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UGC nod for online courses opens new avenues for teachers, students
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Institutions can offer up to 40% of courses in a particular programme online/
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Winds of change: Under the online system, students would have access to talented teachers from across the country, academicians say.
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Institutions can offer up to 40% of courses in a particular programme online/
In the past year, ever since COVID-19 restrictions came into force, the universities and colleges have been keeping students engaged through online classes. Although the teaching learning assessment has to be critically evaluated, the change may be here to stay.
Students from various disciplines have evinced interest in the programme
A total of 8,154 students have been admitted to the B.Sc degree in Programming and Data Science offered online by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
The students hail from various disciplines, including 1,593 from arts, science and commerce.
Among those enrolled for the foundational level course to be offered from January are 1,922 women and 6,232 men from across the country. The students are from various age groups as well.
All the 30,276 candidates who applied for the qualifier process were given access to the first month online classes. Only those who had the minimum required average assignment scores in all the four courses offered were eligible to appear for the in-person invigilated qualifier exam. As many as 20,396 eligible candidates took the test on November 22.