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IIIT Hyderabad’s virtual lab hits 4 million page views

Hyderabad, Jul 2 (UNI) Analytics from the Virtual Labs initiative released by the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) has shown an increasing trend in the usage of Science and Engineering-related online laboratory materials over the last six month-period.

Coinciding with the imposition of the lockdown in India, statistics show a steep rise in page views of the materials - from 628,300 in March 25 to nearly 4 million in June 2020. “We’ve seen a surge in the number of usages due to the recent Covid-19 situation. This reiterates the importance of virtual labs for students across the country and also across the world”, says Dr Venkatesh Choppella, Principal Investigator (PI) for Virtual Labs, IIITH.
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