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Technology for Skill Development Ammachi Labs by Mr Ajay Balakrishnan
- 1. Technology for Skill Development By Mr Ajay Balakrishnan Manager - Content Development, Ammachi Labs Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala Presented at National Consultation on Open Educational Resources for Skill Development Organised by Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi In Collaboration with: KNI Trust, Gurgaon Venue: Hotel Royal Plaza, New Delhi Date: 28 November, 2014
- 5. VIDEO
- 6. Learning Components Instructional videos Interactive Activities Simulators/ Simulations Assessment Manuals
- 9. Amrita Open Access - CVET courses MHRD, Govt. of India • 5 regional languages • Online, tablet support • Unrestricted access through www.mysangham.com
- 10. Skill Database 4 DOF Linear haptic device – APTAH 2 DOF Rotary haptic device - CHAKRA 10 Simulators Applications – Training, Assessment and Certification
- 11. Haptics - Characterization •Need of Expert •Safety measures •Cost of Tool •Portability •Technique intensive, Skill intensive Tool Selection Criteria for Haptic simulation •Type of Grasp: Contact, Precision, Power •Workspace •Degrees of Freedom – x,y,z (translation, roll) •Degrees of Force feedback – x,y,z (translation, roll) •Posture while working •Powered or Non Powered Tool Requirement Specifications for Haptic Simulation www.amrita.edu/save 11
- 13. Custom Simulators Bar Bending • Bending exercises for 7 shapes - Square, Rectangle, Circular, Diamond, Triangle, Hexagonal, Crank • Analytics • Training cost reduction by over 50%
- 14. MINOR PROJECTS Amrita Balance Trainer AMBA is developed in collaboration with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) Top Left: Immersive Virtual reality Earthquake simulation using the Oculus Rift Top Right: 3D manipulation for assembly tasks using natural interaction interfaces (example shown is motorcycle assembly) Right: Haptic simulation training for Lumbar Puncture
- 15. Kerala Tamil Nadu MoVE Uttharakhand Chhattisgarh Karnataka Odisha Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh Gujarat Haryana Uttar Pradesh Bihar IMPACT 4000+ trainees, 33 centers in 12 states Tamil Nadu Kerala 28 lacs income earned through individual sales 83% self-employed post-course Pledge amount £16,571 28 Centers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu alone FUNDED JOINTLY BY: AMRITA UNIVERSITY &
- 16. India’s First Female Plumbers Graduates of Ammachi Labs’ Computerized Asst. Plumbing course, Amritapuri, Kerala http://www.amrita.edu/center/ammachi/
- 17. NMEICT Consortium MHRD, Govt. of India • Formed in Jun 2014 • Build e-Content & Simulators for TVET • Driven by NSDC , SSC priorities and based on NOS • 300+ QP aligned courses in 3 years • NMEICT OER Policy • Accessible from single portal • Participation process
- 18. Recommendations for OER e-Content • Alignment to National occupational standards • Availability in local languages • Competency based course design (focus on “do” vs “know”) • Instructional Design to ensure the experience is meaningful, memorable, motivational • Support for Mobile/ tablets, and adoption of standards • Integration of life skills • Downloadable , Editable content (support for localization) • Recognize Prior learning
- 19. THANK YOU
- 20. Training methodology Pre-training • Needs assessment • Classroom orientation • Out-reach events Training • cVET sessions (videos, assessments, interactive workshops, 2D-3D workshops, simulator trainings, etc) • LEE sessions(life skills, social awareness, basic legal information, LEE events in community) • Practical sessions • Final assessment Post-training • Advanced training • Industrial visit • me-SHG formation • Business initiatives & HFAs.com • Apprenticeship & placements
- 21. Bar Bending – pre requisites
- 22. Learning Impact Text/video helpful Stimulated interest Complements Learning Process Learning made easy Enhanced learning 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% Series1 83.33% 75.00% 73.33% 70.00% 68.33% Participants (%) Data based on surveys conducted on 60 participants who attended the Fabric Painting and Plumbing 10-day vocational training courses
- 23. Awards and Recognition Among Top 10 innovators of India - under livelihood sections in Action for India forum in January 2012 (right) Best Skill Development Initiative: NSDC Power to Empower - India’s 1st Skill Enterprise Plan Competition 2013 southern region (below) VET Technology Expert consultative status with National Literacy Mission Authority. MHRD, Govt. of India IT Excellence Appreciation Award, Computer Society of India Citizen's Choice Award in the Digital Learning-Skill Development Initiative category at the National level Conference E-INDIA 2010
- 26. Awards and Recognition The United Nations scours the world looking for the best projects, the most innovative projects, the projects which will have the highest impact. The one we’ve chosen for India is this project, and we chose it because AMMACHI Labs is the most creative way of empowering women. Of all of the projects which the UN funds around the world, this is the one dearest to our heart. It’s the one were most proud of. And it’s the one that we intend to take to the rest of the world so that they can learn from what you have achieved.” - Lise Grande, Head of United Nations in India
- 27. mySangham Education. Employment. Community FUNDED BY: AMRITA UNIVERSITY
Editor's Notes
- AMMACHI Labs a CHI Lab– part of Amrita University managed by MAM At Amrita our guiding principle is that we take up research and projects that has direct impact on the society and primarily the people at the base of the pyramid. Amrita – training over 135 K people in vocational skills ; presence in grass root levels.. We have combined that field expertise with introduction of technology for effective skill development. Formed in 2009, as a pilot project with MHRD to develop and evaluate the use of eLearning and simulators for skill development. We have since then expanded to an organization involved in research, development and validation of technology solutions for skill development.
