Lab on a Tab

Lab on a Tab is an app designed to help students learn science concepts through interactive, self-paced modules. Designed by Origin Learning for Agastya International Foundation, LoT brings science alive for children especially in rural India. The modules cover topics within the standard school syllabi across various boards and helps reinforce the concepts for the children. They are able to engage with and internalise the concepts, thus enhancing retention. Lab on a Tab is also designed to break limitations of geography and infrastructure that plague rural India today. The primary goal of augmenting government school curricula helps children grasp complex concepts through Agastya’s hands-on methods. Communities with few resources are uplifted and exposed to scientific realities, while superstitions are dispelled, and new opportunities are brought within the reach of India’s poor.

Key Features of the App

# Intuitive and Child-friendly UI and navigation

# Categorization of modules based on grades and subjects

# Quizzes to plot baseline awareness levels as well as to test understanding

# Interactivities to keep students engaged

# Use of animated explainer videos to make concept learning immersive

Origin Learning

Origin Learning offers customized and innovative e-learning solutions globally to large and medium enterprises. Our solutions address challenges of complex content, frequent updates, diverse audience and need for quick execution, in a cost-effective manner. Our expertise in Instructional design and strength in utilizing multiple technologies helps our clients effectively achieve their goals through e-learning, mobile learning, social collaboration and personalized learning as well as instructor-led programs. www.originlearning.com

Knowledge Partner: Agastya International Foundation

The Agastya International Foundation is a transformative educational organization, actively spreading hands-on learning to poor rural and urban children and teachers in India since 1999. Mobile labs carry Agastya’s vision and mission all across rural India. A 172-acre campus near Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, is the organization’s creativity lab, visited by more than 500 students per day, whose curiosity is sparked by Agastya’s hands-on teaching methods. More than 130 mobile labs spread across over a dozen states in India, and 50 science centers spread across eighteen states take Agastya’s creative pedagogy to more than 1.5 million children and 200,000 teachers every year. Agastya’s advisers and members include entrepreneurs, scientists, educators, philanthropists, and teachers. To date Agastya has directly impacted, face-to-face, six million children and 200,000 teachers through our continued efforts. Every day these numbers are climbing.