India’s education regulators are planning to design new online courses in liberal arts. The NEP has highlighted that the awareness of ‘knowledge of many arts’ or what in modern times is often regarded as the ‘liberal arts’ must be brought back to the Indian education system, as it is the prime requisite for the 21st century.
India’s education regulators are planning to design new online courses in liberal arts. Keeping in mind the principles of multidisciplinary education system highlighted in the New Education Policy 2020 this step has been taken. Liberal arts is so far considered as a neglected domain of learning and is also lagging behind.
The liberal arts courses will be integrated with the new curriculum as per the NEP 2020. With uncertainty over the reopening of colleges, universities, and higher educational institutions due to the prevailing pandemic the government and education regulators are creating online liberal arts courses for students. These online liberal arts courses will make up for as much as 40% of course material for a semester, and reduce stress among 36% of undergraduate students who are currently pursuing humanities.
Consider the COVID-19 pandemic, the apex education regulatory body stated that the chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted a committee of experts who will note down the existing online courses and identify the gaps and develop material according to the UGC’s model of choice-based credit system of the curriculum.
171 UG Online Courses liberal arts
In the first phase of implementing the NEP 2020, the UGC has recommended developing a total of 171 undergraduate online courses. These online courses will be based on six subjects of humanities such as history, political science, commerce, sociology, public administration, and anthropology as per the notification.
These courses will be offered through the government’s online platform Swayam. The plan is to gradually have an adequate mix of subjects so that students have choices.
A government official conferred “To enable students to virtually attend the courses taught by the best faculty…take tests and earn academic credits up to 20%, which is being extended up to 40%, of the total courses offered in a program in a semester through the online courses.”
He added that “In the present environment, online learning is reducing disruptions caused by the health crisis, and it is better to prepare, plan and develop courses…In the first phase, competent professors and institutions will be allowed to develop courses in key areas of liberal arts, and help the large Indian college-going population”.
The NEP has highlighted that the awareness of ‘knowledge of many arts’ or what in modern times is often regarded as the ‘liberal arts’ must be brought back to the Indian education system, as it is the prime requisite for the 21st century.
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