Impact of ‘Swayam’ on Academic Achievement

SWAYAM platform is indigenously developed by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with the help of Microsoft and would be ultimately capable of hosting 2000 courses and 80000 hours of learning: covering school, under-graduate, post-graduate, engineering, law and other professional courses. University Grants Commission (UGC) has vided Gazette Notification dated 19 the July, 2016, notified Regulation, 2016 regarding ‘Credit Framework for Online Learning Courses through SWAYAM’. SWAYAM is a MOOCs compatible open and distance education environment which is available through the Information and Communication Technology (ICT). SWAYAM has opened a new gateway of teaching learning. SWAYAM is now being offered study of the courses in different subject domains. This paper aims to explore how this new mode of education can bring opportunities to learners from all section of society to participate in the education set up. The learner enrolls in different courses of SWAYAM to meet their educational thrust. This paper has been studied by the researcher to identify different subject domain and enrollment of learners in those subjects to assess their interest in SWAYAM. The scope of this study has been limited to few subject fields where courses are already completed, and to explain how this new mode of open education can bring opportunities to society.