User:Lithimy/swayam

Overview
SWAYAM is a Sanskrit word that stands for "Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds". SWAYAM is a project of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. This is an online platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.

SWAYAM follows four quadrants approach for designing the online course.

First quadrant covers Video and Audio Content in an organized form, Animation, Simulations, video demonstrations, Virtual Labs, etc, along with the transcription of the video.

Second quadrant covers self-instructional material, e-Books, illustrations, case studies, presentations, Web resources such as further references, related Links, open source Content on Internet, Video, Case Studies, books including e-books, research papers & journals, anecdotal information, historical development of the subject, articles, etc.

Third quadrant covers problems and solutions, which could be in the form of multiple-choice questions, fill in the blanks, matching questions, short answer questions, long answer questions, quizzes, assignments and solutions, discussion forum topics and setting up the FAQs, clarifications on general misconceptions.

Fourth quadrant covers discussion forum for raising of doubts and clarifying them on a near real time basis by the Course Coordinator or his/her team.

Online courses on SWAYAM portal are free. There is no cost for registering the courses. Any student wants to claim course certificate, he/she need to pay fee to appear final proctored examination. Students can use the marks/certificate obtained for online courses on SWAYAM portal to get credit transfer based on the criteria approved by the colleges/universities.

National Coordinators
There are nine National Coordinators have been appointed to monitor best quality content are produced to offer online courses on SWAYAM. The following are national coordinators for SWAYAM:

1.       AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses

2.       NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering

3.       UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education

4.       CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education

5.       NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education

6.       NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education

7.       IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students

8.       IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies

9.       NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme

External Link
SWAYAM