Spoken Tutorial
About this project
Free Open and Source Software (FOSS)
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 Spoken Tutorial project is being developed by IIT Bombay for MHRD, Government of India).The main objective of this project is to promote IT literacy for education and improve the employment potential of learners in India, using FOSS (free and open source software). ICT is an important area that provides jobs to a large number of our students. Software creation, electronic design automation (IC design), numerical computing, and modelling and simulation are some of the ICT areas. We aim to pass on the knowledge of technology and free and open source software (FOSS) through the website to the millions in our country, who lack opportunities and/or access to learn any software.
Our Objectives
It is well known that seeing and hearing someone explain a process greatly improves understanding. On this site, you will find a variety of spoken tutorials that will help you to learn and use open source software.
Since this is a community based site, we welcome your contributions. Have a topic, script or video for a spoken tutorial? Upload them on our site. We are also promoting translations of these tutorials into different languages. Once your tutorials are reviewed by experts, they will be hosted on our site and will become part of the public domain, thus benefitting all who are interested in it.
We also conduct software training workshops using spoken tutorials and give certificates to those who pass an online test. For more details, please write to contact [at] spoken-tutorial [dot] org.