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AI & blockchain, for credit

NEP-ready courses your students
actually get credit for.

Degree colleges, autonomous colleges and polytechnics can now run AI and blockchain as credit-bearing courses under NEP 2020. We deliver the course, train your faculty alongside, and assess students on what they build.

The gap

NEP opened the door. Most colleges have nobody to teach it.

Multidisciplinary and skill-based credits are permitted — but AI and blockchain need people who work with these tools, and those people are not usually on a college payroll. That is the part we supply.

Mapped to your credits

Courses structured to fit your existing credit and semester framework under NEP 2020 — as a skill enhancement course, an elective or a minor track.

Taught by practitioners

The trainer in the room works with the technology. Students get current tooling and real workflows, not slides written three syllabi ago.

Your faculty trained too

Nominated faculty sit through delivery and get a train-the-trainer track, so by the second or third cohort the course can run in-house.

Courses

What we teach on campus

Each runs as a credit-bearing course, a semester elective or a short intensive — your academic calendar decides which.

Blockchain

Fundamentals, consensus, smart contracts and deployment. Currently running as a full NEP course at Atria University, Bengaluru.

Applied AI

Practical machine learning and generative AI — building, evaluating and deploying, with the judgement to know which tool fits the problem.

AI in fraud detection

Anomaly detection and risk scoring on financial data — the session we ran for GNA University, available as a full course.

Data skills

The analysis foundation most AI courses assume and few teach properly — data handling, statistics and honest interpretation.

Faculty development

FDP-format programs for your teaching staff, as delivered to teachers at NIFT Panchkula on AI and blockchain.

Student workshops

Short intensives that open a subject up — like Blockchain for Beginners at Lovely Professional University.

Proof

Already running under NEP

Atria University in Bengaluru runs our blockchain course as part of its NEP offering — coordinated by Palakpreet Singh and taught by Prakash Shelar.

  • Credit-bearing, delivered inside the university's own framework
  • First principles through smart contracts and deployment
  • Assessed on built projects, not written recall
  • Faculty engaged through the course, not handed a recording

How an engagement is structured

FormatCredit course, elective or intensive
DurationOne semester, or a short block
Cohort size30–120 students typical
DeliveryOn campus, in your labs
FacultyTrain-the-trainer included
AssessmentProjects & portfolio
Getting started

From first call to first class

1

Academic fit

We look at your programs, the credit slots available under NEP and which cohort makes sense to start with. Usually one course, one semester.

2

Course design

You get the syllabus, session plan, lab requirements, assessment scheme and the trainer's profile in writing before anything is approved.

3

Delivery

Our trainer runs the course on your campus to your calendar, with your nominated faculty in the room throughout.

4

Handover or extend

Review the cohort's outcomes, then either certify your faculty to run it in-house or extend to the next course in the track.

Next step

Talk to us about a course

Tell us your programs and the semester you are planning for, and we will come back with a syllabus, a session plan and what it costs.

Start with one course and one cohort. It is far easier to prove the model on a single semester than to negotiate a whole track on a slide.

We reply within two working days.