Here we will discuss about SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for
Young Aspiring Minds), an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource and
Development (MHRD) to promote online learning among the students and make
interactive study material available to them online, free of cost which could
be accessed by anyone at any time.
What is SWAYAM?
It is a project of Ministry of Human Resource and Development
(MHRD), which is intended to provide massive open online courses (MOOCs) to
the students across the country and thereby expanding the reach of best quality
education to students using the ICT tools.
Objectives of SWAYAM and how to achive it:
It is designed to achieve the 3 cardinal principles
of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality.
The objective of this effort is to take
the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM
seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained
untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the
mainstream of the knowledge economy.
This is done through an indigenous developed IT
platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in
classrooms from 9th class till
post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at
any time.
All the courses are interactive, prepared by the
best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to the residents
in India. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the
Country have participated in preparing these courses.
General Points about SWAYAM :
1) India has become one of the few countries in the World which has its
own online interactive learning platform that provides, not
only video lectures, reading material but also assignments/quizzes that
could end up in securing credits after completing the
assessment system.
2) More than 400 Courses are available on SWAYAM covering all the engineering
and non-engineering subjects at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
The UGC has already issued Regulation that allows transfer of credits
earned through the courses done through SWAYAM into the academic record of the
students. It is now possible for the students and others to take courses
of the prestigious IITs or IIMs without formally studying there.
3) The platform developed by Ministry of
Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE) with the help of Microsoft
4) The courses hosted on SWAYAM will
be in 4 quadrants –
(i) video lecture,
(ii) specially prepared reading material that can
be downloaded/printed
(iii) self-assessment tests through tests and
quizzes and
(iv) an online discussion forum for clearing the
doubts.
5) Steps have been taken to enrich the
learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and
state of the art pedagogy / technology.
6) 7 National Coordinators have
been appointed in order to ensure best quality content are produced and
delivered:
i) NPTEL for
engineering,
ii) UGC for post-graduation
education,
iii) CEC for under-graduate
education,
iv) NCERT for school
education,
v) NIOS for school education,
vi) IGNOU for out of the
school students and
vii) IIMB for management
studies.
7) Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available
free of cost to the learners, however students wanting certifications shall
be registered, shall be offered a certificate on successful completion
of the course, with a little fee.
At the end of each course, there will be an
assessment of the student through proctored examination and the marks/grades
secured in this exam could be transferred to the academic record of the
students. UGC has already issued the UGC (Credit Framework for online
learning courses through SWAYAM) Regulation 2016 advising the
Universities to identify courses where credits can be transferred on to the
academic record of the students for courses done on SWAYAM.
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