Community Based Curriculum

Curriculum by the people for the people

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What is this blog about ?

It is for producing a curriculum for the students:

Location : Kerala, India

Subject : Information Technology, Computer Science

Classes: 1rst – 12th.

The curriculum would be designed by the Society mainly with the collaboration and coordination of the “Swathanthra Software Community”

Who has initiated this activity ?

Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

Who is the primary contact ?

The author of this blog

What is the plan and roadmap ?

  • Study existing curriculum
  • Create a set of objectives to be achieved through teaching IT/CS to students
  • Plan a strategy for the defining the skill sets needed to developed in the students
  • Design a curriculum based on the SkillSets
  • Design a syllabus that gives students Freedom to use, learn, share and collaborate .
  • Produce textbooks under Free Documentation Licenses

When do you expect to reach the final step ?

March 2010

Who else will be involved apart from the Free Software Community ?

Teachers, Scholars, Professors, Principals, Educationalists, Scientists, Psyschologists, Parents

and of course students.

There are lot of Open Educational Content and Similar Movements such as this ?

Yes there are, Few notable ones from my opinion are

Wikiversity

WikiEducator

Open Educational Resources

MIT Open Course Ware

GNU/Linux for CBSE

Our aim is to blend the best suitable syllabus and content for our culture and our students in this part of the world, to

develop technology for our country and the entire mankind.

What can I do ?

We can collaborate on this blog, send me a mail.

Written by Sreenadh

July 2, 2009 at 4:12 pm

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