E-courses for UP engineering colleges from IITs

In February,the Centre had suggested the UP government to adopt these courses in engineering colleges to enhance the quality of teaching. Subsequently,on March 24,the state government directed the UPTU to introduce these courses in all its affiliated engineering colleges.

 The state government has also requested the Centre to develop these courses in Hindi. “These web and video based courses are developed by faculties of the best institutes in country and are extremely useful for engineering students. We have directed all our colleges to introduce these courses for the BTech students in their institutes,” said UPTU additional examination controller JP Pandey.

He added that the main objective of the NPTEL was to enhance the quality of engineering education through such innovative courses. While the web courses have text matter,video courses have recording of lectures by IIT professors.

 Pandey said these courses will first be introduced in the university campus and for that,a virtual classroom hub is being developed. “The hub will be ready by July and soon after,these courses will be made available to students,” he said.

Another UPTU official said: “In the first phase of the project,supplementary courses in various streams of engineering,science and humanities have been developed. Each course contains material that can be covered in nearly 40 lectures.”