GURU NANAK DEV ENGINEERING COLLEGE BIDAR 585403

Self-Learning

In order to fulfil the overall objectives of education and lifelong skills upgrading, the Institution
has prioritized a number of specific goals and initiatives within the overall education and
continuing training.
Objectives:

 A coherent self-learning system to provide the opportunity for everyone to acquire

additional skills, explore new domains and a solid foundation for lifelong learning. There
must be equal opportunities and room for all.
 The education must match the needs of the industry and the society.

SL. Website Description

No.
1 Coursera * Coursera is an education platform that
collaborates with top universities and
https://www.coursera.org organizations worldwide, to offer courses online
for anyone to take.

2 Khan Academy * Khan Academy is a non-profit educational

https://www.khanacademy.org
3 MIT, Open Course Ware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
4 Stanford on iTunes
http://itunes.stanford.edu
organization created in 2006 by educator Salman
Khan with the aim of providing a free, excellent
education for anyone, anywhere. The organization
produces short lectures in the form of YouTube
videos
* MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Open Courseware (OCW) is a web-based
publication of virtually all MIT course content.
OCW is open and available to the world and is a
permanent MIT activity.
* Stanford on iTunes U is an archive of audio and
video content from schools, departments, and
programs across the university on Apple's popular
iTunes platform. The site includes Stanford course

5 Carnegie Mellon University, Open
Learning Initiative
http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/
see-our-free-open-courses/
6 Udemy
https://www.udemy.com
7 Codecademy
https://www.codecademy.com
8 Udacity
https://www.udacity.com
9 CodeChef
https://www.codechef.com
10 edX
https://www.edx.org
11 W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com
12 The Spoken Tutorial
http://spoken-tutorial.org
lectures, faculty presentations, event highlights,
music and more.
* The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-
funded group at Carnegie Mellon University,
offering innovative online courses to anyone who
wants to learn or teach
* Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for
online learning. It provides a platform for experts
of any kind to create courses, which can be
offered to the public, either at no charge or for a
tuition fee. Udemy provides tools, which enable
users to create a course, promote it and earn
money from student tuition charges.
* Codecademy is an online interactive platform
that offers free coding classes in 9 different
programming languages including Python, Java,
PHP, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), and Ruby,
as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The
platform also provides courses for learning
command line and Git.
* Learn for free with Udacity. Advance your
career with courses built by industry leaders like
Google, MongoDB, and Facebook.
* CodeChef is a platform to help programmers
make it big in the world of algorithms, computer
programming and programming contests.
* edX is a massive open online course (MOOC)
provider. It hosts online university-level courses
in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide
student body, including some courses at no
charge. It also conducts research into learning
based on how people use its platform.
* W3Schools is a web developers site, with
tutorials and references on web development
languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP,
SQL, and JQuery, covering most aspects of web
programming. The site derives its name from the
World Wide Web (W3), but is not affiliated with
the W3C. W3Schools was originally created in
1998, by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian software
development and consulting company.
* The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of
the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National
Mission on Education through Information and
 Communication Technology (ICT), launched by
the Ministry of Human Resources and
Development, Government of India.
13 Virtual Labs * To provide remote-access to Labs in various
disciplines of Science and Engineering. These
http://www.vlab.co.in/ Virtual Labs would cater to students at the
undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as
to research scholars. To provide a complete
Learning Management System around the Virtual
Labs where the students can avail the various tools
for learning, including additional web-resources,
video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-
evaluation.
14 ICT IIT Kanpur Node.js is one of the most popular and trending
technologies that has taken over the current
https://ict.iitk.ac.in/ marketplace. To get more details related to course
fee, duration of the course, and course content.
First time user click link for
registration https://ict.iitk.ac.in/login.
15 ICT IIT Kanpur CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet
language used by web pages to help keep
https://ict.iitk.ac.in/ information in the proper display format. To get
more details related to course fee, duration of the
course, and course content First time user click
link for registration https://ict.iitk.ac.in/login.
16 SWAYAM NPTEL Online courses SWAYAM is a programme initiated by
Government of India and designed to achieve the
https://swayam.gov.in/ three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz.,
https://nptel.ac.in/ access, equity and quality. The objective of this
effort is to take the best teaching learning
resources to all, including the most disadvantaged.
Students are taking advantage of Swayam portal
regularly. Students do take the advantage of
NPTEL courses beyond class room lectures for
enhancing knowledge and strengthening their
understanding.
17 The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 34 DTH
SWAYAM PRABHA channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality
educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the
https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/ GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new
content for at least (4) hours which would be
repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the
students to choose the time of their convenience.
The channels are uplinked from BISAG-N,
Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by
NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU. The
 INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal.
18 VTU E-LEARNING The VTU e-Learning Centre was established in
August 2003 in Mysuru with the main aim of
http://elearning.vtu.ac.in/ facilitating distance education and training to
the students and faculty of VTU through
satellite and web. Currently, VTU e-Learning
Centre has migrated from satellite based
EDUSAT prgramme to web based eShikshana
programme.
19 Library The college library is enriched with vast collection
of books, journals, periodicals, research articles.
The library is equipped with 15 systems with
internet facility.

20 Digital Library Faculty and students have access to the following

content:
 Elsevier Science
 Springer e-journals
 Taylor & Francis e-journals
 Knimbus Digital Library platform
 KopyKitabE-books/Test preparation
21 Professional bodies / other  A professional association is one of the
most important bodies which cater the
association activities needs in a Student’s career.
 All career options related to professional
association, offers valuable information
and resources for their career
enhancement.
 College is a registered member of
following professional bodies: ISTE,
IETE, Institution of Engineers India (IEI)
& IEEE

Road map for next semester

1. Awareness of NEP – 2020 about Online courses credits transfer as per 2021 scheme vtu
regulations
2. Enrollment of SWAYAM NPTEL courses for students and faculty members
3. Enrollment of Coursera, MIT and edx online courses for bright student’s certification.
4. Awareness workshop on usage of Virtual Labs for students and faculty members.
5. Last semester, enrollment of NPTEL online courses is reduced - Reason.