experimental study designs in the epidemiological considerations in designing a research study. 

The course is having a multi faculty member from the National Institute of Epidemiology to help the candidate during the course duration. There are in total 7 instructors in the course who are faculty members of the National Institute of Epidemiology. The  Health Research Fundamentals is a free online course offered by swayam for a better understanding of the fundamentals of health research. 

After the completion of the Health Research Fundamentals Certification Syllabus, the candidate will get an E- certificate once they clear the certification qualifying criteria. The mode of teaching will be online where candidates can study according to their time preferences. 

The Regulatory Requirements for Conducting Clinical Trials programme has been developed by the Clinical Development Services Agency (CDSA) in association with NPTEL and  Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). It is a prerequisite course if you are interested in conducting clinical trials and involving yourself in developing new drugs. The course will also discuss the latest guidelines and regulations in the New Drugs and Clinical Trials (NDCT) Rules, 2019.

Regulatory Requirements for Conducting Clinical Trials certification is an elective course with a duration of eight weeks. It is a multidisciplinary course that you can access on Swayam, the online learning platform. There are no prerequisites to join this online course. All the course material is available for free. You will also have the chance to study under a reputed group of educators from multiple organisations and institutions.

Regulatory Requirements for Conducting Clinical Trials has an option for certification as well. You need to submit all the assignments and sit for the offline end-of-term exam to obtain it.

The Communication Skills Modes & Knowledge Dissemination Certification is a Module created for the applicants' convenience as part of a national level project for technical teacher training led by AICTE.

Communication Skills Modes & Knowledge Dissemination Classes are designed to help students develop a variety of communicative skills in addition to providing information on sensitive topics. Communication is a key component of the Communication Skills Modes & Knowledge Dissemination Certification Syllabus because it improves student-teacher connections and aids in student learning.

All students get a Communication Skills Modes & Knowledge Dissemination Certification by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh under the Swayam Initiative by Government of India.

Advanced Graph Theory certification course will offer the candidates learning on the different notions of the graph theory. All the theories and algorithms have been well discussed so that the candidates know their importance in the field of computer science.

The aspirants will be covering the fundamental principles during the course along with the techniques in the field of Graph Theory. Some emerging applications will be discussed with the candidates so that they have a glimpse of significant impact. Spanning trees and enumeration are headings where the experts have laid emphasis on. The course prepares the candidates for industry exposure as well.

After the completion of the Advanced Graph Theory certification, the candidates will be having intimate knowledge about the role of graph theory and the technology used to solve all of these problems. The candidates will be coming across many of the theorems and how the algorithm is formed for each of these in the computer science field.

The interdisciplinary field of human-computer interaction is a relatively new domain of study. It has gained traction due to an increased spread of consumer electronic products. The User-Centric Computing for Human-Computer Interaction certification course is designed to teach you the ideas governing this field of study. You will study how to design user-centric systems from a computational/engineering viewpoint.

The User-Centric Computing for Human-Computer Interaction certification course will focus on the challenge of making interactive systems user-friendly for laypeople. During the course, you will learn how engineering and computer science are essential to design such systems. You will also understand how user behavior and mental state are captured, modeled, and integrated into the design process to make the interactive systems responsive.

The User-Centric Computing for Human-Computer Interaction online training programme lets you look at the computational and engineering problems in developing human-computer interfaces. This eight-week-long course by Swayam is an FDP course approved by the AICTE.

There has been a lot of advances in computer hardware and software libraries. Due to this, we can undertake scientific computing that requires high precision and with relative ease. Tools in Scientific Computing program is an elective course that explores various methods of computing. It emphasizes hands-on implementation while covering all the theory-based topics. The course will talk about major problems you might encounter while implementing these scientific computing tools. 

The syllabus of Tools in Scientific Computing certification has been developed by faculty at IIT Guwahati. This AICTE approved FDP course is available on Swayam, an online learning platform with support from the Government of India. Professor Aditya Bandopadhyay will be teaching this course. This is an undergraduate/postgraduate course in mechanical engineering, computational mechanics, and computational engineering.  

Tools in Scientific Computing is a digital course that uses assignments and practical usage of Python, GNU Octave, and C-based PETSC as learning tools. You can also opt for an e-certificate by sitting for an offline exam at the end of the term. 

Introduction to Soft Computing certification course will help the candidates learn about the approach to computing. The candidates will be learning about the applications so that they are able to understand the learning properly. The different operators and their introduction will be given to the candidates before they start with the topic.

The aspirants will be learning all the attributes in it in an easy manner. All the learning materials have been provided with the course, the candidates can access them anytime. Several terminologies have been repeatedly covered so the aspirants are clear on those.

Introduction to Soft Computing certification will help the candidates shine bright with the learning they will acquire here. The learning offered also covers some of the high-level concepts which prepare the candidates for higher studies in the topic. The certification is of value to the student or trainers who want any kind of industry exposure.

Swayam’s Embedded System Design with ARM certification course discusses embedded system design, imparting knowledge about its introductory concepts and microcontrollers’ fundamentals as well. Enrolled candidates will benefit majorly from the ARM microcontrollers demo sessions and hands-on practice for system design, also learning about IoT-based designs’ developmental aspects. What’s more, the curriculum is premised on state-of-the-art programming environments and microcontroller boards, keeping candidates updated with current industry standards. 

The Embedded System Design with ARM certification syllabus covers both basics and advanced topics. Candidates discover actuators and sensors’ interfacing problems, smart home concepts, embedded programming platforms, ARM microcontrollers’ set, instruction set architecture, and numerous other areas. This eight-week elective program is highly-acknowledged amongst Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, TCS, HP, Samsung, and similar companies, assisting students in seeking job profiles in this industry. 

Falling under the purview of ‘Computer Science and Engineering’, the Embedded System Design with ARM online course is an FDP one. It is AICTE-approved and set at the undergraduate tier. Candidates may also acquire certificates by registering for Swayam’s proctored test, clearing it, and gaining sufficient marks in their weekly assignments.

The economic philosophy of the state is evolving, and over the past few decades, businesses have witnessed immense liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation. With these changes, ethical business plays a significant role in facilitating proactive economic developments. 

Taking the Business Ethics course will familiarise students with the meaning, nature, importance, types, and best practices associated with business ethics. The eight-week programme offers an all-encompassing curriculum including topics like corporate social responsibility, social audit, marketing ethics, ethical value system, and more. 

Apart from the extensive knowledge about Indian values and ethics, the Business Ethics training programme also explains in detail the Gandhian philosophy of ethical behaviour. For a practical understanding of the ethical concepts, students can access global and local case studies about the same.

The Business Ethics online programme is free of cost, and students must only pay the exam fee if they want certification. After finishing the course, learners will master the modern-day business ethics and best practices for ethical businesses. Archana Vechalekar, who is a certified EQ educator, will be your training instructor.

Writing is an aspect of language that comes into use daily for both employed individuals and students. However, many individuals with good spoken skills are unable to express themselves through writing and fail to impress the reader. This Effective Writing online course aims to teach candidates some essential writing skills that can help them excel in writing. 

Created by IIT Roorkee, the course is led by Prof. Binod Mishra, who has taught English at various levels. The Effective Writing syllabus will expose you to different forms of writing, especially business writing while focussing on making them useful. You will learn how to write with clarity, consistency, coherence, and bring unity into your writing. 

The course will help you prepare for the professional world, where you do not need to write stories and essays but draft letters, proposals, reports, research papers, memos, and more. Through this short-term eight-week Effective Writing training, you will gain a world of knowledge on professional writing used in corporates and organizations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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