Online Labs (OLabs), one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has reached almost two lakh students across the country.
A workshop on Amrita Online Labs project, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), was conducted at Mithila Public School, Bihar, on July 22, 2018.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education) was selected to be one of five finalist teams for the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation’s Adult Literacy XPRIZE in an awards ceremony on June 25, 2018, in New Orleans.
Four school students from the state of Uttarakhand, who were trained a part of the AmritaRITE (Rural India Tablet Education) program, have cleared the Navodaya entrance exam and already started their schooling in June, 2018. In the 2017-18 academic year, AmritaRITE program began selecting bright students in villages and giving special tutoring for Navodaya entrance exam.
The students of more than twenty-five Amrita Rural Education Centers from Jammu to Kerala, celebrated International Mother Earth Day on April 22, 2018, by pledging to take care of or plant trees.
On March 23, 2018, Amrita’s Virtual Laboratories and its deployment outcomes won the GOLC Online Lab Award 2018 for visualized experiment category.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized an Online Labs workshop for the first time at different schools in Lakshadweep Islands, as part of the Online Labs training programme. The programme was held from February 6-8, 2018.
A twelve member delegation from Hunan Xiangtan University and Hunan Xiangtan Daonan Academy, located in the Hunan District in China, visited the Kochi and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, on December 17-18, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH) 2017, held at Visakhapatnam, from 16th to 18th December, 2017.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at Parampara Academic Public School, Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu, on August 25, 2017. The workshop was attended by fifty-five science teachers from nineteen schools participated in the workshop.
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