Swayam

When it comes to the overall development of students, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) leaves no stones unturned. 

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.  

This is done through a platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to any learner. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the country have participated in preparing these courses.

The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology.

In order to ensure that best quality content is produced and delivered, nine National Coordinators have been appointed. They are:

• AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
• NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
• UGC (University Grants Commission) for non-technical post-graduation education
• CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
• NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
• NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
• IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
• IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
• NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme

Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates. Eligibility for the certificate will be announced on the course page and learners will get certificates only if these criteria is matched. Universities/colleges approving credit transfer for these courses can use the marks/certificate obtained in these courses for the same.

School Education NIOS NCERT Out-of-School Education IGNOU NITTTR UG Education NPTEL AICTE CEC IIMB PG Education NPTEL AICTE IIMB UGC

Credit Transfer

UGC has already issued the UGC (Credit Framework for online learning courses through SWAYAM) 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. AICTE has also put out gazette notification in 2016 and subsequently for adoption of these courses for credit transfer.

The current SWAYAM platform is developed by Ministry of Education and NPTEL, IIT Madras with the help of Google Inc. and Persistent Systems Ltd.

NPTEL has been offering self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams for more than a decade. These are available at: http://nptel.ac.in. From March 2014 NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses, the highlight being the certification exam through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate form the IITs!

These are available at: https://swayam.gov.in/NPTEL

Local Chapters:

To take this initiative forward and to encourage more students across colleges to participate in this initiative, we are setting up SWAYAM-NPTEL chapter in colleges (with the approval of the management) which will be under the headship of a faculty member of the college, who would be our Single Point of Contact (SPOC). We will keep the SPOC updated about all the latest NPTEL initiatives and give him information which he can disseminate among the students. He can identify suitable mentors for various courses, who can ensure that students are active in a course, are submitting their assignments on time and also clarify the doubts they may have.

Credit Requirements & Guidelines for Credit Transfer

As per institute guidelines approved by the Academic Council of the institute, the credit transfer policy for the courses offered from SWAYAM/NPTEL are as follows:

(*) These courses can be offered only under seminar/self-study/professional development purpose and not permitted under DE/OC category.

(#) Theses courses can be offered under DEs/OEs and for earning additional credits for obtaining Honours and Minor Degree. A particular course can be offered under different categories, however, it will get credits only once.

The students have to register for proctored examination conducted by NPTEL for the selected 08/12-week course offered under DEs/OCs categories. The credits earned from NPTEL are directly transferred to the transcripts of students by the examination cell of the institute.

Qualifying marks in SWAYAM (NPTEL) are as follows:

Note: If one of the 2 criteria is not met, candidate will not get the pass certificate from NPTEL even if the Final score >= 40/100

Procedure for Institute Level Examination of DE/OC courses in SWAYAM

• · There is a provision for those students who failed to secure a pass certificate in SWAYAM(NPTEL) examination under DE and OC category courses as per the following guidelines
• Re-examination for such students in the same semester is conducted by the examination cell (in the same mode as the examination conducted by the NPTEL). The credits earned thus are considered for passing/promotion to next class; however, they are not reflected in the transcripts as ‘Credit Transfer from MOOCS’.
• The students who failed in assignments have to re-submit the assignment to the department/institute level mentor and also have to appear in the institute level examination to pass the course and earn credits. Credit transfer in this manner are not treated as ‘Credit Transfer from MOOCS’.

Various Categories of certificates offered by NPTEL are as follows:

General Guidelines For Students During Enrollment/registration

• Students are advised to use single Gmail id for registration in SWAYAM courses
• Students must choose YES option for the question “Are you a part of Local chapter” during course registration.
• Students must choose YES option for the question “Do you want to share the data with the college” during exam fee registration.
• Students to submit the assignment from the same ID, that they used for course registration.
• They must enter correct name and enrolment number during course and examination registration.
• A clear and good quality photo of the students to be uploaded during examination registration.
• Students must not by mistake select the ‘cancel option’ after paying the examination fee.

Role And Responsibilities Of Swayam Coordinators

• SWAYAM Coordinators of department will compile the list of Department Electives, Open category, Minor specialization and Honors courses to be offered under MOOCs of each session after finalization from BoS and approval from academic council.
• SWYAM Coordinator will present the course content, duration prerequisite/intended audience of MOOC Courses before BoS committee members for finalizing any course. The data may be collected from NPTEL repository https://nptel.ac.in/noc/
• If department decided to add/delete the courses after BoS, then the full details must be sent to office of dean academics, institute SWAYAM coordinator at nptel@mitsgwalior.in and Examination Cell through proper channel .
• Encourage students of the department for MOOCs registration from the approved lists of DEs, OCs, Honors and Minor specialization courses of the department through counselling sessions, disseminating information on web pages/Official WhatsApp groups.
• SWAYAM Coordinator will compile the list of mentors of approved MOOC courses and ensure the mentor allocation to the students via SPOC, NPTE Local Chapter.
• Ensure the maximum enrolment of students in MOOC courses as per the scheme and registration in exam before due deadline.
• Compile the record of mentoring session conducted in each course by the allotted mentors and share the record with Dean Academics.
• Time to time coordinate with mentors to ensure timely submission of assignments by the students before due date.
• Keep a record of students who could not enrolled /registered in exam of the MOOC courses. Ensure the separate mentoring session for such students to make them prepared for institute level exam.
• Time to time take counselling sessions with the students so that their queries may be solved.
• Coordinate with SPOC and Associate SWAYAM Coordinator for dissemination of information and timely compilation of data as and when required.

Role And Responsibilities Of Mentors

• All mentors must enroll in the respective MOOCs (DE, OE, Minor specialization or Honors courses being offered under their mentorship) on the NPTEL platform.
• Encourage more and more students from their respective departments for MOOCs Course registration and spread awareness by displaying the final list of approved DE, OE, Honors and Minor courses on the department web pages/Official WhatsApp groups etc.
• Coordinate from time to time with students to ensure timely submission of assignments before the due date communicated by the NPTEL course mentor.
• Monitor student progress by conducting the mentoring sessions (2Hrs/week).
• Maintain the complete record of mentoring sessions and share it with the Dean, Academics office as and when required for central level monitoring.

Courselist approved by SWAYAM Board 2024 July Semester

SWAYAM Department Coordinators