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“It is typical of our faculty to come up with something as bold and innovative as this," said then-MIT president Charles Vest at a special gathering of community members and press in April 2001. “OpenCourseWare looks counterintuitive in a market-driven world. It goes against the grain of current material values. But it really is consistent with what I believe is the best about MIT ... It expresses our belief in the way education can be advanced — by constantly widening access to information and by inspiring others to participate."

In the 20 years since it began, MIT OpenCourseWare has become a pillar of the open education community, an exemplar of the MIT ethos, and an invaluable resource to millions of learners around the world. People of all ages and all walks of life have used the lectures, videos, problem sets, and other content to pursue their curiosity and passions, improve their careers, and get a leg up in their studies. Now, the team looks to the future with a clear sense of purpose, informed by the learning needs underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic. 

OpenCourseWare launched during the early days of Web 2.0 and a growing — but highly commercialized — interest in e-learning. Charles Vest had commissioned the Lifelong Learning Committee, asking its members to propose an educational technology project that would extend MIT's reach beyond classrooms. That committee’s recommendation was to launch OpenCourseWare, a website offering all of MIT’s course materials, available for free to anyone. Within one year, OCW had published a pilot website with 50 courses and attracted worldwide acclaim. Today, OCW offers materials from over 2,570 courses spanning the MIT graduate and undergraduate curriculum, from 1,735 MIT faculty and lecturers​ from 33 academic units across all five schools, including syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets, assignments, and audiovisual content including recorded lectures. To date, OCW has been a resource for over 210 million unique users, with over 70 percent of users in 2020 coming from outside the United States.

Professor Dick KP Yue, who chaired the Lifelong Learning Committee, described the impetus for the project in the proposal: "In the digital age, institutions like MIT have a responsibility — and an opportunity — to impact learners far beyond their campuses. OCW embodies MIT's commitment to constantly widening access to knowledge."

The value of that commitment is borne out by learners who have shared their stories over the years — from Tooba Siddiqui in Pakistan, who had access to education through OCW when other doors were closed to her, to Anita Moreno in Nevada, who used OCW to keep up with her studies following a brain aneurysm. “I cannot emphasize enough how this site has boosted my confidence, that I am still able to comprehend and succeed in an engineering program,” says Moreno. 

Today, Professor Krishna Rajagopal, dean for digital learning, says, “It was the best thing MIT could have done at that moment for MIT and for the world."

A revolution in the making

From its modest and experimental beginning, OCW sparked a new era in the growing open-education movement. Beyond the courses themselves, OCW has had a broad impact on the way online learning resources have evolved in higher education, setting the template for other colleges and universities undertaking similar efforts and helping launch the open education resources (OER) revolution. 

”Free access to knowledge is a powerful foundation for progress,” says OCW Director Curt Newton, “but it’s not the whole picture. OER that lifts up everyone’s right to contribute to shared knowledge, and builds everyone’s capacity to extend that knowledge, is creating new paths for us to work together on the world’s most important, complex, and rapidly evolving challenges.”

It helps that OCW and Creative Commons share family bonds. Launched the same year, electrical engineering and computer science Professor Hal Abelson was a member of the founding teams for both, and helped arrange for OCW to be the first institutional project to use Creative Commons licenses, In turn, OCW’s early adoption of Creative Commons licenses helped demonstrate their usefulness and lent credence to the burgeoning open movement. 

In 2005, OCW helped launch the OpenCourseWare Consortium (now Open Education Global ), whose network of over 300 higher education institutions and related organizations have freely shared many thousands of courses, open textbooks, and other resources, and collaborated to foster widespread adoption of OERs.

At MIT, OCW has paved the way for other innovative new learning platforms, such as MITx and MicroMasters, Open Learning Library, and professional and executive learning programs. 

