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NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON TECHNOLOGY ENHACED LEARNING National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), is a joint venture of the IITs and IISc, funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Government of India and was launched in 2003. Initially started as a project to take quality education to all corners of the country, NPTEL now offers close to 600 plus courses for certification every semester in about 22 disciplines. This is the largest online repository in the world of courses in engineering, basic sciences and selected humanities and management subjects with its YouTube channel it is the most subscribed educational channel. It has more than 56000 hours of video content, transcribed and subtitled and its library of peer-reviewed. It has translated more than 12000 hours of English transcripts in regional Indian languages. NPTEL began offering open online courses in March 2014. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is essentially an asynchronous teaching-learning pl

THE MOTHER The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on February 21, 1878. A pupil at the Academie Julian, she became an accomplished artist, pianist and writer. Interested in occultism, she visited Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1905 and l906 to study with the Max Theon and his wife. Her primary interest, however, was spiritual development. In 1914 the Mother voyaged to Pondicherry to meet Sri Aurobindo, whom she at once recognised as the one who for many years had inwardly guided her spiritual development. After a stay of eleven months she was obliged to return to France due to the outbreak of the First World War. In April 1920 the Mother rejoined Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. When the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was formed in November 1926, Sri Aurobindo entrusted its full material and spiritual charge to the Mother. In 1952 she established Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and in 1968 an international township, Auroville. The Mother left her body on November 17, 1973. The symb