VTU e-Learning Centre

e-Shikshana, VTU e-Learning Platform

Multi-modal, multi-platform, collaborative e-Learning solution which allows a course expert to teach or interact with a large number of students transcending geographies on a real-time basis through live audio video streaming and synchronized content sharing.

e-Shikshana Programme
Why e-Shikshana?
Features of e-Shikshana

e-Shikshana programme is an advanced multi-modal, multi-platform, collaborative e-learning platform which allows a course experts to teach or interact with a large number of students across VTU affiliated colleges on a real-time basis through live audio video streaming and synchronized content sharing. e-Shikshana allows the course experts to perform live evaluation of the learners and to get real-time feedback from attendees on the go. e-Shikshana can also act as an online meeting tool that can support online social collaboration and interactions with multiple colleges from various affiliated colleges simultaneously.

VTU e-Shikshana Platform

e-Content for VTU e-Shikshana Programme - 06

The Courses and Course Experts for VTU e-Shikshana Programme - 06 are shown below

Sl.No.	Course Code	Course Name	Course Expert Name	E-Mail id	Syllabus	e-Contnet
1	18ARC43	BUILDING SERVICES – I (Water Supply and Sanitation)	Ar. Zahra Bathool, MSA, Mysuru	zahra.b@msa.edu.in	Click Here	Click Here
			Ar. Roopashree A P, MSA, Mysuru	roopashreeap@gmail.com

2	21CHE22	Engineering Chemistry	Dr. G.K. Prashanth , Sir.MVIT, B'lore	prashaanthgk@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. G.M.Krishnaiah , Sir.MVIT, B'lore	gmkrishnaiah@gmail.com
			Dr. Veeresh Maglad, TCE, Gadag	veeresh_maglad@gmail.com
			Dr. V.R.Kattimani, BEC, Bagalkot	veerannachem@gmail.com
			Dr. Basavaraju B C, BIT, B'lore	basubc@gmail.com

3	18BT63	Bioinformatics	Dr. H.G.Nagendra, Sir.MVIT, B'lore	nagendra_biotech@sirmvit.edu	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Gurumurthy, GMIT, Davangere	gurumurthyh@gmit.ac.in
			Dr. Jagadeesh Kumar D, Sir.MVIT, B'lore	jk4you@gmail.com

4	18BT43	Immuno Technology	Dr. Priya Narayan, Sir.MVIT, B'lore	brunaboy@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Damodar P, MSRIT, B'lore	dhamu.bio@gmail.com
			Dr. Shilpa Shivashankar, AIT, B'lore	sshilpa@acharya.ac.in

5	18EC642	Artificial Neural Networks	Dr. T N Prabakar, Sri Sairam College of Engg, Bangalore	tnprabhakar@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Prof. Sivaprakash C, Sairam College of Engg, Bangalore	shivadesk@gmail.com
			Dr B Srilatha, Sairam College of Engg, Bangalore	srilathb27@yahoo.co.in

6	18EC646	Python Application Programming	Sri. Poorna Prgna M S, Data Scientist, Aspino Solutions, Pvt. Ltd., B’lore		Click Here	Click Here
			Prof. Rampur Srinath, NIE, Mysuru	rampursrinath@nie.ac.in

7	18EE646	Electric Vehicles Technologies	Dr. Gopalreddy K, VVCE, Mysuru	gopal.reddy@vvce.ac.in	Click Here	Click Here
			Prof. Malini K V, Sri Sairam College of Engg, Bangalore	malinikalale@gmail.com
			Dr. Radhakrishna K R, RIT, Hassan	radhakrishnakreee@gmail.com

8	18CSMP68	Mobile Application Development	Prof. Nithin Kumar, VVCE, Mysuru	nithingowda021@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here

9	18CV36/21CV34	Engineering Geology/Earth Resources and Engineering	Dr. Venkataraman S Hegde, SDMCET, Dharwad	vshegde2009@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here

