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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

• Quadrant-II is e-Content: that shall contain: PDF/e-Books/illustration, video
demonstrations, documents and Interactive simulations wherever required.
• Quadrant-III is Web Resources: that shall contain: Related Links, Open Content
on Internet, Case Studies, An ecdotalin formation, Historical development of the
subject, Articles.
• Quadrant-IV is Self-Assessment : that shall contain: MCQ, Problems, Quizzes,
Assignments and solutions, Discussion forum topics and setting up the FAQ,
Clarifications on general misconceptions.
3.4 ‘Host Institution’ shall mean the institution duly recognised/approved by the regulating
authority, to which the PI/SME offering the course belongs.
3.5 ‘Institution’ shall mean any academic institution registered and functioning in India.

3.6 ‘MOOCs’: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are such online courses which are
developed as per the pedagogy stated herein; following the four quadrant approach and
made available on the SWAYAM platform of Government of India.
3.7 ‘MOOCs Guidelines’ shall mean guidelines on online learning issued by the MHRD
vide its orders dated 11th March 2016 and subsequent addendums issued by the MHRD.
3.8 ‘National MOOCs Coordinator’ (NMC) is a Nation level agency designated as such by
the Government, for the purpose of coordinating the production of the online courses
and for overseeing their quality in a designated sector of learning.
3.9 ‘Parent Institution’ shall mean the institution/university/college where the student is
enrolled as a regular/parttime student.
3.10 ‘Principal Investigator (PI)’: The PI shall be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) belonging
to a reputed educational institution, identified and entrusted with the task of developing
and delivering MOOCs in a given area by the NMC.
3.11 ‘Sector’ shall mean a particular level of learning such as high school, engineering/non-
engineering diploma/degree/post-graduation.
3.12 ‘Subject’ shall mean a discipline (eg Mathematics) taught in an educational institution
consisting of specific courses, resulting in awarding of a certificate/diploma/degree.

3.13 ‘SWAYAM platform’ is an IT platform developed and made functional by the Ministry
of Human Resource

Development of Government of India for the purpose of offering online learning
courses on the MOOCs pattern.
4. Online learning courses:
4.1. The online learning courses shall be made available on the SWAYAM Platform by the
PI identified by the National MOOCs Coordinator, through the Host Institution, as per
the schedule finalised by him/her.
4.2. The SWAYAM shall notify to the Registrars of all the Institutions, on 1st June and 1st
November every year, the list of the online learning Courses going to be offered in the
forthcoming Semester.
4.3. All the Institutions shall, within 4 weeks from the date of notification by SWAYAM,
consider through their Competent Authority the online learning courses being offered
through the SWAYAM platform; and keeping in view their academic requirements
decide upon the courses which it shall permit for credit transfer.

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