OVERVIEW

Virtual Labs project is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). For the first time, such an initiative has been taken-up in remote‐experimentation. Under Virtual Labs project, over 100 Virtual Labs consisting of approximately 700+ web-enabled experiments were designed for remote-operation and viewing. The intended beneficiaries of the projects are:

• All students and Faculty Members of Science and Engineering Colleges who do not have access to good lab‐facilities and/or instruments.
• High‐school students, whose inquisitiveness will be triggered, possibly motivating them to take up higher‐studies. Researchers in different institutes who can collaborate and share resources.
• Different engineering colleges who can benefit from the content and related teaching resources.

OBJECTIVES

• To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars.
• To enthuse students to conduct experiments by arousing their curiosity. This would help them in learning basic and advanced concepts through remote experimentation.
• To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.
• To share costly equipment and resources, which are otherwise available to limited number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distances

VIRTUAL LABS AT DON BOSCO COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Don Bosco College of Engineering is a nodal center for IIT Bombay for virtual labs from January 2019. Being a part of this project our Institute has been given various opportunities such as contribution to Vlabs through pedagogy design lab development and student internships, jointly with IIT Bombay.
DBCE as the Nodal Centre of the Virtual Labs, has been making effective use of the Virtual Labs platform in the execution of e-learning strategies for maintaining continuity of academic activities
In order to spread this mission of ICT aided experimental learning, Don Bosco College of Engineering has also conducted workshops at other Institutes to spread awareness by giving complete hands on training on how to use Virtual Labs.