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14/02/23 09:28 AM IST

Over 3 Crore Candidates Enrolled in Online Courses on Swayam

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  • Government-run Swayam Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) has more enrolment than any other e-learning platform in the country.
About Swayam
  • The Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) strives to make students self-sufficient in their learning by eliminating the need for external infrastructure.
  • Teachers and students can communicate using the Swayam portal to solve problems and attend lessons.
  • To boost digital learning, the government encourages students and instructors to use the SWAYAM platform.
  • Computing with Python, provided by IIT-Ropar, is one of the most popular courses on the Swayam platform with 46,081 student enrolments presently.
  • This is followed by a course on ethical hacking by IIT-Kharagpur, Programming in C++ by IIT-Bombay and programming in Java by IIT-Kharagpur.
  • Swayam MOOs are developed by academicians from top-ranked institutions and are offered free of cost to all learners.
  • Today Swayam is a rich repository of more than 300 high-quality MOOCs courses enrolling over 3 crore students.
SWAYAM Prabha
  • It is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resources Development to provide 32 High Quality Educational Channels through DTH across the length and breadth of the country on 24X7 basis.
  • It has curriculum-based course content covering diverse disciplines.
  • This is primarily aimed at making quality learning resources accessible to remote areas where internet availability is still a challenge.
  • The DTH channels are using the GSAT-15 satellite for programme telecasts.
Source- PIB

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