Project Period

: July 2007 June 2012 Budget: Rs 96.0 crores Partner

Institutions: Seven IITs and IISc Bangalore Number of
faculty likely to participate: 600 or more. Beneficiaries: All
engineering and physical sciences
undergraduates/postgraduates in the country; all
teachers /faculties in science and engineering Universities
in India. Project goal: To build on the engineering and core
science courses launched previously in NPTEL Phase I by
the Ministry for Human Resource Development,
Government of India on September 03, 2006 and create
online course contents and interactions between faculty
members in science and engineering using the best
academics in India. Project Deliverables: 1. Conversion of
NPTEL phase I video courses in streaming video lecture
format and setting up eight distributed national video
servers for delivering lectures on demand in each of the
eight partner institutions (PI). 2. Creation of additional
600 web and video courses in all major branches of
engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and management courses at the
postgraduate level. 3. Integration of College curricula in
engineering education with NPTEL contents through a
large number of course specific workshops and
interaction with Colleges in India for improving TEL
infrastructure. 4. Creation of discussion forum for each
course created under the NPTEL using a grid of computer
servers and setting up FAQs for each course. 5. Indexing
of all video and web courses and setting up powerful

search engines to enable content and keyword search on

all topics in science and engineering developed under
NPTEL. 6. Setting up internal infrastructure in each IIT for
implementing virtual online certification programmes in
science and engineering.