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Innovation in Language(s) Education

Mangoreader:Brings Books to Life
Organisation: Mangosense pvt ltd
Website: www.mangoreader.com
Objective: MangoReader aims to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun, using videos, quizzes, games,  animation, audios, collaboration, sharing, discussions and providing a better learning experience. We want to build an ecosystem where publishers, authors, educators, instructors and content curators can come together and build better content collaboratively focusing on their strengths. This provides better value proposition for students as they get better learning material and through the platform, can now engage with content, discuss and collaborate with each other and experience the real world learning through an online platform
Description: With MangoReader – the vision is to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun, using videos, quizzes, games, animation, audios, collaboration, sharing, discussions and providing a better learning experience.
Target Group: Kids and students
Achievements:
• Improved understanding of language
• Higher time spend learning
• Improved engagement

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Language Learning Labs
Organisation: Sri Guru Harkrishan Sr Sec Public School, Amritsar
Website: www.sghpsgtroad.com
Objective: To make education system more clearly accountable for the funding it receives
Description: Innovation in language education has become a major growth area in recent years. It includes all the four skills of a language that is listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, increasing student engagement, voice thread motivates students to express themselves in the target language and collaborate with each other in a comfortable setting
Target Group: Up to 1500 people
Achievements:
• To increase language awareness
• Effective and efficient communication
• Activating self discovering

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Enabling Correct Pronunciations Across Cultures
Organisation: School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Website: www.usm.my
Objective: To design and develop an interactive multimedia student-cantered learning management system to support learning of correct pronunciation among non-native English speakers
Description: Epronounce project explored the innovative use of phonetic symbols with full human face gestures to help non-native English speakers acquire correct pronunciation as they tend to carry the phonological processes of their mother tongue to the pronunciation of English language.
Target Group: Elementary and primary school students
Achievements:
• Systematically developed a repository of more than 1,500 sample word pronunciation systematically following the syllable-word positions, and open and closed syllable structures
• Successfully designed and developed interactive record and play features with novel online submission for every individual recorded pronunciation

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Tablet Based English Langauge Lab
Organisation: Liqvid eLearning Services Pvt Ltd
Website: www.liqvid.com
Objective: To enhance English communication skills especially spoken English skills of school students
Description: The tablet based portable English language Lab is a trolley that comes with centralised charging, in-built Wi-Fi device
and can house up to 40 tablets loaded with English language content. There is no investment needed for a physical space for classroom/lab and an institute can run a complete day’s class without any interruption, even in the absence of electricity.
Target Group: Schools
Achievements:
• Enables less confident speakers to express uninhibitedly in front of fellow learners
• Allows for creation of user generated videos that can be shared for immediate and active feedback in the classroom

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Learning Values Through Tamil Songs
Organisation: Gateway The Complete School
Website: www.gatewaytheschool.in
Objective: To inculcate among students a sense of pride in learning Tamil and also values of life and various forms of learning language through songs of the past and present film music
Description: To inculcate the values of life various Tamil movie songs were gathered from the late 1940?s till date of all the songs that carry values for life and for learning school based particularly IGCSE based skills for language development
Target Group: Children in the age group of 8 to 15
Achievements:
• Children easily remembered the objectives of learning values,
• Children score well in tests using these tools

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Innovation in English Language Education
Organisation: Jamnabai Narsee School
Website: www.jns.ac.in
Objective: To develop and integrate the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. To develop the skill of communication through written correspondence
Description: The English department focuses on inculcating well defined linguistic skills by providing an atmosphere conducive to creative thinking and learning. The teaching methodologies used in the classrooms are innovative, thought provoking and instill in the students an insatiable thirst for knowledge. An array of interesting activities and evaluation worksheets are prepared to test the  students speaking, reading, writing, listening and comprehension skills.
Target Group: Students of Grade 5 to 12
Achievements:
• Concept formation and awearness of English education
• Variety in classroom stimuli

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Innovations in Hindi Curriculum
Organisation: The Cathedral and John Connon School
Website: www.cathedral-school.com
Objective: The curriculum gives a holistic experience of learning to the children
Description: The children are taught to read using the phrasing technique. The “10 minute daily grammar” is conducted to teach grammatical concepts and generate. The aural curriculum includes audio-visual resources – edited Bollywood songs, contemporary
poetry and short Hindi films. The creative writing curriculum is divided into creative thinking and creative writing.
Target Group: Children of age 7 – 9 years
Achievements:
• Children have expressed their eagerness to participate in activities conducted in Hindi, be it Quiz, discussions, skits, word games, etc
• The Hindi teachers have been able to adapt to the new methods and handling a variety of teaching material, given support as and when needed

