SWAYAM: The Dream Initiative of India and its uses in Education

Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0) ABSTRACT Education is a prime element for the progress of any country. In the India, there are several challenges to give quality education, such as quality education resources lack . A massive wave of scope has knocked the door of constructive education in the forms of MOOCs which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In distance education, MOOCs are of very recent origin, started somewhere in the mid of 2011. They are known as ‘massive’ because they are available for the masses. These courses is fully taken through online aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. ‘Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds’ (SWAYAM) is an jointly initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India to provide an integral teaching learning platform in online mode. SWAYAM is mobile and web based interactive open education interface where courses are found from high school to university level (Government of India, 2015). SWAYAM is designed to achieve the three primary principles of education policy such as, access, equity and quality. If digital devices like computers is included in the all schools, and institutions of India in future, the learners will be more benefited because they will get more quality of teaching from best institutions.


INTRODUCTION
Education is a prime element for the progress of any country. In the India, there are several challenges to give quality education, such as quality education resources lack (Sharma R, 2018). A massive wave of scope has knocked the door of constructive education in the forms of MOOCs which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. The term MOOC was found in 2008 by Dave Cornier of the University of Prince Edward Island and Bryan Alexander of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. In distance education, MOOCs are of very recent origin, started somewhere in the mid of 2011 (Faizul.N, Senthil. V, 2015). They are known as 'massive' because they are available for the masses. These courses is fully taken through online aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs is a model that gives online learning content to learner without any physical presence in the classroom. MOOCs is planned in such a way that massive number of learners can able to enroll, it is open to anyone, available online via internet and courses are not referring only content delivery but it includes other aspects like lecture, forums, peer-to-peer interaction, quizzes, exams, and credentials (Samanta A, 2018). Extension of technology helps us to assist to the growing cost of traditional higher education as well as easy access to it. Due to compressed budgets of the governments across the world, manifestation of MOOCs is the most durable option. It is socially, politically and economically helpful step for restraining the total number of students across the world efficiently. There is a large possibility that improvement of quality of pedagogy can be occurred by MOOCs. 'Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM) is a jointly initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India to provide an integral teaching learning platform in online mode. SWAYAM is mobile and web based interactive open education interface where courses are found from high school to university level (Government of India, 2015). SWAYAM is designed to achieve the three primary principles of education policy such as, access, equity and quality. Learning in SWAYAM has four step approaches. Massive -This word means the targeted individuals are in large numbers. Any persons can get registered themselves anytime with or without any educational background and start learning.

Open -
The courses offered are open to everyone without any geographical boundaries.
Online -The courses are available in online and is accessed anywhere and anytime with free of cost.
Courses -There are many courses that are available in MOOCs and anyone anytime can take this courses with any education field.

SWAYAM Android Mobile App/Google Play/IOS
Availability of SWAYAM is through Android Mobile App/Google Play/IOS (iPhone Operating System) that can be downloaded by anyone who aspiring to pursue studies through MOOCs and can get registered as a learner or a student for any course starting from standard 9 th till postgraduation (All India Council for Technical Education, 2017).

Range of SWAYAM
According to Government of India (Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, 2015) SWAYAM cover the following below disciplines (Hiremath R, 2017). A. Curriculam based course contents covers various disciplines like arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc. in higher education sectors (all courses offers certificate also). B. SWAYAM offers school education modules for teacher training as well as teaching and learning assistances to children of India and try to help them understand the subjects and subjects matter better and also boost them in better preparedness for competitive examinations for admissions to professional degree programmes. C. Skills based courses are also in SWAYAM that helps the students specially after higher secondary examination. It specially helps the polytechnics students and it prepare the learners for working in industry. D. UGC adviced to the University to identify courses where credits can be transferred on to the record of academic of the students for courses done on SWAYAM. E. Curriculam and courses that can meet the needs of learners of Indian citizens in India specially and in abroad.

Advantages of SWAYAM
Following below points mentions about the some advantages of using SWAYAM by Indian learners.
1. For any Indian learner, SWAYAM is absolutely free of cost for learning but some fees is applied in case of certificate. 2. The SWAYAM is a new platform to Indian learner that is complimentary to formal education in India. 3. The learners who are in Indian University and institutions can not get quality teachers but SWAYAM is a platform by which any of the learners can get easily attached with the best teachers like the teacher of IITs, IIMs etc. 4. The courses will attached to the skill India program. 5. It is the very good platform because anyone can registered and can study through SWAYAM that means opportunity is being given to everyone. 6. The high quality education will reach to the everyone at minimum cost and endeavor by the government of India.

Challenges
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Summary and Conclusion
SWAYAM is a digital platform by which any one can easily register and study in anytime. It is very cost effective way of learning. It will be benefitted specially those students living in village area or disadvantaged group who do not get quality teaching. But one problem is still now in many villages in India, that is, their low economic condition. For the lower economic condition, they can not buy the digital device like mobile phone, computer etc. According to me, if digital devices like computers is included in the all schools, colleges and universities of India, the learners or students will be more benefited because they will get more quality teaching from best institutions. One thing that I observed to write this review is that learning through SWAYAM, is very good initiative that started by Government of India and it will be more beneficial for future generation. MOOCs are the future solution of today's distance learning through the platform like SWAYAM in India.

Future Scope
The present study shows that 'Massive Open Online Courses' (MOOCs) through platform like SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) is a very good jointly initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India to provide an integral teaching learning platform in online mode. SWAYAM is very new to all of the learners or persons in India. So, research is needed to observe the acceptance of this platform by Indian learners and citizens. Research is needed on the handling the digital devices among peoples in India and how many people have this digital devices like mobile phone and computer.