MOOCs: NPTEL SWAYAM
MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses
MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses are quite new and most conspicuous trends in higher education. It represents learning phenomenon where learners access online educational multimedia materials, and get associated with enormous numbers of other learners via social engagement tools such as discussion forums. MOOCs is being served as online structured course platform, and glossaries, images, videos, and public repositories have been serving as pedagogical tools in that course platform. MOOCs offered hundreds of courses and witnessed millions of registered users across the world. Nevertheless, the roots of the MOOCs can be traced back to early 2000s, the year 2008 was affirmed to be a foundation for networked learning and MOOCs. Stephen Downes and George Siemens first coined the term MOOCs in 2008 define connectivist learning on networks. In 2011, some Stanford University professors developed educational videos and released through open online platforms. The year 2011, MOOCs were disseminated across the globe, when Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thurn facilitated the Artificial Intelligence MOOC, which attracted 160,000 learners from 190 countries in 2011. In early 2012, independent platforms such as Coursera and Udacity were developed; the former was paid and later was non-profit initiative by Stanford University. MIT developed MITx web resource later it was incorporated into EdX. Albeit MOOCs was originated from United States universities, the online educational mode gradually accepted by many countries including India in recent past.
Across the world, there are many colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions provide several MOOCs platform. Coursera, EdX, Udacity, Udemy, Iversity, MiriadaX and Futurelearnoffer some of the well-known MOOCs platforms around the US and Europe. Table 1 below shows various MOOCs providers in different nations
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MOOCs Provider |
Country |
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SWAYAM |
India |
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NPTEL |
India |
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IITBx |
India |
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mooKIT |
India |
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Shikshit India |
India |
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Vskills |
India |
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U18 |
India |
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Million Lights |
India |
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Apna Course |
India |
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UpGrad |
India |
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EduKart Open |
India |
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LearnVern |
India |
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Digital Vidya |
India |
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Coursera |
USA |
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edX |
USA |
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Udacity |
USA |
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Kadenze |
USA |
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Canvas Network |
USA |
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Stanford Languita |
USA |
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FutureLearn |
UK |
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European Multiple MOOC Aggregator (EMMA) |
European Union |
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Open Education (openedu.ru) |
Russia |
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XuetangX |
China |
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CNMOOC |
China |
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Chinese MOOCS |
China |
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University of China MOOC China |
China |
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Zhihuishu |
China |
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OpenHPI |
Germany |
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gacco |
Japan |
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Fisdom |
Japan |
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OpenLearning |
Japan |
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JMOOC |
Japan |
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ewant |
Taiwan |
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Open Education (openedu.tw) |
Taiwan |
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Edraak |
Jordan |
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Miríada X |
Spain |
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MéxicoX |
Mexico |
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France UniversitéNumérique |
France |
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EduOpen |
Italy |
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Federica.eu |
Italy |
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ThaiMOOC |
Thailand |
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K-MOOC |
Korea |
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IndonesiaX |
Indonesia |
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Prometheus |
Ukraine |
Some important Indian MOOCs Links
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Find here briefs of some of the MOOC platforms
NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING (NPTEL)
NPTEL project was proposed for the first time in 1999 by Prof. M. S. Ananth, Director, IIT Madras and funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, has developed curriculum based course contents for engineering courses at the undergraduate level. NPTEL is a joint initiative of the IITs and IISc. Through this initiative, NPTEL offers online courses and certification in various topics. The main objective behind this initiative is to reach out to students and faculty by providing them access to NPTEL content and Online Certifications from NPTEL Centre of Continuing Education.
Click on the link to know about NPTEL,, driven by the video
JEC Group of Colleges has taken a step forward towards the establishment of an NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)) local Chapter. The objective of this Chapter is to enable the students gain knowledge through enhanced video lecture and obtain certificates for courses pursued. It also makes them employable in the industry or pursue a suitable higher education programme in Engineering and Technology.
Dr B.B. Jain, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering is nominated as SPOC of NPTEL JEC Group Chapter. One of the roles of SPOC is to identify mentors from the various departments’ who will motivate students to enroll for the respective courses , monitor the course work week wise, motivate students to submit assignments, to register for the exam and assist the students towards successful completion of the registered courses.