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INNOVATION IN TEACHING PEDAGOGY

Hole-in-the-Wall Learning Station

Organisation: Hole-in-the-wall Education Limited (HiWEL)
Website: www.hole-in-the-wall.com
Objective:
The main objective of HiWEL is to bridge the digital divide by offering exciting and effective education and learning experiences through innovative technologies to the underserved groups
Description: HiWEL established its pedagogical innovations as Hole-in-the-wall Learning Station (LS), to realise its vision of using technology as a tool for empowerment by providing free and unrestricted computer access and educational content to children in open unsupervised settings. HiWEL is committed to the mission of bridging the digital divide by offering exciting and effective education and learning experiences to the underserved groups.
Target Group: Children in the age group of 6-14 years
Achievements:
• HiWEL has delivered over 600 Learning Stations
• The recipient of 10 awards in total, the latest ones being; e-India 2009 – Best Civil
society/Development agency digitalLEARNING initiative -2009 by CSDMS

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The Hands-on Way to Learn Maths

Organisation: Next Education India Pvt Ltd
Website: www.nexteducation.in
Implementing Agency: Next Education India Pvt Ltd
Objective: To offer a vehicle to train students to think, analyse and articulate logically
Description: MathsLab is an innovative platform where multiple teaching and learning aids are available for teachers to explain the various abstract Mathematical concepts and thereby allowing students to develop deep insights of the concepts.Based on the ideology of Learn – Analyse – Build, our MathsLab features pedagogically appropriate content, where students can learn through activities, hands-on models and simulations to gain holistic understanding.
Target Group: K-10 students
Achievements: It has been awarded the prestigious eINDIA K-12 Public Choice Award for its Maths lab in the Interactive Solution Provider category at the eINDIA conference 2012

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Dual Training System

Organisation: Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd
Website: www.volkswagen.co.in
Implementing Agency: Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd
Objective: To develop students in the niche trade and makes them employable by the automotive industry
Description: Volkswagen India has adopted three-year German Dual System in Mechatronics first time in India for vocational training, which imparts theoretical and practical exposure to the trainees. Volkswagen in Germany is contributing for decades in such Dual System German Dual System is also built up with an effective progress monitoring evaluation system, which ensures whether the relevant learning took place or not at the assigned places and assessed through the feedback form.
Target Group: Students of 12th preferably socio-economically poor students from the nearby villages
Achievements:
• Tremendous response and acceptance from everyone
• Recognition received from DVET,Maharashtra Government and NCVT, GoI

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Blended Model of Learning and TrainingOrganisation: Simplilearn Solutions Pvt Ltd
Website: www.simplilearn.com
Objective: To consistently provide best in class quality education to working professionals via robust technology platform with a focus to achieve 100 percent customer delight
Description: With study centers across the globe, Simplilearn.com offers over 50 certification courses in Project Management, IT Services Management, IT Security Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, and Technology Certification.
Target Group: Working professionals
Achievements:
Introduced blended model of learning to the certification training industry
Till date Simplilearn has trained 50000 aspirants across 145+ countries 

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Hands-on Learning

Organisation: Mexus Education Pvt Ltd
Website: www.mexuseducation.com
Objective: To introduce basic creative thinking and problem solving skills in students for any situation
Description: iKen D&T Lab is an innovation that facilitates schools with the best way of getting students to learn science by testing out scientific theories in a practical space with experiments,problem solving and project based activities being the crux of learning. Complementing the existing school lab, the iKen D&T Lab is a perfect education supplement that provides student a practical learning experience through hands-on activities in science and technology.
Target Group: Schools from class 4 to 9
Achievements:
• Successfully running D&T Labs in more than 80 schools,covering all parts of India
• Students from D&T lab are coming out with their own inventions such as Rain Water Harvesting model”, Rocket Launcher, Solar Powered Flour Mill

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e-CAMPUS Initiative

Online Counseling System for Engineering
Organisation: Manipal University
Website: www.manipal.edu
Objective: To bring transparency in admission process and seamless counseling process across multiple
counseling centers
Description: Online counseling is for the students to take admission for engineering at one of the three
Manipal Group Universities namely Manipal University, Manipal University, Jaipur and Manipal University,
Sikkim. Online counseling takes place across four venues: Manipal, Bangalore, Majitar (Sikkim)
and Jaipur
Target Group: Students across India and eligible NRIs engineering aspirants
Achievements:
• User will have single view of the process which will also ensure Transparency in admission process
• Highly reliable with data replication spanning multiple cities

