Prof Jitendra
Since the proposed FOSSCOMM letter focuses on 2-3 specific points,
mixing a set of more detailed suggestions for amendments may dilute the
principal desired impact. Also there may not be time to discuss and
obtain the group's consent in the next 2 hours or so that are left for
the deadline to close comments. I suggest you separately send these
comments to the ministry on your behalf. However, we welcome inputs to
the proposed letter as it stands now.
parminder
jitendra wrote:
Suggestions
to
ICT Policy
by Prof Jitendra Shah
(version 29July, 11 AM)
Add
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(section title :Promote )
Student-oriented learning by way of facilitating exploratory learning,
making available different styles of learning, providing choice to
student, providing flexibility in age, time, pace breaking
geographical barriers
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5.4 Enabling Infrastructure
To enhance the maintenability, preference will be given to thin
clients i.e network based terminals which are immune to virus attack
and which have some local computing power without moving parts (say on
flash memory etc) thus requiring less electricity.
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6.1.2 Given the diversity of the country's educational, linguistic and
social situation, there
exists a need for a wide variety of digital content and resources for
different subjects,
curriculum, ages/grade levels and languages.
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3.
The content may be shared across the states if not
globally. Hence state shall support only such text
content as will conform to open standards i.e
1.
Open standards i.e royalty free,
non-commercial, publicly maintained, as
specified in Recommendations of the Expert
Committee appointed by GOI on Interoperability
in E-Governance Framework version 1.5( IEGF)
which is similar to the definition of European
Commission
2.
Encoding standard: Unicode
3.
Font stanadrd : Open, non-proprietary, royalty
free standard
4.
Any non-open standard used may have an interim
status for not more than a year during which
time state shall devise open standards for
encouraging creativity and eliminating monopoly.
4.
Internationalised and localised : i.e in subjects
like mathematics, science etc where the core content
is not the language , the language part must be
separable and replaceable by translations in another
language and the language-specific content should be
manitained in such a way , from version to version
that simple tools should be able to extract,
translate and replace the language.
5.
Content shall be maintained in a version-controlled
system so that collaborative development is
possible. Different state authorities may be able to
choose versions and maintain some portions
independently (fork) while utilising the core (as stem).
2.
Development of Content
3.
Even students will be encouraged to contribute to
the content. Creativity shown and work done in
creating content may be suitably rewarded ,
including as part of project work.FOSS tools may be
made available to them for this.
4.
Integration with the MHRD's projects on Mission of
ICT in education will be sought to gain from the
learnings and tools that can be shared
5.
Higher educational institutes will be specifically
and systematically involved so that young persons ,
both teachers and students can bring the fresh air
of new knowledge to overcome limitations if any , in
the school systems. Suitable financial incentives
will be utilised based on properly accounted useful
efforts and tangible outcomes.
6.
A system of collecting requirements of demand will
be maintained on the web in a transparent manner. A
ToDo list of requirements will be maintained . Open
process of bidding and allotment for content
generation will be established . Multiple agencies
may develop the content and same may be evaluated
through an open process of evaluation , moderated by
a committee .
7.
Contributors, including domain experts, teachers etc
will be encouraged to create free e-content. Their
popularity and other idices of evaluation will help
in allotting to them work for generation of fres
content at State's expense.
8.
Contents will include
1.
e-books
2.
animations
3.
lessons
4.
exercises
5.
interactive games
6.
models and simulations
7.
videos
8.
Presentation slides
9.
plain text materials
10.
graphics
11.
Any combiations of the above
Jitendra
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