Integrating teachers into the experience of OCW was a key priority very early on. (Indeed, the faculty committee originally envisioned OCW as being used by educators almost exclusively — its widespread popularity among students and lifelong learners was a welcome surprise.) Educators around the world have shared their experiences of using OCW to master new content or inspire and engage students. In 2013, the team launched the OCW Educator program; now, hundreds of OCW courses include Instructor Insights sections where faculty share how they have taught their courses through text, video, and most recently, through the Chalk Radio podcast. 

“A core tenet of MIT’s mission is to create and share knowledge, empowering our own community and myriad others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. From its inception, OpenCourseWare has offered a new and substantial way of realizing that mission in the 21st century,” says Rajagopal. “For individual learners, OCW is a means to expand understanding and satisfy curiosity, to support personal and professional goals, or change in their communities; for educators, it's a resource library to help augment and strengthen their curricula, enriching the experience of so many students; for educational organizations, it’s an invitation to nurture a shared commitment to open knowledge. OCW provides invaluable resources for millions and paves the way for others to contribute in their own ways to sharing and using knowledge for the betterment of humankind.”

Living legacy

The courses on OCW have also come to reflect the way that MIT, and its relationship with the world, has grown and changed over the last two decades. Perhaps it’s no surprise that 6.0001 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python) and 18.06 (Linear Algebra) are consistently among the most-viewed courses. But the ebb and flow of traffic on OpenCourseWare reflects topics in the zeitgeist, too. When Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2019, Duflo’s OCW course “The Challenge of World Poverty” spiked in popularity as people all over the world sought to understand her worldview and learn from her. A similar spike occurred with Professor Gary Gensler’s graduate-level course “Blockchain and Money” when he was nominated to serve in the Biden administration earlier this year. 

As MIT faculty have endeavored to offer students a nuanced understanding of our complex world, so too have the materials on OCW grown more expansive. Learners around the world can now delve into “Ethics for Engineers: Artificial Intelligence,” “Queer Cinema and Visual Culture,” and “Black Matters: Introduction to Black History” alongside engineering, math, and science standbys. 

“As instructors, we’re excited about what we get to do in the classroom with our students, and also it’s wonderful to have the opportunity to expand beyond the classroom, and to actually make the material that we develop for students available more broadly,” says Amah Edoh, assistant professor of anthropology and African studies and a member of the OCW Faculty Advisory Committee, whose courses “Africa and the Politics of Knowledge” and “Global Africa: Creative Cultures” are on OCW.

She also appreciates the role OCW plays in sharing MIT expertise with the world beyond engineering and science. “My particular investment in this has been around making African studies more visible at MIT ... It really changes the image, the idea that others have of MIT. I think it’s particularly important to show that we also have courses in African studies specifically. Oftentimes Africa, African countries, African people are seen not as agents, but rather as a space where you go to solve problems. So to show that we can engage knowledge production in and on Africa critically, to me is very important.” 

In capturing course materials and videos, OCW does more than open windows into MIT for global learners; it also provides a unique, living archive of teaching at MIT. Alumni can revisit favorite classes or share them with colleagues, peers, or kids looking into college. High-schoolers can get a sense of what courses in different fields will entail. Faculty whose course materials are preserved on OCW have an artifact of their teaching legacy, for everyone, forever. Consider “How to Speak,” a OCW video of the late Professor Patrick Winston’s beloved Independent Activities Period course, which he taught for 40 years before passing away in 2019; posted in December 2019, it has now been viewed 3.3 million times.

Looking forward

OpenCourseWare enters its third decade on the heels of unprecedented global disruption. During the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, when schools and businesses closed and billions of people around the world sheltered in place at home, traffic to OCW spiked to 2.2 million visits a month, a 75 percent increase from 2019. Since then, site visits have settled into a 15 percent uptick in use. More importantly, the massive shift to remote and hybrid learning over the past year has brought into sharp relief both the opportunities of online education and the disparities of access, technology, and equity for learners everywhere. In charting a course for the future, the OCW team has the opportunity to draw on 20 years of experience in addressing the issues brought to the fore in 2020. 

