AICTE launches SWAYAM online credit courses on Yoga, IP and basics of remote sensing

NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has launched four SWAYAM Yoga online credit courses on Yoga, Intellectual Property (IP) and basics of remote sensing for the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform.

The online credit courses are developed by S-VYASA, Bangalore. TG Sitharam launched the online course in the presence of HR Nagendra, president and chancellor of the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthan.

The AICTE chairman also emphasized the need for translation of these courses into 12 different Indian regional languages to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education up to 50% in terms of NEP-2020.

He also launched an online credit course on Intellectual Property (IP) developed by MoE Innovation Cell under the leadership of Abhay Jere and another online credit course on “Basics of Remote Sensing, GIS & GNSS Technology and their Applications” developed by IIRS, Dehradun in the presence of RP Singh, ISRO Dehradun director.

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AICTE chairman TG Sitharam at the launch event said, “AICTE offers comprehensive fundamental and advanced training, as well as post-certificate online courses on how to approach yoga as a profession or business venture. We are also trying to bolster the opportunities in the field of Yogaprenuership to make a good career option out of it. Every Soul has the ability to be divine.

“The purpose of life is to govern both internal and external nature in order to reveal this divinity inside. If you do it through work, worship, philosophy, or psychic control, you will be free. We have embraced the broadened definition of yoga based on this, which includes 2 streams: Yoga Jnana and Bhakti. Other than Yoga, AICTE is also offering online courses for Intellectual Property and Fundamentals of Remote Sensing,” he added.

MP Poonia, vice chairman of AICTE addressing the course coordinators appreciated the development of Yoga and other credit courses for SWAYAM and motivated the coordinators to come ahead for development of similar other courses for SWAYAM.

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He said, “The online course will introduce participants to the fundamentals of remote sensing, earth observation sensors and platforms, thermal remote sensing, spectral signatures of various land cover features, visual image interpretation, and hyperspectral remote sensing technologies.”

Other digital image processing techniques covered in the course include Image Rectification and Registration, Image Enhancement, Image Classification, and Accuracy Assessment. Following the theoretical notions comes a practical demonstration utilising open-source software.