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

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

Thanks for the support and we look forward to your contributions.

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 MS Windows OS, MS Word and IE .	Both students and teachers are to required to know about detecting virus in floppies to start with. 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" 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 See also NRCFOSS's FOSS based syllabus (to supplement the use of FOSS (or may be vendor neutral software)