Spoken Tutorials for Education, Employment and Empowerment | Kannan Moudgalya | TEDxNMIMSShirpur

If a video tutorial is average, 10 people will watch it. If it is 10 times better, 10,000 people will watch it. A Spoken Tutorial is a 10 minute long audio-video tutorial. Spoken Tutorials are guaranteed to be suitable for self learning. The spoken part is dubbed into all of India's official languages. This makes it accessible for people not fluent in English, while retaining their employment potential, as the video is in English. An offline version of Spoken Tutorials is also available and hence those who don't have a good bandwidth can also learn from it. We have trained 4 million students during the past 4 years on various IT topics. The cost to the project to train a person on a topic works out to about Rs. 40. This method can be extended to other skills training as well. The Spoken Tutorial effort is completely funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India. Kannan Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Education Technology and Systems & Control, at IIT Bombay. He is now devoting his time in spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing on Spoken Tutorials, Open Source Software, Affordable Tablets and Laptops. He believes that it is possible to provide high quality education to all our children through a combination of Education, and Information & Communication Technologies, making India a developed country in the process. He was nominated for the HT for Mumbai 2015 Award. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx