English for Oral Communication

Programme Overview

Under the College to Corporate (C2C) Program, IIT Bombay has designed six short courses to acquire important professional skills. In the first semester, i.e. from September to November 2018, IIT Bombay offered three courses across the country. We got an overwhelming response from various institutions and states. There were about 4000 students who participated in these courses. Last semester, we conducted three courses - Soft Skills, Workplace Communication, and Effective use of IT for Professional Activities.

We will now conduct three courses for this semester - English for Oral Communication, Financial Literacy, and Handling Large Projects. For details, please check the ‘course content’. These courses under the C2C program will be useful to students from any discipline, who aspire to join the corporate world. These will help them learn about corporate expectations and skills required to perform well in the job. These courses are primarily targeted at the final / pre-final year students.

Courses under this program will be conducted using a Blended MOOCs approach, which combines the advantages of online learning and face-to-face (F2F) interactions. Learners will carry out online activities on the IITBombayX MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform, including online assessments. The face-to-face interaction with faculty will be conducted fortnightly on Saturdays. These F2F sessions will be broadcasted on YouTube Live. Participants are required to raise questions ahead of the session using the discussion forum. Live chat can be used to address some ad-hoc secondary questions.

IIT Bombay has established over 550+ remote centres (RCs) at colleges across the country. These RCs are equipped for live interactive sessions for an entire class, using the open source A-VIEW software. Many of these RCs may participate in this program, making the facility available for the scheduled live interactive sessions.

Course content

English for Oral Communication

• Listening skills
• Sounds in English
• Note making
• Word and sentence stress

Teaching Faculty

Rama Kulkarni, Lecturer, Elphinstone College and NSS Commerce College, Mumbai

Duration and Venue

The course content is designed for four weeks duration, with 6-8 hours per week of effort. Additionally, face-to-face interaction will need an engagement of about four hours on alternate Saturdays. One of these courses are designed as foundation courses.
'English for oral communication' This course will be conducted over a longer duration, covering the content at a reduced pace. Schedule for the face-to-face interaction will be intimated later.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wishes to improve their skills for employment in the corporate world is welcome to attend.

Course Fee and Certification

The registration fee for the course of the program is Rs. 500/-.

How to Apply

Enrollment will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained. The online registration for the 3 courses in the Second semester of C2C program will start on 31 January 2019. It will end on 18 February 2019.

Registration process for the Program:

• Sign up using your valid email id
• After verification, your account will be created
• Login on the website with the verified account
• Go to Announcements, select the program and register
• After successful registration, you will receive an automated email. Your name will be listed in the “List of Participants page”

Accommodation

Note

Live recording of the course and other created content will be released under Open Source, through a portal. All participants are required to agree a 'No Objection Certificate' for such release of content contributed by them during and after the program. All contributors will be acknowledged.

Address For Communication

Dr. Kalpana Kannan
Project Coordinator, ESOS Project
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989
Fax: +91-22-2572 0022
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in
Website - www.it.iitb.ac.in/lakshya