Free Online Educational Resources: e-Learning / Early Learning Readiness Video Lectures and Instructional Material for all Courses
The curriculum of value-added courses for all B. Tech/Diploma/PG students that are designed for overall development of student to evolve into a complete human being, and all of these components are not strictly restricted to prescribed syllabus but give freedom to student to pursue topics of interest. These include
- Value-added courses beyond syllabus are introduces to expose the students to software /hardware trends not included in their curriculum.
- Work-experience courses
- Cultural Education
- Career and employment courses
- Rural women empowerment
- Social Service
The students have to pursue following curricular components which require them to expand the boundaries of learning and exercise self-learning. These components include
- Project Work / FSI
- Tech talk and concept videos
- Internship programs
- Build -IT for competitive coding
- Innovation and Product development
- Seminars and Group discussion
- Lab courses that uses software tools for simulation
Further, students are encouraged to participate in student competitions, hackathons, technical paper presentations etc. which provide scope for learning beyond the prescribed syllabus.
Some course includes a full set of e-Learning / Early Learning Readiness Videos (ELRV) produced in high-quality video accompanied by other instructional material as Course Description, Syllabus, Lecture notes, Concept video topics, Tech talk topics, Open ended experiments / Problems / Project Ideas, Tutorial question bank, Definitions and Terminology, Model question papers and Previous semester end examination question papers.
Other Platforms for Self Learning
| S. No | Website | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | www.coursera.org | Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take. | |
| 2 | www.khanacademy.org | Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with the aim of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos. | |
| 3 | ocw.mit.edu/index.htm | MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Open Course Ware (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. | |
| 4 | oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/ | 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. | |
| 5 | www.udemy.com | 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. | |
| 6 | www.codecademy.com | 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. | |
| 7 | www.udacity.com | Learn for free with Udacity. Advance your career with courses built by industry leaders like Google, MongoDB, and Facebook. | |
| 8 | www.codechef.com | CodeChef is a platform to help programmers make it big in the world of algorithms, computer programming and programming contests. | |
| 9 | www.geeksforgeeks.org | Geeksforgeeks provides a variety of services for you to learn, thrive and also have fun. Free Tutorials, Millions of Articles, Live, Online and Classroom Courses ,Frequent Coding Competitions ,Webinars by Industry Experts, Internship opportunities and Job Opportunities. | |
| 10 | www.interviewbit.com | InterviewBit is a platform to learn skills that you need for technology jobs. We help you polish your skills and get ready for the job, whether you are a fresh college graduate or a working professional. | |
| 11 | www.spoj.com | The SPOJ platform is centered around an online judge system, which serves for the automatic assessment of user-submitted programs. | |
| 12 | www.hackerrank.com | HackerRank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 2,000+ companies around the world. | |
| 13 | www.scaler.com | Scaler Academy is an online accelerator program that effectively enhances the coding skills of software professionals. | |
| 14 | www.upskillcourses.com | Upskill is a free online boot camp that�ll take you from beginner to advanced developer. The main focus of the course is teaching you web development, and it�s a great place to start, even if you have no experience. | |
| 15 | www.codeforces.com | Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming contests. It is maintained by a group of competitive programmers from ITMO University led by Mikhail Mirzayanov. | |
| 16 | www.onlinejudge.org | An online judge is an online system to test programs in programming contests. They are also used to practice for such contests. Many of these systems organize their own contests. | |
| 17 | www.edx.org | 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. | |
| 18 | www.w3schools.com | 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. | |
| 19 | www.spoken-tutorial.com | 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. | |
| 20 | www.vlab.co.in | To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These 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. | |
