Swayam MOOC platform - Framework & Ideas
Transcript of Swayam MOOC platform - Framework & Ideas
IIT Bombay
Technology Enabled Learning Ushering in the MOOCs era through SWAYAM
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay
Presenta7on at Open edx Cambridge, 18 November 2014
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Issues of scale and quality
• Over 370 Million Indians are under 15 years of age • Over 150 Million under 6 years
• Low Gross Enrollment Ra7os • Hundreds of thousand schools, over 40,000 colleges • 5000 colleges offer engineering educa7on • About 1.25 Million students enrolled annually
• Scale using ICT to offer quality educa7on, the only solu7on • Dovetail into conven7onal educa7onal system
Ini%ate MOOCs and deploy on large scale Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay 2
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ObjecBves behind Indian efforts
• Enhance the reach and quality of educa7on using ICT • Content, Dissemina7on, Access • Pedagogy for course delivery
• Innovate and develop affordable solu7ons • Use and enhance Open Source soXware tools and content
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Content
• Na7onal Mission on Educa7on through ICT (NMEICT) • Na7onal Program on Technology Enabled Learning (NPTEL)
• Over 1200 Courses already created • MOOCs offering ini7ated with cer7fica7on
• Spoken Tutorials • Virtual Labs • …
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DisseminaBon
• NKN (Na7onal Knowledge Network) provides connec7vity to • Hundreds of universi7es • Thousands of colleges
• Fiber connec7vity being established at 100,000 Panchayats • Connect one school and one hospital in each Panchayat
• Internet availability is increasing rapidly
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Access
• Most Ins7tutes of higher learning have lab facili7es • Servers/PCs on Local Area Networks, connected to internet • Limited number of desktops in labs
• Schools have yet to develop access infrastructure • Successful pilots with Affordable Access Devices • Android tablets, Netbooks capable of running Linux
• Affordable Wi-‐Fi solu7ons being worked out • Large ‘Clouds’ (server farms) being built
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Scilab running on Android
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Android Tablet with ‘Anuduino’
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An affordable netbook device running Linux
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Spoken Tutorials
• 10 minute tutorials, containing slides and explanatory audio • Transcripts translated in mul7ple languages, and dubbed • A number of tutorials largely on free soXware Bengali: 265, English: 594, Hindi: 305 Nepali: 278, Punjabi: 94, Tamil: 371, Urdu: 113
• 2 hour SELF tutorials for user training • Over 12,000 workshops conducted for over 500,000 learners
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T10KT project
• Over 300 Remote Centres (RCs) established • Teacher Training workshops • 10,000 teachers are trained simultaneously in a subject
• Interac7ve live lectures from Hub Ins7tutes (IITB, IITKGP) • Labs and tutorials at RCs • Over 85,000 teachers have been trained so far
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Over 300 Remote Centres
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Coordinators’ Workshop
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Teachers at a Remote Centre
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
• India has started offering MOOCs to global learners on edX • SWAYAM is ready for launch (Study Webs of Ac7ve-‐learning for Young Aspiring Minds) • An Indian Open Source plajorm based on Open edX • Will cater to na7ve languages • Will permit offering of blended MOOCs • Also available for school educa7on and voca7onal training
• Large Scale Na7onal Rollout will unfold shortly
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SWAYAM, Built on Open-‐edX
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SWAYAM RegistraBon Page in Hindi
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CollaboraBon on MOOCs with edX
• IIT Bombay and edX have built upon the MoU signed in 2013 • edX has provided technical support for building SWAYAM plajorm • IIT Bombay is offering courses to global learners through edX
• India offers all knowledge content, generated by public funding, as Open Source ar7facts under CC-‐BY-‐SA license
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Ongoing AcBviBes
• Addi7onal func7on-‐features for the SWAYAM plajorm • Mul7-‐lingual enhancements • Blended MOOCs
• Incorpora7on of local marks/grades • Proctored online exams
• Enhancing LMS and/or integra7ng with Moodle • Group/subgroup hierarchy for learners and teachers
• Content sharing across plajorms
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Ongoing acBviBes
• Deployment issues • Integra7on with AADHAR, the unique ID for Indians • Mul7ple instances at each college/university • Replica7on across clouds/local servers
• U7li7es using rsynch • Content enrichment through edited contribu7ons
• Versioning of courses
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Policy Issues Being Addressed
• Recogni7on of credits/marks earned through MOOCs • Supervised online examina7ons • Local assignments and assessment
• Credit Transfer • Transfer of credits across universi7es/schools • Recogni7on of credits earned by learners not in the ‘system’
• These are being addressed by concerned regulatory bodies
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OpportuniBes for global collaboraBon
• We seek partnership with each and every edX partner • To share new enhancements • To discuss and align on novel features • To learn evolving pedagogies
A big ‘Thank You’ to open edX, from all Indian learners
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