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Educating Women
Organisation: Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University
Website: www.jvwomensuniv.com
Objective: To amalgamate IT tool in academics like admission, teaching, mentoring, examination and library to non academics like finance, hostel and security
Description: Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University has gained approval of statutory bodies like UGC, PCI, BCI, COA, DEC, etc. University provides authorised certifications of IBM, Microsoft, RCSA. University has training tie ups with NIIT, Purple Leap and Placements tie-ups with Monster, HT Shine and also enjoys membership of FICCI, CII, ICCI, ASSOCHAM, NEN,ACU, IEE, Rotary International and many other social
organizations
Target Group: Uneducated Women
Achievements: Won Women Education and Livelihood (WEAL) Award and B School Leadership Award by Dainink Bhasker
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Examination Information System

Organisation: FTK-Centre for Information Technology
Website: jmi.ac.in
Implementing Agency: Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University)
Objective: It is very effective in quantifying the work loads, bringing accountability, transparency and efficiency in an Institution. It minimises the time required for declaration of exam results. It is cloud-based and can be accessed from anywhere. The system serves as an effective model that can be replicated by any educational Institution
Description: The Examination Information System (EIS) being presented in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi is a unique and innovative modulem, which is also part of the University ERP. EIS addresses all issues related to the examination. The system provides timely alerts to users through SMS/email and also supports synchronous communication between online users.
Target Group: University/college teachers including evaluators, examiners, tabulators /administrators, students/employers/general public
Achievements:
• Successful preparation and declaration of semester results of all PG courses
• Successful implementation of the system for all UG / Diploma / Certificate
• A number of University processes related to examination were re-engineered

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Active Learning

Organisation: Gujarat Technological University
Website: www.gtu.ac.in
Objective: To focus on motivating faculties to develop innovative, animated, digitised course ware using multimedia techniques like Power Point Slides,preparing Videos, small animations, pictures, etc for better understanding of the subject
Description: The Activ(e)- Learning project, was initiated by the Vice Chancellor, Dr Akshai Aggarwal keeping in mind the changes that need to be implemented in the traditional chalk-talk method of teaching
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Within a span of 10 months, GTU, ALCE has been successful in content creation for all the targeted subjects
• Under ALCE GTU has received almost 20,000 graphical animated presentations from below mentioned 15 affiliated colleges e-CAMPUS initiative
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e-school INITIATIVE

Blended Model of Learning and Training
Organisation: DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur
Website: www.davcsp.org
Objective: To empower the students by providing e-study materials to them, and to cater to the need of the 21st century learners all the teachers are made proficient in IT – enabled teaching through orientations and workshops on regular intervals
Description: Under this initiative, the students use Core i3 Systems with LAN connection. They prepare and present PPTs on different concepts. Subject teachers prepare PPT and have Audio-visual classes to introduce new concepts. Regular online courses are taken by them to keep themselves upgraded.
Target Group: Students, teachers, staffs and parents
Achievements:
• Teaching-Learning process became interactive, interesting
and vibrant
• Go Green Environment with limited paper works

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Georgean e-School Initiative

Organisation: St George’s School
Website: www.sgs.edu.in
Objective: To bring about effective, diagnostic and remedial learning through interesting e-tools providing opportunities to the students to improve upon their domain knowledge and aid in self assessment
Target Group: Students, teaching staff and their families
Description: St George’s school organises and integrates technological resources to ensure effective learning. Students are able to gain knowledge through attractive visual and audio representation of each topic that increases the attention span of students. e-Learning activities have aided in building investigative acumen of the students, making them high quality global learners.
Achievements:
• The school has received global training award – ‘Golden Peacock National Training Award for 2011’
• The classrooms have become more interesting, techno-savvy and innovative

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e-Initiatives at Greenwood
Organisation: Greenwood Public School
Website: www.greenwoodindia.org
Description: This initiative includes ICR Classrooms, NIIT Nguru IT Wizard, Educomp Smart Classes, English Language Lab, e-Library.
Objective: To sharpen up students with latest technologies
Target Group: From Classes V – XII

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Affordable Education at Unexplored Rural Areas
Organisation: Calorx Public School
Website: www.cps.calorx.org
Implementing Agency: Calorx education and research foundation
Objective: Development of the children, and creating national assets and global citizens through strong values of dedication, devotion and compassion
Description: Calorx Public School, Rajula District, Amreli was started on 26th June 2010 from Nursery to Class V to provide NCERT syllabus in English Medium education to the children of Rajula which is growing as Port City in Saurastra region of Gujarat. Today the school is up to class VIII and each and every class is equipped with ‘smart class’ where syllabus mapped lesson plan, teaching aid, CCE testing are provided.
Target Group: All the areas where English education is not available
Achievements:
• Calorx is first choice
• Provided affordable English medium CBSE education
• Catered to far flung villages
• Successfully designed and developed interactive record and play features with novel online submission for every individual recorded pronunciation

