IIT BombayTechnology Enabled LearningUshering in the MOOCs era

through SWAYAM

Prof. Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay

Presentation at Open edxCambridge, 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 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

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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

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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• …

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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

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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

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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 multiple languages, and dubbed• A number of tutorials largely on free softwareBengali: 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

• Interactive live lectures from Hub Institutes (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 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

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SWAYAM, Built on Open-edX

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SWAYAM Registration Page in Hindi

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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