EVALUATING THE ROLE OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN ENHANCING EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES

It’s a well known fact that, the development of a nations depends on its quality of citizens and the quality of a nations citizen highly depends on the educational quality that the nation is offering to its citizen for making them productive and responsible. This is what India has realized in the past few years. In order to fulfil its visualization the Government of India has taken so many initiatives in the past five years. Certainly the educational system is gradually moving towards online educational courses in the modern day. An Indian online learning platform for Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) called Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM). The Ministry of Human Recourse Development (MHRD) Govt. of India launched the SWAYAM initiative. The SWAYAM program, that provides free access to online educational courses, was designed, developed and introduced by the government of India as part of its dream to make a "Digital India.". As of April 2022, the SWAYAM portal had incorporated more than 2,010 educational courses, 211partnerseducational and administrative institutions, more than 7113 finished courses, around 28459396 students enrolled, about 1978084 exam registrations, and a total of 1099286 successful completed the course/certifications were made. Examining the significance of SWAYAM (9 National Coordinators) is the study's majoraim. As per the findings of this study, the 9 national coordinators with the help of SWAYAM platform have been providing cutting-edge educational programmes with the help of its online digital web platform. The null hypothesis of this study is rejected as the regression analysis on SWAYAM (5-National Coordinators) Student Enrolment & Exam Registrations and Student Exam Registrations & Successful course completion/Certification shows that the F-values are about 749.31 and 136610, the Coefficient of determination value is about 98%, and the P-value is about 0.001. Since the SWAYAM online educational courses is playing a crucial role in the current educational situation, appropriately utilitarian value based courses must be introduced in the future for all the aspiring learners.