Title :
Spoken Tutorial Project — IIT Bombay: Building IT literate India
Author :
Srivastava, M. ; Sharma, Shantanu
Author_Institution :
Centre for Distance Eng. Educ. Program, Indian Inst. of Technol. Bombay, Mumbai, India
Abstract :
Spoken Tutorial project is a team initiative of IIT Bombay with the government support that holds the potential to build an IT literate nation. The paper explains the relevance of the project in the present society along with the methodology of the project and the importance of skill building in the present society. The challenges that might come in the way of the project are also discussed and the necessary solutions are proposed.
Keywords :
computer based training; computer literacy; distance learning; public domain software; IIT Bombay; IT literate India; Spoken Tutorial project; skill building; Buildings; Computers; Conferences; Educational institutions; Government; Software; Tutorials; Aakash; IT literate; Open Source Software; audio-video tutorial; skill building;
Conference_Titel :
MOOC Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE), 2013 IEEE International Conference in
Conference_Location :
Jaipur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1625-2
DOI :
10.1109/MITE.2013.6756352