Professor Assisted Learning (PAL):
- PAL stands for Professor Assisted Learning.
- Under PAL programme, IIT students and teachers record lectures to help school students crack the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE).
- This is a step towards addressing concerns regarding students’ dependence on coaching institutes for cracking JEE (Advanced).
- These will be now telecast on Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry’s Swayam Prabha Channels. This was announced at the 52nd Meeting of the Council of IITs chaired by Union HRD minister.
SWAYAM:
- SWAYAM stands for ‘Study Webs of Active–Learning for Young Aspiring Minds’.
- Bodies involved: SWAYAM platform is indigenously developed by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) with the help of Microsoft.
- Objective: To bridge the digital divide for students.
- Content:
- It hosts courses of learning covering school, under-graduate, post-graduate and other professional courses.
- The courses hosted on SWAYAM is 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.
