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IIT Bombay Technology Enabled Learning Ushering in the MOOCs era through SWAYAM Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay Presenta7on at Open edx Cambridge, 18 November 2014 1 Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

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IIT Bombay

Technology  Enabled  Learning  Ushering  in  the  MOOCs  era  through  SWAYAM

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay  

Presenta7on  at  Open  edx  Cambridge,  18  November  2014  

 

1  Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay  

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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  

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   3  

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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  •   …  

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   4  

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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  

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   5  

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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  

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   6  

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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

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   9  

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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  

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   10  

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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  

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   12  

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Over  300  Remote  Centres  

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Coordinators’  Workshop

Prof.  Deepak  B  Phatak,  IIT  Bombay   14  

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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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