“The first years of OCW have been primarily about the power of access,” says Newton. “A core principle of where we’re heading in our upcoming program is the progression from giving access to knowledge to really driving towards educational equity.”

Later this year, OpenCourseWare will launch its NextGen platform and program. Its three principal aims are offering a vibrant reflection of MIT education as it evolves, delivering a more user-focused design and experience, and broadening access and usability to a larger global population. The NextGen platform will support a more dynamic experience of OCW’s robust multimedia content, allowing users to seamlessly search, browse, download, remix, and redistribute all materials more easily. Individuals can get a sneak peek of the new OCW and sign up to be a beta tester .

Another major pillar of the NextGen platform is mobile optimization, a user-friendly interface to provide readable, searchable content on any device. With 92.6 percent of internet users around the world using mobile devices at least some of the time, and with smartphone use growing at a rate of 7 percent per year, this change represents not only a catch-up to current need but also a purposeful approach to finding and engaging with future learners. 

“As we look at the next year, five years, 20 years of OpenCourseWare, our goal is to keep pace with the evolving artifacts of MIT teaching and learning, offering the best possible experience to our growing community of learners,” says Newton. “We are also committed to continually reinvesting in the OER community — working collaboratively to share resources and engage with the people and organizations at the vanguard of access and equity in education.”

MIT Open Learning will host an online celebration of OpenCourseWare’s 20th anniversary on Wednesday, April 7, from noon to 1 p.m. EDT featuring OCW leadership, MIT faculty, and learners sharing stories and ideas about the past, present, and future of open education, at MIT and beyond.

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There’s a mounting pressure on today’s colleges and universities to demonstrate their worth. As tuition costs continue to climb, affordability is becoming a bigger barrier to access in higher education.

In response, dozens of institutions are rethinking how they deliver education by democratizing access to textbooks, lesson plans, and even courses themselves. It’s a movement called open learning that enables students to have greater control over what they learn, where, and when.

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The goal of open learning is to broaden access to education, which can be done in a variety of ways.  Gail Matthews-DeNatale, lecturer for Northeastern’s Master of Education in Higher Education Administration program and associate director at the Center for Advanced Teaching and Learning Through Research , breaks open learning down into three dimensions:

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“There’s this larger value system at play in open learning, including a concern for access, accountability, and affordability,” Matthews-DeNatale says. “If you look at higher education, those are the big issues that everyone is trying to figure out.”

Here is a closer look at how those issues are being addressed through the three dimensions of open learning.

Open Courses

Open courses are what most people typically think about when they hear “open learning”—particularly massive open online courses (MOOCs). As opposed to traditional online models, MOOCs are free and available to anyone with an internet connection. Six years ago, when MOOCs were at their height, enrollments could exceed 230,000 , although the typical class size averaged 25,000 students. Only 15 percent typically completed their courses, however, causing many to question MOOCs’ effectiveness.

“A number of early providers made basic mistakes in relation to online learning, such as focusing solely on content instead of creating opportunities for students to interact with each other or their teacher,” Matthews-DeNatale says. “But MOOCs did put on everyone’s radar the value of learning experiences that are open in a different kind of way.”

Since then, multiple colleges and universities have introduced derivatives of MOOCs , such as “ MicroMasters ”—online graduate-level courses centered around a particular field of study that can be applied toward a full master’s degree program—and Teach-Outs , which are short learning experiences focused on a specific current issue. Through these different offerings, institutions can engage with a broader base of students in ways that are more affordable and attainable for the learner.

Says Matthews-DeNatale:

One thing people say about MOOCs is, “People didn’t finish,” but the question is, “Are we using a traditional educational lens to judge that learning experience?” If we have on-ramps where people can dabble with something and say, “Now that I’ve done this, I want a more formal relationship with that domain,” that’s great. Perhaps it’s also OK for students to stop after they have gotten to the level of learning that meets their present interests and needs, without pursuing credit or a degree.

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Open educational resources (OER) also enable students to tap into and explore a field of study in a more approachable, cost-effective way.

