Digital Empowerment

& Capacity Building

Nageshwar Rao
VC IGNOU
DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT
Digital empowerment refers to the ability of
an individual to use digital technologies
effectively.

Capacity building plays important role in

strengthening digital capacities and skills to
navigate the digitized world.
 Major Digital Interventions in Higher Education
SAMARTH – SWAYAM Prabha
SWAYAM e- Governance Suite for HEIs DTH channels devoted to telecasting
India MOOCs, Best-in-Class of high-quality educational
Instructors Empowering with programmes on 24X7 basis using the
knowledge and skills. GSAT-15 satellite.

Virtual Labs Online Learning

Provides remote-access to Launch of Online Programmes
simulation-based Labs in various

NDLI
disciplines of Science and
Engineering

Social Media National Digital Library of India (NDLI) a

virtual repository of learning resources
Access to Learners
 A SWAYAM: India MOOCs
SWAYAM launched on 9th July 2017
Present Status:
Unique Courses – 3095 Approx.
Total Listed courses – 10,451
Total Enrollments – 3.52 crores
Unique Registration on Portal : 1.09 crores
Certificates Issued – 19.98 Lakhs
Universities approved Credit Transfer : 289

NATIONAL PARTNERS
 SWAYAM Content: Four Quadrant Approach

 High quality video

 e-Content – self  Assignments, Quiz,  Discussion forum:
lectures & multi-
instructional Text  Problems and for raising of
media instructions by
material, e-Books, Solutions. doubts and
subject matter
OERs, open access clarifying them on
experts
material a near real time
basis

• Translationinto12RegionalLanguages
 Term End Examination: conducted by NTA,
• 894Courseshavebeentranslatedsofar award of credits/grades by Host Institute
 IGNOU- National
Coordinator of
SWAYAM

190 Credit Courses

on SWAYAM
Ongoing for
January 2023
&
222 Courses on
Offer for July 2023
 SWAYAM Credit
Transfer Policy
UGC Gazette Notification
(March 25, 2021) permitting
40% credit transfer per
semester
Credit Transfer of IGNOU
Swayam Courses

IGNOU-SWAYAM Courses have been

widely accepted by various
universities across India. Details of
the credit transfer for the IGNOU-
SWAYAM courses offered during
JUL-2021:
Academic Bank of
Credit Bank for Students
Credits (ABC)
Students can accumulate credits
from prior learning experiences
IGNOU’s Participation in the ABC Portal & NAD
The University Registered on the ABC Portal
on September 6, 2021
ABC Student Accounts Created as on Date
20, 21, 508
Unique Credit Data Linked with Student ABC ID
3, 23, 384
Total Processed Degree on DigiLocker (NAD)
31,16,995
 B SWAYAM PRABHA:
EDUCATIONAL DTH CHANNELS
NATIONAL PARTNERS
BISAG Dept. of Space
M/s Electronics Corporation Department of Space allocated
of India Limited (ECIL) and
Bhaskaracharya Institute for two transponders in GSAT-15
Space Applications and Geo-
Informatics (BISAG) set up
the Uplinking station at
BISAG Content (NPTEL, IITs, UGC,CEC,
INFLIBNET IGNOU, NCERT, NIOS)
Portal for Content Providers: 4 hour of
Programme schedule content everyday for each
and video archival. channel
SWAYAM PRABHA:
EDUCATIONAL DTH
CHANNELS
 High quality educational
programs 24*7 through SWAYAMPRABHA Available on:
34 DTH channels
 Around 1.10 lakh total
unique videos have been
telecasted.
 6+ crores total views on
YouTube since inception
Teaching in Mother Tongue/ Regional Languages
through SWAYAM PRABHA Channels of IGNOU

Live Sessions in Regional

Languages
(Conducted 4500+ sessions
since January 6, 2022)
• Hindi • Malayalam
• Assamese • Gujarati
• Bengali
• Odia • Marathi
• Tamil • Punjabi
• Telugu • Urdu
• Kannada • English
C SAMARTH
PORTAL
Digital Empowerment of Learners @ IGNOU
Block Chain Based
Degrees issued on 35th
and 36th Convocations
 Digital
Empowerment of
Learners @ IGNOU

Alumni Connect

• Online Alumni Portal has 66834 + active passed-out learners

• The university regularly conducts Alumni Meets on Sundays
Migration of IGNOU’s University Management
System on the SAMARTH Portal

E-Governance and UMS

• Back-office Automation
• Student Lifecycle
 D National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
 Repository of e-content on
multiple disciplines from
primary to PG levels.
 Approx. 9.1 crores content
(Text / Audio / Video /
Simulation / Graphics) ,
harvested from 602 sources;
in 400+ languages
 Around 77 lakh Registered
NDLI is an all-digital library that stores information (metadata) of different
users videos, audios, thesis
types of digital contents including books, articles,
and other educational materials relevant for users from varying
educational levels and capabilities. NDLI is available on all popular forms
of access devices including mobile apps on Android and iOS platforms
E Virtual Labs
• Over 1300+ experiments are
currently available.

