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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.
Mailing List : http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/education-discuss-fosscom.in
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 this page
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.
Contributers
- Shyam Karanattu
- Venkitesh Hariharan
- Anivar Aravind
- Santhosh Thottingal
Primary Education
Subject |
Objections |
Remarks |
Softwares |
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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 |
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Defining computer Interface with Windows desktop |
How came one chapter about GNU/Linux in 9th class ICT? |
see Objections |
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GST Typing tutor,MS Power Point ,Star Impress |
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MS Word,Star Writer,Creative Writer |
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Unique features of MS Windows GUI,MS-word,Star Writer,QBASIC,BASIC |
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MS Excel,Star Calc,BASIC,Adobe Flash,GIF Animator,Internet Explorer |
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MS Excel,visicalc,star calc,MS Notepad,Wordpad,Ms Frontpage |
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MS Frontpage,MS Access,MS Visual Basic |
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MS Access,Star base,Visual Basic |
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Class 8:MS Windows,MS Word;Class 9:MS-Power Point;Class 10:MSAccess |
one module is about ANSI C!a smell of standard is there! |
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MS-Office,Internet Explorer;practical:MSAccess,Infrastructure suggestions:MSWindows,Internet Explorer,LeapOffice,Microsoft training software,C-DAC's ADIT course material |
Full of Microsoft Softwares and CDAC's too! |
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Additional Subject:Computer Science:MSDOS,BASIC,DBASE III |
Lagging by atleast 15 Years! |
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Secondary Education
Subject |
Objections |
Remarks |
Softwares |
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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 |
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Senior School Curriculum 2009,Informatics Practices (Code 065) |
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 |
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Informatics Practises: MS-Windows,MS Visual Basic,ORACLE |
Complete MS Windows Course |
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MS Visual Basic,ORACLE, PL/SQL |
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CLASS 11 AND 12:MSOffice,Mathematica,gnuplot |
More scientific syllabus,but totally Unethical |
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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 |
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Unit-II Windows GUI Internet Explorer,Other apps,Unit-IV web tools in Windows |
Windows,and its webtools |
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Unit-II IT TOOLS:Windows GUI,MSOffice,UNIT-III IT Application-Practical works on the above tools |
Windows ,MSOffice |
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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 |
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CLASS IX |
Ist sem:Computer Fundamentals:MS Windows;IInd SEM Theory & Practical:MSWord2000,MSPowerPoint2000,MSExcel2000 |
according to such a course curriculum,"Computer is a Microsoft Device" |
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CLASS X |
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CLASS XI |
Ist Sem:MSWord,MSExcel,MSPowerPoint,MSAccess |
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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 |
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VOL2:Non Standard C++(Turbo C++) |
No Scope for Vendor Neutral Software |
Star office, Turbo C++ |
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Computer Science:MSDos,BASIC |
Lagging by atleast 15 Years |
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Maharashtra State Board of Secondary And Higher Secondary Education |
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Introduction to Computers:Windows and protection against malware in that platform,AVG6FreeEdition DTP:CorelDraw,ILeap,PageMaker, Office Automation:MSOffice,MSFrontPage |
making slave artists |
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Multimedia And Internet Tech:Internet Explorer,Yahoo,MSN Client,Outlook,Real Audio Player,Windows Media Player,GIF Animator,MS Visual Basic |
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Accountancy And Auditing,Banking,Office Management:Tally,MSWindows Platform |
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Complete Windows Platform:MSWindows,Visual Basic,Oracle,PL/SQL |
Ditto of CBSE |
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DTP & PRINTING TECHNOLOGY:MSWindows,Pagemaker,Corel Draw,Adobe illustrator, abode Photoshop,Instant Artist. |
Complete MSWindows platform based training |
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Computergraphics and Animation:Windows XP,Office XP,Turbo C/C++,Flash,Macro Media director,Photoshop,Audio/Video Capturing and editing softwares,3D Studio Max. |
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Computer Science and Engg:DOS, Windows-98, Windows-NT, MS-Office-2000, TurboC, FINANCIALACCOUNTING PACKAGE, PAGE MAKER, COREL DRAW |
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Colleges & Universities
College/University |
Courses |
Papers |
Remarks |
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Kerala |
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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 |
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Insists students for using Oracle |
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BSc Computer Science |
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Visual Basic, Visual C++,MASM,Oracle,adobe Flash,ASP.net.Windows,PowerPoint |
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Btech,ECE |
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EC04-111(P)ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP-PART B |
9th experiment- "PCB layout using software like ORCARD,CIRCUITMAKER,EDWIN" |
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EC04-805(A):SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES |
Internal Assignment on MATLAB |
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EC04-806(P):ADVANCED COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING LAB |
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Tamilnadu |
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Bharathiyar University, Distance education |
BCA |
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COBOL,Windows |
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Anna University, (Chennai, Coimbatore, Trichy, Thirunelveli) |
B.E (CSE), B.Tech (IT) |
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M$-Office, Borland, Turbo C++, Rational Rose, Macromedia Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET/C#, Oracle (The list goes on, so we can simply put this way for all courses, Anna University recommends Proprietory Software,also Microsoft visual C++ is a compulsary regular subject, which forces people to use windows) |
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Maharashtra |
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University of Mumbai |
BSc (IT), MSc(IT) |
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Turbc C,C++,Visual C,Visual Basic in sem 5 Bsc(IT),Use of Emulators (Wipro UWin),WINDOWS |
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Courses on proprietary software |
PGDCM |
Programming using Visual Basic |
The PGDCM course itself is centered around proprietary software |
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MCM |
VB .NET |
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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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Andhra Pradesh |
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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 |
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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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