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

(iii) A Higher Educational Institution shall have demonstrated capability, for developing
and production of Online programmes with the technology for production
including in-house or duly out-sourced production facilities for converting the
courses of a Programme into Online Programmes, defined as under–

(a) learning videos with recording or dubbing or editing facilities for graphics
or animation creation;
(b) e-content for reading and improving comprehension of learners;
(c) tests and assignments that test the understanding;
(d) discussion forum that clarifies the doubts of the learners.
(iv) The Online programmes‘ delivery shall be through the SWAYAM portal or any
other learning platform duly approved by the Commission on the recommendation
of the Technical Expert Committee broadly complying to the features mentioning
at Annexure-IX.
(v) The Programme offered under Online mode shall conform to the condition that
apart from the Programme delivery, other components such as Counselling
Process, Online Application Processing and fee payment shall also be provided
through Online mode.
(2) The Higher Educational Institution may evolve the curricular aspects, assessment
criteria etc. for the award of Degree at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and/
or Post Graduate Diploma adopting the following requirements, namely:-
(i) the course content for each course shall be clearly defined, each having modular
e content, delivery online in a structured format, with clearly spelt out learning
outcomes which learners are expected to attain at the end of the module;
(ii) programmes (including courses in a programme) architecture shall permit the online
teacher or instructor to add multi-media enriched and interactive content, activities
and assessments to extend learning opportunities and shall be easy to navigate;
(iii) availability of assessment mechanism - each course in the Online Programme
shall have a precise assessment mechanism for the identified learning outcomes
at each level for both continuous formative and summative assessments;
(iv) identified technological interface and interoperability - the Online Programme
shall be able to utilise a variety of technology tools, shall have a user friendly
interface and meet accessibility standards for interoperability and access for
learners with special needs.

(3) Learners‘ Requirements for Enrolment to Online Programmes - Learners to be enrolled
for the Online Programmes shall be acquainted with the requisite information or
literacy skills for which there shall be a helpline for technical assistance throughout the
semester/course of study.

(4) Learner‘s Authentication Requirements –
(i) the Higher Educational Institutions shall exercise proper learner‘s authentication
practice to ensure the academic integrity and all the Indian learners, at the time
of enrolment, synchronous /asynchronous participations and all assessments
for examinations, shall be required to provide the Aadhaar number or other
government recognised identifier, as applicable and verify their information for
authentication for which necessary infrastructure or support shall be provided to
them by the Higher Educational Institutions;

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