SWAYAM or Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds is a programme of the MHRD, that enables professors and faculties of centrally funded institutions like IITs, IIMs, Central University Of Haryana to offer online courses to citizens of India.
SWAYAM, the free online education was developed by MHRD, Govt. Of India and AICTE with the help of Microsoft. It offers hundreds of courses with transferable credits.
WIPO'S courses on IP caters to different target audiences: inventors and creators, business managers and IP professionals, policy makers and government officials of IP institutions, diplomats, students and teachers of IP and the civil society. Courses combine traditional face-to-face and distance learning methodologies which explains how to stimulate innovation, creativity and development.