Know about SWAYAM

[Siba Prasad panda]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Good Evening.

I hope you know that in the recent Union Budget, Govt. of India announced that, it will provide MOOC(Massive Online courses) or online courses in virtual platform i.e SWAYAM(Study Webs of Active –Learning for Young Aspiring Minds).It aimed at providing a virtual education in a virtual platform. It is a initiative of Govt. of India aims at bridging “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.” one will be able to access these courses via Direct-To-Home (DTH) channels.

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three 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.

The courses hosted on SWAYAM will be in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology. In order to ensure best quality content are produced and delivered, seven National Coordinators have been appointed: They are NPTEL for engineering, UGC for post-graduation education, CEC for under-graduate education, NCERT & NIOS for school education, IGNOU for out of the school students and IIMB for management studies.

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.

 

SWAYAM platform is endogenously developed by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with the help of Microsoft and would be ultimately capable of hosting 2000 courses and 80000 hours of learning: covering school, under-graduate, post-graduate, engineering, law and other professional courses.

SWAYAM Courses- Name of the course (no of Courses)

Social Science(95),.Sciences(45),Arts and Creation(19),Computer Science Information and General Works, Technology(11),Philosophy and Psychology(10),Commerce(11),Management(7),Engineering (7), Languages (3), Religion (2), Literature (1) and History and Geography (0)

To know the detail about the SWAYM, Please visit this URL: Free online course on Swayam by Faculties and Universities from : NPTEL , UGC , CEC, NCERT , NIOS, IGNOU & IIMB

Free online course on Swayam by Faculties and Universities from : NPTEL , ... Swayam Home Page

At last I suggest to all ,Please share this email to your near and dear and your friends and others, so that they can avail the benefit from it.I have attached few letters and notification from UGC and AICTE for your reference.

Regards. 

 

Dr.Siba Prasad Panda
Librarian
Gandhi Inst.of Engg. & Tech.
Gunupur, Rayagada,
Odisha, India
Pin-765022
Mob:9437235831

[Mallikarjun Vs]

Thank you sir

Valuable information for all .........Thanks once again

--
Visit this group at http://lispp.blogspot.com/2015/03/loading.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LISPP "Library and Information Science Professionals of Punjab"" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lispp+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to li...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.