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e-School Programme
Organisation: Doon Public School
Website: www.doonpublicschool.in
Objective: To enable the students to devote complete attention towards the concepts by making learning more interactive and
to bring innovations in teaching
Description: Starting with the digital library, the school has 15000 books uploaded in the computers. It includes the latest
Encyclopedia, talking dictionary and thesaurus. Through talking dictionary, the students understand the meanings and pronunciation of the words. Digital library creates an augmented learning environment where technology is used to aim at maximising the child’s participation in the learning process
Target Group: Students of pre-primary to class 12, teachers and parents
Achievements:
• Students learn in a self directed way
• Our initiative to introduce the digital facilities in the school for education has enabled us to win the ‘Best ICT Laboratory’ in school- Digital Learning School Education for the year 2010

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Online Interactive Virtual School Portal
Organisation: Dr Kedar Nath Modi Foundation
Website: www.knmodifoundation.com
Implementing Agency: Super Infosoft Pvt Ltd
Objective: To make the students learn to use latest technologies of using the PCs, Laptops and Tablets for effective learning purposes and be abreast with technological advancements
Description: SIS’s Online Interactive Virtual School Portal initiative is taken to make teaching /learning captivating in the classroom delivery system to make the lessons innovative and enjoyable for enabling learning.
Target Group: Children from the age of 5 to 19 years
Achievements:
• Students who did not like to do home work, now look forward to doing that
• This system of teaching has helped the students to remember lessons easily as its always easy to remember what you have seen
• Teachers find this easy and effective as definitely this system is better than read out of book system

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Advancement in Information Technology
Organisation: Holy Heart Presidency School
Website: www.holyheartschools.org
Objective: To develop a powerful medium of formal and informal learning environment which will empower, those who encounter difficulties in traditional learning situations
Description: The school has taken a keen initiative in implementing the project of advancement in Information Technology. Around 90 classrooms have been provided with the facility of Educomp Smart Class system. The teachers are utilising the latest educational strategies in order to update the students with the latest learning concepts.
Target Group: School children of age from 2 to 18 years
Achievements:
• digitalLEARNING Shiksha Ratan Award 2013 by State Government of Punjab
• Students and teachers being updated with the latest education system
• Improvement in board results by leaps and bounds
• Variety in classroom stimuli
• Outreach programme to initiate awearness of English education

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Technology Aided Lessons
Organisation: Oakridge International School, Newton Campus
Website: www.oakridge.in
Objective: The basic objective of this is to cater to the needs of this generation and facilitate deeper learning and understanding
Description: As the e-school initiative states that e-Schools are rich in technology and takes advantage of the modern innovations to ensure that children get the best education possible. Oakridge International School, Newton Campus, involves all stakeholders to be a part of the technology initiative. This year, it has taken a leap by making the classrooms, aided with projectors. Students are given technology aided lessons.
Target Group: Students from Pre-primary to Grade 6
Achievements:
• Various school connects, help students to learn collaboratively
• Increases thinking skills, creativity and boosts confidence

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Étude-An Initiative for e-Learning
Organisation: Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre
Website: www.spsec.co.in
Objective: Liberating the minds of students, thus collaborative learning along with new innovative teaching methods is the hallmark of our institution
Description: The school introduced the project ‘é-tude’, an e-Learning based programme to incorporate technical knowledge in their day to day life so as to lead the world in scientific and technical race. The students have carved a niche for them by energetically participating in different national and international competitions.
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Computer based testing (CBT) and on demand test (OTE) schemes for students
• The annual techno-fest ‘TECHNIKA’ and a Mega Science Festival “GENESIS” generate a lot of interest in technology, innovations and robotics

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GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Competence Development in Product Lifecycle Management

Organisation: JSS academy of technical education
Website: www.jssaten.ac.in
Description: The Competency Development Centre established in the year 2003 complements the syllabus-driven engineering education by imparting additional engineering skills that lead to better employability and encourage students to do projects that increase their depth of thinking for better research-oriented careers
Objective: To build competencies in students and working professionals in the understanding and use of PLM tools that enhances their employability in the field of Designing and Manufacturing
Target Group: Students, working professionals and unemployed graduates
Achievements:
• 200+ students trained and sent in the industry to further their careers in Designing and Engineering
• Over 600 hours of step by step course material prepared and used for trainings

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International Exposure Program