Matthews-DeNatale defines OERs as “high quality online resources that are made available by experts in the field at no cost.” Rather than ask students to spend an average $1,285 on textbooks per year, professors are utilizing content that’s available either under open licensing or in the public domain. By not committing to a singular textbook, faculty have more flexibility to customize their course resources. In turn, learners receive a deeper, more personalized education that’s been shown to improve access and student outcomes .

To ensure OERs are of high quality, guides such as the CARE Framework and TEMOA Rubric have been created to help educators benchmark and evaluate the quality of open resources.

Some colleges and universities are now looking at how they can better support faculty in the use of OERs. Matthews-DeNatale highlights The State University of New York’s (SUNY) OER Services , which provides access to openly licensed textbooks and courses developed by SUNY faculty, as well as OpenStax , a nonprofit started by Rice University to provide educators with access to open resources.

Open Pedagogies

Educators can take the concept of openness one step further by pursuing open pedagogy, which Matthews-DeNatale describes as “engaging students in real work that they can share beyond the boundaries of the classroom.”

David Wiley, a thought leader in open learning, suggests faculty transition from “ disposable assignments ,” which students throw away upon receiving a grade, to “renewable assignments,” which challenge students to create materials that can be shared with the public.

In Matthews-DeNatale’s class, students are tasked with creating learning experiences that would be beneficial in their own environment. One professional who worked in financial aid, for example, created a two-week online experience to help undergraduates and their peer mentors learn how to make informed decisions on complex student loan repayment options.

“She turned around and used the mini-course immediately in her workplace,” Matthews-DeNatale says, “but it was also an online resource that would be helpful for anyone throughout the nation. The idea is: How can we create content that would also be useful for other people that we can give away?”

The Benefits of Open Learning

Open learning is helping democratize education, by making it more affordable, accessible, and attainable to students, no matter their location or income level. It also helps students explore new industries before investing in an often costly, more formal education.

“I think we are just beginning to tap into the opportunities made possible through the open approach,” Matthews-DeNatale says. “Open learning could be a key component to solving some of the hardest problems in education.”

In an open education system, every professional can pursue lifelong learning.

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Open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge.

Proponents of open education believe everyone in the world should have access to high-quality educational experiences and resources, and they work to eliminate barriers to this goal. Such barriers might include high monetary costs, outdated or obsolete materials, and legal mechanisms that prevent collaboration among scholars and educators.

Promoting collaboration is central to open education. As the Open Education Consortium says : "sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built."

What are open educational resources?

Open educational resources (OERs) are learning materials that can be modified and enhanced because their creators have given others permission to do so. The individuals or organizations that create OERs—which can include materials like presentation slides, podcasts, syllabi, images, lesson plans, lecture videos, maps, worksheets, and even entire textbooks—waive some (if not all) of the copyright associated with their works, typically via legal tools like Creative Commons licenses , so others can freely access, reuse, translate, and modify them.

Why are open educational resources beneficial?

Applying open licenses to educational materials allows educators to collaborate when building materials specifically differentiated for their students. For example, a mathematics teacher might acquire openly-licensed word problems for her students, but re-write the exercises to include language that is more geographically specific or demographically relevant. In turn, she can share her modified problems with others who may wish to use them.

At the same time, collaborating on OERs allows educators to work together when ensuring consistency among their materials. Public school teachers in the United States, for instance, may wish to share resources they've developed in order to adhere to government-mandated educational standards, like the Common Core State Standards .

Some educators suggest that OERs might help reduce costs associated with producing and distributing course materials in both primary and secondary educational institutions. Teachers can download these materials—often at low costs—for use in their classrooms, but they can also update these materials and share their contributions with others, keeping content timely, relevant, and accurate. In this way, they needn't wait for textbook companies to issue entirely new editions of their (traditionally copyrighted) learning materials.

