MOOCs (Massive Open Online courses) provide structured online course content that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, by anyone with an internet connection. The key platforms offering MOOCs in India are NPTEL, mooKIT, IITBX, and SWAYAM. The UGC regulates the credit framework for online learning courses through SWAYAM, allowing up to 20% of courses in a program to be completed via SWAYAM courses. Universities follow steps like amending rules, selecting courses, designating coordinators, and facilitating student registration and marks/grades to adopt MOOCs on SWAYAM. Other self-paced learning options include NPTEL, e-PG Pathshala, National

1. MOOCs (Massive Open Online courses)
• Massive - Large enrolment numbers
Open - No mandatory qualifications
Open to all
Online - Fully online
Course - Structured course content
course content
The basic philosophy of MOOCs is 3A’s i.e., Anytime, Anyone, Anywhere.

4. MOOCs offer in India
Platform Year of
Launch
Institutio
n Behind
Platform
No. of courses No. of users
NPTEL 2003 IIT
Madras
1200 1.5 Million
mooKIT 2012 IIT
Kanpur
15 0.1 Million
IITBX 2014 IIT
Bombay
63 1.2 Million
SWAYAM 2016 MHRD
and
Microsoft
712 1.5 Million

5. UGC(Credit Framework for Online LearningCourses throughSWAYAM) Regulation,
2016
• Learning Courses
• Online learning courses to be available on SWAYAM
• Notification
• SWAYAM to notify courses on June 1 & Nov 1, every year
• Credit Transfer
• Courses on SWAYAM permitted for credit transfer
• Up to 20% courses in a Program can be on SWAYAM

6. Steps adopting MOOCs on SWAYAM
• Step-1:MakeAmendments
• The University through their Competent Authority (EC, AC, BOS), should make amendments in
their Ordinances, Rules, Regulations to incorporate provisions for transfer of credits for MOOCs
courses as per UGC Regulations.
• Step-2:SelecttheCourses
• The University shall select the courses to be permitted for credit transfer through SWAYAM. (eg.
courses in high demand for which faculty is not available, elective courses or for supplementing
teaching-learning process).
• Step-3:DesignateCourseCoordinator
• The University must designate a Course Coordinator/facilitator to guide the students throughout
the course and to facilitate/conduct the Lab/Practical sessions/examinations

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• Step-4:DisseminateInformation
• The University should widely disseminate information about selected courses and motivate the
students through faculty members, notice boards, student forums, workshops and university
website etc.
• Step-5:CourseRegistration
• University to facilitate registration of students. Every student enrolled for the course in the
University must register for the MOOCs course.
• Step-7:Marksof theStudents
• The University shall incorporate the marks/grades communicated by the Host Institution in the
final mark sheet of the student which counts for award of degree/diploma. However, the University
shall evaluate the students for the practical/lab component and incorporate these marks/grades in
the overall mark sheet of the student.

8. • Step-8: Certificate
• MOOCs completion certificate from Host Institute, the University to give equivalent credit weight
(up to 20%) for the credits earned through SWAYAM. No University shall refuse any student for
creditmobilityforcoursesearnedthroughMOOCs.

9. Type of self learning courses
• SWAYAM (Study on Web Active and Young Aspiring Minds).
• https://swayam.gov.in/
• NPTEL (National Programme on Technology enhanced Learning)
https://nptel.ac.in/about_nptel.php
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/

10. e-PG Pathasala
• e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT
(NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC.
• The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality,
curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts,
fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been
developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other R & D institutes across
the country.
• https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/index.php

11. National Digital Library (NDL)
• NDL hosted 24,623,946 documents under MHRD Projects initiative
taken by IIT, Kharagpur. More than 60 types learning materials
available with 70 languages.
• https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

12. SWAYAM Prabha DTH
• The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality
educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite.
• Every day, there will be new content for at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in
a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience.
• The channels are uplinked from BISAG, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by NPTEL, IITs,
UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal.
• https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/index.php/about

13. E-resources access in the Universities

14. Advantages of e-resources
• Accessible – can be accessed from any computer on campus and usually any
computer off campus, any time of the day or night, so there is no need to make a
trip to the library.
• Easily searchable - each journal can be searched quick and easy often through the
complete full text of articles and via online index.
• Speed - Articles/issues appear online before printed version is available.
• Interactive - Rapid turnaround time means articles can be read, commented by
the readers, amended quickly and greater feedback thru the web

15. • Links - Hypertext format should be exploited and links to related articles,
information on other web sites, stable URLs for individual articles and email alerts
when latest issue loaded.
• Added Value - Advantages taken on the web is to add value by using animation,
virtual reality and interactive mathematical charts.
• Inexpensive - savings can be made over printing costs, distribution costs and extra
costs by new features.
• Flexibility - E-journals evolved quickly. They are not tied to a format, printer, and
distribution network.

