• Sharmistha Mandal
• Giridhar Maji

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been used in a larger way in education sector recently. It enhances the quality of education and incorporates new ways to impart knowledge to a vast audience simultaneously through online video courses, e-books, and other interactive tools. NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), an initiative by IITs and IISc to enhance technical education in India through ICT mode. Computers and communication technologies have been used in almost every aspect of teaching nowadays but we shall be focusing our study on the impact of ICT on higher education and technical education in India. ICT enabled remote Indian students to gain knowledge on various subjects from eminent faculties that otherwise would not have been possible through traditional classroom-based teaching. This initiative also helping budding teachers and industry professionals to enhance their teaching skills and upgrading knowledge. ICT can be thought of as a tool that will revolutionize the way education is served. In this paper, an attempt has been made to find the impact of NPTEL initiative on its users by collecting and analyzing users’ feedback, opinions and general perception of Indian as well as a global audience of these courses. And also try to identify the effectiveness as well as shortcomings of this initiative statistically by sampling user feedbacks.

ICT, Higher Education, NPTEL, MOOC, e-learning

"Impact of ICT on Higher Education in India with Special Focus on NPTEL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.425-430, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903I63.pdf

"Impact of ICT on Higher Education in India with Special Focus on NPTEL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp425-430, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903I63.pdf