10	18CV642	Solid Waste Management	Dr. B.G. Nagendra Prasad, MIT, Thandavapura	bcnagendraprasad@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. C.B. Shivayogimath, AIEMS, B’lore	cbsmath15@gmail.com
			Dr. Amarnath Shetty, AJIET, M’lore	amarnathshetty2003@gmail.com
			Siddalingayya G. Hiremath, VDRIT, Haliyal	shiremath@klsvdit.edu.in
			Dr. P.C. Srinivasa, GEC, Kushalnagara	pcsrinivas@yahoo.com

11	18CV72	Design of RCC and Steel Structures	Dr. Vijaya G.S., Govt. SKSJT IT, B’lore	gsvijaya46@gmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Naveen G.M, GEC, Chamarajanagara	naveengm.gowda@gmail.com
			Dr. C. Nagaraja, SIET, Tumakuru	cnagarajtmk@gmail.com
			Prof. Veerendra Kumar, KSSEM, B’lore	veerendrakumar@kssem.edu.in
			Dr. Mahesh Prabhu K, GEC, Ramanagara	kmpgeck@gmail.com

12	18EI/BM/ML46	Scientific and Analytical Instrumentation	Dr. Mallikarjun S. Holi, UBDTCE, Davangere	msholi@yahoo.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. S. A. Pushpalatha, UBDTCE, Davangere	pushpaaw4@gmail.com
			Smt. Sneha G. Chachadi, RNSIT, Bengaluru	sneha071187@gmail.com

13	18EI54	Biomedical Instrumentation	Dr. Mallikarjun S. Holi, UBDTCE, Davangere	msholi@yahoo.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Kumar Ganapathi Adi, UBDTCE, Davangere	kga@ubdtce.org
			Dr. D.R.Santosh Kumar,UBDTCE, Davangere	santhoshdr@ubdtce.org

14	18IP53	Quality Assurance and Reliability	Dr. N. Nagesha, UBDTCE, Davangere	nnvebs@ubdtce.org	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Irappa Sogalad, UBDTCE, Davangere	irappasogalad@gmail.com

15	Bridge Course	Fundamentals of Mathematics - Kannada Lectures as per NEP 2020	Dr Roopa K M, BIT, B'lore	roopakm@bit-bangalore.edu.in	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Basavarajappa K S, BIET, Davanagere	ksbraju@hotmail.com

16	21MAT11	Calculus and Differential equations - Kannada Lectures as per NEP 2020	Dr. Basavarajappa K S, BIET, Davanagere	ksbraju@hotmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr Roopa K M, BIT, B'lore	roopakm@bit-bangalore.edu.in
			Dr. Ramachandra Murthy V, RRIT, B'lore	vramachandramoorty@yahoo.co.in
			Dr. Hampiholi P R, GIT, Belagavi	prhampiholi@git.edu
			Dr. C R Pradeep, CBIT, Gubbi	seearepi@gmail.com

17	18MAT653	Advanced Linear Algebra	Dr. Basavarajappa K S, BIET, Davanagere	ksbraju@hotmail.com	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr Roopa K M, BIT, B'lore	roopakm@bit-bangalore.edu.in
			Dr. Hampiholi P R, GIT, Belagavi	prhampiholi@git.edu

18	18ME55	Fluid Power Engineering	Dr. Rishi J P, VVCE, Mysuru	rishijp@vvce.ac.in	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. K.S.Ravi, VVCE, Mysuru	ksravi@vvce.ac.in
			Dr. K.R.Prakash, NIE, Mysuru	krp@nie.ac.in

19	18ME642	Refrigeration and Air conditioning	Dr. Akshay S Bhat, VVCE, Mysuru	akshaybhat@vvce.ac.in	Click Here	Click Here
			Dr. Mohan Krishna S A, VVCE, Mysuru	mohankrishnasa@vvce.ac.in
			Dr. Manjunath V B, VVCE, Mysuru	Manjunath.vb@vvce.ac.in

e-Shikshana is a versatile e-learning platform which enables to setup Online Classrooms, Meetings and Trainings with ease.

