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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the SWAYAM Plus portal on February 27 to provide employability and professional development programs in collaboration with industry stakeholders. IIT-Madras will operate the site.
"Working professionals to participate in the SWAYAM platform using it as a vehicle and take advantage of the multiple-entry-multiple-exit of NEP 2020. The platform will widen the scope of the classroom, adding 43 million students of higher education and working professionals," Pradhan said.
The Union Ministry of Education established SWAYAM, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform that provides educational opportunities to a large number of learners, in 2017 and would have 72 lakh enrolled by the end of 2023.
In line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the SWAYAM Plus platform will now provide courses that address industry needs and improve learners' employability.
SWAYAM Plus, created in conjunction with industry heavyweights such as L&T, Microsoft, CISCO, and others, includes unique features such as multilingual content, AI-enabled assistance, credit recognition, and employment routes.
According to Pradhan, SWAYAM Plus is primarily concerned with creating an ecosystem for all stakeholder in professional and career development, including students, course providers, industry, academics, and strategic partners.
He said, "The other objectives of the platform include enabling a mechanism that provides credit recognition for high-quality certifications and courses offered by the best industry and academia partners; reaching a large learner base by catering to learning across the country, with a focus on reaching learners from tiers 2 and 3 towns and rural areas and offering employment-focused courses based on learner needs -- across chosen disciplines with options to learn through resources in vernacular languages."
"SWAYAM Plus also envisions bringing in features such as access to mentorship, scholarships and job placements as value-added services in due course of time, thus building a digital ecosystem for learners to pursue upskilling and re-skilling at all levels, namely certificate, diploma or degree," he added.
Higher Education Secretary K Sanjay Murthy invited industry executives and subject matter experts from colleges and institutes to contribute courses on specific verticals that will be certified by IIT-Madras.
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