Digital Freelancing

Participation of Indian youth in today’s Digital Freelancing world is increasing exponentially. Having a knowledge about d Digital Freelancing and getting used to these platforms is important in these days. This will offer following advantages to our youth in building their career easily:

• They can choose their projects and customers (whom to work for)
• They can work from home and they can enjoy flexibility in working time
• They will have good exposer of international clients and work style
• They will have an excellent opportunities of earning
• They can manage many projects at a same
• They can use their acquired skill sets to encash many opportunities
• They can work on large projects in collaborationon and coordination with other freelancers

The main objective of this course is to empower our youth with required knowledge and skill sets for freelancing work, which will help them in economic development.

In today’s world, there is rise of huge number of jobs under freelancing opportunities in digital space. MKCL’s DEEP Digital Freelancing Course is aimed to teach learners various skills and tools through which they can tap many freelancing opportunities available on various platforms. This course aims to make each and every learner "Work Locally and Earn Globally".

This is unique app is launched by MKCL to facilitate DEEP Digital Freelancing Learners to learn course content on their smartphone.

• Students and Graduates Across Disciplines: Individuals seeking to supplement their income or gain practical experience by offering services online.
• Aspiring Freelancers: Those aiming to start a freelancing career in areas such as content writing, graphic design, programming, digital marketing, and more.
• Working Professionals Seeking Additional Income: Employees looking to utilize their skills to earn extra income through freelance projects.
• Homemakers and Individuals Seeking Flexible Work Options: People desiring work-from-home opportunities with flexible schedules to balance personal commitments.
• Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners: Individuals aiming to understand freelancing platforms to outsource tasks or offer their services to a broader audience.
• Retirees and Career Changers: Those looking to leverage their experience and skills in a new, flexible work environment.
• Individuals Interested in Global Work Opportunities: Learners eager to work with international clients and gain exposure to diverse work cultures.

The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society.

Learning methodology

• Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
• Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
• Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
• Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.

Evaluation Pattern of DEEP Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL’s DEEP Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
   • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments