SWAYAM Cell: HNB Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal
Channel: Open Knowledge
Date: 2020-11-27

About SWAYAM Cell
With the kind approval of Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Annpurna Nautiyal, the SWAYAM cell was started in January 2019 in the University for promoting and adopting SWAYAM MOOCs and digital learning. The cell conducted a series of awareness meetings with students and faculty members of various subjects to promote SWAYAM MOOCs 

WEBSITE OF CELL: WWW.SWAYAMHNBGU.IN

Mission:
SWAYAM Cell of HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) aims for promoting and implementing SWAYAM online courses, blended/ flipped learning and e-learning in the University.

Activities of SWAYAM CELL
1. HNBGU is one of the few CUs hosting two SWAYAM MOOCs: Academic Writing and Industrial Pharmacy I.
2. The University has passed the adoption of SWAYAM MOOC for credit transfer in 3 ACs on July 23, 2018, Oct 23, 2019, and May 20, 2020.
3. 02 MOOCs have been passed for credit transfer in specific, already.
4. Credit transfer has already been done for July- 2019 semester for Industrial Pharmacy MOOC for B Pharm V semester students.
5. SWAYAM Cell has selected and finalized 23 MOOCs for credit transfer.
6. Registration in SWAYAM courses: Students are actively availing ICT initiatives of MHRD and SWAYAM. More than 1209 course registration were there in SWAYAM MOOCs from University in last cycle and in this cycle till date 1650 course registration are already there. This indicates that this semester it will increase by many folds. Our SWAYAM cell is actively working on the awareness and promotion of SWAYAM. Local.
7. More than 69 hrs of content have already been contributed to SWAYAMPRABHA and  36 HRS of videos have already been telecasted in SWAYAMPRABHA CHANNELS from Dr Ajay Semalty and his team.
8. Constitution of University SWAYAM Board (first of its kind in any University): Feb. 2019. The University SWAYAM board has been constituted in the University to act as an academic expert committee for advisory and executive role with respect to the adaptation of SWAYAM MOOCs (including UGC, CEC, NPTEL, IIMBx and all other NCs) and promoting blended, flipped and e-learning in the University.
10. Exhaustive campaign of awareness programme about SWAYAM Courses among students and teachers by SWAYAM Cell for various departments and campuses. (@swayamhnbgu : A Fb page)
11. An exclusive website www.swayamhnbgu.in is prepared in March first week 2020 and it served a lot for digital learning in lockdown time. Updated SWAYAM MOOCs information is provided through the website.
12. Dissemination of digital learning and other ICT initiatives of MHRD by SWAYAM Cell: The online learning initiatives of UGC and MHRD has also been disseminated for keeping learning continued. All the e resources including SWAYAM courses’ full information has been given to students through an exclusively created website (www.swayamhnbgu.in) and through the print media (news clips: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1prhilyGEiJhCIYj6jItHWqSQp7ElYjhf) by SWAYAM cell of the University, repeatedly.
13. The Academic Writing MOOC by Dr Ajay Semalty of HNBG University has completed two runs with more than 7500 learners across many states of country in the last cycle. So far, in last two cycles more than 20000 learners across more than 85 countries have taken the advantage of the course. The course ranked Number 1 in July October 2019 cycle in receiving maximum exam registration across all SWAYAM MOOCs. The course has been recognized as the top 30 MOOCs worldwide (as per PIB, 27th April press release; http://tiny.cc/pib27april2020). The course has completed the third run with more than 8600 learners across the country and the world. 
14. Many Universities and premier institutes like BITS Pilani/ Mesra, CU Kashmir, and several Universities have included Academic Writing in their syllabi of PG/ pre Ph D and many students are going for credit transfer for this MOOC.
15.  HNBGU is adopting the Academic Writing MOOC for credit transfer for PG dissertation work along with a published / accepted paper.
16. Industrial Pharmacy is the VERY FIRST PHARMACY MOOC of the country (based on PCI syllabi) and has registered many credit transfer. University’s in July-October 2019 cycle as well as 2020 cycle.   
17. Industrial Pharmacy MOOC is over for its second cycle with more than 5000 enrolments. Many Universities are going for credit transfer this time for this course.  
18. Established Institutional repository of econtent: University’s SWAYAM Cell has created a platform for repository of subject specific study and learning materials through University SWAYAM Cell website https://www.swayamhnbgu.in/repo. The repository has more than 1900 e-contents either self created or suggested by the faculty members. 
Contact:
Dr. Ajay Semalty
University SWAYAM Coordinator
SPOC: SWAYAM-NPTEL Local Chapter
H.N.B. Garhwal University, (A Central University) 
Srinagar Garhwal-246174, Uttarakhand  
+91 9412964614
coordinator@swayamhnbgu.in, semaltyajay@gmail.com
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