Amrita University develops e-learning system

Updated on: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bangalore: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), a university established by a humanitarian leader Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), is creating a revolution in the use of e-learning for higher education. Amrita has developed a new multi-modal multimedia e-learning system called A-VIEW, which uses a network of four high-resolution displays.

With an aim to addresses the most pressing issue of higher education in India today, namely, the shortage of highly qualified teachers, A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive eLearning World) works over the network to bring classroom teaching, live from teachers at reputed institutions to eager students at numerous locations all over India.
The feature of A-VIEW is its ability to use: not one but four high resolution displays, providing simultaneous high quality delivery of video, presentation slides, interactive whiteboard and access to latest references, all at the click of a mouse. The system comes live with the classroom like interactions and question-answer sessions emerging in a natural way between the students and the teacher.

All in all, this provides for a classroom experience that is both satisfying and fruitful to both the teacher and the taught. Technically, the communication network bandwidths requirements are especially engineered to be moderate so as to permit remote sites to effectively participate.

Amrita University develops e-learning system

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