PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE OF USERS ON MOOC'S SWAYAM - A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS' OF BELTHANGADY TALUK

Online learning uses technology for delivering the courses. Education with technology is considered as the most promising development in education. With technology globalization, the concept of learning and teaching has undergone a tremendous change. Technological usage in education provides a global learning environment, which allows accessing the course material anytime, anywhere, connect other learners, and get access to the content without considering any geographical boundaries. The significant changes in the use of technology in online education have seen the emergence of the concept of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). SWAYAM platform is indigenously developed by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with the help of Microsoft and would be ultimately capable of hosting 2000 courses and 80000 hours of learning: covering school, under- graduate, post- graduate, engineering, law and other professional courses. University Grants Commission (UGC) has vided Gazette Notification dated 19 th July 2016, notified Regulation, 2016 regarding „Credit Framework for Online Learning Courses through SWAYAM'. SWAYAM has been developed under four- quadrant approaches: (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. SWAYAM is an indigenous IT Platform for hosting the Massive Open Online Courses. The study is conducted among the Postgraduate students of Belthangady taluk to know the experience of users and to know the various challenges faced by the students while accessing the various courses.