E-Content for Skill Development

Our rapidly expanding roster of CVET (Computerized Vocational Education and Training) courses addresses this by capturing and disseminating the knowledge of subject matter experts from a wide variety of trades.

ConTenT In ConTexT

AMMACHI Labs has a team of instructional designers, multimedia artists and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who develop high quality content tailored for rural communities. We have international experts in tailoring, hair care, tiling, plumbing among other trades volunteering with us to develop our extensive roster of courses. We simultaneously ensure that these SMEs’ expertise are taken to the masses while at the same time ensuring that rural India gets access to high quality vocational training content following international standards. We consult with the Indian government and various other actors in the vocational training space to align our content with national standards like the MES (Modular Employment Skills) and the NOS (National Occupational Standards). Our content production quality has also been recognized by the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the National Instructional Media Institute.

LoW-LITerACy users

In our quest to bring quality vocational education content to the masses, we have

Addressing children’s first teachers through empowering mothers with a multidisciplinary, computerized approach. The tablet based Rural Toilet Builder course gives students a selfpaced, DIY platform to become proficient in construction skills while also developing capacity in digital literacy. Here Jyothi and her child in Byse refer to the tablet for instructions.

developed various technologies and methodologies to implement solutions grounded with a deep understanding of the psychographics and technographics of our target populations. Keeping User Experience (UX) principles in mind, our designers, artists and engineers create learning solutions that are designed to work across India’s rich cultural and linguistic diversity.

User Experiences for Low Literacy Users In targeting a growing population with limited access to skills training of any sort, we faced numerous challenges, including language and cultural differences, resource limits, gender boundaries and, in many cases, the simple lack of trainee motivation. In striving to serve populations with minimal computer literacy, one must carefully design the user interface to accommodate their cultural, social, educational, motivational and other differences. We conduct field tests to determine the best possible graphical representations for first

Women studying tailoring together through the MySangham eLearning platform.

time computer users. Such research on icon design assists in creating our rich user interfaces from haptics UI’s to our visual eLearning interfaces, serious games and more.

Accessible Learning

25 Courses 9 Regional Languages

MySangham Learning Portal MySangham is an online portal and community that will bring skill based education and employment within reach of everyone. The portal enables anyone to upload multilingual content that would be accessible to all especially the mobile-first, cloud-first generation. The Content Management System (CMS) and the Learning Management System (LMS) form the crux of this portal which facilitates creation, curation and dissemination of multilingual vocational education and training content. MySangham offers content creators an easy-to-use platform to develop multimedia based instructional material, interactive activities (2D games), 3D tool libraries, assessments making it easy for anyone to create multilingual courses. lessons plans to ensure that the learning experience is seamless across the classroom and the workspaces whether they be a toilet construction site or a tailoring center. Our tablet and paper based assessments also take into account the blended nature of the courses. We also pioneer in the use of peer to peer learning techniques to build up communities of practice in our villages, recreating the features of expert guilds which centuries back put India at the forefront of the world in many industries.

bLended LeArnInG

Our social workers and engineers have found that simply throwing digital learning technologies at the villages will not lead to optimal learning conditions. We designed blended learning strategies to take into account the unstructured nature of imparting informal vocational education in the villages. Our facilitators use the tablet based multimedia content and their associated

At a tailoring class in Ransai Maharashtra, a trainer uses a tablet with a traditional chalk board to impart the lesson. Using ICT and traditional methods allow for flexible classrooms to adapt to the ever changing learning environments in rural villages.