Swayam : MOOCS

MOOC COURSES
A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. There are various organizations who are providing MOOC courses, They are NPTEL for engineering, UGC for post-graduate education, CEC for under-graduate education, NCERT & NIOS for school education, IGNOU for out of the school students and for management studies.

SWAYAM


SWAYAM is a platform which provides MOOC courses from all organizations (NPTEL, UGC, IGNOU, NCERT, etc).

This program is an initiative of 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.

This is done through an indigenously 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 to the residents in India.

WHAT IS OFFERED IN SWAYAM


  • Courses that are taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation.
  • The courses hosted on SWAYAM is in 4 quadrants
  • video lecture
  • specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed
  • self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and
  • an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts.
  • Categories of courses include - Engineering, Science, Humanities, Management, Language, Mathematics, Arts and Recreation, Commerce, General, Library, Education.
  • Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners.
  • Students wanting certifications need to register and 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 2016advising the Universities to identify courses where credits can be transferred on to the academic record of the students for courses done on SWAYAM.

HOW TO ACCESS SWAYAM
  • You can access the SWAYAM portal on the web - https://swayam.gov.in
  • You can access the SWAYAM mobile apps for - Android and iOS
University SWAYAM Coordinator:


Mr. Pareshkumar Patel
Coordinator
P.G. Department of Electronics
Sardar Patel University
(pb_patel@spuvvn.edu)
(m) : +91 – 94263 94349
Dr. Jayesh Poojara
Co-coordinator, SWAYAM-SPU
jayeshpoojara@gmail.com
(m) +91 93752 59375		Dr. Rajesh Solanki
Co-coordinator, SWAYAM-SPU
rajeshahir@live.com
(m) -+91 98524 66266