{"id":121295,"date":"2021-07-26T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=121295"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:35:19","slug":"students-can-now-get-40-of-university-credits-from-e-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/students-can-now-get-40-of-university-credits-from-e-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Students can now get 40% of university credits from e-courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/education\/students-can-now-get-40-of-university-credits-from-e-courses\/articleshow\/84743919.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the news:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The government has recently announced that from the 2021-22 academic session, students of 149 universities would be allowed to earn up to 40% of their required credits from among the over 800 online courses available on the Swayam platform.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the announcement<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Students of 149 universities can now get 40% of university credits from e-courses available on the Swayam platform.<\/li>\n<li>The 149 universities include central universities like Jamia Millia Islamia, state universities like National Law University, Delhi and over 75 private and deemed universities.<\/li>\n<li>Once the student fulfils the total credits required, he or she will be granted the degree.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from this, the <strong>academic bank of credit (ABC) would also become functional<\/strong> from the forthcoming academic session.\u00a0The ABC will be a repository of the credits earned by a student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About the SWAYAM Courses:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 846 online courses that will be offered by SWAYAM from the forthcoming semester.<\/li>\n<li>The courses are divided into seven categories\n<ol>\n<li>Architecture and planning,<\/li>\n<li>Engineering and technology,<\/li>\n<li>humanities and arts,<\/li>\n<li>Law<\/li>\n<li>Management and commerce,<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics and sciences<\/li>\n<li>NPTEL domain (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Each category is further divided into small course modules, from which a student can choose and register and learn online.<\/li>\n<li>The National Testing Agency conducts exams twice a year at the end of each semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Credit-transfer-from-SWAYAM-Courses.jpg?resize=574%2C542&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Credit transfer from SWAYAM Courses\" width=\"574\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Credit-transfer-from-SWAYAM-Courses.jpg?w=574&amp;ssl=1 574w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Credit-transfer-from-SWAYAM-Courses.jpg?resize=300%2C283&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #f2e9f1;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/swayam-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SWAYAM portal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>The benefit of the credit transfer:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>This would give the <strong>much-needed flexibility to students<\/strong> as envisaged in the National Education Policy 2020.<\/li>\n<li>So far, a student used to get the experience of one university. But from now on, a student can learn <strong>multiple online courses under different universities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This will also <strong>boost the skill set among students<\/strong> as a university may not offer a particular skill that another might have.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Times of India About the news: The government has recently announced that from the 2021-22 academic session, students of 149 universities would be allowed to earn up to 40% of their required credits from among the over 800 online courses available on the Swayam platform. About the announcement Students of 149 universities can now get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/students-can-now-get-40-of-university-credits-from-e-courses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Students can now get 40% of university credits from e-courses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704932889},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}