2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau – Tags: ARPIT, LEAP, SWAYAM

Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching

(Ministry of Human Resource Development)

WHAT

Union Human Resource Development Minister launched Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) – 2019 and Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) – 2019 under Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) in New Delhi.

ARPIT

ARPIT is a great platform for teachers to learn about latest developments in their field and develop their teaching qualities.

ARPIT is a major and unique initiative of online professional development of 1.5 million higher education faculty using the MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) platform SWAYAM.

For implementing ARPIT, discipline-specific National Resource Centers (NRCs) are identified which are tasked to prepare online training material with focus on latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum.

SWAYAM

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (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.

LEAP

National Initiative “Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP)” was launched to design and deliver a structured scheme of leadership development for Higher Education level.

LEAP is a three weeks leadership development training programme (2 weeks domestic and one week foreign training) for second level academic functionaries in public funded higher education institutions.

The main objective is to prepare second tier academic heads that are potentially likely to assume leadership roles in the future.

PMMMNMTT

The Scheme of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching is the culmination of the Government of India efforts in launching a comprehensive umbrella scheme aimed at improving the quality of education at all levels by infusing quality and excellence in our teachers and teaching. Teachers are the backbone and the core of the education system.

The mission is envisaged to address comprehensively all issues related to teachers, teaching, teacher preparation and professional development.

The mission focused in a holistic manner dealing with the whole sector of education without fragmenting the programmes based on levels and sectors as school, higher, technical etc.

Source: PIB