Union Government takes steps to ensure quality education for vulnerable groups
by Web Desk
Government is committed to ensuring equal access to online/digital education, even when done remotely. Quality Online courses are provided through SWAYAM, which is an indigenously developed MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) platform. Since everyone does not have access to the internet, under one of the flagship Initiatives, SWAYAM-Prabha, Ministry of Education is providing 34 educational TV channels covering educational contents for Schools and Higher Educational Institutions. Curriculum-based contents are telecast every day as per pre-defined schedule, which can be accessed by students as per their convenience. There is a provision of one class, one channel for school education. In addition to this, a comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYA has been initiated, which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multi-mode access to education. The initiative by Ministry of Education includes: -
1 Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) ranked in the top 100 NIRF, or NAAC score of 3.26 can offer an online programme without prior approval of UGC. Institutions with NAAC score of 3.01 to 3.25 can provide an online programme with prior approval of UGC.
2 For conventional courses, online content has been increased from up to 20% to 40% in regular degree programmes.
3 DIKSHA the nation’s digital infrastructure for providing quality e-content for school education in states/UTs: and QR coded Energised Textbooks for all grades (one nation, one digital platform)
4 Study materials have been provided on an experimental basis for 12 channels for classes 1 to 12, and actions are expedited to run these channels in a full-fledged manner.
5 Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and CBSE Podcast- ShikshaVani
6 Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube.
The above measures taken by the Government prevent the exclusion of vulnerable groups from remote learning.
(Source: PIB)