Hello everyone,
As we all are conscious of COVID-19 pandemic situation has made a worldwide impact
in the past weeks and continues to hit most of the sectors, with education being
one of the most affected in all over the world, this pandemic situation has
forced the higher educational institutes, colleges and schools to shut down and
the students to stay at home. It will face many problems in offline (Classroom)
education. This pandemic can never stop us from learning effectively. As a
result, more and more people are discovering the advantages of online
education. These free online courses are a responsible way to develop yourself
in your own time from your own home where and whenever you want.
Online Platforms for Young Learners
There are
various online platforms offering online courses to students and fulfilling
their various needs- from personalized classroom teaching to preparing for
competitive exams which can be useful for the young learners.
1) Byju’s
2) Henry Harvin
3) Oliveboard
4) Udacity
5) Coursera
6) Unacademy
7) IGNOU
8) GuruQ
9) Vedantu
10) edX
Union Human Resources and Development (HRD) Minister
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank recently said that the government is offering a slew
of educational applications and platforms for both school and higher education
institutes.
SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active
Learning for Young Aspiring Minds)
To
provide access to the better quality learning resources across the country, the
project ‘Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds’ (SWAYAM) has
been started. Whereas, SWAYAM provides an integrated platform and portal for
online courses, using information and communication technology (ICT).
1.
One-stop web and mobile based interactive e-content for all courses from High
School to University level.
2. Top quality
learning experience using multimedia on anytime, anywhere basis.
3. State
of the art system that permits quick access, monitoring and certification.
4. coevals
interaction and discussion forum to clarify doubts.
5. Hybrid
model of delivery that adds to the standard of classroom teaching.
An
initiative by indian government, where courses from prestigious institutes are
available online. SWAYAM involves development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) compliant e-content (video and
text) and building a strong IT platform; Whereas, so as to disseminate
educational content to masses, the MHRD has launched 32 Direct-To-Home (DTH)
educational TV channels called “SWAYAM
Prabha” broadcasting education content 24x7 basis, and therefore the
content developed under SWAYAM would be used for transmission in SWAYAM Prabha
(SP) DTH channels whereas, there is a requirement for synergizing the standard of
contents on these platform, and for standardizing the content delivery.
LINK- https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
MOOCs are
an accessible way to continue to develop in the current situation of COVID-19. a
huge massive open online course (MOOC) platform that permits users to study
courses offered by some prestigious global universities, sitting in their
bedrooms to urge before the reminder. Courses on the platforms are often from
top global universities. They are mostly free, especially if the user doesn’t
need a certification, and anyone with an internet connection can join a course.
‘MOOCs’: (MOOCs) are such online courses which are developed as
per the pedagogy stated herein and following the four quadrant approach.
1) ‘National Coordinators (NCs)’: National Coordinators are the Institutions that have been so designated by the Ministry and assigned a specific sector for preparation of online courses for SWAYAM.
2)Parent
Institute, Institute to which
student registered for MOOC is enrolled.
i) ‘Sector’ shall mean a particular level or discipline of learning allotted to a NC by the MHRD.
3) ‘Subject Matter Expert Groups (SMEGs)’shall mean a group of reputed academicians in a particular subject identified by the National Coordinator in each subject.
4)‘Subject’
shall mean a specific area under a discipline (Example: Physics) taught in an
educational institution consisting of specific programme/ courses, resulting in
the award of a certificate/ diploma/ degree.
LINK- https://www.mooc.org/ OR www.edx.org
CEC (Consortium for educational communication)
CEC was set up in 1993 by the UGC for addressing the needs of higher
education through the use of television and information
communication technology (ICT). It is an inter university centre and the nodal
agency to coordinate, guide, and facilitates the production of educational
content at the national level through its network media.
LINK- http://cec.nic.in/
e-PG Pathshala
e-PG Pathshala
is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through
ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the
key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive
e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine
arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and
languages. etc. It is implemented by INFLIBNET centre with the support of
university grants commission.
LINK- http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in
E-Pathshala
E-Pathshala
has been developed by the joint efforts of ministry of human resource and
development (MHRD) and NCERT for showcasing and disseminating all educational
e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of
other print and non-print materials through website and mobile app. The
platform addresses the dual challenge of reaching out to a diverse clientele
and bridging the digital divide (geographical, socio-cultural and linguistic),
offering comparable quality of e-contents and ensuring its free access at every
time and every place. All the concerned
stakeholders such as students, teachers, educators and parents can access
e-books through multiple technology platforms i.e. mobile phones (android, ios
and windows platforms), and tablets (as e-pub) and on web through laptops and
desktops (as flipbooks).
LINK- https://epathshala.nic.in/
NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning)
NPTEL is
joint initiative by the IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur,
Madras, and Roorkee) and IISC for improving the standard of Technical education
by providing online content which may be employed by teachers and students.
Teachers can use these courses to plan the Classroom lectures. The 600 web and video
courses were created altogether major branches of engineering, physical
sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at
the postgraduate level.
LINK- https://nptel.ac.in/
Some e-learning courses of Food technology
The study
of food technology teaches learners to develop new concepts, systems and
methods for maintaining food products and keeping them safely with bacteria
resistant.Online food tech courses aim to explore novel technologies and find
out the innovations in food industries. Food technologists are often required
to innovate and develop new versions of products like making
a pre-existing product fat-free or gluten-free.
If you’re
thinking of pursuing higher education or getting to university to study food
science, technology or nutrition, then web course in food technology can
prepare you for the challenges ahead. To understand more about how technology
is changing, join online food tech courses to urge the talents you would like
to require subsequent step in your learning.
Different online courses of Food technology by
various online platforms are as follows:
Food Science and Processing
Food, Nutrition and
Health
Food Laws and Standards
Healthy Living Environment
National Coordinators of India
In order to ensure, nine National Coordinators
have been appointed. National Coordinators
for each of the Sectors appointed for the purpose of development of best quality e-concentrate produced and delivery of online
courses and overseeing the assessment procedures of courses offered on SWAYAM.
However, the Ministry can add National Coordinators from time to time.
They are AICTE for self-paced and international courses. NPTEL for engineering, UGC for non technical post-graduation education, CEC for under-graduate education, NCERT & NIOS for school education, IGNOU for out of the school students, IIMB for management studies and NITTTR for Teacher Training programme depending on the need for expanding the Courses to be offered:
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