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Download Solution PDFMinistry of Education, Government of India's, SWAYAM platform for offering MOOCs has how many quadrants for designing courses?
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Download Solution PDFThe Ministry of Education has launched many schemes for promoting e-learning across students in schools and universities.
Key Points
SWAYAM:
- Its full form is ‘Study Web of Active Learning For Young Aspiring Minds’.
- It is an integrated online learning platform for online courses.
- It is an Indian massive open online course platform.
- It was launched on July 9, 2017.
- It was designed to achieve the three-cardinal principle of Education policy, i.e., access, equity, and quality.
- The courses hosted on Swayam are on 4 quadrants as follows:
- Video lecture
- E-Content
- Test and assignments
- Online Discussion forum
Additional Information
| National Coordinators | Course provided by them |
| AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) |
For self-paced and international courses
|
| NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research) |
Teacher Training Program
|
| IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) |
Out of school students
|
| NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) |
For school education
|
| IIM B(Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) |
Management studies
|
| NCERT (National Council for Educational Research Training) | For school education |
| UGC (University Grants Commission) |
Non-technical post-graduation education
|
| NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning) | Engineering |
| CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) | For undergraduate education |
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