An NPTEL primer from IIT Madras on the design thinking process: empathise, analyse, solve and test, with workshops and stories.
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NPTEL and SWAYAM Free Courses
NPTEL, run by the IITs and IISc, offers free online courses in engineering, science and management, many delivered through SWAYAM. You can learn for free; the optional proctored exam for a certificate has a fee.
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A popular 8-week NPTEL course from IIT Kanpur on goal-setting, habits, listening, email etiquette, body language and presentations.
Paid certificateCareer SkillsSelf-pacedBeginnerIIT Kanpur NPTEL course introducing perception, learning, memory, emotion and personality.
Paid certificateHealth & PsychologySelf-pacedBeginnerAn 8-week IIT Kanpur course on marketing fundamentals: environment scanning, research, buyer behaviour and segmentation.
Paid certificateBusiness & MarketingSelf-pacedBeginnerMadhavan Mukund's NPTEL course on Python, sorting, searching and core data structures.
Paid certificateProgramming48 hrsBeginnerIIT Madras' short NPTEL course on Python, pandas and visualization with two case studies.
Paid certificateData Science16 hrsBeginnerIIT Ropar's popular NPTEL course that teaches Python through games and puzzles.
Paid certificateProgramming30 hrsBeginnerA 12-week NPTEL course from IIT Kharagpur on cloud architecture, resource management, security, fog/edge and serverless computing.
Paid certificateCloud & DevOpsSelf-pacedIntermediateIIT Madras' NPTEL course on the maths and methods behind data science, using R.
Paid certificateData Science48 hrsIntermediateProf. Balaraman Ravindran's NPTEL machine learning course from IIT Madras.
Paid certificateAI & Machine Learning96 hrsIntermediateIIT Kharagpur's 12-week NPTEL course on probability theory and statistical inference.
Paid certificateMathematicsSelf-pacedIntermediate
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