Organisation: Dewan VS Group of Institutions
Website: www.dewaninstitutes.org
Description: DVSGI’s International Exposure Program is the way institution is attempting to empower its students to help them gain the international and intercultural knowledge with mutual respect .The program is to promote diversity of ideas, culture and skills across campus.
Objective: To promote critical thinking and also to manage change and create solutions to pressing problems ethically
Target Group: Students, Teachers, Administrator, Alumni and Community.
Achievements:
• Students started focusing on their responsibility to get involved in their community through Philanthropic activities
• Empowered the youth through technical and management education and providing professional leadership

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Cisco Networking Academy

Organisation: Cisco Systems India Private Limited
Website: www.cisco.com
Implementing Agency: Cisco Networking Academy
Objective: To develop ICT skills among students through the programme
Description: Cisco Networking Academy is a global education programme that teaches students how to design, build,  troubleshoot, and secure computer networks for increased access to career and economic opportunities in communities around the world. Networking Academy provides online courses, interactive tools, and hands-on learning activities to help individuals prepare for ICT and networking careers in virtually every type of industry.
Target Group: College-level students with or without prior technical knowledge, women, underserved sections and people with special needs

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Internationalisation of the Hindustan University

Organisation: Hindustan University
Website: www.hindustanuniv.ac.in
Objective: The goal is to turn Hindustan University into an international institution, where foreign students, teachers, and employers can deal with their counterparts and come to understand Indian beliefs, ideas, work approaches and practices, as well as social and cultural habits and lifestyles
Description: Hindustan University has established collaborations and associations with various universities across the globe for various courses in technology, management and at Doctoral level. These include in the fields of research, technology exchange programmes, faculty exchange programmes, and students exchange programmes at bachelor, master and doctoral levels. The collaborations are spread across academic and research based specialties.
Target Group: Faculty and students
Achievements:
• Connectivity with NASA by way of internship and competitions
• Created international internship opportunities
• Implementing over 20 international collaboration and having our programmes recognised as international level

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MULTIMEDIA CONTENT FOR K-12 EDUCATION

Digitally Simple
Organisation: Pearson Education Services
Implementing Agency: Pearson Education Services
Website: www.pearsoneducationservices. com
Objective: To convert the traditional classrooms into interactive classroom Description: DigitALly is the teaching tool that helps teachers manage an open repository of learning objects that are multimedia-enabled and syllabus-specific. The multmedia content helps in making the classroom learning more engaging – resulting in better understanding and retention of concepts. It also empowers teachers to customise their teaching sessions, keeping the learners’ pace in mind.
Target Group: Teachers and students
Achievements:
• DigiClass is based on Cognitive Learning and reiterates the relationship between the known and to be
learnt by associating new material with something familiar
• DigitALly is a Teacher Centric Application for classrooms and the emphasis is on teacher led learning
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Affordable Education
Organisation: LFX Technolgies Pvt Ltd
Website: www.learningmantraa.com
Objective: LearningMantraa is set to make a difference, effectively penetrating the education sector
Description: A K-12 e-content initiative provides K12 content (Science, EVS, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics), which is not only affordable but with retainer ship rights for clients. In 2010, LFX Technologies recognised this need for a cost effective yet quality digital content for schools, especially in rural areas of India.
Target Group: K-12 Segment in Rural Areas
Achievements
• Reached over half a million users in a time span of one year
• Reached out to remote rural areas for providing digital education in K-12 segment
• Provided K-12 content free of cost to NGOs working in the field of development of under privileged women and children
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The Knowledge Pool
Organisation: Harbinger Knowledge Products
Website: www.harbingerknowledge.com
Description: Raptivity is an interactivity building tool, which helps in creating learning content without any programming. It has a diverse set of 180+ customisable interactions (Multimedia based) across categories like games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and many more, which helps in adding a new dimension to learning
Objective: To offer a platform to build an interaction without any complex coding or programming
Target Group: Instructional Designers, Course Creators, e-learning and Training Professionals, Subject Matter Experts
Achievements: Received various awards such as United States Patent on March 29, 2011, Best Rapid eLearning Tool at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012, and Learning and Technology Impact Award in the Games and Simulations Category
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Smart-class Content Development
Organisation: Educomp Solutions Ltd
Website: www.educomp.com
Objective: The Objective of the Educomp SmartClass content development project is to create a content repository for all subjects, and all classes from Kindergarten to 12th
Description: The Educomp SmartClass content development project is the creation of a repository of rich media educational content that is transforming the teaching processes across India. The Educomp Smartclass Content repository consists of digital materials to assist teachers inside the classroom.
Target Group: Teachers and students
Achievements:
• The content is now available in over 10,000 schools in the country, and reaches approximately 5.3 million students
• An independent study conducted by Dun & Bradstreet Information Services in February 2010, found that: Attentiveness was found to be higher when the digital content was played in the classroom
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Non Government Sector Initiative in Education

