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Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP) students volition soon beryllium capable to entree ‘signature courses’ successful either online oregon hybrid mode done the K-Learn level developed by Kerala State Higher Education Council.
The inaugural volition alteration students to enrol successful courses offered by teachers from immoderate assemblage successful Kerala.
According to Higher Education Minister R. Bindu, the Kerala authorities would beryllium the archetypal successful the state to instrumentality specified a large-scale online learning level for higher acquisition done a State-led initiative.
Signature courses are advanced-level courses designed by idiosyncratic teachers successful their respective fields of expertise and offered done the K-Learn platform. Such courses volition beryllium disposable escaped of outgo to each students enrolled nether the FYUGP successful the State.
The Minister said teachers volition behaviour the courses arsenic portion of their existing workload. Students tin gain world credits done the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) system. The installation volition let recognition transportation betwixt institutions.
“With the implementation of the reform, a pupil studying astatine University College, Thiruvananthapuram, tin instrumentality a people offered by a teacher from a authorities assemblage successful Kasaragod done the platform. The inaugural volition besides assistance students take elective courses that whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful their ain colleges,” Dr. Bindu said.
The 2 mandatory online courses required nether the FYUGP model tin besides beryllium completed done the K-Learn platform.
Courses prepared by teachers volition beryllium submitted to the respective universities. After elaborate scrutiny by the university’s Board of Studies, approved courses volition beryllium integrated into the State-specific monolithic unfastened online people (MOOC) platform.
Push for multidisciplinary UG programmes
The Higher Education section volition besides follow steps to restructure existing undergraduate programmes into multidisciplinary programmes to marque them much innovative, charismatic and employment-oriented.
Colleges person been instructed to instrumentality the changes utilizing their existing module expertise, infrastructure and world resources. The institutions volition taxable proposals to universities, which volition measure them based connected the availability of qualified module and indispensable infrastructure earlier granting approval.
The guidelines besides promote interdisciplinary teaching, wherever module from antithetic departments jointly plan and thatch courses.
Some examples of the multidisciplinary programmes mooted see BA Economics and Data Analytics, BSc Applied Physics and Renewable Energy, BCom successful Fintech and Digital Banking, and BSc Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography.
