IGNOU is national coordinator for SWAYAM MOOCs Project for Diploma and Certificate level courses. SWAYAM is at present hosted in COE which is facilitating the development of SWAYAM MOOCs. SWAYAM project has been housed in COE for operational purposes since August 2, 2016 vide Office Order No. 354 issued by Academic Coordination Division. Total number of courses produced till date are 16. In the first run 11 credit based MOOC Courses duly approved by Academic Council were offered by IGNOU. The courses are from various disciplines which will be offered by IGNOU on SWAYAM.

IGNOU invites Expression of Interest (EOI) hosted on IGNOU website. The received proposals are reviewed by Academic Advisory Council (AAC) constituted for SWAYAM. COE coordinates the design and development of SWAYAM MOOCS.

A Social Media (SM) Group for SWAYAM has been created as per directions of MHRD. IGNOU SM team created account on Twitter and Facebook. The team is managing and regularly updating the Twitter and Facebook and also sharing information through WhatsApp group.

Guidelines for developing Online Courses for SWAYAM