NEW DELHI: With 2.4 million people enrolled in courses that bring credits, and with more than 26,000 people already earning them, the government runs Swayam . Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) has outperformed any other Online Learning platform by a large profit. Now Ministry education wrote to higher education institutions (HEIs) to disseminate the platform in their respective states.
Total registrants, including those in test-free and credit-free courses, are 3.1 million with a 40:60 ratio of women to men. candidates.
Having conducted exams for more than 26,000 candidates since its launch in 2017 and 8.8k active assignment submissions, the ministry said the MOOC platform also offers post-exam credit transfers for a fee. nominal fees and currently have over 3,000 free MOOC courses from across streams.
According to MoE officials, the prevalence of shaking This is also due to the increasing participation of universities offering their courses through MOOCs as well as accepting credits earned through the Swayam exams. Currently, 288 universities have officially accepted SWAYAM credits, in January 2022 it is 155.
In a letter to HEIs, Vineet Joshi, additional secretary, ministry of higher education, MoE, stated that “Swayam MOOCs are developed by academics from top-ranked institutions and are accredited provided free of charge to all learners. Today Swayam is a rich repository of over 300 high-quality MOOCs enrolling more than 3 million students.”
“If one compares Swaam’s performance on contours vs online learning platform evaluated, Swaam’s performance is much better. Various independent surveys and studies highlight that eLearning completion rates are between 1% and 5%.
Some of the most searched courses currently on the Swayam platform are python calculus offered by IIT-Ropar with 46,081 students, followed by ethical hacking by IIT-Kharagpur with 45,934 students, programming through C++ from IIT-Bombay with 45,629 students and Java programming from IIT-Kharagpur with 45,445 students.
Urging higher education institutions to use the courses, the ministry said that these courses are also eligible for credit transfer upon successful completion of the final supervised test.
The letter also mentions that in addition to the popularity of technical and professional courses, the number of enrollments for courses in the education sector after the pandemic has spiked. “This also reflects the changing pattern of the post-Covid teaching process and the emphasis on ICT-led teaching in NEP,” Joshi said.
The letter also urges universities to accept Swayam credits and provide formal acknowledgment to the University Grants Committee. The Department has informed higher education institutions that in addition to higher education institutions that accept these credits informally, there are 288 universities that officially accept credits awarded through these MOOCs.
Total registrants, including those in test-free and credit-free courses, are 3.1 million with a 40:60 ratio of women to men. candidates.
Having conducted exams for more than 26,000 candidates since its launch in 2017 and 8.8k active assignment submissions, the ministry said the MOOC platform also offers post-exam credit transfers for a fee. nominal fees and currently have over 3,000 free MOOC courses from across streams.
According to MoE officials, the prevalence of shaking This is also due to the increasing participation of universities offering their courses through MOOCs as well as accepting credits earned through the Swayam exams. Currently, 288 universities have officially accepted SWAYAM credits, in January 2022 it is 155.
In a letter to HEIs, Vineet Joshi, additional secretary, ministry of higher education, MoE, stated that “Swayam MOOCs are developed by academics from top-ranked institutions and are accredited provided free of charge to all learners. Today Swayam is a rich repository of over 300 high-quality MOOCs enrolling more than 3 million students.”
“If one compares Swaam’s performance on contours vs online learning platform evaluated, Swaam’s performance is much better. Various independent surveys and studies highlight that eLearning completion rates are between 1% and 5%.
Some of the most searched courses currently on the Swayam platform are python calculus offered by IIT-Ropar with 46,081 students, followed by ethical hacking by IIT-Kharagpur with 45,934 students, programming through C++ from IIT-Bombay with 45,629 students and Java programming from IIT-Kharagpur with 45,445 students.
Urging higher education institutions to use the courses, the ministry said that these courses are also eligible for credit transfer upon successful completion of the final supervised test.
The letter also mentions that in addition to the popularity of technical and professional courses, the number of enrollments for courses in the education sector after the pandemic has spiked. “This also reflects the changing pattern of the post-Covid teaching process and the emphasis on ICT-led teaching in NEP,” Joshi said.
The letter also urges universities to accept Swayam credits and provide formal acknowledgment to the University Grants Committee. The Department has informed higher education institutions that in addition to higher education institutions that accept these credits informally, there are 288 universities that officially accept credits awarded through these MOOCs.
