“India’s educational challenge includes a large school going population, lack of science teachers and shortage of expensive science labs in schools. Online Labs (OLabs), the free and open-access, digital interactive multimedia- based science labs for schools, addresses this challenge by adapting the solution of low cost Android-based tablets like Aakash. The phase 1 of the project covers classes 9 and 10, to be followed by phase 2 which covers classes 11 and 12, and additional subjects like English and Maths and have regional language support,” said Raghu Raman, Director, Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (AmritaCREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in an article in the online magazine digitalLearning, March 2013 Issue. Read More »»

March 2013