Universities can offer 40% of courses online through SWAYAM: UGC

UGC launched SWAYAM as India’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform in order to facilitate students with quality learning online. 

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has given permission to the approved universities and colleges to offer up to 40 per cent of the syllabus of a programme in a semester online through the government's e-learning platform Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM). UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain wrote a letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellors of universities and Principals of colleges stating that “On March 25, 2021, the University Grants Commission (Credit Framework for Online Learning Courses through SWAYAM) Regulations, 2021, has been notified in the Gazette of India, which now facilitates an institution to allow up to 40 per cent of the total course being offered in a particular programme in a semester through the online course offered through SWAYAM platform.”

UGC launched SWAYAM as India’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform. In order to facilitate students with quality learning online, UGC as the national coordinator for non-technology postgraduate courses developed 145 MOOCs and offered 208 MOOCs on the SWAYAM platform. UGC, in the Gazette notification, asked institutions to amend their rules and regulations within four weeks for “seamless integration through SWAYAM based online courses.”

The commission further said, “Every higher education institution shall within four weeks from the date of publication of these regulations in the official Gazette make the necessary amendments, as may be required, in their statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations to adopt and incorporate the provisions of these regulations for seamless integration through SWAYAM based online courses.” It added, “No university shall refuse any student for credit mobility of courses earned through SWAYAM platform.”

Check the official notice released by UGC below: