The centre for Online Course motivates the faculty members and students to enhance their knowledge in various emerging technologies. The key objective of the centre for online courses is to guide faculty members and students to get exhaustive knowledge about Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). This centre also helps students to become employable for global markets. MOOCs also provide a platform for interactive forums. MOOCs has now become the most inevitable tool for growing careers and sustaining competition. NPTEL, Coursera, Udemy courses are the most popular online platforms that enhance the knowledge of the engineering community.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
The NPTEL was initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003. NPTEL is a MOOC platform of the Government of India. NPTEL platform allows every learner to learn from the experts. All these courses are absolutely free and it is now possible for ANYONE outside the IIT System to be able to do an online certification course from NPTEL and get a certificate from the IITs.
Coursera:
Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide. Coursera offers free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform. This online course platform involves video lectures, regular tests and peer assignments. On completion of the course, a certificate of accomplishment signed by the course instructor will be awarded to the learner.
Udemy
The Mission of Udemy is to create new possibilities by opening knowledge to all. Udemy courses can be registered with minimal cost as they offer plenty of worthy, organized content provided over a learning platform. Udemy has been popular with buddy engineers, computer scientists, coders, and web developers. Udemy online course platform is very much useful for the students to learn new emerging technologies.
Edx
EdX is an online education provider that offers online courses, popularly known as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses, from top universities and other institutions around the world. Currently, edX boasts a catalogue of more than 3000 online courses created by these partners
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There are online courses offered by industries to enhance the knowledge and learning skills of students and faculty members.
INFOSYS SPRINGBOARD
Infosys Springboard is a platform where learners can benefit from the knowledge base and experience of 4 decades of Infosys as an expertise. Quality content from Infosys partners and leading universities across the world is available. The content is aligned with New Education policy 2020. The content also includes soft skills and vocational skills. It is an integrated collaborative platform comprising of engagement tools, polls, mind mapping tools, access to telemetry. Certifications are also available through the video proctored assessment platform.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy
AWS Academy provides higher education institutions with a ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students to pursue industry- recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs. AWS Academy curriculum helps educators stay at the forefront of AWS Cloud innovation so that they can equip students with the skills they need to get hired in one of the fastest growing industries.
Google Cloud
R.M.D Engineering College joins Google Cloud career readiness program. RMDEC announces participation in the Google Cloud career readiness program. The Google Cloud career readiness program enables students of all backgrounds the ability to prepare for cloud careers by building deep expertise through industry-recognized training, skill badges, and certifications.
To enable students to prepare for cloud careers in business and technical domains related to cloud infrastructure, application development, big data, and machine learning, the Google Cloud career readiness program offers the following tracks:
Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) track: This track is ideal for students aspiring to launch careers in engineering and management roles related to cloud infrastructure, cloud-native application development, and data engineering. Data Analyst track: This track is ideal for students keen on pursuing careers in data analytics, business intelligence, and management.