 Good morning and welcome to the celebrations of the digital India week I'm Professor Phatak. Many of you would know me. We have been interacting with each other at remote centers I'm sorry to deviate slightly from the printed program where Dr. Mukta Atre was to initiate the discussions. I'm stealing some minutes from her time I assure you that she'll come back shortly I Wanted to share with all the participants of this event Two important things The first is a new experiment in massive open online courses called the blended MOOCs is being launched as part of the Digital India efforts Where students of some institutions will study a particular subject both from their local teachers As well as from the massive open online courses offered by IIT Bombay for this a consortium has been formed Initially joined by 55 of our remote centers. I'm sure many of them will be present here I would like to complement the leadership at these institutions to have come forward to do this experiment This is the first experiment in the world where students from a large number of institutions Will now get the grades in particular subjects that they study both from the local assessment As well as online assessment and learning from the MOOCs They will learn from both the local teaching as well as MOOCs teaching. I Hope that this number will increase to 500 institutions next year and maybe to 5,000 institutions year after That is the power of the digital collaboration Where all like-minded people come together to increase the effectiveness of teaching learning process The second point that I would like to make is that empowering India digitally Does not mean just running higher education courses for the benefit of students and teachers who participate in these House ever large that number be for example We train 10,000 teachers at a time in our training programs MOOCs are attended to by lakhs of people But let us not forget that there are crores and crores of young Indians Wanting to be empowered digitally and this cannot be attempted by one institution or a few institutions Working in isolation my request to all the remote centers which are joined today Is that they should not only celebrate the digital India week in their own institutions But commit themselves as we have committed in IIT Bombay to work assiduously for people in their own regions So that they can take whatever expertise they have with them for the benefit of Students of schools colleges and other institutions to empower them digitally. Thank you so much and Welcome once again, I will request dr. Mukta to take over Thank you professor for taking out time from your very very busy schedule It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this celebration of the digital India week and We have been playing a very big role in Bridging distances across the country especially You know reaching out to teachers in the remote areas who do not normally have Recourse to any kind of Ways of enhancing their teaching skills or increasing their knowledge or skill development of any kind and I'm extremely happy to say that When we started out in 2009 we had only about 32 remote centers we used Slightly outdated methodology using the edusat the satellite to connect to 32 remote centers And it wasn't always very easy to You know connect to teachers we limited ourselves only to teachers at these 32 remote centers but I must say that We have moved from 32 remote centers to 352 of 352 remote centers today, which I believe is a great Leap for all of us and I must congratulate all of you our partners in this endeavor to Have you know Walked with us every step of this development and You are equal partners in this achievement of IIT Bombay I'd like to share some Statistics with all of you since we are talking about the success of the project. We have reached out to almost teachers from 4,088 Unique colleges across the country we have Reached out to more than a lakh teachers by now. We have 352 remote centers and amongst these 1 lakh teachers that we have reached out to I must say very proudly that 40 percent Of these participants have been women, which I believe is a great achievement. We Take pride in the fact that we have been able to make Education quality education and knowledge enhancement Easier for women who not who are not always It's it's which is it is not always possible for women to leave their homes and their families and travel to Distant city in search of Knowledge and education, but we have made it possible by reaching out to them through our Workshops We have conducted almost 20 workshops so far and all of them have been very successful And now as professor Fatak has already told you we are now moving into the blended MOOCs format we have A collaboration with almost 50 autonomous institutes across the country and they will be Participating in three courses immediately. These are thermodynamics Computer programming and signals and systems and we hope to have a very very fruitful association with them I would be opening up the floor for Participation from remote centers in a few minutes from now But I would really like to take this opportunity to thank all of you You know from the bottom of my heart with you know A lot of gratitude because if you had not been there and if you had not participated in the way you have our endeavor to you know Carry education and knowledge to the remote Corners of the country would never have been successful. So a very big thank you from all of us to all of you There out there at the remote centers Another thing that I have always been saying and I and I'd like to reiterate right now is that This kind of a large endeavor is never ever possible without a lot of people working In a absolutely dedicated manner to make it successful. So I'd like to mention a few teams that have been Totally dedicated to making this project a success Most importantly is the e-studio team here Which as all of you know has been interacting With you for the a-view testing and a lot of other things So could you turn the camera towards the Yeah, so we have Sajjan here and his team Sushant A big thank you to you all There is also Another very important Team which always works in the