Syllabus Review

Syllabus Review of Indian Educational Institutes to filter out Brandings

If we hope to make the next generation of Indian students digitally literate, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is the most logical choice. However, the syllabus in many academic institutions *mandates* proprietary software and mentions them by brand names.

This prevents teachers and students from choosing the software that best suits their needs and budgets. It makes the education system teach products not principles. And the benefits go to the owners of the brand names, not to the country, or the students or the teachers.

To bring the benefits of FOSS to Indian students, one of the first steps we need to take is to remove the proprietary bias from the syllabus.

How you can help

If you come across examples of brand names being mentioned in the syllabus in Primary Education, Secondary Education, Professional Colleges or Others, please bring them to our attention. If you can find a link to the syllabus, add it to the appropriate section and add information on the brand names mentioned in the syllabus.We aim to have a substantial database built up by the end of May 2008. We will take this information to education policy makers and political parties and get the syllabus changed.

Please join and see the Campaign mailing list HERE

Primary Education

Subject	Objections	Remarks	Softwares
NCERT
IT CURRICULUM, NCERT	IT TOOLS section says to use Windows operating system and internet explorer	Though NCERT keeps a good status of using standard words, they still prescribe windows.	Windows OS,Internet Explorer

Secondary Education

Subject	Objections	Remarks	Softwares
Board of Secondary Education,Rajasthan
IXth Class 7th Subject ComputerLiteracy	Unit-II:DOS,Unit-III: MS-Windows GUI,Unit -IV:Windows Applications	Ultimate education package to create a youth of slaves	MSWindows,DOS,MSOFFICE,CDAC fonts
Xth 7th subject Computer Literacy	Unit-II Windows GUI Internet Explorer,Other apps,Unit-IV web tools in Windows		Windows,and its webtools
XIth standards 5th subject Compulsory Computer Science	Unit-II IT TOOLS:Windows GUI,MSOffice,UNIT-III IT Application-Practical works on the above tools		Windows ,MSOffice
XIIth Standard- Computer science(Application and programming)optional-(subject code 3)	Paper-I Unit II-Visual Basic Introduction ,Unit -III Visual Basic Programming,Paper -II:Unit-II:Ms Access,Unit-III:(Non Standard,ORACLE,not explicit) SQL,practicals		Visual Basic,MSAccess,Non Standard SQL
CBSE
Secondary Curriculum 2010,INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(CODE No. 165)	CLass-IXth:Unit 2-IT TOOLS-Windows GUI basics,MSOffice and its practical in Unit-3	A Microsoft Course..	Windows,MSOffice

Others

Colleges & Universities

College/University	Courses	Papers	Remarks
Kerala
MG University, Kottayam, Kerala	Btech,CSE
		RT503 - Database Systems	Case study in Oracle
		RT502 - Operating Systems	General Structure of MSDOS, Windows 2000.
		RT704 - Advanced Software environments	Windows API, MFC
		RT706-4 - Windows programming	!
		R707 - Hardware Lab	MASM
		RT805-5 - Distributed Computing	Sun Network file system
	MCA		Insists students for using Oracle
Calicut University	BSc Computer Science		Visual Basic, Visual C++,MASM,Oracle,adobe Flash,ASP.net.Windows,PowerPoint
	Btech,ECE
		EC04-111(P)ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP-PART B	9th experiment- "PCB layout using software like ORCARD,CIRCUITMAKER,EDWIN"
		EC04-805(A):SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES	Internal Assignment on MATLAB
		EC04-806(P):ADVANCED COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING LAB	"Objective:To make students familiar with microwave devices,MATLAB,DSP kits,PSPICE"
Tamilnadu
Bharathiyar University, Distance education	BCA		COBOL,Windows
Maharashtra
University of Mumbai	BSc (IT), MSc(IT)		Turbc C,C++,Visual C,Visual Basic in sem 5 Bsc(IT),Use of Emulators (Wipro UWin),WINDOWS
Pondicherry
M.G.Govt. Arts College,Mahe, under Pondicherry University	B.A.Malayalam	Introduction to Malayalam Softwares	OS is Windows,since at the time of framing the syllabus,GNU/Linux distribution with Malayalam support was not available. Currently that syllabus requires an overhauling.Windows operation system and ASCII encoded text editing and Word Processing applications are the softwares