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Amrita University’s cutting-edge virtual facility called A-VIEW technology prompts government to speed up capacity-building
India Education Diary | Sunday, July 19, 2015 |
New Delhi: Amrita University got a unique chance to demonstrate before India its prowess as a pioneer in science and technology when the institution’s top functionaries displayed in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi a cutting-edge virtual facility called A-VIEW. A proven large-scale online training platform that has been deployed at over 8,000 institutions, the finer features of the award-winning A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive e-Learning World) were detailed in the presence of Mr Modi on the occasion of his launching Skill India. The cutting-edge facility has been a highlight of the 2003-founded varsity, whose chancellor—spiritual icon Mata Amritanandamayi—is renowned for her encouragement of research-driven fusion of science and spirituality for the benefit of the common man.
On World Youth Skills Day this week, as the Prime Minister launched the ambitious national programme for skill development and entrepreneurship reaching over 30 crore Indians by 2020, Prof Kamal Bijlani of Amrita demonstrated the use of A-VIEW through a conference class of 100 ITIs across the country. The July 15 event here caught the fancy of the nation as much as that of the PM.
In fact, the Skill Ministry has itself been using A-VIEW, Amrita’s distance education and training platform, at 200 Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) across the nation. The facility the varsity has developed in partnership with IIT Bombay with support from the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (under the Ministry of HRD) has so far helped train 15,000 ITI teachers. This has now prompted the Skill Ministry to use A-VIEW as capacity-building platform for distance training in skill development.
Employing A-VIEW, IIT Bombay has been training around 10,000 teachers simultaneously. The Government of Maharashtra has trained 35,000 school teachers at the same time. During Digital India week, Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma, who is managing director of National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (functioning under the Information Technology Ministry) used A-VIEW platform for online digital literacy classes targeting lakhs of students. As an Amrita e-Learning Research Lab-developed and indigenously-built multi-modal, multimedia e-learning platform that provides an immersive e-learning experience that is almost as good as a real classroom experience, A-VIEW features a number of easy-to-use features for skill development. It enables instructors to conduct distance trainings with huge number of trainees across hundreds of skill development centers. Using A-VIEW mobile application, trainees with a smart phone can instantly participate and interact in class discussions. Multimedia content for skills can be shared and recordings downloaded into mobile phones for offline study. A-VIEW provides a number of interactive collaboration tools including whiteboards, animations, and video sharing. A-VIEW is a fully customizable platform provided free for national skill development programs, higher education programs, and digital literacy programs. – Courtesy
Global Recognition for Amrita University’s A-VIEW e-learning program
India Education Diary | October 04, 2014 |
India Education bureau, New Delhi: Amrita University’s A-VIEW has earned the multi-disciplinary research institution a prestigious international laurel for this year, weeks after Cisco hailed the flagship e-learning platform as one of the world’s most important internet innovations.A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive E-Learning World), which can be used free across India for online teaching, meetings and training in various sectors, bagged the South Asia Education Summit Award 2014 in Online Education Platform Provider category.Supported by the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development, Amrita-developed A-VIEW platform is the only project — other than the Aadhar UID — from India to be selected by American MNC Cisco, the global leader in networking and internet applications, in its world-wide list of novel e-governance internet initiatives. Earlier this week, a top Unesco official handed the award to Prof Kamal Bijlani on behalf of the 2003-founded Amrita University headquartered near Coimbatore down-country. The September 30 function at India International Centre here came after a detailed choosing process that considered several things, including innovation for inclusive education, leadership and impact on society.
Unesco Representative to India Huma Masood gave away the laurel to Prof Bijlani, who is the director of E-Learning Research Lab at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amritapuri campus off Kollam in south Kerala.A-VIEW, which is currently being used by over 5,000 colleges, has a pool of 1 lakh teachers across the country — all of them trained by Prof Deepak Phatak of IIT Bombay. Also, a QEEE program, where Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT Madras conducts live direct classes from the best IIT teachers, uses A-VIEW to thousands of students all over India. These programmes have clocked 60 lakh training hours, bringing tremendous ICT awareness in the country. A-VIEW is developed by Amrita University that humanitarian icon Mata Amritanandamayi Devi founded in 2003. Supported by the National Mission on Education via Information and Communications Technology under Ministry of HRD (since 2009), A-VIEW is part of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ program led by Prof Phatak, a Padma awardee. Inspired by Mata Amritanandamayi Devi’s desire to use and develop technology to facilitate education and learning amongst the underprivileged, a team of professors and technologists at the Amrita University took upon themselves to develop the A-VIEW learning platform. The team consists of experienced professionals, including those who returned from abroad to India to join Amrita University.As a proven internet-based collaborative video-conferencing platform for online training, A-VIEW is being used for large-scale online classrooms, meetings, trainings & workshops. Its software allows collaborative, synchronised sharing of many types of multimedia content, including video and audio of lectures, text, associated videos, written instructions, and slideshow presentations. A-VIEW is currently very successful in the higher education sector; and it can be easily extended for various e-governance applications. Since A-VIEW is completely developed in India by Amrita University, it provides complete control on the content, recordings, servers, and security. This is not possible with commercial platforms like Google Hangout, Vidyo, Skype.
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