background, which you normally never interact with and that's the software team, which They are not here today also, but they work incessantly to make our entire Online interaction with you More and more efficient So that there are no glitches when we have registrations of almost Thousands of people 10,000 people at a time on our website. So the software team has played a very important role and so has the team of system administrators and They again are the silent workers behind the scene they Always help you with the moodle and any Queries that you have related to moodle or any problems that you have related to moodle And then we have a very important team that is the accounts team, which it's Could you move the camera towards the accounts team, please? Which funds the workshops and which makes sure that everything is going according to the norms And of course the large workshop team So all of us together workshop team So all of us together form this group at IIT Bombay and we try to make things as Easy as possible for the remote centers and it is always our Endiverred to You know take feedback from all of you and try to make things work more efficiently and more smoothly and We hope to continue with this collaboration with all of you So again, welcome to this session on digital India week I have been receiving a lot of queries. My team has been receiving a lot of queries about what is expected of the remote centers during this week I would say that since we have been associated so closely in this digital endeavor of Training teachers, I would suggest that you have a local Function and showcase the activities that your center has been participating in this could be the t10 kt workshops this could be the I mean your Remote center could have been an akash center your students would be working with akash tablets Or they would be involved in the spoken tutorial or the e antra or the virtual lab So you have this chance to showcase all the projects that you have been working or your students have been working with and present them to your local To the colleges around you so that they would also feel inspired to do something in this area and You know work together to Bridge this digital divide that we have in our country so thank you very much again for coming For logging in so early. I know many of you have vacations going on many of you have The semester just beginning and it is really Very much appreciated from all of us here. There are about 105 centers right now online and The team tells me that many of you have logged in as early as 8 30 I'm really overwhelmed by this kind of response I especially at such a short notice we sent you the email only yesterday and It is amazing that we got this kind of a response. Thank you very much and I'll now open the floor for any Responses any presentations that you might have Please do remember we have a very tight schedule and we have other teams waiting here We have presentations from the other enemy ICT projects that are going on in IIT Bombay and As they come in as They are scheduled. I will be introducing them to you and If you have any presentations or any Any views to Put forward, please do make it brief. I do want to Go to as many centers as possible. So, please do remember that we have a Whole lot of presentations being Prepared here and they will be waiting so With center can we go to and another thing that I'd like to mention here If you have any queries about the upcoming workshops, we will handle them separately This function is only for the digital India week. Please do remember that. Thank you. Yeah So, which ones any of you have any presentations to make please raise your hands And we will begin with them Okay, we'll start with the Royal College of Engineering Yes, ma'am. Hello Yes, please go on. Good morning, ma'am. Good morning. Good morning, ma'am Good morning. Ma'am. Uh, so our work is ma'am Ma'am, our digitization. We have done digitization for Trichur Medical College Uh, so we have implemented Deployed an automated system token system for the Trichur Medical College staffs and patients Uh, so the doctors can able to see and retrieve the patient information during every checkup Also, our students include an alert message system for the patient during the next checkup And we also received a special award from the district collector for this particular digitization work And the next one we have done for the Grammap panjayat Nearby Panjayat Porclam and Arlencote Panjayat So we have done all the personal and educational details regarding each members in each house where digitized by our students and if anyone Wants to know or wants to search about any degree holders in particular what it will be retrieved information quickly Also, we have done uh For the Alaturk village. We have done the election ID online system So these are the digitization work has done by the royal engineering college. Thank you Thank you so much royal engineering college You should really present your work to the people around you the Colleges around you so that they would also be inspired by your work. Thank you so much Sarvajanik college of engineering Good morning, ma'am. Good morning. We are from 1043 rcid Uh, dr. Mayuri Mehta will enlisted the activities depend upon our digital format at our centers So I just hand over to Professor Mayuri Mehta Good morning, ma'am I would like to highlight the few of the digital activities which are conducted at our college We use erp to automate the institution's business processes and to increase the centralization of data flexibility and transparency We also use online feedback system that is developed in-house using dot net and as well And here the students they are provided a password in id and from anywhere in the college They can fill up the feedback and the automatically the reports are generated Subject wise feature wise We have got a state of art computing facilities to conduct online examination In our college and using the strong it infrastructure So far we have Around 60,000 students have been tested so far and we are second in gujarat for conducting this online examination We are actively participating in a spoken tutorial initiative of iIT Bombay