16. Disadvantages
• Difficulty reading computer screens
• Limitations of computer monitor
• Often not included in indexing and abstracting services
• Search engines ignores PDF files
• Format that a large proportion of e-journal use
• Expensive for subscribing the e-journals and e-books

17. Type of e-resources
• 1. Subscribing collection
• 2. Non-Subscribe /Open access
• 3. Consortium based collection

18. E-sodh sindhu resources
Alagappa University
• https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ess/eres.php?memID=101

19. Open e-resources
S.No Name of the e-resources Web link
1 Advocate Khoj http://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/index.php
2 Biz/ed http://www.bized.co.uk/
3 Chemdex http://www.chemdex.org/
4 Cogprints http://cogprints.org/
5 DMOZ: Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org/
6 Eldis http://www.eldis.org/
7 E-Print Network http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
8 Forced Migration Online http://www.forcedmigration.org/
9 iLoveLanguages http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
10 The Math Forum: Internet Mathematics
Library
http://mathforum.org/library/
11 MathGuide http://www.mathguide.de/
12 Open DOAR: The Directory of Open
Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
13 Psych Web http://www.psychwww.com/
14 SocioSite http://www.sociosite.net/
15 Voice of the shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/
16 WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/

20. Open e-Journals
S.No Name of the e-Journals Web link
1 Bioline International http://www.bioline.org.br/
2 BioMed central http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/
3 Chemistry Central http://www.chemistrycentral.com/
4 Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
5 The Electronic journals Library http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/
6 Electronic Journals for Education http://ejw.i8.com/educe-j.htm#sub
7 The Free Library http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
8 Free Medical Journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
9 High Wire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/
10 Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com/
11 Indian Academy of Science http://www.ias.ac.in/
12 Journal of Digital Information http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
13 JURN.org http://www.jurn.org/
14 Library Publishing Media http://libpubmedia.co.uk/
15 MedIND http://medind.nic.in/
16 NISCAIR http://nopr.niscair.res.in/
17
NISCAIR : Natural Products Repository http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/7304
18 NISCAIR : Popular Science Magazines http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/7414
19
NISCAIR : Research Journals http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/2
20 OALIB http://www.oalib.com/
21 Open Science Directory http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
22 Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/index.php
23 PubMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
24 Scientific Journals International http://www.scientificjournals.org/index.php
25 Springer Open http://www.springeropen.com/
26 Strategian http://www.strategian.com/

21. Open e-books
S.No Name of the e-Books Web link
1 Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts http://infomotions.com/alex/
2 arXiv e-Prints Archieve www.arxiv.org
3 Authorama Public Domain Books http://www.authorama.com/
4 Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/
5 Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/
6 Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
7 Complete Works of William Shakespear http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
8 Digital Library of India www.dli.ernet.in/
9 Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dic/
10 Directory of Open Access Books http://www.doabooks.org/doab
11 Ebooks Online Library www.readasily.com/
12 The E Server http://eserver.org/
13 Free Books http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
14 The Free Library http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
15 Great Books and Classics www.grtbooks.com
16
The Internet Archive: Text Archive https://archive.org/details/texts&tab=about
17 Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
18 Internet Sacred Text Archive http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
19 Just Free Books http://www.justfreebooks.info/
20 LibriVox https://librivox.org/
21 Lit2Go http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
22 The Online Book page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
23 OAPEN http://www.oapen.org/home
24 Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk
25 Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/
26
PublicLiterature.Org: Read Books Online http://publicliterature.org/
27 Read Print Site http://www.readprint.com/
28 The Universal Digital Library http://www.ulib.org/index.html

22. E-Theses/Dissertations
S.No Name of the e-Books Web link
1 Australasia Digital http://adt.caul.edu.au/
2 Caltech THESIS: A Caltech Library Service http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/
3 DART-Europe E-theses Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu/
4
Digital Commons @ McMaster
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissert
ations/
5 Diva: an Academic Archive Online http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/search.jsf
6 DRUM : Digital Repository at the University of
Maryland
http://drum.lib.umd.edu/
7 Mahatma Gandhi University : Online Theses
Library
http://www.mgutheses.org/
8 PQDT Open http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#
9 Shodhganga http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/