IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati,
IIT Roorkee, IIIT Hyderabad, Amrita University, Dayalbagh University, NITK
Surathkal, COE Pune
Motivation
Physical Distances
Limit Doing
Experiments
Sharing of Costly
Equipment
Proliferation of
Quality Labs
The Basic Idea
Remote
User 1
Internet
Physical Lab
(located remotely)
Remote
User 2
Remote
User n
Objectives of the Virtual Lab Project

To provide remote-access to labs in various
disciplines of Science and Engineering.
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To cater to students at the UG level, PG
level as well as to research scholars.
To enable the students to learn at their own
pace, and to arouse their curiosity.
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To provide a complete Learning Management System that
includes web-resources, video-lectures, animated
demonstrations and self evaluation.
Types of Virtual Labs
Remote
Triggered
Measurement
Based
Modeling /
Simulation
Based
Intended Users
 College Students who do not have access to
good lab-facilities.

High-school students, whose inquisitiveness
will be triggered, possibly motivating them to
take up higher-studies.
 Researchers in different institutes who can
collaborate / share equipment and resources.

Different engineering colleges, who can benefit
from the content and related teaching
resources.
Participating Institutes

IIT Delhi
IIT Guwahati
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IIT Bombay
IIIT Hyderabad
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IIT Kanpur
Amrita University
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IIT Kharagpur
Dayalbagh University
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IIT Madras
NITK Surthkal
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IIT Roorkee
COE Pune
Broad Areas for Virtual Labs
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Electronics and Communication Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Biomedical and Biotechnology Engineering
Chemical Sciences
Physical Sciences
All areas of Science and Engineering are covered
Website: www.vlab.co.in
One common website to access all Virtual Labs
Value Add in a Nutshell
On-demand Labs
[learn at own pace]
Self - Evaluation
[pre /post lab quiz]
Integrated Learning
[contents at one place]
Animation/Video Tut
[better insight]
Freedom to make mistakes
[can experiment with experiments]
Virtual Labs - A Complete Learning Management System
S. No.
DISCIPLINE
No. of Labs
1
Electronics & Communication Engineering
17
2
Civil Engineering
09
3
Electrical Engineering
12
4
Biotech & Biomedical Engineering
23
5
Physical Sciences
09
6
Chemical Engineering
04
7
Chemical Sciences
11
8
Computer Science & Engineering
23
9
Mechanical Engineering
08
Total
116
Virtual Labs ‘Launch’
 Virtual Labs have been dedicated to the nation
on 23rd Feb, 2012.
Impact of the Project
NATIONAL IMPACT
Field Trials conducted in
over 125 Colleges
More than 1500
Faculty Trained
Participating
Institutes
150 Workshops
Conducted
More than 200000
Students Trained
WORKSHOPS
Training /Field Trials are Underway
Website Hits (Google Analytics)
Success Indicators
Success Indicator
Number of Virtual Labs developed
Number of Students using Virtual Labs
Number of Teachers trained on Virtual Labs
Number of Engineering labs
Typical daily usage of Labs
Before
0
0
0
0
0
After
Over 110
Over 2,00,000
Over 1500
Over 100
Over 800 Usages
Number of Sessions and Users in Month of Sept, 2014
No. of Sessions / Users >>
1400
1200
1000
800
Sessions
600
Users
400
200
Sept, 2014
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Days of Month ( Sept ) >>
Objectives of Phase-II
o To maintain/upkeep the existing operational virtual labs.
o To port Virtual Labs to a common platform and host it on
a national server.
o To create a ‘single package’ of simulation-based Virtual
Labs to be distributed to users.
Objectives of Phase-II
o To identify the gap areas between the typical syllabi of
technical universities and the existing labs.
o To convert labs not based on free and open source
technologies to open source.
o To port the existing labs to Mobile platform Tablets.
For Effectiveness
Flipping a book will
not make you learn
reading it will !
Just clicking through Virtual lab experiments will not make
you learn … Doing it will !
Nodal Centers in Kerala
C.M.S College, Kottayam D.B Pamba College, Parumala Marthoma
College ,Thiruvalla S.B. College, Changanacherry S.D.
College,Alappuzha St. Stephen's College,Pathanapuram Farook
college , Kozhikode Govt.Victoria College,Palakkad Assumption
college,Changanassery St. Joseph's College for Woman, Alappuzha
NSS College, Manjeri Sree Narayana College,Kannur Nirmala
College, Muvattupuzha BJM Govt. College, Chavara Sree Sankara
College,Kalady Mohandas college of Engg. Tech.,TVM Sacred Heart
College, Thevara,Kochi St.Joseph's College, Moolamatam
Devamatha College,Kuravilangad,Kottayam Mar Athansius college
for advanced studies ,Tiruvalla St. Xavier's college for Women,Aluva
S.N. College, Cherthala
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