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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.
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Getting Started
You can help us by collecting information for the Syllabus Review drive. This drive is intended to identify instances where proprietary software is mentioned in the syllabus. Therefore the best way to get started is to use search strings like:
<state name> primary education secondary education Windows Microsoft Word Visual Basic
When your search discovers proprietary software mentioned in the syllabus, please do add them to the appropriate section of http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review.
Or if you find it difficult for you to edit the wiki,please add it to the discussions page,or just mail to the mailing list with the details you have,so the list can help you editing the wiki.
Thanks for the support and we look forward to your contributions.
Primary Education
| Subject | Objections | Remarks | Softwares | |
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| 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 MS Windows OS, MS Word and IE. | Both students and teachers are to required to know about detecting virus in floppies to start with.Urgent Vigil against Viruses are only required in proprietary platforms. | MS Windows,MS Word,Internet Explorer | |
| Department of School Education, Govt. of Tamil Nadu | ||||
| CLASS 03 ICT | Defining computer Interface with Windows desktop | How came one chapter about GNU/Linux in 9th class ICT? | see Objections | |
| CLASS 04 ICT | GST Typing tutor,MS Power Point ,Star Impress | |||
| CLASS 05 ICT | MS Word,Star Writer,Creative Writer | |||
| CLASS 06 ICT | Unique features of MS Windows GUI,MS-word,Star Writer,QBASIC,BASIC | |||
| CLASS 07 ICT | MS Excel,Star Calc,BASIC,Adobe Flash,GIF Animator,Internet Explorer | |||
| CLASS 08 ICT | MS Excel,visicalc,star calc,MS Notepad,Wordpad,Ms Frontpage | |||
| CLASS 09 ICT | MS Frontpage,MS Access,MS Visual Basic | |||
| CLASS 10 ICT | MS Access,Star base,Visual Basic | |||
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 | |
| Senior School Curriculum 2009,Informatics Practices (Code 065) | XI:
Unit -I Computer System And Business Applications:Windows,Unit 2 Introduction to Programming:Visual Basic,UNIT 3 RDBMS:ORACLE XII:Unit 2:Visual Basic,Unit 3 RDBMS:PL/SQL |
MS Visual Basic,ORACLE PL/SQL | ||
| Department of School Education, Govt. of Tamil Nadu | ||||
| 11th Std Computer Science VOL1,VOL2 | VOL 1:Chapter-6 Computer Communication:Internet with Windows tools
VOL 2:Chapter 1 Introduction to Windows Xp,Chapter 2 Windows Explorer |
Though there is a chapter for (GNU/)Linux in Volume 2,This too is not a bad way towards slavery | Windows,its net tools,Internet Explorer | |
| 12th std Computer Science VOL1,VOL2 | VOL1:chapter-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9:STAR OFFICE Course
VOL2:Non Standard C++(Turbo C++) |
No Scope for Vendor Neutral Software | Star office,Turbo C++ | |
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"
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| 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 | |
| Andhra Pradesh | ||||
| Osmania University, Hyderabad, AP | B.E. (Computer Science) | CS 481 : Visual Programming Lab | The Entire course is taught using visual studio in all colleges affiliated to Osmania University and also in the university itself. This course requires proprietary Visual studio on proprietary Windows Operating system thereby limiting the learning curve as both of the softwares are not available for free and not everyone can afford it. The course is mostly taught using visual studio .NET | |
| B.E. (Computer Science) | CS 431 : Distributed Systems Lab | Sounds like a linux based distributed system lab? No, it isn't, this course is a preliminary to the above course for preparing the student getting accustomed to the Microsoft proprietary studio development tools and knowing the basics. The entire course covers the basics of visual studio c++
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See also
NRCFOSS's FOSS based syllabus (to supplement the use of FOSS (or may be vendor neutral software)