For video lectures:

The course consists of around 40 video lectures. Each video lecture is of one
hour duration. To enhance the longevity of the video lectures, it was suggested
that they should not be too specific to syllabi but should be confined to core
concepts. Its content were suggested to be distinct from text book and web support
material. The video lectures should fully utilize the facilities of the video medium
and might contain interviews with professionals from industry as appropriate. The
lectures should motivate the student by emphasizing why he/she is studying a topic
in a subject and should be related to industrial practice as appropriate. Creation of
video lecture units need not be tied necessarily with the scheduling of regular
courses in the Institution. The video lectures need to be supplemented with lecture
notes and text materials along with animations and all presentation slides used in
the video for incorporating them as web supplemented video lectures. In addition,
problems, quizzes and assignments need to be included so as to make the learning
a complete experience. 25 Budget: Content Development: Streaming video content
preparation from Phase I video lectures (approximately 8,000 lecture hours at a unit
cost of Rs. 2500 per lecture and includes a real-time encoder and a server for each
PI) Rs. 2 crores Web and video courses 600 (Unit cost Rs. 7 lakhs per course) Rs. 42
crores Infrastructure up-gradation Infrastructure up-gradation of the video studios /
AMC + Spare parts, Additional software (Rs. 1.5 crore per institute for a period of
five years) Rs. 12.0 crores Storage of raw video files for sizes between 800 TB and
1000 TB (2.5 crores) for the Coordinating Institute and 100 TB each for all other
participating Institutes (2.5 crores) Rs. 5.0 crores Streaming video servers in each PI
as mirrors to provide adequate intranet/VPN bandwidth to users on demand
(approximately Rs. 0.65 crores per Institute for all five years) Rs. 5.0 crores
Workshops, Honoraria, Travel Workshops (300 workshops) (Unit cost Rs. 4 lakhs per
workshop with 40-50 participants) Rs. 12 crores Coordinator Honoraria (7.5 percent
of total courseware production costs) Rs. 3 crores Travel (Rs.1 crore per Institute
plus 0.5 crore additional to the Coordinating Institute) + NPTEL Office (0.50) Rs. 9.0
crores Other Services Web services to enable effective usage of NPTEL Contents
Hiring of retired faculty and professionals for query management for all NPTEL
courses (800 of them including Phase I) 6.0 crores Total for Phase 2 (three years for
all eight PIs) Rs. 96.0 crores 26 Break