1. Process of SNDTWU-CHETNA Course development
Every year Advisory Committee will Identify the contemporary multidisciplinary thrust areas and the Suitable Course Coordinators for these areas. Course Coordinators will be a regular faculty and Subject Expert belonging to a university department or conducted college. Also, he/she should be a specialist in the identified area. Also, she/he will be entrusted with the task of developing and conducting an online or f2f course in a given area.
Parallelly, SNDTWU-CHETNA will call the collaborative course development proposals from a Subject Expert belonging to an affiliated college and other reputed educational institution/Industry or a specialist in the field identified and entrusted with the task of developing an online course in a given area.
2. Process of adding courses into the SNDTWU-CHETNA Pool of courses
Every year in January-February and June-July, SNDTWU-CHETNA invites course proposals to be added to the SNDTWU-CHETNA Pool of courses to make available for the next semester/ academic year. In March and August course proposals will be reviewed by the course review committee and sent to the Expert committee for a recommendation. After the Expert committee recommendation course will be approved by Advisory Committee and added to the SNDTWU-CHETNA Pool of courses for the upcoming semester/ academic year.
The recognition of the course will be valid for one year only. Course recognition will be renewed after reviewing the course data and students’ satisfaction survey.
3. Course delivery mechanism
Courses offered by SNDTWU-CHETNA: Every year SNDTWU-CHETNA will develop courses on identified trust arias and will be made available in F2F, online and blended (synchronous and asynchronous) mode through LMS. For these courses, Students can enroll themselves through SNDTWU-CHETNA Portal as per the pre-declared enrollment policy of this course and the enrollment rules of the Department of lifelong learning and Extension. After admission confirmation by the SNDTWU-CHETNA Director student will be registered on LMS for the desired course as a learner.
Courses recognized by SNDTWU-CHETNA and hosted by other institutions: Courses recognized by SNDTWU-CHETNA and Hosted by other institutions conducted or affiliated by university will be made available as per the pre-declared course policy. Hoste institute can conduct courses through F2F at the campus level or Blended (F2F and asynchronous) at the campus level or Online Blended (synchronous and asynchronous) Or Self-paced mode. For these courses, Students will be enrolled by the Host institute as per their pre-declared enrollment policy and the enrollment rules of Department of lifelong learning and Extension.
Courses recommended by the SNDTWU-CHETNA: For this type of course students themselves have to register as per the concerned institutions admission policy. Students should complete the course at their own level.
4. Assessment examination and Certification
Assessment:
The courses offered, recognized by SNDTWU-CHETNA will adopt a continuous comprehensive assessment approach and accordingly, 60/40 weightage for formative and summative assessment (60% Formative and 40% summative) will be given.
For successful completion of the course, students have to achieve 50% marks in both types of assessments separately.
Examination:
For students who are willing to earn a course completion certificate with credit, an objective type online examination of 10 marks per credit will be conducted by SNDTWU-CHETNA at the end of the course to award a credit certificate. And those who are willing to earn only course completion certificate for them host institute will conduct a course end test and send the assessment data to SNDTWU-CHETNA for the certificate.
Certification:
For courses offered and Recognized by SNDTWU-CHETNA, SNDTWU-CHETNA will award two types of certificates as per the choice of the students.
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Course completion certificate (without credit):
Students who are not willing to appear external exam conducted by SNDTWU-CHETNA to earn a credit certificate, will be awarded a course completion certificate based on their grades or marks that she has earned in the formative assessment task along with the course end summative assessment test conducted by the host institute. -
Course completion certificate with credit:
Students who are willing to earn a course completion certificate with credits have to appear in the course end summative external exam that will be conducted by SNDTWU-CHETNA to fulfill the requirements of course completion. Those students who have successfully completed all the requirements of course completion will be awarded a Course completion certificate with credit and will recommend to the university to add their credits to their ABC.