Swayam is India’s national online course platform, designed to support the country’s National Education Policy, which entails improving access to quality education in India. At Class Central, we’ve been paying attention to Swayam since the very beginning. It launched in beta in 2016, and has now reached over 56 million enrollments with over 5.2 million certificates issued. It’s been growing rather fast. Swayam offers courses in a wide variety of disciplines, including from prestigious institut

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I’ve written guides on sewing and embroidery, and quilting is where both skills meet. You piece fabric together the way you would for any sewing project, then stitch through three layers, top, batting, and backing, to hold it all together. Done well, it turns leftover fabric and a bit of patience into a beautiful blanket that lasts. I looked at courses that teach quilting as a repeatable process rather than a one-off project: how to cut accurately, piece a block so your seams line up, and fini