The Spoken Tutorial Project MOOC funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Govt. of India is about teaching and learning FOSS i.e.; Free And Open Source Software.
To enhance the future prospects of students and make them better employable, the college has started Spoken Tutorial Programme of IIT Bombay which focuses on providing computer software training to the students of the college.
Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad is declared as the first FOSS centre of Jharkhand on 26th September 2016. The FOSS Centre Inauguration Programme was organized and Dr. Gurdeep Singh the Vice Chancellor of the VBU Hazaribagh who also was the chief guest of the program.
All the courses of this programme are free and open source software. The programme offers lucrative software courses and enhances the skills of the students in the area of digital training. The courses are taught through audio-video classes and side-by-side practical practice is also exercised in the guidance of the teachers. Nearly all the students of BCA programme as well a good number of students of B.A / B.COM classes are trained through Spoken Tutorial Programme.
There are many programs offered by the STP for each categories of students.
STP Coordinator: Prof. Uday Kumar Sinha.