Technology-Enabled Learning Ushering in the MOOCs Era through SWAYAM

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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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