Online Virtual Classrooms

Online virtual classrooms can be easily set up with e-Shikshana leveraging its multi-screen display capability. The multi screen display capability of e-Shikshana provides a near life classroom experience where the course experts and the content being shared can be seen simultaneously, legibly on large screens.

e-Shikshana facilitates live workshops

e-Shikshana can be used as an effective tool to conduct online workshops by connecting experts and participants from around the various affiliated collegs through its live video and audio streaming capabilities. This clubbed with its multi-modal and multi-display capabilities can deliver an unforgettable experience in conducting online workshops.

Meeting Tool

e-Shikshana can also be used to interact with up to 8 simultaneous affiliated colleges at a time. This capability of e-Shikshana lets it pitch itself as a competitive online meeting and social collaboration tool.

Seamless live video and audio streaming (Meeting tool)

The video conference feature of e-Shikshana allows the affliated colleges to have a seamless live video and audio streaming experience even in situations where the bandwidth is not very high. With its multi-bit-rate streaming options the software adapts itself to the best settings suitable for the bandwidth available. This means that course experts can reach out virtually to hundreds of classrooms and thousands of students spread across geographies effortlessly.

e-Shikshana supports interactions with multiple affliated colleges simultaneously which enables its students/participants to use e-Shikshana as an effective meeting tool to organize meetings spread across the globe.

e-Shikshana Meeting, a conference center where meeting has no walls. e-Shikshana Meeting is used to conduct live meetings, presentations or training from the comfort of the desk. Affliated colleges can also participate in multiple meetings at the same time.

Content collaboration (Documents, Presentations, Video, 2D & 3D models, Whiteboards)

e-Shikshana enables collaboration on content through multiple options. The affliated colleges can collaborate on documents and presentations that are currently being discussed in classroom and can highlight, underline and add other annotations for the entire class to see, if permitted by the course experts.

e-Shikshana also features a white board option where the course experts can share with the learner free hand content as he/ she does in a real life classroom using a blackboard.

e-Shikshana also allows collaboration on interactive 2D animations and 3D models, unseen anywhere else so far, to provide a near life virtual experience to the learner in understanding complicated concepts with ease.

Live Evaluation and Feedback

The quiz and poll options of e-Shikshana helps the course experts to conduct live evaluation of the class that is being taught. The responses are consolidated and presented to the course experts neatly by e-Shikshana platform.

e-Shikshana also lets the course experts collect live feed back on the session using the live interaction through hand-raise option.

Video record, playback and edit functions

e-Shikshana records the session conducted through it and classifies and stores it in the library for later reference. The software also lets the user edit the videos recorded through a simple video editing interface.

e-Shikshana Features and Enhancements

Client Side MP4 Recording

Record all the events and media content generated during a e-Shikshana session which can be played back without logging into e-Shikshana again. If Client MP4 recording is enabled, e-Shikshana will save all session events (Video, Slides, Chat, Audio, Whiteboard , etc ) as video recording in the user's computer. The recording can be saved in video qualities compatible with various devices (Mobile, Tablet, Desktop, TV ) in mp4 format.
Self Recording

Video lecture creation mode in e-Shikshana was designed specifically to meet the distance learning demands. The course experts can create a recording using the e-Shikshana features such as Video, Document Sharing, Whiteboard, etc. The recording can be saved in video qualities compatible with various devices (Mobile, Tablet, Desktop, TV ) in mp4 format.
Echo testing

Any user can use this feature to set his audio-video parameters in such a way that it does not cause echo during a live session. This test can be performed either or during a live session or before a session starts.
Document sharing

Presenter can upload multiple documents at the same time. Also they can see the status of document upload (Not Started, Processing, Failed & Success) by clicking on the document upload status button.
Improved User Interface

UI changes upon requests from users which includes, auto hiding of top panel upon class entry, different layouts for regular and self recording sessions, changes in whiteboard UI , chat and question panels , etc.
FOSS (Free open source software )

e-Shikshana is now completely open for any affliated colleges to develop and deploy. Any affliated colleges can setup their own free local e-Shikshana deployment using Red5 Media server.
Multicast Support

e-Shikshana is now supported in satellite network. e-Shikshana can be used as an simple and reliable solution in areas where internet connectivity is less.