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. Seventy teachers from different nearby schools participated in the workshop.
Mital Pusira, the Principal of Mithila Public School, Bihar, inaugurated the training programme. The workshop was handled by Mr. Suresh Dhandapani, a research staff member at AmritaCREATE. He gave a brief introduction of Online Labs and explained the significance of the project in the present day educational scenario.
Mr. S. K. Gangey, a teacher from Mithila Public School, Bihar, commented about the project, “Excellent and innovative project for the science curriculum. The website provides a platform for students to use the lab experiments virtually any time, anywhere.”