Distinguished guests attending the IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education had the opportunity to meet with Chancellor Amma on the first evening of the three-day conference.
January 7, 2012
Amritapuri Campus
Dr. Muhammad Yunus flew from Bangladesh to Kerala to attend the IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education at the Amritapuri campus. The 2006 Nobel Laureate pioneered the concept of microcredit not only in his country but all over the world.
January 7, 2012
Amritapuri Campus
Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, President of the Managing Board of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, spoke at the inauguration of the IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education. Below are excerpts from Swamiji’s benedictory address.
January 2, 2011
Amritapuri Campus
The IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education will be hosted at the Amritapuri campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham during January 3-5, 2012.
Read messages from our Chancellor Amma and our Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Venkat Rangan, below.
Amrita selected for HP’s Global Social Innovation Award. The Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE) is an educational technology initiative pioneered by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham joins the Measuring Learning consortium led by Carnegie Mellon University
16 OCTOBER, 2011
HP announced today the addition of two Indian organizations, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Learning Links Foundation, to its gl obal HP Catalyst Initiative.
In India today, 40 million children complete high school every year. This, despite the 56% dropout rate, wherein many children who enroll, don’t complete their school education.
May 20, 2011
AmritaCREATE, Amritapuri
A new research grant from the Department of IT, Government of India will see Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and CDAC-Mumbai design interactive Online Labs using advanced computer simulation and animation technologies.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was invited to participate in the Global Online Laboratory Consortium, at MIT, Boston on February 7-8, 2011, which was focused on promoting the development and sharing of, and research into remotely accessible laboratories for educational use. Participants included faculty from leading universities in Australia, Germany, South Africa, Spain, Nigeria, Uganda and many U.S. cities.
"What an eye opening experience our visit to Amrita has been!” stated Dr. Judson Harward, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who recently spent some time visiting our large campuses at Amritapuri, Coimbatore and Kochi.
Prof. Prema Nedungadi, key architect of Amrita’s Adaptive Learning software, was invited to speak at the 17th National CBSE Sahodaya Conference in Bengaluru, that was attended by Principals of over 500 top schools from across the country.
A new AUMS office was inaugurated at the institution's Registrar’s office in Coimbatore.
The coming academic year will see the Amrita Vidyalayams in Kerala move more towards IT-enabled learning.
Dr. Kalam inaugurated the Amrita Vidyalayam e-learning Network that connected all the 55 Amrita Vidyalayams, managed by Mata Amritanandamayi Math, in the country through broadband.
A new eLearning and collaborative learning environment called Amrita Learning was launched by Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India, on 4th Feb, 2008 at Kochi. This is the India's first Adaptive Learning System, developed by AmritaCREATE.
Prema Nedungadi, Joint Director, AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri: KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM Radio Show, USA interview Jumpgrades: Adaptive Learning in U.S.
BSNL has also partnered with Amrita Learning to offer Internet-based assessment and learning programme for children.
Amrita Learning, developed in collaboration with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, is a research-based assessment, learning and practice programme that can be used from the comfort of the home or school computer.
