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Annexure (i)

1. Title of the Practice
E-Learning incorporated through Mobile Applications and Technical Blogs.

2. Objectives of the Practice
1. To continuously encourage adoption of innovative teaching methodologies.
2. To focus on interactive as well as active education.
3. Apps/Blogs learning, which is a type of relaxed learning, be available to
students to facilitate anytime, anywhere.

3. The Context
Faculty members of the department create technical blogs for their subjects, link and it
with their respective mobile application.

4. The Practice
Functioning of Mobile Application
Each subject co-ordinator and the associated faculty develop a blog inclusive of
following contents:
1. Theoretical Concepts
2. Practicals
3. Tutorials
4. Assignment Practices
5. Contact details

Scope of the Mobile Application
Over the past few decades, influence of technology upon students and education has
been immense. With the advancement in digital world, each and every industry focuses
on Mobile Application for its customers. Educational apps have been on the same pace
for making things easier for students to understand. With this aim, mobile applications
for individual subject were developed (for the students).

5. Evidence of Success
In the first cycle of Mobile Application development for Academic Year 2016-17,
manifold fruitful inputs were given by students and faculty members which lead to
enhancement of various subjects‟ mobile application. Thus, many students downloaded
applications from Google Playstore and were benefited in a productive manner.

6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required
Developing mobile application for every subject is a mammoth task, involving
significant amount of man-hours for training and making a technical blog as well as
mobile application with effective documentation. Information to be provided by the
academic units, students, must be well-documented and supporting evidences are
required. Computer systems with Android Studio and Genymotion latest version and
minimum 16 GB RAM, Intel Core i7 @3.20 GHz. for smooth creation of mobile
application are required.

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