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• The Government of India has recently launched the SWAYAM Plus Platform.
• SWAYAM, the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform providing educational opportunities for a vast number of learners, was launched by the Ministry of Education in 2017. 
• The SWAYAM Plus platform will now include courses supporting industry needs that enhance learners’ employability. 
• SWAYAM Plus features innovative elements such as multilingual content, AI-enabled guidance, credit recognition, and pathways to employment. 
• SWAYAM Plus primarily focuses on achieving the following: 
  • Building an ecosystem for all stakeholders in professional and career development, including learners, course providers, industry, academia, and strategic partners; 
  • Enabling a mechanism that provides credit recognition for high‐quality certifications and courses offered by the best industry and academia partners; 
  • Reaching a large learner base by catering to learning across the country, with a focus on reaching learners from tier 2 and 3 towns and rural areas and Offering employment focused courses, based on learner needs – across chosen disciplines with options to learn through resources in vernacular languages. 

• SWAYAM Plus also envisions bringing in features such as access to mentorship, scholarships, and job placements as value-added services in due course of time, thus building a digital ecosystem for learners to pursue upskilling/re-skilling at all levels, namely certificate, diploma or degree