International Workshop on Virtual and Remote Laboratories
Amritapuri Campus, Amrita University, Kerala – January 5, 2012
We are delighted to invite you to the International Workshop on Virtual and Remote Laboratories to be held at Amrita University, Kerala on January 5, 2012.
The workshop aims to provide an effective and established international forum for discussion and dissemination of recent advances and innovations in use of Virtual and Remote Laboratories and ICT enabled education.
On January 5, 2012 a hands on workshop will be jointly conducted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharaghpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati, IIIT Hyderabad, NIIT Suratkal, COE Pune, Dayalbagh Univ in Virtual laboratory technology for enhancing education covering undergraduate and postgraduate syllabi.
The areas covered will be:
- Biotechnology
- Civil Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical and Communication Engineering
Proposed Topics
- International Demonstrations
- Presentations from leading institutions
- Interactive session
- Digital Classrooms
- Open forum
Any student or teacher at anytime, anywhere can access these online virtual laboratory experiments. We invite heads of institute, Deans and HOD’s and take back technologies of high relevance showcased at this event at no cost to their institutions. You can also join the Virtual Laboratories project by becoming a nodal center. Please find more information here.
The workshop will introduce participants to the world of virtual laboratories and highlight the various benefits of implementing virtual labs in your educational institute. The use of virtual laboratories have benefitted higher education institutions in many ways from being positively regraded by NAAC for having implemented ICT-enabled education methodologies to having students perform more experiments in less time but with a greater clarity of the scientific concepts involved.
In collaboration with

In Press
Virtual laboratories in mainstream education, The Hindu
Contact Us
Kannan Surendran
Virtual and Accessible Laboratories for Universalizing Education (VALUE)
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus
e: virtual_labs@amrita.edu
tel: +91 476 280 4519
m: 0944 600 7135