Question: Consider the following statement:
(1) Arpit stand for Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching.
(2) MOOC is a free Web-based distance learning program that is designed for the participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed students.
Choose the correct:
(a) Only(1)
(b) Only(2)
(c) Both (1) and (2)
(d) None of the above
Answer:(c)
Related facts:
- In a unique initiative to enhance quality of teaching in higher education, the Government is successfully running an online ‘Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT)
- It is an initiative for online professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty using the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform SWAYAM.
- It is a major and unique initiative of online professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty.
- Through ARPIT, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum have been imparted to more than 1.8 Lakh teachers in the last two years.
- In 2018-19, 37199 teachers were trained under this program whereas in 2019-20 the number has increased tremendously to 146919 which shows a nearly fourfold increase as well as popularity of the programme.
- ARPIT has been launched to enhance the quality of teaching and is a step towards the commitment of the government to “HarEkKaamDeshKeNaam”.
Massive Open Online Course:
- A massive open online course (MOOC) is a free Web-based distance learning program that is designed for the participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed students.
- The government has launched SWAYAM platform for open online courses.
SWAYAM:
- SWAYAM platform is indigenously developed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with the help of Microsoft.
- It is designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz.access, equity and quality.
- The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged.
Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1607331
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/massively-open-online-course-MOOC