Education is a prime element for the progress of any country. In the India, there are several challenges to give quality education, such as quality education resources lack. A massive wave of scope has knocked the door of constructive education in the forms of MOOCs which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In distance education, MOOCs are of very recent origin, started somewhere in the mid of 2011. They are known as 'massive' because they are available for the masses. These courses is fully taken through online aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. 'Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM) is an jointly initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India to provide an integral teaching learning platform in online mode. SWAYAM is mobile and web based interactive open education interface where courses are found from high school to university level (Government of India, 2015). SWAYAM is designed to achieve the three primary principles of education policy such as, access, equity and quality. If digital devices like computers is included in the all schools, and institutions of India in future, the learners will be more benefited because they will get more quality of teaching from best institutions.
During the students life, learning is the main thing. But in students learning process, disability condition can cause barriers in education. Disability can have direct impact on students learning.
A powerful instrument of social change is Education and often initiates upward movement in the social structure. Most important vehicle for Children with Disabilities (CWDs) is Education. A considerable segment of CWDs excluded from educational system in India. According to 2011 Census in India, the percentage of disabled persons who are Illiterate is about 45.48. The disabled male percentage with Illiteracy is about 37.63 and for disabled females is about 55.44 that means disabled females are more Illiterate than disabled males. The percentage of disabled persons who are Literate is about 54.52. The disabled persons who are Literate but below Primary level is about 10.59%, have primary level of education but below Middle is about 13.26%., have middle but below Matric / Secondary is about 9.13%, have Secondary level of Education but below Graduate is about 12.86, have graduate and above is about 4.65%. However, Indian Government stated to take some important steps for CWDs. Various report, commission, policy, committee and programme is responsible to improve the educational status of special persons. Such report, commission, policy, committee and programme are Sergeant report, Kothari commission, National Education Policy, National Policy on Education and Programme of Action, Integrated Education for the Disabled Children, Bahrul Islam Committee, Programme of Action, District Primary Education Programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan. The objective of maximum of this is to take disabled children into general education system and to improve the quality of education.
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