SWAYAM (STUDY WEB of ACTIVE LEARNING by YOUNG and ASPIRING MINDS)

SWAYAM (STUDY WEB of ACTIVE LEARNING by YOUNG and ASPIRING MINDS)

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 indigenously 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: https://swayam.gov.in/