Student Information Section

1.Spoken - Tutorial Project Unique way to learn free and Open Source Software

Spoken -Tutorial Project is undertaken by Indian Institute of Technology under by National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) , which is funded by Ministry Of Human resources government of India.

This project is started with aim to spread digital literary in India using FOSS study.  The project at IIT-Bombay develop Audio-Visual coarse-ware on FOSS system called ‘Spoken-Tutorial’. These spoken tutorial is a very convenient way to learn free and opens source software. Anyone can access the complete coarse on their website free of cost without any registration.  Hence it is proved a great tool of self-learning of FOSS technologies. This project also organize workshops known as SELF workshop for students, Teaching and non-teaching staffs of school-colleges, Government Organization and SMEs and also award certificates from IIT-Bombay to the participants.  These workshops are organized locally by volunteers and remotely monitored by  IIT-B.
Currently spoken tutorial has self-learning courses on Blender, Gimp, Java, PHP & MySQl, Python Programming language , Linux operating systems, LibreOffice, Latex, Scilab, Drupal etc.
So if you want to start from zero level, then these tutorials are great tool to learn. Give a try to it. You can download or watch these tutorials online from this page. Each tutorial have some set of assignments which should be performed while watching the video, which will enhance your understanding.
 For more detail go to their homepage. http://spoken-tutorial.org/

2.NPTEL - A Joint Initiative of IITs and IIsc

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning ( NPTEL ) provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of Engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware.  

Download  Procedure  -

•  Ensure that you have broadband connectivity and browser like Firefox, IE 8 Onwards Etc  
•  Please go to the website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
• Go to the course of interest.
• If it is a PDF, then do a "File -> Save as" in the browse menu and save file to your local machine.
• In case of other formats, mark the section of text required and copy into your local machine. 
• For the new courses there is a link as “Course downloads”, from which handouts, assignments, lecture notes, others can be downloaded by clicking the links provided.

For More details , click at http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

3.Ekalavya : An Open Source Knowledge Initiative by IITB

The ekalavya portal is an attempt to generate an interactive platform for the creation, absorption, dissemination and usage of knowledge for the well being of the individual and the society. It is a significant step forward to bring together students, teachers, and working professionals to meaningfully enhance the productivity of the group and spread knowledge. The ekalavya portal aims at a free exchange of knowledge and ideas, by placing all the relevant academic material in the Open Source, thus making considerable contribution to society. It is envisaged that the ekalavya project will become an all-encompassing activity over the years, using IT effectively for education. It aspires to build large collaborative communities where seekers are matched by the givers.

What is eGURU:

·         eGURU is an Open Source initiative providing e-guidance and online mentorship to students of B.E., M.C.A. and M.Sc. (CS/ IT/ Electronics) programmes, for their  projects.

·         Mentors are volunteering faculty, research scholars and industry professionals, willing to spend two to three hours a week on mentoring.

·         Student groups are guided by the mentors through all the stages of project execution, i.e., submission of the project proposal, SRS, SDS and submission of the final code.

·         Successfully completed projects under eGURU are released in the Open Source.

·         They are also considered for attractive scholarship schemes under the eGURU programme.

·         All activities in the eGURU programme are done online, i.e., submission of project proposal, mentoring and submission of the finished project.

·                     Educational Institutions can participate in the eGURU programme by registering their students for the programme. However, each participating institution will be required to appoint a faculty member as academic coordinator for the project work.

·                     Industry can provide challenges in the form of real life problems to the students, and encourage them to come up with viable and innovative solutions. The industry, in turn, gains easy access to young talent, as well as to usable Open Source software.

 For More details ,click at  http://ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/introduction.do