Students also benefit from open educational resources when they access these materials to supplement the education they might receive in a classroom. Some students do not have access to a high-quality education, but using OERs affords them opportunities to enhance their knowledge independently—in spite of the barriers preventing them from acquiring the knowledge and skills they seek.

Open educational resources are most useful when educators distribute them in open formats , so teachers and students can use those resources regardless of the particular technical platforms their schools have adopted. Projects like the OER Commons act as repositories for high-quality open educational resources.

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are online courses accessible to anyone with a computer and access to the Internet. People call these courses "massive" because their enrollment is open to more students than traditional educational institutions might permit—meaning that hundreds (even thousands) of students might participate in a particular MOOC. Today, many colleges and universities have joined organizations committed to providing high-quality education through MOOCs.

One example is edX , a non-profit education partnership that in 2012 grew from a collaboration between MIT and Harvard (Stanford joined the effort in 2013 , and now several dozen colleges and universities from around the world have, too). edX offers students tuition-free opportunities to enroll in courses on a variety of subjects from instructors across the globe. Students register, attend, and complete their classes online. In 2013, edX released the source code for its online learning platform, so programmers could download and help improve it. Others could even use it to build their own education platforms.

Similar online educational ventures include K han Academy and Coursera . The extent to which various MOOCs license their course materials for remixing and reusing differs from one institution to another.

How do open education principles apply to academic research?

Proponents of open education have scrutinized and criticized both the academic publishing process and the academic publishing industry.

They suggest that academic peer review—the process by which professional knowledge producers evaluate one another's work, often anonymously—become more transparent, so readers can better understand how and why, for example, scientists have deemed a certain study suitable for publication in an academic journal, or spot flaws in their methods or conclusions. Transparency in academic peer review also ensures that reviewers' motives when evaluating research are laid bare.

Open education principles are also impacting the academic publishing industry through "open access" movements . Often, researchers must relinquish the copyrights they hold on their work when they agree to let journals publish it. Journal publishers then charge individual readers and libraries fees for access to these scholarly materials. These fees are typically very high; many researchers and librarians claim they limit access to important research to people capable of paying for it . Consequently, scientists and other university researchers cannot access the materials they need—to learn about new developments in their fields, or to read, replicate, and verify others' findings.

Dissatisfaction with limitations on access to research has spurred various " open access " movements in higher education. Some institutions have adopted open access policies to grant the public access to research materials. The Public Knowledge Project maintains an open source publishing platform called Open Journal Systems , which editorial teams can use to referee and publish (largely open access) academic journals outside the traditional publishing system. In the United States, states like California have proposed legislation requiring peer-reviewed research funded by taxpayer money to be made accessible to anyone who wishes to read it. The White House has also indicated that it supports open access to academic research.

Where can I learn more about open education?

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None of the recommended changes to the elective class -- which more than 1,700 Virginia students enrolled in last school year -- have been made or are scheduled to be, the education department said.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia’s Department of Education proposed removing content on “implicit bias” and swapping terms such as “racism” with “discriminatory practices” for a high school-level African American history elective course offered at 89 schools, documents show.

Dozens of recommended revisions to the course’s content and curriculum outline were disclosed in documents obtained by the nonpartisan watchdog nonprofit American Oversight through a public records request and first shared with The Washington Post .

The recommended changes to the class have not been implemented and are not “scheduled to take place at this time” as the course is still being reviewed by state education department leadership, spokesperson Todd Reid told 8News Monday.

Virginia’s education department’s history team staff reviewed the course’s compliance with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s first executive order banning “the use of inherently divisive concepts” in K-12 schools, Reid said.

The proposed changes to the class cover an array of topics, per the records shared with 8News, from the evolution of racism in the U.S., Richmond’s role in the slave trade, economic disparity and privilege, redlining, systemic racism, and the Black Lives Matter movement to the size of Africa on the map.

Former Gov. Ralph Northam (D) ordered the creation of the course , establishing a commission to develop the class . More than 1,700 students enrolled in the class last school year, Reid said, and it is offered at 89 schools across 45 divisions in Virginia.

