SWAYAM - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

The online SWAYAM (Study Web of Active Learning by Young and Aspiring Minds) platform is an ambitious plan of CEC/UGC/MHRD of developing and delivery of Massive Open Online Courses for Under Graduate and Post Graduate students. This technology enabled education module makes it easier for the billion plus population to access quality education in the form of MOOCs. It is also congruent to the present government’s dream of ‘Digital India’, of which digital education is an important aspect.

All the courses designed for SWAYAM platform are interactive and prepared by the best of subject experts in the country and available free of cost to the learners. The courses uploaded on SWAYAM are available in four quadrants –

The students can register for courses on https://swayam.gov.in/

The EMRC, Gujarat University has been given the responsibility to develop MOOCs (Massive Open Online courses) which are available on SWAYAM web portal.

EMRC Ahmedabad has already developed Thirty MOOCs on Science, Business Economics, Management and Commerce varying from 2 to 4-credit course for Undergraduate/ Postgraduate level.

Many more proposals for developing MOOCs on Commerce, Science, Mass Communication, Commerce, Sociology and Education have been submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
Reference Link: https://swayam.gov.in/