Dr. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE was an invited panellist at UNESCO Mobile Learning Week-2017 held at Paris, France from March 20-24, 2017.
The first MedSim workshop in Karnataka was conducted at Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS), Hassan, on April 18, 2017. It was coordinated by Dr. Girish Babu, Programme Coordinator, Professor and Head, Department of Dentistry. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Sreejith and Mr. Ashish Mohan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
It is really exciting for children in primary grades to march off to the next grade classroom with new backpacks, books, crayons, pencils and other school supplies. AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, makes this wish possible for many rural children from economically- challenged families at 48 centers in 21 states across the country, through the Amrita RITE Project.
As part of Online Labs Training Program and Amrita Rural Tablet Education Project, Mr. Suresh Dhandapani, AmritaCREATE team member, visited different schools and villages in Telangana from February 18- 22, 2017.
A paper on Sakshat Amrita Virtual Labs titled, “Complementing Education via Virtual Labs: Implementation and Deployment of Remote Laboratories and Usage Analysis in South Indian Villages”, published in 2016 by International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), was awarded the “iJOE Outstanding Paper Award”.
The AmritaCREATE team visited different schools in Andhra Pradesh as the part of Online Labs training programme and Amrita RITE project from February 15- 17, 2017. Tenali, a city in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, was the first place visited on 15 February, 2017. Mr.Suresh Dhandapani represented AmritaCREATE.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research projects of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with Travancore Sahodaya, jointly organized a teachers training programme on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments- a virtual project for students from class 9 to class 12 to perform Biology, Physics and Chemistry lab experiments. The event held at St. John’s School, Kollam, Kerala, on February 22, 2017. The training program was attended by seventy- five science teachers from thirty- six schools.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with Wayanad Sahodaya, conducted a teachers training program on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at Hill Blooms School, Wayanad, on February 18, 2017. Fifty science teachers from twenty- four schools participated in the training program.
A one day hands-on workshop on MedSim, a computer-based medical simulation software developed Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in association with CDAC Trivandrum, under a research grant from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, was conducted for the final year MBBS students of Trivandrum Medical College on March 3, 2017.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day training program on Online Labs project at Hira International school, Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, on February 4, 2017. Fifteen science teachers from four nearby schools participated in the workshop.
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