To promote open source software and so far we have conducted 50 plus trainings for more than 1000 students We also use Moodle which is a virtual learning environment to make the Some tasks easy like to make the online assignment handling for a quick sharing of documents, etc We use the sole software package in our library to to as the to as the in-house functionality of library and to automate the Various functionalities of library like cataloging indexing searching, etc And we also aim to have RFID system in our library to automate the functionalities of library in near future Thank you, ma'am. Thank you so much Sarvajanik college. Just let me know when the time Yeah, so now we'll go to Valchin College of Technology Yeah, good morning, ma'am. Good morning I'm happy to participate in this particular digital India week and iIT Bombay initiative In this remote center We have conducted all the workshops right from may 2012 and since from that may 2012 we have adopted the Moodle So we have started with e-submissions e Online submissions conductions of the objective examinations on Moodle and we are regularly using that Moodle Second important thing is that we are the resource center for spoken tutorial for solar power university And under this in this particular remote resource center We have conducted more than 11 workshops on cc plus plus sylab python java And in many of the institutes we have conducted this particular workshops under spoken tutorial Then we are the akash centers So we have developed some apps which will be useful as a real-time applications One important project that we have developed is that eight standard science book We have totally converted with the help of flash and web files So student will be able to view all these files and really feel that concept instead of only reading in a book We are also practicing online feedback. So we have developed in-house We are having in-house developments for online feedback also We have also one more that e-course book. So all the faculties are maintaining their Whole work or the records with this particular e thing so we can save our time and efforts We are in the process of setting virtual labs also Which will help again us in active learning We are very helpful that we are helpful for iIT Bombay in participating education technology workshops because We have now more than 10 papers in education technology and not only 10 papers But now active learning is happening in the class than the traditional learning And as the gate is online, we do conduct that gate examination But along with the gate examinations Many online examinations we do conduct at it in our institute So we are towards E and M era over here. Thank you Thank you, Walchan. So Laful I'm really happy that you were also Here today. I have very fond memories of visiting your college. Thank you so much More than 70 students are certified in MOOC on computer programming also of second year information Technology CST and mechanical over there. So that is one more achievement in our leaders. Thank you. Thank you MES Pillai Good morning, madam. Good morning From tomorrow from Monday onwards. We are mechanical engineering department of Pillai Institute of Engineering is conducting digital prototyping and product design faculty development program For Mumbai University faculty members. So that is One program we are conducting under digital week digital India week Then we are having in-house developed academic monitoring system to monitor students progress daily basis all our faculty members are giving their inputs for uh notes developments and The attendance is monitored through All the students attendance is monitored through that academic monitoring system Again, we are conducting online feedback subject feedback as well as faculty feedback Through this software which is developed by our software developers professor Amol and madam We are having this space On which all our faculty members are uploading their Class notes for all the students every student is having his own username and password. He can Use it and access The class notes class lectures even We are using NPTEL videos to Give additional information about the subject to our students And That way we are moving ahead Towards digital India. These are our inputs for a digitalization of Indian education systems. Thank you, madam. Thank you so much See that noida Yes, see that noida. Please go ahead Yeah, good morning. I am R. P. Roode and I would like to tell how many events we are organizing throughout this di w v first of all Yeah, first of all approximately 400 staff member attended the di w launch by our prime minister It was really a very very Wonderful experience for all of us Then throughout we are organizing very different type of events Today we are showcasing the c-deck products Then a quiz will be organized And a workshop on iot also we are going to organize throughout this week and Definitely through e-learning projects. We are spreading the knowledge of esdm and other it It related courses. Thank you. Thank you so much Nanomedy college of engineering. Good morning, ma'am Good morning. Good morning Good morning ma'am. I am audible. Good morning. Yes, you are audible and it is fantastic to see such a large Uh crowd out there at your remote center. Thank you all for coming Please go ahead. Thank you Thank you. Thank you very much for your appreciation ma'am Ah, yes. So ma'am in our college We are using the digital library in our library to to view the NPTEL videos and other IIT professors lectures And then we have a attendance monitoring system both for staff and students in a digital manner in our college And then we have a special e-gate. So that was developed by our one student So to our home over entering into our college, they'll be monitored with the help of that e-gate system Apart from that we have a GRC which is called as nyan resource center So in which all the staff members they were used to upload their study materials to the students students can view Their study materials with the help of the GRC And then we are also conducting an online test for the final year students Then also we have a EDC cell which is working under the online