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Blended learning has been popularized in many universities in the last decade due to the rapid advances in computer technologies and relative increase in the usage of internet connectivity. A major constraint in providing high quality laboratory resources in some universities and in economically challenged countries is high costs, training personnel, training time and maintenance-related issues. Virtual...
Virtual labs are popularized as a visual education tool that offers diverse analysis of experiments through different components like graphics mediated animations, mathematically modeled simulations, user-interactive emulations, remote-triggered experiments and the use of augmented perception haptic devices. With the advances in ICT-based education, virtual labs have become a novel platform that helps...
Quantitative assessment of learning is an important indicator of teaching practices apart from the depth and grasp of content being assessed. Fundamental objective of assessment approaches should help promote learner engagement and is appropriate to the diversity of learners that may be present in any class. Learning from online or virtual classrooms can be more challenging due to lack of direct personal...
Virtual laboratories are ICT tools that are becoming more prevalent in classroom education complementing the lack of resources or tutors while enabling anytime-anywhere student participation scenarios. Specifically disciplines such as biotechnology, which are interaction rich, have seen several types of virtual labs. In this paper, we explore an analysis of student feedback post virtual labs sessions...
Most of the critical challenges seen in the past decades have impacted citizens in a global way. Given shrinking resources, educationists find preparing students for the global market place a formidable challenge. Hence exposing students to multi-lateral educational initiatives are critical to their growth, understanding and future contributions. This paper focuses on European Union's Erasmus Mundus...
A major challenge in engineering education today in India is preparing students with the skill set needed for a global industry. This paper describes an innovative partnership between two institutions of higher education in India and USA and a multinational corporation to address this challenge. The collaborative manner in which the industry and institutions internationalized the curriculum is a key...
User authentication in web applications such as emails is many times done at a single point of time such as during login. Information leakage occurs when the user's authentication is compromised. Although authentication systems verify different aspects of the user, a deviation in user behaviour is not captured in such validations. This paper proposes a mechanism to model user behaviour and captures...
Analysing cyber attack environments yield tremendous insight into adversory behavior, their strategy and capabilities. Designing cyber intensive games that promote offensive and defensive activities to capture or protect assets assist in the understanding of cyber situational awareness. There exists tangible metrics to characterizing games such as CTFs to resolve the intensity and aggresion of a cyber...
Technology has helped advance science education in its delivery of content to students. These advancements have led to improved conceptual understanding of physical phenomena in students. In most educational systems, teachers play a crucial role in the introduction of innovative pedagogic interventions. In this paper, the perceived impact on use of virtual laboratories and simulations as a teaching...
Educational and governmental organizations are heavy users of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) due to the numerous economic advantages it offers. But because of the lack of formal notification of vulnerabilities in them these users are left with exploitable risks in their systems with known vulnerabilities which could completely offset the economic gains and lead to unrecoverable losses. India...
Experimental learning plays paramount role in Physics education. Experimental physics requires phenomenological investigations in several cases and this includes understanding visible and invisible heuristic procedures to discern underlying concepts. This study investigates the invisible yet evident occurrences of physical phenomena that are difficult to grasp from a learner's perspective. In this...
In the world of computer based gaming most of them are purely for entertainment but recently serious games are also emerging. Our research study focused primarily on a type of serious game with multiple scenarios designed specifically to support cyber security concept learning. We studied the impact of game based learning on cyber security graduate engineering students (N=3D20). Existing game scenarios...
Virtual Labs (VLAB) is a multi-institutional Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, exclusively focused on lab experiments for engineering education. This project envisages building a large OER repository, containing over 1650 virtual experiments mapped to the engineering curriculum. The introduction of VLAB is a paradigm shift in an educational system that is slow to change. Treating VLAB OER...
By the advent of the new millennia there have been notable changes in the way students get their education. Remote triggered labs standout among these education methodologies for their user interaction and active involvement. Remote Triggered Virtual Labs experiments enhance both theoretical and practical learning experience using real time data streaming and analysis. Real time data streaming includes...
Virtual labs help students and professionals to learn subjects practically. Remote triggered virtual labs, in which real hardware is remotely controlled is especially well suited for students who do not have access to high quality, modern, and often expensive lab equipment. It also allows to students to conduct laboratory experiments on their own time and repeat them as often and when necessary. In...
This work describes the design and implementation of a novel monitoring system for small wind turbines. It is especially suited to small turbines that employ slip-rings between the turbine and tower for power transfer, since it is not practical to retrofit turbines and add more slip rings for transferring monitoring signals. We employ an Arduino based wireless system that measures and transmits the...
Virtualisation of experiments is one of the most efficient ways for the modernisation of traditional engineering laboratories. In that context, remote triggering, or remotely controlling actual physical laboratory hardware, is one of the best ways to do this. This paper provides the framework and methodology behind the creation of a Remote Triggered Solar Thermal Energy Parabolic Trough experiment...
In response to the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT) Initiative, the Virtual and Accessible Laboratories Universalizing Education (VALUE @ Amrita) Virtual Labs Project was initiated to provide laboratory-learning experiences to college and university students across India who may not have access...
The following paper discusses the development of a virtual media enhanced vocational education curriculum that ultimately aims to reduce the digital and economic divide by targeting the illiterate and neo-literate sectors of India. While the application utilizes enhanced graphics, the end user experiences a simplistic interface. The virtual environment is developed in a modular way, enabling the user...
For enhanced education at the level of University courses such as those in biology or biotechnology, one of the key elements is the need of time and expertise to allow the student to familiarize laboratory techniques in par with regular theory. The Sakshat Amrita virtual biotechnology lab project focusing on virtualizing wet-lab techniques and integrating the learning experience has added a new dimension...
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