MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(DR. MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY)
(a) & (b) Yes, Madam. Government of India has approved a scheme for Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs) to provide best quality e-learning resources to students across country.
The national MOOCs platform called SWAYAM has been developed for hosting of MOOCs.
(8) National MOOCs Coordinators are coordinating preparation of high quality content by
identifying good teachers for preparation/delivery of the MOOCs.
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National Coordinator Area
NPTEL (a group of 7 IITs and IISc) Technical / Engineering UG & PG degree programme.
CEC UG Non Engineering
UGC PG Non Engineering
IGNOU Certification & Diploma
NCERT School Education (Classes 9th to 12th )
NIOS Open School Education (Classes 9th to12th )
IIM, Bengaluru Management Studies
NITTTR, Chennai Teachers Training
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At present, (216) Online Courses available on SWAYAM, of which 74 Courses are
currently online and running with enrolment of 6,333 students.
(c) & (d) The Government has framed regulations regarding Credit Framework for Online
Learning Courses. The Regulations are:-
(i) UGC (Credit Framework for Online Learning Courses through SWAYAM) Regulation,
2016, New Delhi, dated 19th July, 2016.
(ii) AICTE (Credit Framework for online learning course through SWAYAM) Regulations,
2016, New Delhi, dated 17th August, 2016.
(e) Although most of the courses are currently in English, Government seeks to promote
multi-lingual Online Courses. C-DAC has been entrusted the work of translation of the
transcription and other text material in 10 languages.
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