[Tugindia] Spoken Tutorial receives awards

[Kavya Manohar]

Great effort. Applauses.!!

-Kavya Manohar

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Kannan Moudgalya <kannan at iitb.ac.in> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am happy to inform you that our Spoken Tutorial efforts have been
> recognised globally and locally:
>
> 1. Google MOOCs Research Award
> 2. Reimagine Education Award, Co-sponsored by the Wharton School
> 3. Nomination for the "HT for Mumbai" by Hindustan Times
>
> For details, please visit http://spoken-tutorial.org.  Although the third
> one is local, it is possibly bigger, as Mumbai has 22 million people!
>
> Training on C programming is the most popular, with more than 200,000
> people (mainly college students), trained, using GCC, during the past four
> years, done free of cost.
>
> I am also happy to inform you that we have trained 57,000 people (mainly
> college teachers) on LaTeX.  Out of this, about 5,000 people are learning
> LaTeX through dedicated lab hours, for an entire semester, with exclusively
> ear-marked LaTeX lab hours.  For details, please visit the above web site
> and go to statistics > training, choose LaTeX in FOSS, play around with
> Type, and then choose Filter.
>
> Kannan
>
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