SWAYAM stands for .......................
Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds
SWAYAM is the Government of India's national MOOC platform, launched by the Ministry of Education (then the MHRD) in 2017. It offers free online courses from Class 9 up to post-graduation, prepared by national coordinators such as UGC, AICTE, NPTEL, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS.
The acronym expands to Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds, reflecting its aim of taking quality learning resources to every learner, including those who cannot attend regular institutions.
The other expansions mix in words that are not part of the official name: 'School' instead of 'Study', 'Websites' instead of 'Webs', 'Action-Learning' instead of 'Active-Learning', 'Youth' instead of 'Young', and 'Maps' instead of 'Minds'.
Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds option is correct.
Which of the following has not been appointed as a national coordinator for SWAYAM to ensure the quality of the course content ?
(i) `SWAYAMPRABHA' is a name given to a group of DTH channels devoted to telecasting educational content.
(ii) `SWAYAM' provides online MOOC courses with a provision of certificate/credit-transfer.
Related to these statements :
Which among the following is the consortia for higher education e-resources linked to the digital initiatives ?
Creative commons make possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable and ......................... .
UGC is made available the opportunity to review the major Indian University Ph.D. thesis through ................. portal.
Which of the following is an incorrect pair ?
Match the following :
| List – I | List – II |
| a. Descriptive Metadata | i. MOA2 |
| b. Structural Metadata | ii. EAD |
| c. Administrative Metadata | iii. OWL + DC |
| d. Semantic Metadata | iv. MARC |
Match the following :
| List – I | List – II |
| a. Ezproxy | i. A community awareness programme |
| b. Geek the Library | ii. Access and authentification software |
| c. Outside the box | iii. Online learning place for libraries |
| d. Web junction | iv. Library focussed community entertainment initiative |