Brief Introduction about Spoken Tutorial Project: Spoken Tutorial Project is run by spoken tutorial team from IIT Bombay. Under this project self learning workshops for Free Open Source Software are conducted remotely by spoken tutorial team in various colleges across the country. Certain academic institutes are recognized as academic centers for Spoken tutorial project. These academic centers organize workshops with the help of study material provided by talk to a teacher project - IIT Bombay. This project is funded by MHRD, Govt. of India under National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology NMEICT. Venus International College of Technology as an academic center for spoken tutorial project: Venus International College of Technology has been identified as one of the academic centers that work with IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial Team to spread awareness on FOSS technology under Spoken Tutorial Project. The college is registered with IIT Bombay team and carries out SELF learning workshops regularly for benefit of students, faculty members and the institute as a whole.
Open Source Technologies Club at Venus International College of Technology: In order to contribute towards advancement of the initiative taken by Govt. of India, IIT, Bombay and GTU, Open Source Technologies Club has been established at Venus International College of Technology Gandhinagar.
Details of college as available on Spoken tutorial website can be found from http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/workshops/college/view_college/661 and
The Institute being an academic center, Department of Electrical Engineering is actively involved in organizing self learning workshops on Free Open Source Software under Spoken Tutorial Project. Till date four workshops have been organized on SCILAB software for B. E. final year and pre final year students of EE and EEE branches
FIRST AND SECOND WORKSHOP ON SCI LAB SOFTWARE UNDER SPOKEN TUTORI AL WORKSHOP SERI ES Workshop Dates: 15 / 03 / 2013 and 22 / 03 / 2013 Venue for the workshop: Seminar Hall VICT and Computer Center Time for the workshop: 2:00 to 4:00 PM Targeted audience: Students of B. E. pre final year EEE branch Workshop Organizer: Prof. K. A. Vyas Workshop coordinators: Prof. H. Z. Amrolia Prof. J. J. Kania Online Test date: 18 / 04 / 2013
Workshop flow
Total 101 students from final and pre final year of B. E. EE and EEE branch attended the workshop on 15 / 03 / 2013 and 22 / 03 / 2013 All the participants were made aware of what the spoken tutorial project is and the need of going with FOSS technology Participants were shown spoken tutorial videos on SCI LAB software that were made available by IIT Bombay team Students watched the demo videos and practices the SCILAB software on their own in session arranged in the computer centre Study material was provided to the participants for preparation of online test to be conducted by Spoken Tutorial Team IIT Bombay After registering themselves on the workshop website participants gave preliminary feedback regarding conduction of the workshop. Students carried out self study related to working and application of SCILAB software with the help of study material provided by Spoken Tutorial team I I T Bombay On successful completion of the test conducted on 18 / 04 / 2013 at Computer Center - Department of Electrical Engineering, total 54 students have received workshop completion certificate by IIT Bombay spoken tutorial team. Photo Gallery Participants attending workshop(s) (Dates: 15 / 03 / 2013 and 22/ 03 / 2013)
Photo Gallery Participants appearing for online test (Date: 18 / 04 / 2013)
THIRD AND FOURTH WORKSHOP ON SCI LAB SOFTWARE UNDER SPOKEN TUTORI AL WORKSHOP SERI ES
Workshop Date(s): 14 / 08 / 2013 and 23 / 08 / 2013 Venue for the workshop: Seminar Hall and Computer Center - VICT Time for the workshop: 2:00 to 4:00 PM Targeted audience: Students of B. E. final year (EE &EEE branch) Workshop Organizer: Prof. K. A. Vyas Workshop coordinators: Prof. P. N. Pandya Prof. P. S. Patel
Workshop flow
Total 98 students from final year of B. E. EE and EEE branches attended the workshop on 14 / 08 / 2013 and 23 / 08 / 2013 All the participants were made aware of what the spoken tutorial project is and the need of going with FOSS technology Participants were shown spoken tutorial videos on SCI LAB software that were made available by IIT Bombay team Students watched the demo videos and practices the SCILAB software on their own in session arranged in the computer centre Study material was provided to the participants for preparation of online test to be conducted by Spoken Tutorial Team IIT Bombay After registering themselves on the workshop website participants gave preliminary feedback regarding conduction of the workshop. Students carried out self-study related to working and application of SCILAB software with the help of study material provided by Spoken Tutorial team I I T Bombay On successful completion of the test conducted on 01 / 10 / 2013 at Computer Center - Department of Electrical Engineering, total 47 students have received workshop completion certificate by IIT Bombay spoken tutorial team.