- When we take VET, the skills are primarily hands on and the trainee must be made ready to face real world scenarios and challenges through imparting the right knowledge, skills and attitudes.. The focus has been on skill transfer can be achieved and we explore and use technologies that serves the purpose. Today Short video that summarizes the key work done at Ammachi labs.. Review the methodoldy & technologies & products/prototypes.. Ammachi labs contribution to open access material.. NMEICT consortium for developing OER for skill development Finally, a summary of our learnings and recommendations.. Short video, that highlights our areas and accomplishments..
- Learning components all work together to provide the learning experience for the student.. instructional videos : interventions based on the level and type of courses interactivity games ; role playing games
- Sakshat Amrita Vocational Education (SAVE )Project: Ammachi labs has developed an end to end training model, from curriculum development to full training courses, including simu- lator software and hardware design, for deploying vocational educational courses to the masses. Ammachi labs has been designated as the Technical Lead for the National Consortium on Vocational Education initiated by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India. Women Empowerment Project funded by the United Nations has been hailed as the most successful project funded by the UN in India. The project has trained over 3605 women in under 3 years in various trades such as plumbing, carpentry, fabric painting, organic cultivation and others all using innovative technology such as haptic simulators and computerized vocational education developed in-house at Ammachi Labs. The women 83% of who are self employed, have earned a total of over 28 Lacs within just the first three months of completion of the training. An outstanding example is the Kickstarter Crowd Funding Project initiated by the Women Empowerment trainees of Kerala and Uttarkashi, who have received funding of 16,571 British Pounds for their “Secret” pillows(pillows that double in to blankets). The Move Project, another successful initiative that has mobile vehicles to carry education to the remotest and most inaccessible locations of the country has been instrumental in training over 700 of the 3000+ trainees of the WE project.
- Objective: get the trainee ready on simulators .. Skill database ; compare student performance with expert performance; give corrective feedback, improve precision, lower costs, safety etc. Define and explain haptics ; haptics LMS ; skills database, cost effective
- Aptah : a device 20 tools ; think of cost savings.. in terms of material, original machine, increasing capacity and giving accurate feedback to students…
- Square, Rectangle, Circular, Diamond, Triangle, Hexagonal, Crank
- Ammachi Labs has created and launched three products APTAH : India’s first haptic simulator for vocational training and skill development. It is being used to teach the use of tools in the plumbing course to the women. MySangham the Online Vocational Education portal that is unique in that it’s a coursera + Facebook+ Naukri.com all rolled in to one. Unlike MOOCs like coursera and udacity, this portal not only provides online courses for vocational education and certification, but also has a social media interface to connect students with teachers in their locality for hands-on training and brings together the industry who can source candidates or offer jobs at the portal. AMBA – Amrita Balance Trainer is a assistive device for physical rehabilitation. It is developed by Ammachi labs in collaboration with Doctors at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and is undergoing trials for studying its effectiveness to help stroke patients who have lost their ability to use their weakened limbs to balance themselves.
- - UNDEF & Amrita University supported the validation and deployment of the technology solutions as part of women empowerment project.
- (2 Mins) Show deployment pictures and Statistics of data from feedback (srividya's slides)
- Amrita – technical lead of consortium..
- Text/video helpful83.33%Stimulated interest75.00%Complements Learning Process 73.33%Learning made easy70.00%Enhanced learning68.33%
- Awarded “Best Skill Development Initiative in South India” by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) Technical Lead for National Consortium on Vocational Education – MHRD, Govt. of India VET Expert consultative status with National Literacy Mission Authority, MHRD, Govt. of India Recipient of the E- India award in 2010
- Ammachi Labs strongest suit is its numerous collaborations and collaborative projects with distinguished faculty and researchers from India and abroad. Prof. Ken Salisbury of Stanford University and Prof. Ron Lumia of U. of New Mexico have visited Ammachi Labs for extended periods and guided researchers and helped design our Mtech Robotics and Automation Program. We have a Ammachi labs researcher currently at TU Munich working on Haptics rendering at Dr. Eckehard Stienbach’s lab and another researcher leaving next month to EPFL to work on a collaborative project at Dr. Pierre Dillenbourg’s lab
- Dr. Margeret Minsky, Dr.Marvin Minsky’s daughter has worked and a published research paper with Ammachi Labs researchers.
- Awards and recognitions UN has titled Ammachi Labs Women Empowerment Project as the “Model for the World” QSR World University Rankings Newsletter acknowledged “ Amrita University at the forefront of Women Empowerment”