Since 5th September 2013, School of Management Sciences Varanasi is continuously organizing series of IIT-Bombay and MHRD supported ‘Spoken Tutorials’ workshops for its students. This series of workshop is organized through the video-conferencing learning mode. The programme is an initiative of the “Talk to a Teacher” project of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, launched by MHRD, Govt of India. In this workshop IIT Bombay provides a set of Video tutorials for the students that can be studied offline. The Spoken Tutorial project is about teaching and learning a particular FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) like Linux, PHP & MySQL, Java, C, C++ suitable for IT students; similarly LibreOffice Suite and FrontAccounting, like FOSS are also available for students of commerce and Management Streams. A team from IIT-Bombay not only conducts the programme but keeps an eye on the functionality part of the participating institution. It also conducts on-line examinations and provides certificates to all successful candidates.
Spoken Tutorial based Education and Learning through Free and Open Source Software
| Year | No. of Workshops | No. of Participants |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 277 |
| 2022 | 5 | 265 |
| 2021 | 2 | 26 |
| 2019 | 11 | 520 |
| 2018 | 12 | 556 |
| 2017 | 11 | 371 |
| 2016 | 13 | 335 |
| 2015 | 10 | 269 |
| 2014 | 24 | 496 |
| 2013 | 8 | 172 |
| Total | 91 | 2745 |
| Subject | No. of Workshops | No. of Participants |
|---|---|---|
| C | 22 | 841 |
| Cpp | 15 | 599 |
| C and Cpp | 19+1 | 536 |
| Linux | 8 | 173 |
| Java | 21 | 702 |
| PHP and MySQL | 11 | 401 |
| Python | 2 | 35 |
| Total | 99 | 3287 |