And then we have online bus booking facilities also in our campus and then these are all the online Think facilities and then digital systems what we are using inside our campus And then we from our Yanomani College of Engineering that is RC 1203 We have participated more than 11 workshop with the help of this With this IIT Bombay and Karakpur And then on behalf of all our college and then management we sincerely thank Thank IIT Bombay and Karakpur for conducting such a wonderful workshop So thank you very much for all your effort. So we sincerely thank your technical crew How was working behind the scene for the very success of all the workshop And then we are and then another one question I want to ask you here is here is So our prime minister initiated digital India. So we are also celebrating the digital India week here Using this IIT workshop. So what is our mission towards this digital India week? So that I want to ask on behalf of our college So previously we had a mission like teaching of 10 000 teachers. So like that So under this digital India week team, so what is our mission to move along with this team? So that is my question I think for each of us who is in this digital media field The mission should be that we reach out to as many people as possible and educate them about this the entire digital education system and Uh Guide them in the various ways in which they can use these various Systems to educate themselves and to Inspire them to use these things in their everyday life in their teaching in For the students and to enhance the learning of their students I I'm sure that I mean the number of things that you are already doing in your college You have already, you know Achieved a lot of these goals, but I just wanted to Remind you that instead of just keeping it in your own college. You should also You know Have an event where you can have people from other colleges visiting you and Showcase your efforts to them so that they will also be Inspired enough to do something similar in their own colleges. Thank you so much University of petroleum and energy Good morning. Good morning Am I audible? Yes. Yes. Good morning, ma'am Yeah And this is one of the very good initiative from IIT Bombay. We can appreciate such kind of efforts Like I would like to mention what digital efforts our university is Implemented rather So first of all, I would like to mention here one of the thing which is implemented first in India In one of the private university that is as if so with the help of SAP platform We have ESS employees employee self-service module with the help of that our leaves and appraisal And all other things would be done by the digital There is no paper work which has been done for the appraisal as well as for the Vacations all kind of vacations have been covered in that including your I'm afraid. I'm afraid your audio is lost Okay, due to paucity of time, we will be moving on to another center now We'll try to come back to you towards the end if possible Goa College of Engineering Goa College No audio Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah Yes, good morning, ma'am. Good morning. I'm Peter Nak, extant registrar of Goa College of Engineering In our college most of the things related to students are done online such as online semester registration online online exam registration And even processing of results Processing of eligibility and all the students are provided with a user ID and password so that they can view the results as well as eligibility online Apart from this we have done any admissions online as well as payment of fees through NIC Goa And also we also conduct online examination for recruitment for government of Goa as well as various industries in and around Goa And we also conduct field learning for group C and group C, B and C employees for our state department And we have developed models for Stores library accounts as well as admissions action Thank you Thank you so much Chamele Devi Chamele Devi group of institutions. Yeah, please go ahead No audio No audio audio from your side Please check your mic. Please check your mic Sorry, there is no audio from your side. We will be moving on to the other center Knowledge Institute Knowledge Institute This is Satyanathan from Knowledge Institute of Technology Yes Yes, please go ahead Good morning, madam. Good morning I'm Satyanathan from Knowledge Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu The third center ID is 1146 First of all, we would like to thank Professor Pathak and Mukta madam for taking efforts on this digitally India week celebrations And conducting various programs through you outreach Thank you, madam And in our Knowledge Institute of Technology We provide this facility to the arts and science colleges and polytechnics nearby Most of the faculty from this nearby institutions. They are benefited out of these remote center programs And through this remote center, we have organized more than 17 programs in IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur And then Our college has a ERP system and then the students database other tests and monitoring systems are done through the ERP And the placement training we have that to training as a part of training activities We provide online test and other tests to provide it through online that is digital And then the TCS and other companies Exams being conducted online exams as a center in Knowledge Institute of Technology And our colleges this through this Internet of Things Students are automating the process through this mobile apps and in mechanical engineering. Also we have slowly Preparing an app for a subject that will be released soon in Google And then we have the digital webbench to design the projects And the lab courses are connected digitally We have online software modules to train the students on soft skills And then in our college every class is provided with this LCD projector with internet connectivity and we use NPTEL videos and other videos to the students That is what we do and then we conduct this big exams all this IELTS TOEFL etc. We conduct online exams in our institutions And then we have a digital library to add few Professor Avikumar is with