Our Faculty

• Principal Investigator: Amrita RITE (Rural India Tablet enhanced Education)
  Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  Under Chancellor Amma’s guidance, a unique patent pending tablet technology has been developed in multiple Indian languages with the goal of providing life-changing sustainable development solutions to the disadvantaged. We work with low achieving or out of school students directly in their village settings by using after school tutoring, alternative schools and pre-schools in formal and informal settings.
  In 40 villages, Education Centers have been established, offering holistic education, blending innovative tablet technology with time tested traditional methods including academics, health awareness, social awareness, value education while taking care of their nutrition and health. Selected student Ambassadors help raise health and social awareness in the entire village.
  Impact: 22 states, 140 villages
• Principal Investigator: eGovernance big data Analytics Platform for CBSE Schools (eGAP)
  Funding: World Bank
  Impact: Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), India with 15000+ schools in India
  World Bank Funding for Amrita CREATE and School of Business for their eGovernance BigData Analytics Platform
• Principal Investigator: Online Labs for School Practical Science (OLabs)
  Funding: eLearning Division, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India
  The Online Labs (OLabs) for Science Practical Skills (Grades 9-12), offered free to schools, was developed to overcome the limitations faced by schools in India, especially rural schools, due to either insufficient time or instruments in laboratories. The OLabs projects reached a significant milestone in 2012, when it was officially endorsed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for its 15,000 schools.
  Impact: Over 60,000 secondary school students and 4,300 teachers trained.
• Principal Investigator: Measuring Learning
  Funding: HP Foundation, USA
  Develop methods to assess STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills including innovation, creative and higher-order thinking, global collaboration and the ability to tackle big, open-ended challenges; these are often not evaluated in schools.
  Collaboration: Carnegie Mellon University
  Impact: 28 schools with over50,000 students
  Awarded at HP-Catalyst Summit in Beijing
• Principal Investigator: AmritaJeevanam – Health Awareness & Monitoring Platform for Rural India
  Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  ChancellorAmma’s vision to provide low cost medical devices to villagers, train them in using it and provide health awareness, monitoring and preventive education,has resulted in AmritaJeevanam, a patent pendinglow cost solution.
  Impact: Health Monitoring & Awareness in Rural India, Health Worker Training in140 villages
• Principal Investigator: Medical Simulation (MedSim)
  Funding: eLearning Division, DeiTY, Government of India
  MedSim is an innovative Medical Simulation Serious Game Platformthat allows medical students to visualize, learn, practise and experience a variety of medical skills and procedures. We are collaborating with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, CDAC and Trivandrum Medical College
  Impact: 200 Medical and Nursing Colleges in India
• Principal Investigator: Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation for Schools (CCE)
  Funding: eLearning Division, DeitY, Government of India
  Impact: Teachers and Administrators of Secondary Schools, India.
• Co-Principal Investigator: Virtual Labs Simulation Labs for Higher Education (Physical and Chemical Sciences)
  Funding: MHRD, Government of India
  Developed over 200 virtual simulations, animations and videos in Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Biotechnology. Our videos selected by prestigious youtube edu channel
  Impact: Higher Education Engineering and Science students in India.
• Principal Investigator: Career, Soft skills & Language Labs
  Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  Caree, SoftSkill & Language Labs for job readiness for university students.
  Impact: 2000 students in India.
• Principal Investigator: Amrita Learning Systems for Schools
  Funding: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  Amrita Learning, our flagship product, is an Intelligent Tutoring System with Science, Language Arts and Mathematics
  Impact: 35 schools with over 36,000 students in India
• Principal Investigator: eLiteracy & Health Awareness using tablets for Tribals in Kerala
  Funding: IT For Masses, DeitY, Government of India
  Computer and Health Awareness using Tablets
  Impact: 1000 Scheduled Tribes in Tribal areas including abused girls.
• Principal Investigator: Scaling of OLabs
  Funding: eLearning Division, DeitY, Government of India
  Impact: 15000 schools, training of 30,000 teachers and cloud technology for 3.6 million students

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

• Winner, Computer Society of India, IT Excellence Award for eLearning and Education 2013.
• Computer Society of India’s Awards for Excellence
• OECD cited our work multiple times as an innovation that scaled in OECD Education Working Paper Series 
• New Media Consortium showcases Amrita’s tablet Education in their Annual Horizon report
• USAID invites Amrita CREATE Labs to Showcase their Rural India Tablet Education (RITE) Program
• Awarded at HP-Catalyst Summit in Beijing
• Distinguished Speaker, National Conference on ICT for School Education
• Amrita CREATE Wins First Prize at the 26th Kerala Science Congress

Conference Organised

• IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education 2012
• International Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning For Schools
• Training Workshops for Village Teachers
• DST INSPIRE-Science Camp 2012