SWAYAM : A Digital Initiative for Digital Learning

1. Dr. K.SURESH,
ICSSR Post Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Education,
Central University of Tamilnadu,
Thiruvarur – 610 005.

2. India has initiates major ICT
initiatives such as railway
computerization, land record
computerization, e-district, e-
panchayat, etc,.

3. Education is a priority area, it is crucial
for making the youth of our country
competitive and resourceful
(Consotorium for Educational
Communication [CEC], 2018)

4. Access
Equity and
Quality
- Three prime view points of Education

5. Providing educating to the massive is
one of a challenge of India
To Overcome this, MHRD has Initiated

6. Study Web of Active Learning by Young
and Aspiring Minds
online portal that provides over 2000
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

7. Consortium for Educational Communication
(CEC) was initiated in the year 1993 for
coordinating, guiding and facilitating the
educational productions.
At present in India, 21 media centers are
working towards achieving these goals under
the umbrella of CEC

8. Rajbir Singh has submitted a proposal for
Developing and Delivering of MOOCS on
SWAYAM to MHRD, India (CEC, 2018).
concept was flowered on August 15, 2016
(Kanjilal, 2018)
Honr’ble Indian president Pranab Mukherjee
formally launched SWAYAM on 09th July 2017
(MHRD, 2018)

9. Provides new way to learn
Learn Anytime and Anywhere
Switch on Smart Education
No Age, No Boundaries and
No more limitations

10. e- Tutorials
e- content
Discussion Forum
Assignment

11. Name of the NMC Subject Specification
UGC, New Delhi Non
Technical/Engineering
Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore
Management Programmes
All India Council of
Teacher Education (AICTE)
Technical/Engineering
Programmes
Consortium for
Educational
Communication
General, Management,
Natural and Applied
Science and Social Science
Programmes

12. Name of the NMC Subject Specification
National Institute of
Technical Teacher
Training and Research
(NITTTR)
Teacher Education
Certificate Programme
Indira Gandhi National
Open University
Non Technical/
Engineering Programmes
National Council of
Educational Research and
Training
School Programmes and
Food Nutrition for Healthy
Living
National Institute of Open
Schooling
Out of School Education

13.  School Programme – 150
 Certificate Programme – 136
 Diploma Programme - 41
 UG Programme - 1075
 PG Programme - 703
 D. EL. ED - 10

14.  Log on to the website of SWAYAM home page
by using web address http://swayam.gov.in.

15.  In the SWAYAM home page, click the Register
option which is kept right in the top.

16.  It will lead to next page, in that click ‘sign up
now’ option.

17.  It will enter to registration page, In that page you
have to fill username, new password, confirm
password, email address and Click Create button

21.  AICTE Regulation 2016. (2016, August 22). Retrieved from
http://image.swayam.gov.in/wqimgtest/9da02ba8-bdd8-409c-
afdb-645e6dbc544f.pdf.
 Consortium for Educational Communication. (2018). Proposal for
developing and delivery of MOOCs on SWAYAM. Retrieved from
http://cec.nic.in/NME-
ICT%20project/MOOCs/Document/MOOCs%20 DPR.pdf.
 Kanjilal, Uma. (2018). Swayam and swayam prabha initiatives of
MHRD (ppt). Retrieved from
https://slideplayer.com/slide/11862572/
 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. (2018). Digital
India: power to empower. Retrieved from
http://www.digitalindia.gov.in.
 Ministry of Human Resource Development. (2015). SWAYAM:
Request for proposal (RPF)for appointment of system integrator for
MHRD-SWAYAM MOOCs project. Retrieved from

22.  Ministry of Human Resource Development. (2018). SWAYAM:
Scheduled courses. Retrieved from
http://swayam.gov.in/courses/public.
 Ministry of Human Resource Development. (2018). SWAYAM: Self
paced courses. Retrieved from http://swayam.gov.in/about.
 RTE ACT 2009. (2009, August 27). Retrieved from
http://mhrd.gov.in/sites
/upload_files/mhrd/files/upload_document/rte.pdf.
 Shah, Dhawal. (2016). A Complete list of swayam moocs. Retrieved
from http://www.class-central.com/report/swayam-moocs-
course-list/.
 Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswha Mahavidyalaya. (2018).
SWAYAM Course: At a Glance. Retrieved from
www.kanchiuniversity.ac.in/assets/SWAYAM-BOOKLET.pdf.
 UGC Regulation 2016. (2016, July 20). Retrieved from
http://image.swayam.gov.in/wqimgtest/4b7e7943-c324-486b-
b1fb-ddd03 6afc64e.pdf.