me Good morning ma'am. I would like to add one more point That is we normally encourage the students to participate in the various MOOC courses are conducted by NPTEL and IIT Bombay X Last time Nearly 25 students and five faculties are attending the program and 13 students and two faculty members got certification after successful completion of the course This time also nearly 50 students are part Registered they are on MOOC course for introduction to programming in C by NPTEL Thank you ma'am Thank you very much Yeah, so we have just about five minutes left by before I hand over the mic to my colleague here So we'll go to Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering Morning ma'am Good morning. Good morning ma'am. Good morning Good morning ma'am. We are very much happy to see the path of the students who are in the program Sir, your audio is very low. Can you please hold the mic properly and speak? If you reduce the patternless work, you'll be fine from the kind of the details working on the kind of work We do have a software workbook We do have a software to automate If you reduce the patternless work, you'll be fine from the kind of the application We have developed a student portal application We have people Your audio is not proper The audio is not proper. We will come back to you later But at the moment, we'll just move on KS Rangasamy College of Engineering There is no video. We'll move on to Dronacharya College of Engineering Good morning ma'am KF from Dronacharya College of Engineering Gurgaon Hello Good morning. Yes, please go ahead Am I audible ma'am? Yes Ma'am, we are from Dronacharya College of Engineering Gurgaon There are certain key benefits which we have categorized and which we are following about Dronacharya College First is easy access to information Helping in protecting the environment Easoness in teaching Increasing the popularity of distance teaching learning and technology makes teaching enjoyable now where In this the digital presence in our colleges and ICT based courses from IIT Bombay IIT Kharagpur, two Tripoli IIT Madras and also from NIT Pappaltya Tindigarh And we are also making webinars as an important part of our curriculum Where more than thousand students are certified and we have even faculty members and students which are creating technical awareness and giving the webinars and we are Making these online courses as a mandatory part of our curriculum. For example, we are following NPTEL UDM Allison Khan Academy, etc And even students students and faculty members are on Using cloud infrastructure with V learn and we campus facility where all the students have developed their own website And we are submitting assignment people lectures everything on our V learn portal and now we for example Now we have various academies also like we have sent Microsoft center of academy Cisco network at me or equal Huawei IBM Red Hat Academy for students awareness And we are a smart class like we have LCD projector and everything and we have digital lab We're having more than 35 35,000 ebooks. We are a member of Inflipnet and list e-gram Thale and our college is Wi-Fi enabled And we are also reaching to schools for EDC and spoken to real projects We are only college in Haryana which have which have three star rated and we have virtual lab We are working collaboration with IIT Delhi for virtual lab and we have e entro and Akash center also. Thank you ma'am Excellent. Thank you so much for your participation I will move on to the next item in our agenda today. We will be having presentations from My colleagues from various projects in IIT I request you all to kindly Attend these presentations and we will try to continue the interaction later on if time permits Thank you We will start with miss Madhulika Sharma from Madhulika Madhulika Goyal from ask a question project, right? Come Good morning to all of you all around India Thank you for joining us for digital India week at IIT Bombay today I am going to represent talk to a teacher IIT Bombay project Under this project we have three projects Uh, which we are running first one is research scope next is courses on view and the other one is ask a question Now together these three portals cater to the UG, PG and the research group So the portal I will talk one I will take up the portals one by one so that I can tell you what exactly we are doing in Each of the portal now in the uh, we started the project with the courses on view portal This portal basically allows the viewers to go through The portal courses on view allows all the viewers To go through the live recordings of IIT Bombay classroom And they can view if you look at this portal you have disciplines onto your left hand side You can select the discipline that you want to look at for example, if I select electrical engineering Any course that I want to select for example digital Uh, I have taken digital communications So this page overall gives you a overview of this particular course It talks about the syllabus the prerequisite the references everything that you need to have before you start studying this course Or you want to know more about this course if we click on any of the lectures You will see the four quadrant appearing over here the Quadrant onto your left hand top is the video lecture that is recorded onto your right top is the slides So if you are not able to see slides properly in the video You can come to this particular panel and see go through the slides you can draw you can browse through it You can pause it it is at the mouse click The quadrant on the Left bottom tells you the various things that are resources that are associated with that particular course and also we have assignments for this particular course So we have assignment one two three four all these assignment together nine of them covers all full syllabus So the assignments are divided chapter wise and if you click on assignment You will be able to see the questions and if you were to click on the solutions you will get the solution for those questions So this is how the portal is designed So that some we have not recorded all the courses of iIT Bombay and put them but the selected few are put and made available