Skill Development Training Programme
Organisation: Centre for Entrepreneurship Development Madhya Pradesh (CEDMAP)
Website: www.cedmapindia.org
Objective: The prime objective of the project was to impart appropriate trainings to all un-skilled, semi-skilled
household assistants
Description: The District Urban Development Agency (DUDA), Ujjain and Directorate of Town Administration and Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh selected CEDMAP as its Implementing Agency (IA) for their prestigious Skill Development Training Programme in MP. Target Group: Un-skilled, semiskilled household assistants and workers
Achievements:
• CEDMAP’s success has greatly contributed to bringing in remarkable change in the socio-economic
conditions of their families
• Skoch Financial Inclusion Award 2013 along with the Certificate of Merit for Gender Empowerment under
Mukhyamantri Shehri Gharelu Kamkaji Mahila Yojana

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Imparting Quality Education

Organisation: Shri Ram Education Trust
Website: www.shriramedutrust.com
Objective: To impart quality education and to enable students to lead their lives in a more accomplished way.
Description: Shri Ram Education Trust has been founded with a vision to create, promote, support and manage educational institutes from pre-school to university level. The Trust also envisions contributing to the well being of children, the environment, communities and mankind through well planned activities. Target Group: Middle and lower class
Achievements:
• The trust has opened world class schools across India
• The trust is approaching its goal of the school expansion program in India and abroad

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A Global Educational Initiative
Organisation:
Indian Spinal Injuries Centre
Website: www.isiconline.org
Implementing Agency: International Spinal Cord Society
Objective: This project was aimed at developing a web-based teaching and educational resource

Description: The portal addresses the lack of professional development opportunities for health professionals involved in SCI management due to the limited access of current training and learning material.
Target Group: Health professionals working in the field of SCI, patients/ consumers and families, policy makers and government officials
Achievements:
• Involvement of professionals from around the world has resulted in offers of support to lead on translations into different languages
• The effort has led to the strengthening of discipline specific networks of professionals
• It is successfully helping in spreading awareness about SCI across the globe among the professionals and the patients/ consumers

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Women Empowerment through ICT

Organisation: Abbasi Charitable & Educational Society (ACES)
Website: www.acesabbasi.org
Objective: To enhance the skill levels of women students to prepare
them for employment in the IT, BPO and other industries
Description: ACES is setting up computer training centres in rural areas run by women. This centre will provide women with vocational and job-oriented courses like basic computer training and other courses.
Target Group: Women, adolescent girls and unemployment youth
Achievements:
• Privileged and less privileged poor and Dalit adolescent girls are endowed with employable skills
• Privileged and less privileged poor and Dalit adolescent girls are able to earn their livelihood and upgrade their socio-economic status
• These girls families would be able to acquire assets and livestock and that would lead to reduced poverty, hunger and dependency

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Isha Vidhya

Organisation: PIsha Education
Website: www.ishaeducation.org
Objective: Isha Vidhya aims to provide high quality school education to rural children who cannot otherwise afford it
Description: Isha Vidhya’s English-medium schools open the door for rural children to successfully pursue higher studies and gainful employment. The holistic, activity-based approach nurtures children’s development beyond just academics, ensuring that students realise their full potential and learn in a joyful manner.
Target Group: Economically backward rural children
Achievements:
• Noon-meal kitchen started in all seven schools in Tamil Nadu and nutritious meal at highly subsidised rate provided to all children in 2011
• A new school started at Vanavasi, Salem District in 2010
• Tribal children given full support besides tuition and notebooks

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Training Working Professionals
Organisation: Indian Institute of Financial Accounts & Information Technology
Website: www.iifaindia.weebly.com
Objective: IIFA helps Students attain outstanding Career in the field of Commerce, Finance, Accounts, and IT
Description: IIFA was established in 2009 with the primary objective of providing world class quality accounts & IT and management education to budding professionals,
to create Accountants for the 21st Century.
Target Group: People and handicapped students who are not able to pay the money
Achievements:
• Best Education Award from Uttar Pradesh Education Minister
• “Srestha Gurujan Award” from Jyoti Vidyapeeth University, Rajasthan
• Best Excellence Award from Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd, India