American Oversight asked the Virginia Department of Education for records on policies that “ended,” materials that were removed and public education curriculum changes that came from Youngkin’s executive order.

Among some of the dozens of proposed changes, Youngkin’s education department recommended removing a definition of “Black joy,” content on equity and implicit bias and the sentence “Institutional racism remains” from one of the course’s learning objectives.

Department staff, the documents show, also proposed removing the sentence “Racism has shaped the public and private institutions in the United States” from the course’s content.

Terms and phrases such as “rise of racism,” “institutional racism” and “white supremacy” were also recommended to be replaced with “discriminatory practices” and “racial violence,” per the documents.

“These documents show the same pattern of attempts to whitewash and erase America’s legacy of racism that we’ve seen in other states, like Florida,” American Oversight interim executive director Chioma Chukwu said in a statement.

The course is a “full exploration of African American history” with a “specific emphasis on Virginia” that doesn’t shy away from the “good and bad” parts of history, Reid said. Youngkin has often noted an identical sentiment on teaching the “good and bad” while addressing history in classrooms.

Another recommended change was deleting a paragraph from the course’s lesson on “Economic Disparity and Privilege”: “Though there were protective laws in place, African Americans faced, and continue to face, political, economic, and social challenges due to institutional racism and issues of privilege. Privilege is when a group or individual has an advantage because of money, power, education, social status, or another characteristic, like race. In the United States, white privilege refers to the advantage that white individuals have over minorities because of centuries of racism and oppression. Individuals who benefit from privilege, may not seek or be aware of this privilege, but it exists. Such privilege over any marginalized group can provide advantages in grading, college acceptances, job hiring, healthcare, housing, law enforcement, or other situations.”

Per the documents, education department staff also proposed altering the language for the course on societal and economic changes after Reconstruction that said “mostly-white legislatures in the South created restrictive laws for African Americans” to “state legislatures in the South created restrictive laws for African Americans.”

Other notable proposed revisions to the course, per the documents

• One of the course’s initial learning objectives stated : “Investigate and understand that the University of Virginia was an institution on the forefront of [the] Eugenics movement and that the Commonwealth used this pseudo-science to control African Americans.
• Recommended change : “Investigate and describe the Eugenics movement and [how] the Commonwealth used it.”
• Course’s online module on “Race, Riots, and Voices of Protests (1965-1968) : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. argued that “ white moderates ” were the great stumbling block to progress.
• Recommended change : “white moderates” to “those moderates.”

“While those in power have supposedly sought to shield students from ‘divisive concepts,’ it is clear that such measures are about protecting partisan interests and not about protecting children,” Chukwu’s statement continued.

The proposed changes to the course underscore the effort from Gov. Youngkin and Republicans in other states to focus on classroom lessons about race, history and gender, and to ban critical race theory — an academic framework based on the idea that racism is systemic and is perpetuated in society – from their education systems.

In 2023, Youngkin asked for a review of a proposed Advanced Placement African American studies course rejected by Florida to find whether it complied with the executive order banning the teaching of “ inherently divisive concepts .” The education department found it did .

Shortly after being sworn into office, Youngkin asked parents to use a tip line to share any “inherently divisive practices” in schools with his administration. The governor faced backlash over his promotion of the tip line and lawsuits seeking records of the tips sent in.  

Youngkin’s administration also faced backlash over the education department’s revisions for K-12 history and social science learning standards , drawing criticism over the process of complaints that drafts whitewashed history and were created with the help of conservative-leaning educational groups and think tanks.

Reid said because the class was created through a directive by Gov. Northam and the education department doesn’t create courses, the elective course is “the only one of its kind.” This, Reid said, means there is no standard or established process for reviewing the course.

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Masters in Social Work(MSW) is a postgraduate course that uses social sciences, sociology, psychology, political science, public health, community development, law, and economics to solve problems at individual and community levels. It encompasses 14 subjects for which there are annual exams.

