The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Goa is setting up virtual labs to provide its students with real life experience as the institute, operating from its temporary campus at Farmagudi, is dealing with space constraint. Meanwhile, work is on NIT’s new campus at Cuncolim.
The virtual labs are being set up under a programme of the Union Ministry of human resource development.
“Virtual labs, an MHRD initiative, is an e-learning platform that provides students exposure to practical laboratory experiments. NIT Goa is a nodal centre of NITK Surathkall for the ‘virtual lab’ programme and through this, NIT Goa will open new avenues of experimental learning to the students and faculty members of the institution and the region as a whole,” said NIT director Gopal Mugeraya.
“On January 23, we will host a workshop on virtual labs for representatives of all engineering institutes in Goa, to expose them also to this idea,” he added.
In this mission of ICT-aided experimental learning, NITK Surathkal is among the 12 chosen institutes in the country and is engaged in the development, maintenance and outreach of the online resources under the virtual lab labs project, reports the Times of India.
Virtual labs is a programme under the ‘national mission on education through information and communication technology’, which aims at facilitating learning of engineering and sciences through experimentation in a virtual environment at the preferred pace, place and period of the learner, Murgaya said.
“The virtual labs will come to the aid of undergraduate and PhD students of NIT Goa. The student fraternity of NIT Goa will be able to learn the remote experimentations of the state-of-the-art concepts with the help of the virtual laboratory set-up. Additionally, the faculty and students of NIT Goa will acquire virtual access to latest softwares and sophisticated hardware,” Murgaya added.
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