Visual Maps for Collaborative Spoken Tutorial Development

Spoken Tutorials are interactive, multimedia based, multilingual learning aids to learn IT skills and to bridge the digital divide. With low entry barriers, it is proving to be a tool that helps learners across India breaking the barriers of time, space and availability of good instructors. Creation of this low cost teaching-learning aid is a lengthy process due to stringent quality control measures. This paper puts forth a strategy of using Visual Maps as a precursor activity for creating Spoken Tutorials as a collaborative development process without compromising on the quality of the tutorials and by speeding up the process of creation.