SWOT analysis of NPTEL knowledge portal

Institute of Higher Learning in Technologies (IHLTs) in India suffers from inadequate quality institute and competent academic staff, which is difficult to remove. A credible alternative may be e-learning through which the reach of quality teachers can be extended and make them available to the outside world using the potentials of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). National Program of Technology Enabled Learning (NPTEL) is a web portal which has been setup by Govt. of India for this purpose in the year 2006. In this paper, the status of effectiveness of NPTEL portal has been evaluated using SWOT and SAP-LAP tools. These two tools have taken input from the survey conducted among the users of the portal, where 2323 responses have been obtained (http://nptel.ac.in/feedback.php). The result reveals that the portal is successful in smooth knowledge transfer.