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

Sl No	MOOCs Provider	Country
	SWAYAM	India
	NPTEL	India
	IITBx	India
	mooKIT	India
	Shikshit India	India
	Vskills	India
	U18	India
	Million Lights	India
	Apna Course	India
	UpGrad	India
	EduKart Open	India
	LearnVern	India
	Digital Vidya	India
	Coursera	USA
	edX	USA
	Udacity	USA
	Kadenze	USA
	Canvas Network	USA
	Stanford Languita	USA
	FutureLearn	UK
	European Multiple MOOC Aggregator (EMMA)	European Union
	Open Education (openedu.ru)	Russia
	XuetangX	China
	CNMOOC	China
	Chinese MOOCS	China
	University of China MOOC China	China
	Zhihuishu	China
	OpenHPI	Germany
	gacco	Japan
	Fisdom	Japan
	OpenLearning	Japan
	JMOOC	Japan
	ewant	Taiwan
	Open Education (openedu.tw)	Taiwan
	Edraak	Jordan
	Miríada X	Spain
	MéxicoX	Mexico
	France UniversitéNumérique	France
	EduOpen	Italy
	Federica.eu	Italy
	ThaiMOOC	Thailand
	K-MOOC	Korea
	IndonesiaX	Indonesia
	Prometheus	Ukraine

 

Some important Indian MOOCs Links

	ATAL (FDP)	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WsOTobt2_DR2b94eE0TDqgjZwEDklPWS/view?usp=sharing
	NDLI	https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
	SWAYAM	http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php
	MOOCs	http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php
	e-PG Pathshala	http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
	CEC	http://http//cec.nic.in/cec/
	Swayamprabha	https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/
	Shodhganga	http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
	e-Shodh Sindhu	https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/
	Vidwan	https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/
	MHRD	https://mhrd.gov.in/ict-initiatives
	AICTE	https://www.aicte-india.org/bureaus/swayam
	UGC	https://www.ugc.ac.in/
	CET	https://www.iitg.ac.in/cet/

 

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

https://youtu.be/Hr6MJcSR9dQ

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.

SWAYAM

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM 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 mainstream of the knowledge economy.