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The SWAYAM initiative was launched by the then Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) (now Ministry of Education), Government of India under Digital India to give a coordinated stage and free entry to web courses, covering all advanced education, high school, and skill sector courses.
Apart from offering online courses on third-party private and government platforms, IIMB also developed IIMBx's own in-house digital platform based on Open edX. [124] In 2014, IIMB became the first B-School in India [125] to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in partnership with edX – a not-for-profit online initiative of Harvard and MIT.
The courses are free if one does not want a certificate, i.e. audit mode. For certification the platform charges approximately ₹1,000 (approximately US$ 12). A course billed as "Asia's first MOOC" given by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology through Coursera starting in April 2013 registered 17,000 students.
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A free course can be "upgraded" to the paid version of a course, which includes instructor's feedback and grades for the submitted assignments, and (if the student gets a passing grade) a certificate of completion. [57] [60] Other Coursera courses, projects, specializations, etc. cannot be audited—they are only available in paid versions ...
Indira Gandhi National Open University, known as IGNOU, is a public open & distance learning university located in Delhi, India.Named after the former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of ₹ 20 million, after the Parliament of India passed the Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 (IGNOU Act 1985). [4]
ALISON is an Irish online education platform for higher education that provides certificate courses and accredited diploma courses. [5] [6] It was founded on 21 April 2007 in Galway, Ireland, by Irish social entrepreneur Mike Feerick. [7] As of July 2022, Alison has 4,000 courses, 25 million learners worldwide, and 4.5 million graduates. [2] [3]
According to the All India Council for Technical Education, 1987, the AICTE is vested with statutory authority for planning, formulation and maintenance of norms and standards, quality assurance through school accreditation, funding in priority areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of ...