1. Technology Enabled Learning Ushering in the MOOCs era through SWAYAM
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay
Presentation at Open edx
Cambridge, 18 November 2014
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

2. Issues of scale and quality
Over 370 Million Indians are under 15 years of age
Over 150 Million under 6 years
Low Gross Enrollment Ratios
Hundreds of thousand schools, over 40,000 colleges
5000 colleges offer engineering education
About 1.25 Million students enrolled annually
Scale using ICT to offer quality education, the only solution
Dovetail into conventional educational system
Initiate MOOCs and deploy on large scale
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

3. Objectives behind Indian efforts
Enhance the reach and quality of education using ICT
Content, Dissemination, Access
Pedagogy for course delivery
Innovate and develop affordable solutions
Use and enhance Open Source software tools and content
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

4. Content National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT)
National Program on Technology Enabled Learning (NPTEL)
Over 1200 Courses already created
MOOCs offering initiated with certification
Spoken Tutorials
Virtual Labs …
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

5. Dissemination
NKN (National Knowledge Network) provides connectivity to
Hundreds of universities
Thousands of colleges
Fiber connectivity being established at 100,000 Panchayats
Connect one school and one hospital in each Panchayat
Internet availability is increasing rapidly
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

6. Access Most Institutes of higher learning have lab facilities
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 solutions being worked out
Large ‘Clouds’ (server farms) being built
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

7. Scilab running on Android
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

8. Android Tablet with ‘Anuduino’
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

9. An affordable netbook device running Linux
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

10. Spoken Tutorials
10 minute tutorials, containing slides and explanatory audio
Transcripts translated in multiple languages, and dubbed
A number of tutorials largely on free software
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
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

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12. T10KT project Over 300 Remote Centres (RCs) established
Teacher Training workshops
10,000 teachers are trained simultaneously in a subject
Interactive live lectures from Hub Institutes (IITB, IITKGP)
Labs and tutorials at RCs
Over 85,000 teachers have been trained so far
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

13. Over 300 Remote Centres
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

14. Coordinators’ Workshop
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

15. Teachers at a Remote Centre
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

16. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
India has started offering MOOCs to global learners on edX
SWAYAM is ready for launch
(Study Webs of Active-learning for Young Aspiring Minds)
An Indian Open Source platform based on Open edX
Will cater to native languages
Will permit offering of blended MOOCs
Also available for school education and vocational training
Large Scale National Rollout will unfold shortly
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

17. SWAYAM, Built on Open-edX
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

18. SWAYAM Registration Page in Hindi
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

19. Collaboration on MOOCs with edX
IIT Bombay and edX have built upon the MoU signed in 2013
edX has provided technical support for building SWAYAM platform
IIT Bombay is offering courses to global learners through edX
India offers all knowledge content, generated by public funding, as Open Source artifacts under CC-BY-SA license
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

20. Ongoing Activities
Additional function-features for the SWAYAM platform
Multi-lingual enhancements
Blended MOOCs
Incorporation of local marks/grades
Proctored online exams
Enhancing LMS and/or integrating with Moodle
Group/subgroup hierarchy for learners and teachers
Content sharing across platforms
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

21. Ongoing activities Deployment issues
Integration with AADHAR, the unique ID for Indians
Multiple instances at each college/university
Replication across clouds/local servers
Utilities using rsynch
Content enrichment through edited contributions
Versioning of courses
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

22. Policy Issues Being Addressed
Recognition of credits/marks earned through MOOCs
Supervised online examinations
Local assignments and assessment
Credit Transfer
Transfer of credits across universities/schools
Recognition of credits earned by learners not in the ‘system’
These are being addressed by concerned regulatory bodies
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

23. Opportunities for global collaboration
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
Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay