The Indian villages are the bedrock of ancient cultures, preserved carefully through generations of an otherwise changing world. The village teachers at AmritaRITE’s rural education centers conducted a contest among students at the centers, mainly to preserve Indian rural culture and heritage, on April 30, 2017. The event was organized to recognize and provide special care to the important roots of native culture, whose value, though intangible, is intrinsic to the identity of the people of those areas and whose preservation can play a significant role in enhancing their quality of life.
The teachers and students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Rural India Tablet Education (AmritaRITE) Program participated in rallies all over India to sensitize people and widen their horizon about the value of giving education to girls on April 23, 2017, which is celebrated as World Book Day. The major drive of the program is to promote education for girls and gender equality in rural and tribal villages of India.
Dr. Prema Nedungadi, Research Director at AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was invited as a distinguished panelist at the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017) held at New Delhi, India from March 7-9, 2017.
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) at Karnataka, is the foremost Health Science University in India, established at Bangalore by the Government of Karnataka. On April 21, 2017, AmritaCREATE (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) was given the unique opportunity to conduct a live demonstration of MedSim in the presence of the Vice Chancellor, Dr. K. S. Ravindranath.
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.
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