Spoken Tutorial
Technical Skill Development Cell (TSDC)
(Spoken Tutorial Certification Program, IIT Bombay)
The Spoken Tutorial project is funded and developed by the NMEICT, IIT Bombay and launched by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.
The aim of spoken tutorials is to popularize E-learning.
It is coordinated through ICT based system. Spoken Tutorial is an audio-video educational content platform. Here one can learn various Free and Open Source Software all by oneself.
From past 8 years we have been associated with the same. Approximately 700 students have been certified through this program each year. There are several certification courses which were conducted for students per semester, e.g. Python, Advance Java, Linux and many more.
TSDC (Technical Skill Development Cell)
Empowering Youth of Nation through expertise
The regular improvement in technology and at each field of education demands perfection from students also to get familiar with everything. To attain this task Technical Skill Development Cell (TSDC) offers affluent program and opportunities to increase soft skills of the students beyond the main degree to assist them to stand out in the job market and improve their curriculum.
About TSDC
Looking at the ever increasing demand for professional expertise and with the objective of bridging gap between academia and what industry needs, SKITM Group of Institutions took initiative and launched its Technical Skills Development Cell (TSDC) in the year 2011.
TSDC has started its operations with the sole aim of grooming students professionally so that they can map themselves to current market needs. The IT giants and MNCs undoubtedly give preference to the certified professionals. The certifications offered under TSDC gives the students an upper hand during recruitments, guaranteeing quality employment, hence, TSDC works as a platform wherein students can promote themselves in a much better and confident manner in today’s competitive market.
TSDC Vision & Mission
Technical Skills Development Cell is an initiative by Shivajirao Kadam Institute of Technology and Management with the vision to groom students professionally, so that they can map with the current Industry demands and contribute something to our society and nation.
Inspired by requirement in the industry, TSDC started initiative to provide SKITM students cost effective training on various cutting edge technologies and various industry recognized certification courses to bridge the gap between industry and available talent pool.
TSDC is working with the aim to broaden the professional horizons of our students and to create necessary awareness in them with latest technological trends.
Why TSDC?
The demand for professionals in information technology (IT) is high. Certification exams are gaining more and more importance as the competition for jobs intensifies. They are going to open the doors for the dream jobs. As Oracle quotes, “In a recent salary report of certified professionals by Certification Magazine, Oracle Certified Professionals were found to earn the highest average salaries as compared to any other DBA or Developer professionals.”
Research indicates that certified individuals have increased competence, productivity, and credibility with their employers, co-workers, and clients. For employers, the certification provides skill-verification tools that not only help to assess a person’s skills in using Microsoft Office programs but also the ability to quickly complete on-the-job tasks across multiple programs in the Microsoft Office system.
Why should one become certified?
| Introductory courses/workshops and basic office tools to gain working knowledge | |
| 1 | Introductory Course – Parts of computers, Hardware/software, operating systems, multimedia, internet/e-mail |
| Introduction to programming languages | |
| 1 | C Programming Language – Introduction to language basics, data types, variables, control statements, logic development |
| 2 | C or CPP – Introduction to language basics, control structures and arrays, Structures, problem solving techniques |
| 1 | Introduction to MS access – Creating tables and forms and simple SQL |
| Office Tools | |
| 1 | MS – EXCEL AS AN IT TOOL – presenting and summarizing data with analytical tools and advance functions |
| Programming languages -ADVANCE CONCEPTS ( 1 & 2 compulsory, rest optional) | |
| 1 | CPP PROGRAMMING USING pointers, string and file handling and also introduction to object oriented concepts (classes, overloading, inheritance, overriding, virtual classes, friend functions) |
| 2 | Introduction to java programming (level 1) |
| 3 | Java programming –advance concepts-exceptional handling, threads, collection, generic programming (level 2) |
| 4 | Advance Java Programming – swing, Networking, JDBC, RMI |
| 4 | Introduction to C# |
| Advance Level: must be opted by students for placement advantage | |
| Industry specific latest technologies | |
| 1 | Web Based development using LATEST framework – spring, struts and JSF |
| 2 | Mobile Development using Android |
| Industry recognized Certification courses – designed specially to achieve certifications | |
| 1 | MICROSOFT OFFICE ASSOCIATE – MS WORD CERTIFICATION |
| 2 | MICROSOFT OFFICE ASSOCIATE – MS EXCEL CERTIFICATION |
| 3 | MICROSOFT OFFICE ASSOCIATE – MS POWERPOINT CERTIFICATION |
| 6 | PHP/MYSQL (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 7 | Arduino Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 8 | Drupal Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 9 | Joomla Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 10 | LaTex & XFig Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 11 | Linux & Ubuntu Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 12 | Python 3.4.3 Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 13 | RDBMS Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
| 14 | Scilab Certification (Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay) |
Certification Calendar
