About the Cell

SWAYAM Cell

The 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

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.

Objectives:

To promote SWAYAM Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in University for faculty, students.
To promote departments for identifying and adopting the MOOCs for credit transfer in various subjects.
To increase the awareness about the ICT enabled learning.
To provide support to the learners enrolled in various SWAYAM courses.
To provide the support through SWAYAM MOOCs to school students, teachers and the nonformal learners of society.

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 adaptation of SWAYAM MOOCs (including UGC, CEC, NPTEL, IIMBx and all other NCs) and promoting blended, flipped and e-learning in the University. The members of the board are as followed.

Name	Designation
Hon’ble Vice Chancellor	Chair Person
Registrar	Member
Finance Officer	Member
Controller of Exam/(s)	Member
Campus Director (Chauras, Pauri, Tehri)	Member
Deans of Schools	Member
Director IQAC	Member
DSW	Member
Prof. D.S. Negi, Deptt of Maths, Srinagar	Advisor (Internal)
Prof. Manjula Rana, Head, Deptt of Hindi	Advisor (Internal)
Prof. N.S. Panwar, Head, USIC	Advisor (Internal)
Prof. Indu Pandey Khanduri, Head, Deptt. of Philosophy	Advisor (Internal)
Dr Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Programme Officer (Education) CEMCA, New Delhi at Commonwealth of Learning	Advisor (External)
Dr Rajat Agarwal, Associate Professor, Deptt of Business Management, IIT Roorkee	Advisor (External)
Dr Rakshak Jain, Sr. Producer, EMRC IIT Roorkee	Advisor (External)
Prof. A. P. Behera, Joint Director, CIET NCERT, New Delhi	Advisor (External)
Prof. Rudra Sahoo, Education specialist UNICEF (Learning)	Advisor (External)
Prof. K Srinivas, Head, ICT & Project Management, NIEPA, New Delhi	Advisor (External)
Dr Ajay Semalty, Asstt. Prof., Pharmacy, University SWAYAM coordinator	Coordinator & Member Secretary

Academic repository by SWAYAM Cell

www.swayamhnbgu.in/repo

About Swayam

SWAYAM stands for: STUDY WEBS OF ACTIVE – LEARNING FOR YOUNG ASPIRING MINDS.

This is a learning platform by MHRD, Government of India aimed to make the learning anytime, anywhere by anyone.www.swayam.gov.in

Visit the website http://www.swayamhnbgu.in of the cell for the latest information related to swayam cell and swayam courses. A repository of university course related open educational resources is also available on the website. The repository includes text material created or identified by various teachers, professors and scholars of the university.

SWAYAM-NPTEL Local Chapter

SWAYAM-NPTEL Local Chapter is established in University. The Local chapter code is 2828. More than 450 learners enrolled in the July Dec 2019 semester for more than 40 MOOCs from the University.

https://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/statistics/2828/

SWAYAM MOOC: Academic Writing

Run	Duration
1st Run: https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_cec20_ma04	15 July 2019 - 31 October 2019
2nd Run: https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_cec20_ma04	15 January 2020 - 25 April 2020
3rd Run: https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_cec20_ge29/	20 July 2020 - 30 November 2020

Subject: Multidisciplinary

YouTube link of Intro video: https://youtu.be/uA3OcRy7eMY

SWAYAM-NPTEL Local Chapter Code: 2828; HNBG University

About the Courses: This is India’s topmost free online courses on MHRD, Govt. of India’s SWAYAM platform (www.swayam.gov.in) by Garhwal University. Anyone can enroll. Certificate (and credits if applicable) will be provided after the successful completion of the course and proctored term end exam.