JNU to Launch Short-term Online Courses to Focus on E-Learning Ventures

New Delhi: According to an official, the Jawaharlal Nehru University is all set to start various new Short-term Online Courses in the upcoming academic session. The new online courses will align with the aim of JNU to focus on e-learning. 

JNU is also working on developing improved infrastructure to support e-learning on campus catering to students belonging to underprivileged sections and residing in rural areas. 

According to B S Balaji, chairperson, Special Center for E-learning, JNU, "JNU has received a HEFA loan of Rs 455 crore and is in the process of creating infrastructure to support faculty members to develop these courses,". 

The institute has also announced its plans of constructing a video recording room with camera, light, and sound proof facilities where teachers can hold or record these classes, BS Balaji added. 

JNU will launch a four-credit and 15-week long massive open online course (MOOC) on Climate and Environment Protection, approved by the University Grants Commission, as part of its undergraduate programme on Indian Arctic Policy (IAP) for students across the country. 

Students can earn credits associated with these courses that will be reflected on their Academic Bank of Credits upon successfully passing the exam, conducted by NTA at the end of the term.

It will also roll out six to eight open online courses on international relations, political science, social sciences, and languages that will be rolled out in the near future. These courses will be provided through SWAYAM platform. Some of the courses will also be hosted on LMS portal of JNU Digii campus, he added. "Initially the courses that are developed for JNU Digi campus will be offered only to JNU students and in the future, the university will explore the courses to be offered to students from the entire country," Balaji said.

“Every effort will be made by JNU to convert these courses into full-fledged programmes in the near future at the earliest,” the official said. The varsity may charge a nominal fee for the courses provided through JNU LMS while the MOOCs provided through SWAYAM are available free of cost, he added. 

These short-term courses will have both live classes and pre-recorded lectures. Discussion forum, pre-scheduled interactions through online platform, and peer learning, are some of the ways by which the students will be able to clear their doubts. 

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