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- 1. ONLINE COURSES Online courses are revolutionizing formal education, and have opened a new genre of outreach on cultural and scientific topics. deliver a series of lessons to a web browser or mobile device, to be conveniently accessed anytime, anyplace. It’s a directed learning process, comprised of educational information , communication and some way to measure students’ achievement . NPTEL, SWAYAM, MOOCS and Coursera .
- 2. NPTEL NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating video and web course contents in engineering and science. NPTEL as a project originated from many deliberations between IITs, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) during the years 1999-2003. NPTEL open online courses were initiated so that students anywhere can directly learn from faculty in top colleges.
- 3. COORDINATORS OF NPTEL Prof. Mangala Sunder. K (Dept. of chemistry, IITM) Prof. Prathap Haridoss (Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IITM) Prof. Andrew Thankaraj (Dept. of Electrical Engineering IITM)
- 4. ADVANTAGES OF NPTEL Learn for free Learn together & learn from the experts Courses have no eligibility criteria Open to anyone & everyone Students can review & assess their progress Directly interact with course instructors to understand concepts An optional in-person proctored certification exam is offered at the end of the course to earn certificate from IITs
- 5. SWAYAM(Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young-Aspiring Mind) Initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of education policy , access, equity and quality. it seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the main stream of the knowledge economy. Its platform is indigenously developed by Ministry of Human Resource Development and All India Council for Technical Education with the help of Microsoft and would be capable of hosting 2000 courses and 80000 hours of learning: covering school, under-graduate, post-graduate, engineering, law and other professional courses.
- 6. What is offered in SWAYAM? •Courses that are taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation. •The courses hosted on SWAYAM is in 4 quadrants •video lecture •specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed •self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and •An online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. •Categories of courses include - Engineering, Science, Humanities, Management, Language, Mathematics, Arts and Recreation, Commerce, General, Library, Education.
- 7. Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners. Students wanting certifications need to register and shall be offered a certificate on successful completion of the course, with a little fee. At the end of each course, there will be an assessment of the student through proctored examination and the marks/grades secured in this exam could be transferred to the academic record of the students. UGC has already issued the UGC Regulation 2016 advising the Universities to identify courses where credits can be transferred on to the academic record of the students for courses done on SWAYAM
- 8. National Coordinators of SWAYAM In order to ensure best quality content are produced and delivered, 7 National Coordinators have been appointed. They are as follows. •NPTEL for engineering •UGC for post-graduation education •CEC for under-graduate education •NCERT for school education •NIOS for school education •IGNOU for out of the school students and •IIMB for management studies
- 9. Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, are online courses that allow participants free access and unrestricted participation to any course of their choice. Besides the conventional modes of teaching such as lectures, videos and reading material; MOOCs also provide a platform for interactive forums. MOOCS
- 10. CLASSIFICATION OF MOOCs cMOOC cMOOC emphasize the connectivist philosophy: it is a social platform for collaboratively sharing and building knowledge within a community of people. xMOOC An xMOOC relies on a more traditional model of education, based on lectures recorded in videos and usually is well-financed.
- 11. Advantages of MOOCs 1. Courses are offered for free. 2. Access to courses offered by professors at the top schools. 3. Courses are available to a vast and diverse audience across the globe. 4. Learners’ performance can be monitored easily using the data captured during the start of courses. 5. Both professors and learners get world-wide exposure, thus improving pedagogical techniques and knowledge sharing 6. Can be used as a tool in a blended learning program, where students can access more information than what is provided in the class
- 12. Disadvantages of MOOCs 1.Can’t provide for personalized courseware and attention from a tutor. 2. It is difficult to keep track of students’ assignments and involvement. 3. Learners with disabilities and a poor Internet connection can’t use MOOCs. 4. Language can be a barrier while offering MOOCs. 5. MOOCs can’t be used as a credit-earning course at universities.
- 13. COURSERA Coursera is an online learning platform founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers courses, specializations, and degrees. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, specializations, and degrees in a variety of subjects. As of June 2018, Coursera had more than 33 million registered users and more than 2,400 courses