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Empowering Deaf Kids throughMobile Phones
Organisation: Sounds of Silence (SOS)
Website: www.soundsofsilence.in
Objective: The main objective is to break a social stereotype wherein deaf and mute children find it difficult to openly communicate with people due to lack proper training
Description: Sounds of Silence started with a simple idea of giving deaf and mute children old donated mobile Phones for communicating to the outer world. SOS is a leadership initiative which is aimed at freeing a million lives from the pain of silence and lack of expression.
Target Group: Deaf and mute children from the underprivileged sector- age group 12-18 years
Achievements:
• SOS, within a time frame of six months empowers 500+ deaf and mute children in Mumbai and Delhi alone through SMS communication technology target
• SOS has reached from a team of 5 volunteers to 90 volunteers in a span of just two months
• A stupendous Increase in IQ in Deaf/Mute kids within 3 months of time across India

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GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Exploring the World
Organisation: Ryan International School, Greater Noida
Website: www.ryangreaternoida.com
Objective: The project brought about linguistic and cross cultural diversity for all the students enabling them to enhance their communication and visual skills
Description: The students of Ryan International School, Greater Noida effectively accomplished an international project in which the students were able to form global cross cultural bonds. They were also sensitised about multicultural and the intrapersonal aspects of communication.
Target Group: Students of Classes 1to 6
Achievements:
• Global interaction interspersed with cross cultural bonding
• Enhancement of analytical and creative skills globally
• Two way learning by stimulating the collaborative learners

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Study in Migration
Organisation: Bal Bharati Public School
Website: www.bbpsgr.edu.in
Implementing Agency: Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan
Objective: Students explored migration in personal, social and political contexts in their own as well as partner country
Description: German-Indian Classroom is a programme supporting collaboration between Indian and German schools. The
program constitutes project work carried out over a period of one year with two integrated exchange phases. Under its aegis, Bal
Bharati, Ganga Ram and Genoveva Gymnasium, Germany have been working collaboratively for a year on a joint curriculum
plan titled Who we are and where we are going – Self-Images and Migration in Delhi and Cologne.
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Collaborative experiences from the project promise to play a significant role in the development of students’ personalities
• Students from both schools got ample opportunities to learn and appreciate differences as well as similarities in the sociocultural
milieu of both countries

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Academia-industry interface

Pratibha Job Fair

Organisation: Kamala Education Society’s Pratibha Group of Institutes
Website: www.kes.org.in
Description: The project Pratibha Job Fair was initiated for a social cause to benefit the younger generation of India. It is observed that the huge quantum of unemployed or under employed youth in the age bracket of 16-24 needs a platform that will bridge the gap between employment opportunities with potential employers in various sectors and the challenges the youth faces in reaching them.
Objective: To bring together the potential employers and the job seeking candidates under one roof
Target Group: Fresh graduates, Post Graduates, ITI’s, Engineers, Diploma Holders
Achievements: 
• 100+ renowned employers participated with around 10000 openings
• The objective of making employers aware of the need to give opportunities to candidates from small towns/cities was  successfully fulfilled.

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Online Examination Management System

Organisation: Directorate of Information Technology, Govt of Maharashtra
Implementing Agency: School Education and Sports Department
Website: www.it.maharashtra.gov.in
Objective: The eScholarship Management System automates, streamlines and effectively manages the processes related to application receipt, processing, sanction and disbursal of Pre-Metric Scholarship to students Description: School Education  department was using a manual system for the implementation of scholarships, which was extremely time consuming and prone to errors and duplication. To overcome these shortcomings, it has been decided to launch an eScholarship management system (EMS) for scholarship application, review and disbursal.
Target Group: Minority students
Achievements :
• During 2012-2013, a total of 18 lakh students applied for the scholarship.
• It drastically cuts down the time taken for manual process

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Innovative Academic Programmes

Organisation: VelTech Dr RR & Dr SR Technical University
Website: www.veltechuniv.edu.in
Objective: To develop the ability among students to design, create, test and implement the industry technologies and thereby becoming industry – ready, when they pass out from the university
Description: The increasing frequent changes in technologies and the demand for industry ready engineers and the lack of interest among the students to pursue higher education paved the way for the introduction of innovative UG / PG programmes specially called as ndustry Linked Programmes. These programmes are offered in collaboration with premier institutes and Industries like ARAI, CDAC, GARC, TAFE, etc.
Target Group: Undergraduate engineering students passing out from universities, industries requiring skill upgradation for their employees are the direct beneficiaries
Achievements:
• More than 100 active MoUs and interactions with more than 2500 Industries in India and abroad
• The students are industry ready when they pass out and are readily absorbed in top OEMs and core industries

