Prof. Prema Nedungadi of AmritaCREATE, was an invited speaker at the Vatican conference on “Children and Sustainable Development: Challenge for Education”, held November 13-15, 2015 at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She presented Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita RITE (Rural India Tablet enhanced Education) model that was inspired and guided by Chancellor Amma’s vision to provide both ‘education for making a living’ and ‘education for life’ skills.
IEEE Education Society’s ‘2014 Best Transactions on Education Paper’ was awarded to ‘The VLAB OER Experience:Modeling Potential Adopter Student Experience’, published in IEEE Transactions on Education.
AmritaCREATE developed an interactive software where learners make right or wrong choices and learn how to avoid becoming victims of human trafficking.
Frontiers in Education, sponsored by IEEE Education Society, is one of the oldest and most prestigious Education conferences focusing on educational innovations. For the third year in a row, a research paper from AmritaCREATE was presented here. Rema Menon presented the paper “New Methodology to Differentiate Instructional Strategies for ESL Learners in the Indian Context”. The paper was authored by Rema Menon and Prema Nedungadi, AmritaCREATE.
On the International Day of the Girl Child, an international observance day declared by the United Nations (October 11 of every year), Amrita RITE is pleased to report a good gender ratio of 51% girls to 49% boys at our Inclusive Education Program at AmritaSeRVe Villages.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE) celebrated Teachers’ Day that falls on September 5, with a difference by bringing in Chancellor Amma’s teachings into practice.
Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE) celebrated Gokulashtami, also known as Sri Krishna Jayanthi- the birth of Shri Krishna with great zeal and splendor at its Education Centers across India.
This Teacher’s Day, AmritaCREATE (Center of Research in Advanced Technologies for Education), an educational technology initiative, pioneered by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, is setting an ambitious target of preparing 30,000 science teachers in a digital learning innovation called “Online Labs” (OLabs).
Keeping with the theme of Independence Day “Aazad Bharat, Saakshar Gaon”, another initiative of AmritaCREATE was launched on August 16th. The initiative has been launched to bring specialized tutoring, via Amrita Virtual Interactive e-Learning World (A-VIEW), to children in remote areas where there is limited internet connectivity.
Students at the Amrita Education Centers across India participated in Rakshabandhan or Rakhi Purnima, a special occasion to celebrate the love and duty between brothers and sisters.
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