(1) Any Higher Educational Institution aggrieved by an order passed by the Commission under these Regulations may prefer an appeal to the Commission within a period of thirty days and no appeal after the expiry of the said period shall be accepted.
(2) Every appeal made under sub-regulation (1) shall be accompanied by a copy of the order appealed against.
(3) After due consideration, the Commission may confirm or reverse the order appealed against and the decision of the Commission shall be final and binding on the Higher Educational Institutions.
(4) Removal of Difficulties : UGC reserves the right to remove difficulty / difficulties in the implementation of these Regulations in consultation with the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
Prof. RAJNISH JAIN, Secy.
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./129/18-19] 18 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART III—SEC. 4] Annexure-1 Faculty and Staff Requirements for running Online Programmes
1. Centre / Cell for Online Courses or Programmes:
(1) The Higher Educational Institutions intending to offer the Online Courses or Programmes may create a separate Centre or Cell for effective coordination among its Departments or Schools of Studies offering the Course or Programme, Admission or Registration Unit, Examination Unit and Technology Support Unit.
(2) The Centre or Cell shall maintain and administer, in collaboration with the technology support Unit ofHigher Educational Institution, the Centralised Data Base of all the online Courses or Programmes.
(3) The Centre or Cell shall have the following academic and administrative staff, namely,-
(a) Director- (i) who shall be responsible for the overall coordination of the Online Courses or Programmes offered by the Higher Educational Institution and shall have the Qualifications and Experience as specified for Professor under the relevant University Grants Commission regulations as amended from time to time.
(ii) He/she should have experience or training in the e-content or Online Courses or Programmes or MOOCs development and essentially having basic information and communication technology skills (word processing, spreadsheet and internet communication) as well as familiarity with Online Courses or Programmes, instructional design and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
(b) Deputy Director (e-Learning & Technical).—(i) who shall be responsible for the technical coordination including maintenance of Learning Management System (LMS), student data and overall instructional design of the Online Courses or Programmes.
(ii) He/she shall be responsible for providing technological support and facilitate the faculty in Department or Schools of Studies offering Online Courses or Programmes.
(iii) He/she shall have the Qualifications and Experience as specified for Professor or Associate Professor under the relevant University Grants Commission regulations as amended from time to time.
(iv) He/she shall be an e-learning expert with experience in technical coordination for modules development and Learning Management System (LMS) and if full-time expert is not available, part-time consultant may be taken on consultancy basis.
(c) Assistant Director – (i) Having qualifications and experience as specified for Assistant Professor under the relevant University Grants Commission regulations as amended from time to time, initially one, who shall coordinate with Departments or Schools of Studies offering Online Courses or Programmes.
(ii) He/she shall have basic information and communication technology skills (word processing, spreadsheet and internet communication).
(d) Assistant Registrar or Section Officer – (i) Having qualifications and experience as specified for Assistant Registrar or Section Officer under the relevant University Grants Commission regulations as amended from time to time, who shall assist the Director in all administrative work of the Centre or Cell.
(ii) Initially one Assistant Registrar or Section Officer may be appointed.
(iii) He/she shall have basic information and communication technology skills (word processing, spreadsheet and internet communication).
2. Academic Staff:
(1) (i) The Departments or Schools of Studies shall be the academic home of the Online Courses or Programmes offered by Higher Educational Institutions.
(ii) The involvement of the full-time permanent faculty of the Departments or Schools of Studies of the Higher Educational Institution in an Online Course or Programme shall be in the following capacities, namely:-
(a) Programme Coordinator (One per Programme) : (i) A full-time Faculty shall be the Programme Coordinator for each of the Online Course or Programme offered through online mode.
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(ii) The Course or Programme Coordinator shalll be at the level of Professor or Associate Professor or Assistant Professor in the subject area of the concerned Programme.
(iii) The Programme Coordinator shall be responsible for overall coordination of the development, delivery and assessments of the learners in an Online Programme.
(b) Course Coordinator (One per Course): (i) An Online Programme may have more than one Course. In such a case, one full-time Faculty shall be a Course Coordinator for each of the Courses of an Online Programme.
(ii) The Course Coordinator shall be at the level of Professor or Associate Professor or Assistant Professor in the subject area of the concerned Course.
(iii) He/she shall be responsible for all academic issues including coordination of academic support services to be provided to the students pertaining to the particular Course.
(iv) The Course Coordinator shall be responsible for coordinating the development, delivery and assessments of the learners in the Course.
(v) To assist the full-time faculty (Programme or Course Coordinator) in making the teachinglearning effective in an online environment,
(c) Course Mentor (One per batch of 250 learners): (i) He/she shall assist the Programme or Course Coordinator in providing academic support to learners and also in managing virtual teacherlearner interaction groups
(ii) He/she shall have the relevant qualifications and experience as specified for Assistant Professor under the relevant University Grants Commission regulations as amended from time to time.
(iii) The Course Mentor shall be paid appropriate honorarium as per the policy of the Commission from time to time.
(d) Examiners: The Higher Educational Institution shall appoint examiners for the assessment of the online learners in a Course from among the qualified faculty from within the Institution or from other Institution and they shall be paid appropriate honorarium as per norms of the Higher Educational Institution.
(2) Technical Team for Development of e-Content as Self-Learning e-Modules*:
• Technical Manager (Production)–minimum one • Technical Associate (Audio-Video recording and editing)– minimum one • Technical Assistant (Audio-Video recording)– minimum one • Technical Assistant (Audio-Video editing)–minimum one * This activity may be outsourced to the centres across the nation having requisite facilities. If a Higher Educational Institution have full-time technical team, the number of such professionals at various levels shall be specified by the Commission from time to time; these numbers are for the initial stage of e-content and self-learning emodule development and delivery.
3. For Delivery of Online Courses or Programmes:
(a) Technical Manager (LMS and Data Management) - minimum one (per Centre)
(b) Technical Assistant (LMS and Data Management) - minimum two
4. For Admission and Examination of Online Courses or Programmes:
(a) Technical Manager (Admission, Examination and Result) - minimum one (per Centre)
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