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====How you can help====
 
====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, Send a mail to the discussion [http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/education-discuss-fosscom.in mailing list here] 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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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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Please join and see the Campaign mailing list [http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/education-discuss-fosscom.in HERE]
 
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# [[Syllabus Review/VTU|VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM, KARNATAKA]]
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====Getting Started====
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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:
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<state name>
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primary education
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secondary education
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Windows
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Microsoft
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Word
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Visual Basic
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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 http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review].
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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.
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Thanks for the support and we look forward to your contributions.
   
 
===Primary Education===
 
===Primary Education===
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|colspan="5" align="center" | '''[http://ncert.nic.in/welcome.htm NCERT]'''
 
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|[http://ncert.nic.in/sites/publication/schoolcurriculum/it_curri_content.htm IT CURRICULUM, NCERT] ||[http://ncert.nic.in/sites/publication/schoolcurriculum/sectionIV.htm IT TOOLS section] says to use Windows operating system and internet explorer(/netscape navigator).Repeated advices about installing anti-virus softwares when only proprietary software systems require such an urgent vigil against viruses. ||Windows operating system and Internet explorer are proprietary softwares.Though NCERT keeps a good status of using standard words than using "powerpoint" for "presentation". ||Windows OS,Internet Explorer
 
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===Secondary Education===
 
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!style="background:#ffdead;" | Subject
 
!style="background:#ffdead;" | Objections
 
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|colspan="5" align="center" | '''[http://rajeduboard.nic.in/ Board of Secondary Education,Rajasthan]'''
 
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|[http://rajeduboard.nic.in/1.htm Computer Literacy for secondary and senior secondary students] ||[http://rajeduboard.nic.in/Syllabi/IX.pdf IX]th,[http://rajeduboard.nic.in/Syllabi/X.pdf X]th,[http://rajeduboard.nic.in/Syllabi/XI.Pdf, XI]th and [http://rajeduboard.nic.in/Syllabi/XII.Pdf XII]th standard syllabi includes Computer litercy as one of the subjects,Which teaches them about nothing but MS's platform and softwares leading them to absolute dependency on propreitary software platforms.Starting from defining types of OSes as DOS and Windows in IXth,in Xth it goes to teach the GUI of windows in advanced windows section and including Internet Explorer in the IT-basics portion.In XI its about IT TOOLS which are Windows,MSOffice and about MSAccess and Propreitary biased SQL without software specification, in XIIth and all these with 40% weightage to practicals including Visual Basic and .||Ultimate education package to create a youth of slaves. || )Windows, 2)OS, 3)MSOffice, 4)DOS, 5)Internet Explorer, 6)Non Standard SQL, 7)Visual Basic
 
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===Others===
 
===Colleges & Universities===
 
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!style="background:#ffdead;" | College/University
 
!style="background:#ffdead;" | Courses
 
!style="background:#ffdead;" | Papers
 
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|colspan="5" align="center" | '''Kerala'''
 
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|rowspan="8"|[http://www.mguniversity.edu/ MG University, Kottayam, Kerala] ||rowspan="7"|[http://www.amaljyothi.com/main/downloadform.asp?file=downloads/cse.pdf Btech,CSE]
 
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|RT503 - Database Systems ||Case study in Oracle
 
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|RT502 - Operating Systems ||General Structure of MSDOS, Windows 2000.
 
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|RT704 - Advanced Software environments || Windows API, MFC
 
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|RT706-4 - Windows programming ||!
 
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|R707 - Hardware Lab ||MASM
 
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|RT805-5 - Distributed Computing ||Sun Network file system
 
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|MCA|| ||
 
Insists students for using Oracle
 
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|rowspan="1"|[http://universityofcalicut.info Calicut University]
 
||BSc Computer Science
 
|| ||Visual Basic, Visual C++,MASM,Oracle,adobe Flash,ASP.net.Windows,PowerPoint
 
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|colspan="5" align="center" | '''Tamilnadu'''
 
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|rowspan="1"|Bharathiyar University, Distance education
 
||BCA || ||COBOL,Windows
 
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|colspan="5" align="center" | '''Maharashtra'''
 
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|rowspan="1"|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
 
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|colspan="5" align="center" | '''Pondicherry'''
 
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|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||
 
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[http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/FossElectivesSyllabus NRCFOSS's FOSS based syllabus] (to supplement the use of FOSS (or may be vendor neutral software)
 
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Latest revision as of 09:12, 9 March 2012

Note: This page is no longer maintained and moved to http://fosscomm.in/SyllabusReview[]

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


Help with the ongoing reviews

  1. VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM, KARNATAKA

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[]


Secondary Education[]

Others[]

Colleges & Universities[]