• 40+ lakhs students

benefitted

National Partners: • Labs in Social Sciences and

IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Humanities (Language Labs)
Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT needs to be added
Roorkee, IIIT Hyderabad, Amrita University,
Dayalbagh University, NIT Surathkal, COE
Pune.
 F Online Programmes
• UGC Online Regulations 2018
• UGC ODL & Online Regulation 2020
• 67 Universities recognised for offering Online
Programmes
• 366 online programmes approved by DEB, UGC
• 44 Online Programmes of IGNOU
• IIT Madras BSc Degree Programmes in Programming and
Data Science
Digital Empowerment Session Wise Online Programmes on Offer
of Learners @ IGNOU
44 online programmes on i n -
h o u s e LMS

TOTAL – 26,968 LEARNERS

NOTE: JULY 2023 ADMISSION IS IN PROGRESS
 Digital Empowerment of Learners @ IGNOU

Students opting for digital

content get 15% rebate in
admission fee.
Place your screenshot
here

eContent App users: eGyankosh 15,357,528 users

and 253,991, 956 Pageviews
22,19, 507
 Digital Empowerment of Learners @ IGNOU
Reaching the Last Mile through Electronic Media
State- of- the- Art Electronic Media Modernization of EMPC:
Production and Broadcasting Facility from Standard Definition (SD)
format studios to transmit in
High Definition (HD) format.
• Improvement and
Upgradation of Studios.
• Upgradation of Editing
Suites
• Digitalization of Audio/Video
Library and archiving of
Audio/Video content
• One 24x7 Gyan Darshan TV Channel • Server Upgradation
• 10 Gyan Vani FM Radio Stations • Upgradation of Earth Station
G Digital Empowerment and 781867
Social Media Facebook &
Tw i t t e r followers

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Reach

Facebook Facebook Twitter
Instagram
(Followers) (Likes) (Followers)
HQ 113157 70000 126148 28300

RC 255302 145021 43939

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Total 368459 215021 170087 28300
CAPACITY BUILDING
 Capacity Building @ National Level

 HRDCs in HEIs: 66
 PMMMNMTT (MoE): 95 (located in CUs, SUs, IITs, NITs,
IISERs, NITTTR, DTBUs, CF-HEIs)
 AICTE ATAL Academy
 4 NITTTRs (Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kolkata)
 Capacity Building Programmes
Issues in Continuous Professional Development Programmes (CPDPs)

• At four levels of career: Newly Appointed, Mid-Career, Senior Level and Top
Level.
• Standardised in terms of nomenclature, broad content area and duration.
• The design, structure and pedagogy of CPDPs be revisited to incorporate new
elements/components aligned with NEP 2020.
• Organised in blended mode (depending upon the nature of CPDP, 20 to 50 %
component may be offered in online mode).
• Open-source software and open resources should be used extensively for
developing CPDPs.
• A repository of all the resources for CPDPs be shared for its optimum utilization.
 Capacity Building Activities @ IGNOU

Staff Training & Research Institute of Distance Education

(STRIDE), IGNOU
• National training/ capacity building/ CPD centre for training of teaching,
academic, technical and professional, and non-teaching staff at IGNOU, State
OUs, university DEIs on various aspects of Distance/ Open/ Online/ Blended
Learning; and for all HE Institutions on all aspects of NEP-2020.
 Workshops/ Training Programmes Organised: 46
 Total Participants Attended and Certified: 1446
 Number of HEIs Covered: 405
 Capacity Building Programmes

Major Initiatives @ IGNOU

The Ministry of Skill Development and

Entrepreneurship (GOI) has identified
IGNOU as a knowledge partner for the
implementation of the Skill Acquisition
and Knowledge Awareness for
Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP)
project. MSDE has allocated Rs. 10.50
Crores to train 4000 District Skill
Committee members in 400 districts.
 Capacity Building Programmes
IGNOU and Dattopant Thengadi
Major Initiatives @ IGNOU National Board for Workers
Education and Development
(DTNBWED) signed MoU to
collaborate for the education,
skilling, upskilling and reskilling
around 30 crores workforce
engaged in organized and
unorganized sectors in the
country.
 Digital Empowerment and Capacity Building Activities
@IGNOU
Capacity Building on NEP-2020: Workshops organised during 2021-23:
14 Batches of NEP-PDP passed out
55,616 teachers participated in the programme
&
29,428 completed (pass rate 52.91%) the
Programme

 Launched: August 2022 (continuing)

 SAMARTH national platform for registration;
 SWAYAM Vertical-II for programme delivery (14 units in English and
Hindi, 31 videos on NEP-2020, Discussion Forum, Online Test);
 SWAYAM PRABHA Channel-20 and YouTube for conferencing.
 Digital Empowerment and Capacity Building Activities
@IGNOU
Capacity Building of HE
Administrators and
General Practitioners
on NEP-2020
 Launched: February 1, 2023 (by the Hon’ble Minister of State for Education,
GoI)
 Total Enrolled: 4327
 Total Passed and Certified: 1869 (43.19% pass rate) (continuing)
The 2-credit (60 hours) Swayam course runs every month, and comprises Digital content
(14 units in English and Hindi), Videos (N= 21), Discussion Forum, and Online Test.
Thank You
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