ANNUAL REFRESHER PROGRAMME IN TEACHING (ARPIT)

About:

• ARPIT is an online certificate course for professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM.
  
  
• Salient features:
  • The course is a 40-hour module with 20 hours of video content and 20 hours of non-video content. At the end of the course, an exam will be conducted for assessment.
    
    
  • Faculties who successfully completed the online refresher course will be certified.
    
    
  • All in-service teachers, irrespective of their subject and seniority are eligible to complete these refresher courses which will help them in career advancement.
    
    
  • The training materials will be uploaded and made available through SWAYAM.
    
    
  
  
  
• Duration:
  • ARPIT will be conducted for three months every year. will be an ongoing exercise so that every year NRCs will continuously develop new refresher module.
    
    
  • In the first phase, the courses will remain open from 1st November, 2018 to 28th February, 2019.
    
    
  
  
  
• National Resource Centres (NRCs):
  • 75 discipline-specific institutions have been notified as National Resource Centres (NRCs) in the first phase, which will prepare online training material. It will also publish the list of the faculty who have been certified.
    
    
  • NRCs are located in a mixed range of institutions such as, Central Universities, IISc, IUCAA, IITs, IISERs, NITs etc.