[Tugindia] Online Certification

[S. venkataraman]

	This is a very good idea.  We can develop some self
instructional material for the 
	same.  If tug want to have a team for developing the material,
I would like to be a 
	part of it.  I can contribute by writing/editing the material.
We can support the students 
	who enrol via e-mail.  We can have a separate mailing list for
students. We can even
	 have chat sessions if necessary. Some of us can do counselling
through e-mail(again 
	I would like to contribute)
	 and clear doubts of the students who enrol.  This way we can
reach out to more people. 
	 Even people who do not 
	volunteer for face to face teaching may volunteer for
counselling through e-mail because timings are 
	flexible. We can run it on a no profit no loss basis.  A tex
live CD-ROM would be part of the material 
	that we send to the students.
	[S. venkataraman]   
> From:	Radhakrishnan CV [SMTP:cvr@river-valley.org]
> Sent:	Friday, October 11, 2002 10:36 AM
> To:	tugindia@tug.org
> Subject:	[Tugindia] Online Certification
> 
> TUGIndia are contemplating to design and conduct an online
> certification program, which will provide an opportunity to people who
> want to have an authentic certificate to prove their credentials in
> TeX while seeking employment. Many agencies including Government of
> Kerala want TUGIndia to conduct such an examination.
> 
> This will further help TUGIndia to mobilize the TeX manpower resources
> at various levels in the country. Quite often prospective employers
> ask us for list of developers and users in the country for appointment
> and we find it very difficult to oblige their request.
> 
> TUGIndia server will provide facilities to register, attempt the
> examination online any number of times and see the results
> instaneously. Successful candidates will be awarded certificates and
> will be sent to them by snail mail.
> 
> We might have three levels of examination -- a basic user level, an
> intermediate level and a developer level. 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Radhakrishnan
> 
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