for the viewers Now at the bottom for the electrical engineering and physics courses mostly We have a bar which says want to ask a question For example, if I am viewing this particular course this particular lecture I have a doubt in this particular slide. I can post a question over here And the question will immediately get posted if I click on submit it will get posted to the Forum that we have I will talk about the forum a little later And from that forum the faculty member can answer the question Now the forum that I am talking about is ask a question This is a forum which allows students to ask a question to us Now this forum we designed in a unique way in the sense all the questions are text based But all the responses are video only So a student can ask a question in any ways I want Typed and then the responses are given only on Thursdays and Fridays in the fields of electrical engineering and physics So we have a live interactive session every Thursday For electrical engineering and every Fridays or for physics So if you will if you go to the forum of this particular Portal we will see that we have divided the forum As under electrical engineering we have the different Fields of electrical engineering that we are taking in IIT Bombay So the questions pertaining to electrical engineering would be seen over here If we click on control engineering the questions will be seen For the control engineering and communication engineering the questions for communication engineering So for example I click on a particular microelectronics On onto my right hand top I see answered and unanswered it is two category So all the questions that are answered if I click on answered all the questions that have been answered will come over here Sorry I clicked on the wrong link I guess Oh this is external no Okay I am sorry this link will not work from here There is another link that will work so if you are at your end you can try and see the links working at your end You can also go back to Yes you can also view the sessions or questions from archival The session will get uploaded on all the questions that have been asked on the Forum are answered so you can select if you know the session which you asked the question The session or if you do not know the question the session which you asked the question You can select from here which discipline you want to you had asked the question or if you are searching for a particular question you can click over there And you will get the response So this is a question that is being asked on the forum And the responses are given over here Another portal that we have is researcher scope now under this portal we have the presentations of the PhD students of IIT Bombay these students have submitted their thesis and now on the way of getting their doctoral degree now if you go over here and click on view presentation Again we have this similar kind of menu we have the disciplines mentioned and we have we if you click on any of the presentations we on this particular panel you see abstract what the presentation is all about what are the publications made by that particular student what about the speaker who is he what is his background and where is he now and the supervisor who has guided him similarly over here the video plays and over here you can scroll the slides so this is just to make people aware about what kind of research is happening at IIT Bombay and also we want there is a discussion forum that we are creating through this portal so that the research is all over India can talk to each other and know or solve their difficulties whatever they are having this is about the talk to a teacher portal if you have any queries or any doubts you can ask please hand raise if you have any questions regarding this session so thank you thank you so much for joining in I hope you all go through this portal at your leisure time and do look at the courses and do give your feedback on the portal itself thank you we will now have Pushpadeep Mishra from the virtual labs project to tell you all something about the project good morning to all of you who are connected to to the this program I'm going to introduce you regarding virtual labs well virtual labs as many of the remote centers they discussed about that they are already a part of this as we all know that laboratory is a very important component in the study of science and we can't hardly imagine any science learning without a laboratory attached to the academic institution so this is how a typical lab looks like where you have certain gadgets certain chemicals and certain other things available which because of which a student can actually learn the science behind that now there are some problems with the existing labs the traditional labs first of all it is not available for all the time so there is a specific time slot given to the student who can come at the specific practical session and can perform this now at certain times the reagents the equipments which are used are very costly and not every academic institution has it all the time and the one very important problem that we know noticed is that the students if they want to repeat the practicals they cannot do that the reason is the practical is available only for one particular semester once in a year and maybe once in a lifetime and we cannot expect the students to understand the concept totally by just performing the practical ones so therefore MHRD understood this problem and began the project called as virtual labs so the solution is that basically we have a simulator base remotely accessed lab which is available to internet to the remote users now if you can see on the screen there are some simulate simulations screenshots have been placed now these are instruments which are simulated and students can actually interact with them in a and they can actually perform the practical step by step now let me tell you what are these virtual labs and what are the types of this so we have three kinds of virtual labs available online the one is the modeling and simulation lab the other is the measurement based lab and the third one is remote triggered labs in the modeling and simulation labs a student come