Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay gave a session about "Technology Enabled Learning Ushering in the MOOCs era through SWAYAM" - a MOOC platform for India. As it has resurfaced, this will be interesting slide to check for all enthusiasts to know more about it.

1. IIT Bombay
Technology Enabled Learning
Ushering in the MOOCs era through SWAYAM
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
Presenta7on
at
Open
edx
Cambridge,
18
November
2014
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Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay

2. IIT Bombay
Issues of scale and quality
• Over
370
Million
Indians
are
under
15
years
of
age
• Over
150
Million
under
6
years
• Low
Gross
Enrollment
Ra7os
• Hundreds
of
thousand
schools,
over
40,000
colleges
• 5000
colleges
offer
engineering
educa7on
• About
1.25
Million
students
enrolled
annually
• Scale
using
ICT
to
offer
quality
educa7on,
the
only
solu7on
• Dovetail
into
conven7onal
educa7onal
system
Ini%ate
MOOCs
and
deploy
on
large
scale
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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3. IIT Bombay
ObjecBves behind Indian efforts
• Enhance
the
reach
and
quality
of
educa7on
using
ICT
• Content,
Dissemina7on,
Access
• Pedagogy
for
course
delivery
• Innovate
and
develop
affordable
solu7ons
• Use
and
enhance
Open
Source
soXware
tools
and
content
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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4. IIT Bombay
Content
• Na7onal
Mission
on
Educa7on
through
ICT
(NMEICT)
• Na7onal
Program
on
Technology
Enabled
Learning
(NPTEL)
• Over
1200
Courses
already
created
• MOOCs
offering
ini7ated
with
cer7fica7on
• Spoken
Tutorials
• Virtual
Labs
•
…
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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5. IIT Bombay
DisseminaBon
• NKN
(Na7onal
Knowledge
Network)
provides
connec7vity
to
• Hundreds
of
universi7es
• Thousands
of
colleges
• Fiber
connec7vity
being
established
at
100,000
Panchayats
• Connect
one
school
and
one
hospital
in
each
Panchayat
• Internet
availability
is
increasing
rapidly
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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6. IIT Bombay
Access
• Most
Ins7tutes
of
higher
learning
have
lab
facili7es
• Servers/PCs
on
Local
Area
Networks,
connected
to
internet
• Limited
number
of
desktops
in
labs
• Schools
have
yet
to
develop
access
infrastructure
• Successful
pilots
with
Affordable
Access
Devices
• Android
tablets,
Netbooks
capable
of
running
Linux
• Affordable
Wi-­‐Fi
solu7ons
being
worked
out
• Large
‘Clouds’
(server
farms)
being
built
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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7. IIT Bombay
Scilab running on Android
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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8. IIT Bombay
Android Tablet with ‘Anuduino’
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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9. IIT Bombay
An affordable netbook device running Linux
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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10. IIT Bombay
Spoken Tutorials
• 10
minute
tutorials,
containing
slides
and
explanatory
audio
• Transcripts
translated
in
mul7ple
languages,
and
dubbed
• A
number
of
tutorials
largely
on
free
soXware
Bengali:
265,
English:
594,
Hindi:
305
Nepali:
278,
Punjabi:
94,
Tamil:
371,
Urdu:
113
• 2
hour
SELF
tutorials
for
user
training
• Over
12,000
workshops
conducted
for
over
500,000
learners
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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11. IIT Bombay
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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12. IIT Bombay
T10KT project
• Over
300
Remote
Centres
(RCs)
established
• Teacher
Training
workshops
• 10,000
teachers
are
trained
simultaneously
in
a
subject
• Interac7ve
live
lectures
from
Hub
Ins7tutes
(IITB,
IITKGP)
• Labs
and
tutorials
at
RCs
• Over
85,000
teachers
have
been
trained
so
far
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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13. IIT Bombay
Over 300 Remote Centres
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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14. IIT Bombay
Coordinators’ Workshop
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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15. IIT Bombay
Teachers at a Remote Centre
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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16. IIT Bombay
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
• India
has
started
offering
MOOCs
to
global
learners
on
edX
• SWAYAM
is
ready
for
launch
(Study
Webs
of
Ac7ve-­‐learning
for
Young
Aspiring
Minds)
• An
Indian
Open
Source
plajorm
based
on
Open
edX
• Will
cater
to
na7ve
languages
• Will
permit
offering
of
blended
MOOCs
• Also
available
for
school
educa7on
and
voca7onal
training
• Large
Scale
Na7onal
Rollout
will
unfold
shortly
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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17. IIT Bombay
SWAYAM, Built on Open-­‐edX
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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18. IIT Bombay
SWAYAM RegistraBon Page in Hindi
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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19. IIT Bombay
CollaboraBon on MOOCs with edX
• IIT
Bombay
and
edX
have
built
upon
the
MoU
signed
in
2013
• edX
has
provided
technical
support
for
building
SWAYAM
plajorm
• IIT
Bombay
is
offering
courses
to
global
learners
through
edX
• India
offers
all
knowledge
content,
generated
by
public
funding,
as
Open
Source
ar7facts
under
CC-­‐BY-­‐SA
license
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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20. IIT Bombay
Ongoing AcBviBes
• Addi7onal
func7on-­‐features
for
the
SWAYAM
plajorm
• Mul7-­‐lingual
enhancements
• Blended
MOOCs
• Incorpora7on
of
local
marks/grades
• Proctored
online
exams
• Enhancing
LMS
and/or
integra7ng
with
Moodle
• Group/subgroup
hierarchy
for
learners
and
teachers
• Content
sharing
across
plajorms
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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21. IIT Bombay
Ongoing acBviBes
• Deployment
issues
• Integra7on
with
AADHAR,
the
unique
ID
for
Indians
• Mul7ple
instances
at
each
college/university
• Replica7on
across
clouds/local
servers
• U7li7es
using
rsynch
• Content
enrichment
through
edited
contribu7ons
• Versioning
of
courses
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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22. IIT Bombay
Policy Issues Being Addressed
• Recogni7on
of
credits/marks
earned
through
MOOCs
• Supervised
online
examina7ons
• Local
assignments
and
assessment
• Credit
Transfer
• Transfer
of
credits
across
universi7es/schools
• Recogni7on
of
credits
earned
by
learners
not
in
the
‘system’
• These
are
being
addressed
by
concerned
regulatory
bodies
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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23. IIT Bombay
OpportuniBes for global collaboraBon
• We
seek
partnership
with
each
and
every
edX
partner
• To
share
new
enhancements
• To
discuss
and
align
on
novel
features
• To
learn
evolving
pedagogies
A
big
‘Thank
You’
to
open
edX,
from
all
Indian
learners
Prof.
Deepak
B
Phatak,
IIT
Bombay
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