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Ammachi Labs hosted an expert panel “Review Strategies for Development of Virtual Skills Labs to support the NEP 2021 directive for Vocationalization of Schools”, on November 13, 2021.
Panelists
Background
The Ministry of Education, Government of India, has taken the initiative to foster and scale vocational skills in schools (grade 6 to 12) as per the National Education Policy (NEP 2020). One major initiative the ministry has identified to enable this is the creation of virtual labs for skills. The Olabs developed by Amrita has contributed considerably to enabling schools children to practice lab work and also its relevance further increased during the recent covid pandemic. The success of this initiative has prompted the MoE to consider a similar initiative for vocational skills for schools. The MoE has requested Amrita along with other ministry stakeholders to come up with a framework for virtual labs for skills.
The workshop consisted of technical experts who deliberated on the possibilities, framework, challenges to create the virtual lab for skills. The outcome from this workshop would be a recommendation that could be shared with the Ministry of Education.
The event started with the welcome address by Dr. Bhavani Rao with a quick context on the workshop and the agenda. The first discussion was around the “ Review of OLabs Structure for Schools, what may be applied, what may not be, what else to include”. The team presented the current OLabs structure, which is already well accepted by all government institutions and schools.