across the simulated environment where he wherein he can interact with the animated instruments and then he can perform the practical whereas in the remote based and the measurement based practicals there is actually a device which is kept at the remote location for example there is a device like a reactor chemical reactor or a bioreactor which is kept at IIT Bombay it is corrected through internet and the students can actually go online read the theory procedure and then perform the practicals they get the real access to the instrument and they can perform the practicals in the real time and can get the data from the instrument and can perform the practicals one example of this is the simulation lab of the gas liquid absorption we have taken the screens shot of this if you can see it is just like your lab journal it has objective theory manual pre-viva video documentation simulator and FAQs so a student has to go through all these steps and then perform the practicals one of the very best thing it has is the FAQs and the post-viva questions so student can make himself sure that he has understood the concept by answering the questions as well and the typical practical session it lasts for around say two to three hours in the traditional labs but on the simulation lab on the virtual lab a maximum time is the 20 minutes so in the 20 minutes student can retake the practicals again and again and 24 by 7 is on demand service which is available free of cost to entire nation so one of the example of the remote triggered lab is the single board heater system lab this is the open hardware developed by IIT Bombay and this is a set up to understand the temperature studies over the filament of wire so this is actually available online on vlab.co.in I will give you the URL in the later slides you can actually book a slot and take a slot for half an hour and student can actually perform the practicals and can actually get the data as well from the lab if you can see this graph this graph has actually come from the RT lab experiment after the performance of the experiment so this is the common portal that is vlab.co.in where you can access all the labs so we have almost 100 labs so each lab consists of 10 experiments so in all we have more than 1000 experiments online that is a user resource of labs that is available online so this has been created by the participating institutes such as IIT Delhi Bombay Kanpur and other premier institutes so there is a quality content it has been created with the professors of IIT Bombay so we have virtual labs for every stream of science and engineering there are physical science biomedical bioengineering electrical engineering chemical mechanical computer science and so on so if you can see this graph the numbers indicate the number of labs that are available so as I told you before each lab has at least 10 experiments the benefits for the teacher is that it is a complete learning management system and it is inexpensive it costs nothing you just have to connect to the internet and you can give the training to the students it is mapped with the curriculum so it is nothing out of the syllabus it has been designed with the curriculum keeping in mind it is efficient and useful teaching aid for your classrooms for the students it is motivating them because now there is one-to-one interaction so students are no more performing the practicals in groups they are getting one-to-one interaction with the virtual environment so even before taking the exams or before going to the actual lab this will take the fear out of the students mind and will give them immense confidence to perform the real practicals physical distance is no longer the limit now actually they can access it whenever they want and there is a quality education since it is designed by the IITs also it has a very important features as I discussed it is self-evaluation students can evaluate themselves on their virtual labs so it works like this there is a physical lab this is a schema of the remote trigger lab there is a remote located instrument which is connected to internet and in turn the users remote users access the lab so whatever the we conduct the field trials and whatever the data is we get from teachers and the students we take it back to the development team and we keep on iterating this stuff so that we improve the quality of the virtual labs that we have so the current status of the project is that in the we are in the now the second phase the first pilot phase had almost 10 labs as a proof of concept it was liked by the in the trial field trial we conducted by all the institutions now at this stage we have more than 100 labs and more than 1000 experiment we have more than 35 remote triggered labs that is available so the spread so far is more than 50,000 students have been trained more than 1000 faculty members have been trained more than 100 colleges have been covered and more than 36 workshops has been conducted across the nation students feedback have been excellent to very good that is a good achievement for the virtual lab so they are actually using the virtual labs so we encourage the other participating institutes the remote look remote centers if you wish to be a part of virtual labs we have this procedure where you send us invite us to conduct a small workshop after which we conduct a workshop you have to express the interest to join with the virtual labs and then we establish nodal centers across the cities and these nodal centers in turn train their students and they can also call the other colleges nearby and train the other colleges as well so in this way we try to reach at the grass root level in training the students in the virtual labs so the advantages of being a nodal center is that the college you will be on the ICT national map of MHRD taken project just like the other projects of ICT you will get the technical and financial feedback from the IT Bombay to train your students and to conduct the projects and as a nodal center the college will be happy with the other colleges as well so it's the kind of social educational responsibility that your college will have in training these students thanks a lot any questions