New Delhi: UGC has proposed guidelines under which higher education institutions offering online degrees can acquire up to 40% of their course content externally and develop the remaining 60% in-house with the assistance of ed-tech companies.
However, ed-tech businesses referred to as technology service providers in the revised draft UGC (Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programmes) Regulations 2020, would not be able to advertise the content created with assistance as their own.
The respective higher education institutes “shall have complete ownership of Intellectual Property Rights" pertaining to in-house generated content, according to the draft guidelines, which the UGC has posted on its website for suggestions and feedback until March 15.
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A senior UGC official said, “The option to source content externally has been provided so that students do not have to put in efforts to locate good online programmes to pursue and add to their credit bank. The institutes themselves will do the research and provide options to students”.
According to UGC chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar, the guidelines are in accordance with the National Education Policy 2020, which mandates that top institutions registered to operate online and remote learning programmes be encouraged to produce high-quality online courses.
Only universities and their constituent colleges that meet these criteria are now permitted to grant online degrees.
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