AMN / NEW DELHI
Human Resource Development Ministry has launched a major and unique initiative of online professional development of 1.5 million higher education faculty using the Massive Open Online Courses platform SWAYAM.
In the first phase, 75 discipline-specific National Resource Centres (NRCs) have been identified.
National Resource Centres are tasked to prepare online training material with focus on new and emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum. Under the initiative, all in-service teachers, irrespective of their subject and seniority will have an enabling opportunity to keep abreast of the latest developments in their disciplines through the online refresher course.
Faculty can benefit from this initiative as it is highly flexible and can be done at one’s own pace and time. A varied set of institutions such as Central, State and Open Universities, National Institutes for Technical Teachers Training, IITs, IIITs, NITs and other have been notified as NRCs. These NRCs will cover wide-ranging disciplines of Social Sciences, Sciences, Engineering and Technology and other disciplines.
