Take MOOCs offered on Swayam for non-engineering programs, allow credit transfer: UGC to colleges

UGC has asked all the universities, colleges around the country to accept the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by Swayam as well as allow credit transfer for these courses.

 

The University Grants Commission (UGC) in a letter to vice-chancellors of all the higher education institutions have asked to give acceptance to the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by Swayam — an online portal by Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) as well as allow credit transfer for these courses.

As per this, the student's performance in Swayam-based MOOC will be taken into consideration while creating the academic record of the relevant subject. 

The UGC wrote, “It is earnestly hoped that universities and colleges will come forward in large numbers to adopt SWAYAM courses for credit transfer and encourage more and more students to enrol in these courses to ensure uninterrupted teaching-learning for students.”

The teachers have also been asked to come forward foe developing non-technical undergraduate and postgraduate level courses for the platform. The council has also asked the vice-chancellors to take suggestions from deans of respective departments on which courses each varsity should adopt from the platform. As many as 82 MOOCs for undergraduate and 42 for postgraduates classes are approved by Swayam board to be offered in July semester.

The SWAYAM platform has also started the admission process for various new courses that are offered at IITs, IGNOU, IIM Bangalore, NCERT, and others.

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The UGC has also asked colleges to ensure that they be mindful of the exam dates of the portal while drafting their schedule. The Swayam exams for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the July semester are scheduled to be held for November 14 and 15. The exams for the portal are conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).

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