Awareness of swayam programme among the Postgraduate students

This thesis deals with the research topic, "Awareness of swayam programme among the Postgraduate students of Alagappa University." The Indian Government in the Budget Speech 2017 had proposed to leverage Information Technology and launch the SWAYAM platform with at least 350 online courses. Subsequently the Honorable President of India launched SWAYAM on 9th July, 2017, an indigenous platform of the GOI designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. SWAYAM is a path-breaking initiative of the government aimed at providing quality education to large number of students pursuing higher education in our Universities and Colleges. The MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) courses on SWAYAM enable students to virtually attend the courses taught by the best faculty; access high quality reading resources; participate in discussion forums; take tests and earn academic grades. It is aimed at benefitting lifelong learners, students, teachers, researchers to use multimedia on anytime, anywhere basis for acquiring knowledge and skills. UGC feels that Universities can play a pivotal role in disseminating and popularizing the SWAYAM courses amongst its students in particular and the academic fraternity at large, thereby enabling a bigger and wider access to students avail the benefit of MOOCs. To take the SWAYAM initiative forward and encourage more and more HEIs to adopt the MOOCs courses on SWAYAM, the university nominated SWAYAM coordinators would act as a Single Point of Contact ( SPOC) for their university. Hence, it is need of the hour to study the online (swayam) course at this level. Thus, the researcher has taken a study in this title.