About
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
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.