SWAYAM or Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds is a programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India,that enables professors and faculties of centrally funded institutions like IITs, IIMs, Central University Of Haryana to offer online courses to citizens of India.[1]
SWAYAM, the free online education was developed by MHRD, Govt. Of India and AICTE with the help of Microsoft. It offers hundreds of courses with transferable credits.[2]
All courses are offered free of cost under this programme, however fees are levied in case the learner requires a certificate.
In the first phase, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, University of Delhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, IGNOU, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, Banaras Hindu University, alone as well as with the help of faculty from foreign universities will be offering courses in areas of engineering education, social science, energy, management, basic sciences. At least one crore students are expected to benefit in 2 to 3 years through this initiative.[3] India has become one of the few countries in the world which has its own online interactive learning platform that provides not only video lectures and reading material but also assignments/quizzes that could end up in securing credits after completing the assessment system. Ex-President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee launched the SWAYAM and SWAYAM Prabha, the 32 DTH channels operationalised for telecasting educational content free of charge using the GSAT-15 satellite transponders..
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