Note: Course Fee: INR 32,400 for the full program to be paid year wise @ INR 16,200 per year (Subject to change from time to time as per University norms)

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The University follows the credit system for its Master’s Degree Programme. Each credit amounts to 30 hours of study comprising all learning activities. Thus, a 4 credit course involves 120 study hours, a 6 credit course involves 180 study hours and 10 credit course involves 300 study hours. To successfully complete the MSW program, you will have to earn 66 credits over a period of 2 to 5 years depending on your convenience.

The Master’s Degree Programme in MSW has three major components: 1. Compulsory Papers 38 Credits 2. Optional Papers 8 Credits 3. Field Work 20 Credits Total 66 Credits

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The students have to earn 38 credits in Compulsory papers. The list of compulsory courses is given below.

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Course Code Course Title Credit MSWE-001 HIV/AIDS: Stigma, Discrimination, and Prevention 4 MSWE-002 Women and Child Development 4 MSWE-002 Disaster Management 4 MSW-010 Introduction to Philanthropic Social Work 4 MSWP-001 Dissertation (Project Work)  6 Course Code Course Title Credit MSWE-001 HIV/AIDS: Stigma, Discrimination, and Prevention 4 MSWE-002 Women and Child Development 4 MSWE-002 Disaster Management 4 MSW-010 Introduction to Philanthropic Social Work 4 MSWP-001 Dissertation (Project Work)  6

Additional optional courses will be offered at a later stage.

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The third component of the MSW program is the Field Work Practicum. The University has prepared two Field Work Journals for the 1st and 2nd year separately. Each year you are expected to successfully complete 10 credits of Field Work Practicum under the guidance of a professionally qualified Social Worker.

Therefore ensure from the coordinator at the study center that your supervisor has formal qualifications in social work at the post-graduation level. Completion of Field Work in MSW Ist year is mandatory for starting the social work practicum of the second year.

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Coalition petitions Texas’ education board to adopt American Indian/Native studies course

by: Cora Neas

Posted: Jun 28, 2024 / 03:51 PM CDT

Updated: Jul 1, 2024 / 09:36 AM CDT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A coalition of native tribes, community groups and educational advocates held a press conference Friday, where they discussed their desire for the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) to consider adopting an American Indian/Native Studies (AINS) course for use in Texas schools.

“We’re here to stand up for this course,” said Orlando Lara, with the Ethnic Studies Network of Texas. “The course has a lot of support. Numerically, compared to Mexican Americans and African Americans, this isn’t a huge community; but it’s being asked to do so much more to prove its worth.”

The course was developed in 2019, after the SBOE called for the creation of four “ethnic studies” courses, according to a petition from the Ethnic Studies Network of Texas . It was placed on the SBOE’s agenda for January 2024 but had been repeatedly moved ahead without action from the board.

“It was radio silence from the SBOE. We know that the Democrats on the board are supportive of the course, and in the past few weeks we’ve started to hear from the Conservative members. We believe we can start a conversation with them.” Lara said. “We have good reason to believe that there’s bipartisan support for the course, but that this information may be new to many people.”

The SBOE said it would provide a statement about the petition next week. KXAN also reached out to the Texas Education Agency for comment, but it explained curriculum decisions did not fall under its purview.

Previously, the SBOE adopted a Mexican American Studies course and an African-American Studies course. An Asian American/Pacific Islander Studies course is also pending approval from the agency.

“Indigenous people have a human right to have access to their history,” said Lara, citing the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “Native and non-native students have a civil right to information that could help them succeed academically.”

The SBOE has approved use of the AINS curriculum until 2025 as part of its “innovative courses” program . That curriculum can be read below:

However, the network wants a more permanent status for the course. Ramon Vasquez, member of the Auteca Paguame Tribe of the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation , said that the course would greatly benefit the state’s Native students.

“In a lot of states, there are Indigenous education support departments,” he said. “That’s what this is about, is how do we give kids access to education about what’s significant to Native people?”

