Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT)-2020
The ministry of education has launched Annual Refresher Programme in teaching (ARPIT) , a major and unique initiative towards online professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM in November, 2018. For implementing ARPIT , 75 discipline-specific National Resource Centres (NRCs) have been identified in the first phase in the year 2018-19 as ARPIT 2018 and 48 in the second phase in the year 2019-20 as ARPIT 2019 , which were tasked to prepare online training material with focus on latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum. After successful completion of previous phases, the Ministry has decided to re-run the ARPIT 2019 courses in the year 2020. The ARPIT 2020 course will start from 1 st December 2020 and will run till 31 st March 2021. The important timelines may be seen in the attachment. In order to ensure wider publ