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Value Added Courses

Organisation: RMK Engineering College
Website: www.rmkec.ac.in
Objective: To Bridge the gap between Industry and the Institution and to increase the employability and conduct various softskills and technical training programmes
Description: The institution offers value added courses such as IBM – DB2, RAD, Tivoli, CISCO – CCNA, LABVIEW, Infosys Campus Connect, Ericsson EXCEL Certification, Improving Programming skills workshop by TCS, Mobility Challenge contest by TCS, Accenture – Nurturing Young Minds, Innovation Jockeys, Accenture Career Day, Cognizant – Evolve, Cognizant Certified Student
Target Group: Students
Achievements:
• Around 90 percent placement record, consistently for the past five years on an average 90 companies visited our campus for recruitment and more than 60 percent of eligible students placed in first 3 companies every year.
• More number of MoUs with leading software and core companies like TCS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro, IBM, etc

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Center of Excellence for Innovation in Design

Organisation: Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology
Website: www.takshshila.org
Implementing Agency: Dassault Systemes
Objective: The platform creates an environment to spark innovation in students, design professionals, university students, faculty, entrepreneurs and governments access to world-class resources
Description: The Center of Excellence (CoE) is aimed to be a collaborative platform for design innovation. This platform is a hub for collaboration on innovative, technology or design solutions, involving a combination of colleges, universities, government, quasi-government bodies, industry and industry body and partners
Target Group: Mechanical Engineering Students
Achievements:
• Getting the educational organisation except the things necessary changed to brought for engineering education irrespective the direction provided by the governing technical university

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Quality Engineering Education in Rural Haryana

Organisation: Delhi Institute of Technology & Management
Website: www.ditmcollege.com
Implementing Agency: SR educational & welfare trust
Objective: To provide a great educational resource and high quality engineering education in rural Haryana
Description: Engineering College is running a four year B Tech Programme in CSE, IT, ECE, ME and Civil Engineering
Target Group: 10 +2 students
Achievements:
• Excellent Results
• Best Edupreneurs Awards and Educational Awards

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Shadow Engineering

Organisation: VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology
Website: www.vnrvjiet.ac.in
Objective: Shadow engineering aiming at creating a series of interactions with the industry professional, thereby attracting projects to department / students, enhances the teaching skills with the knowledge of practical and real time
implementation in the industry
Description: VNR VJIET debut a programme called Shadow Engineering. This new programme allows prospective Engineering students to see industry from a professional perspective and allow them to spend a week time with a multidisciplinary area at the industry and experience the industry life. The Shadow Engineering programme is an opportunity for a budding engineer to learn what it means to be an engineer.
Target Group: Students and faculty
Achievements:
• Explore the real time environment
• Students physically experiencing the process and products
 

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Creating Employment Generators

Organisation: Jagan Institute of Management Studies
Website: www.jimsindia.org
Objective: To be an Institute of academic excellence with total commitment to quality education and research in management
and information technology with a holistic concern for better life, environment and society.
Description: JIMS provides an environment, which brings out the latent skill and competence of the students so that they could ultimately become entrepreneurs. The institute encourages students to be employment generators and not employment seekers.
Target Group: UG Students of all major discipline with inbuilt managerial and entrepreneurial capability
Achievements:
• Inculcated Managerial Capability
• Ensured Employability
• Promoted Entrepreneurship

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INNOVATION IN MATH EDUCATION

DPS East Mathematics Rolling Trophy
Organisation: Delhi Public School, East Ahmedabad
Website: www.dpseast.calorx.org
Implementing Agency: Calorx Education and Research Foundation
Objective: To bring awareness of the existence of the school and prepare the children for future competitions in Mathematics Description: With the support of our promoters Calorx Education and Research Foundation the school took a small step in January 2009 and hosted Inter school Mathematics competition coined DEMART(DPS East Mathematics Rolling Trophy) for students of          class1 to 12
Target Group: Children of Age group 6 to 18 years
Achievements:
• Approximately 5000 students participated
• Reached to five states in India
• Reached to three countries
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Application of Math in Life
Organisation: The Orchid School (TOS)
Website: www.theorchidschool.org
Objective: To build the confidence of the students in their Mathematics skills and add the fun element to the teaching-learning
process
Description: Math Fair at TOS was a culmination of the process that began with the planning, exploring, brainstorming and zeroing
down upon concepts. It culminated in the form of an exhibition-cum display with children participating in hands-on activities
Target Group: Orchid students, parents and students from other schools
Achievements:
• The Fair has helped in concept clarity and has developed interest in the subject. This was reflected in the scores. The evidence can
be seen in presentation
• Extrapolating simple mathematical concepts to high order thinking and creating a spark among children for whom Math was
always a challenge
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