Virtual Labs & their Importance
During the tough times of COVID-19, while the colleges were struggling to conduct fruitful online classes, the lab sessions were on hold as there was no choice and way to conduct them effectively. To bridge the gap between the colleges and young cum curious minds of students, IEEE VNR CASS & SPS Student Branch Chapters conducted a session to enlighten the audience about the importance of Virtual Labs.
Virtual Labs project is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). This project is a consortium activity of twelve participating institutes and IIT Delhi is coordinating institute.
The speakers started off by thoroughly briefing the audience about the usefulness of Virtual Labs. A hands-on session took place where Ms. Damaraju showed the audience how to use Virtual Labs by performing a few experiments from different domains like Information Technology, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering. The audience which consisted of professors from different colleges performed experiments and learnt the importance of it thoroughly. Feedback forms were given to participants which required each participant to perform 20 different lab sessions and rate each of them. End of the session got a lot of new insights and suggestions from the participants which could be merged with the current version of Virtual Labs.
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- Date: 05 May 2020
- Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
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- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- India
Speakers
Mr Ravi Shankar of IIIT Hyderabad
Introduction to Virtual Labs
Biography:
Mr. Ravi Shankar is the Program Manager of Virtual Labs at IIIT Hyderabad, Chairman of Educational Activities of IEEE Hyderabad Section and Business System Manager on Retainer at TCS Ltd.
Address:Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Ms Mrudhvika Damaraju of IIIT Hyderabad
Working of Virtual Labs
Biography:
Ms. Mrudhvika Damaraju graduated from Joginpally B.R Engineering College in 2015 and pursued her masters at IIIT Hyderabad in Information Technology. She started as an intern at Virtual Labs and is currently working as Project Engineer at Virtual Labs.
Address:Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Agenda
Virtual Labs is a platform where students perform lab experiments virtually with wide range of possibilities which was introduced by IIIT Hyderabad. Owing to the scenario during the period of COVID-19, Virtual Labs provides students with a platform to perform their experiments with any given values.
The webinar ended up being a huge success with professors and students from more than 16 colleges participating enthusiastically. With such active audience, the session proved to be an efficacious knowledge transfer session. The session also proved to be useful for the speakers as they got invaluable feedbacks and suggestions in the areas of improvement.