The coalition’s petition currently has 1,652 signatures, as well as endorsements from tribal councils, elected officials and non-partner organizations.

“It has been a tremendous effort across the state, relatives have been zooming in over the years to get this done, even through the pandemic,” Vasquez said. “I come from a community that is fighting to revitalize itself.”

Vasquez said that he’s concerned SBOE members are delaying action on the course due to upcoming elections.

“Pushing it off makes sense as a political move — if it’s off their shoulders, off their plate, then they don’t have to worry about it anymore,” Vasquez said.

As for next steps, Lara said the network plans to continue advocating for the course’s adoption.

“We’ve asked them what they want us to do. We’re going to renew our submitted proposal,” he said. “At the same time, the board is still able to act on the course. It shouldn’t be a highly contentious process.”

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Private PU colleges continue to illegally charge exorbitant fees in the name of integrated courses

Parents complained that compared to the previous year, some private colleges had increased the fees by 100% this year for ii pu courses while some colleges were charging huge fees for conducting integrated courses right from i pu.

Updated - July 01, 2024 06:33 pm IST

Published - June 30, 2024 04:40 pm IST - Bengaluru

Parents complain that compared to the previous year, some private colleges have increased the fees by 100% this year for the II PU courses. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K

Private pre-university colleges (PU colleges) are allegedly still charging double the fees for Science courses in the name of integrated courses, angering parents.

Parents complained that compared to the previous year, some private colleges had allegedly increased the fees by 100% this year for II PU courses, and some were charging huge amounts for conducting integrated courses right from I PU.

The Department of School Education (Pre-University), in the admission guidelines issued every year, had restricted PU colleges from conducting integrated courses.

The guidelines would say that PU colleges teaching students in the name of CET, NEET, JEE, and others illegally by charging more than the prescribed fee, illegally joining with other organisations or with the help of resource persons other than the lecturers of the college or with the help of electronic media will have their recognition cancelled, in addition to legal action against the principals and governing bodies of the said institutions.

However, the department stopped issuing this warning in the guidelines over the last two years. Capitalising on this, private colleges have been exploiting students and parents by hiking the fees, the parents alleged.

“A small private PU college in Vijayanagar had charged around ₹75,000 per annum for my daughter for I PU Science course. But this year, for II PU they are asking ₹1.5 lakh per annum in the name of integrated courses. They are saying they will coach her for CET, NEET, JEE at the college level. I objected to the fee hike but they threatened to withdraw the admission,” a parent alleged.

PU classes started across Karnataka from June 1. This time, class 10 results have seen a drop of 10.49% compared to the previous year, and 2.23 lakh students with low scores have recently faced annual exam-2. Hence, admissions for PU courses are slow.

Lack of action, fee control

Earlier, the State government had tried to regulate fees of private schools and private college under the Karnataka Education Act, 1983. However, this Act has been challenged by some private schools in the Supreme Court and the case is still pending. As a result, there is no fee regulation in the State and private educational institutions are randomly increasing the fee every year.

The department has also failed to take action against the PU colleges charging high fees in the name of integrated courses.

“Some reputed centres are providing JEE, NEET coaching charging a huge amount of fee. Students are being admitted to colleges on this pretext and given training with hostel facilities. However, some private PU colleges are making money and exploiting children and parents by running integrated courses illegally,” said Rajesh gowda, a parent from Bengaluru.

“Last time, in the name of integrated courses, a private college charged ₹1.10 lakh for the II PU Science course for my son. But, it failed to train the students properly and even stopped the training when the II PUC annual examination commenced. No matter how much the parents insisted, only one guide book was given to the students and the college was closed. As a result, my son got 2 lakh rank in CET and 17 lakh rank in NEET. Integrated courses are just a scam to extort money from parents,” alleged Mahalakshmi D.R., another parent.

Speaking to The Hindu , Sindhu B. Rupesh, Director of School Education (Pre-University), said, “The department has not given permission to PU colleges to run integrated courses. If there are any complaints, appropriate legal action will be taken.”

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