Spoken Tutorial

The Spoken Tutorial Project is about teaching and learning a particular FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) like Linux, Scilab, LaTeX, PHP & MySQL, Java, C/C++, LibreOffice etc. via an easy Video tool - Spoken Tutorials. Some of the salient features of SELF (Spoken Tutorial based Education and Learning through Free FOSS study) are as follows.

  1. This distance education method is highly conducive to self-learning.
  2. Once one gets started any student or faculty can master the FOSS and also get certificates, Silver/Learner's and Gold/Completion (based on clearing an assessment test)
  3. UG, PG or Research scholar students and even teachers of Science, IT, Engineering, Commerce, Management, MCA disciplines can learn any of the FOSS.
  4. Typically, the first Training at any college is of 2 hours duration. Timing is per the group's convenience.
  5. To start of, any college which is organising the Training needs to get a computer lab ready with machines that support sound. There is no lower or upper limit on the number of participants. This just depends on the number of computers available. For additional participants, laptops if available can be used.
  6. Support from IIT Bombay is available over Skype, in such cases the main organiser's computer should have a webcam via which the Spoken Tutorial team can monitor the Training and answer questions.
  7. If the participants wish to take the test they must do so a month after the Training.

Objective

It is well known that seeing and hearing someone explain a process greatly improves understanding. So a variety of spoken tutorials will help a student to learn and use open source software.This also conduct software training workshops using spoken tutorials and give certificates to those who pass an online test.

About This Project

The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India. The use of spoken tutorials to popularize software development and its use will be coordinated through their website.

Achievements

  • 28  Students from  S2 CSE and 5 students each from S2 CE, S2 ME and S2 ECE has successfully completed C test organized at St.Thomas College of Engineering and Technology, with course material provided by the Talk To A Teacher project at IIT Bombay. 

  • All the students who attended the spoken tutorial exam from first year CSE qualified the exam. Out of 43, eight students qualified from CE. From ME 2 out of 25 students qualified the exam in their first chance itself. Total 32% passed in Spoken Tutorial exam of first year.

  • 24 Studebts from  S4 CSE has successfully completed C test organized at St.Thomas College of Engineering and Technology,with course material provided by the Talk To A Teacher project at IIT Bombay. 

  • 16 Students from s2 CSE has successfully completed Python test organized at St.Thomas College of Engineering and Technology,  with course material provided by the Talk To A Teacher project at IIT Bombay. Passing an online exam, conducted remotely from IIT Bombay, is a pre-requisite for completing this training.

Coordinators

ms. SREEREKHA K P COORDINATOR
  • 0490 2401702
  • sreerekha@stthomaskannur.ac.in