Recent work on Virtual Labs was presented at the GUIDE conference titled “E-learning innovative models for the integration of education, technology and research” held at Rome, Italy from Nov 18-19, 2011.

GUIDE International Conference 2011 is organized by Guide Association in collaboration with the Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” of Rome. Global Universities in Distance Education (GUIDE) – is a non-profit, non-political and non-secretarial organization, which is not aligned to any party ideology. This 2011 GUIDE conference focused on the e-evaluation, e-assessment and self-assessment process that enable both teachers and students to assess the ongoing acquisition of knowledge as well as to build flexible learning paths.

Representing Amrita’s work on Virtual Labs, a talk and a paper titled “Virtual Labs: Pervasive education & scenes from an ICT perspective” was presented. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham with IITs are part of the National mission in Education through ICT to create and disseminate online laboratories for Engineering and Science education.