Dear Sankarshan, My replies are inline.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:42 PM, sankarshan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Over the last few years, open source adoption has been growing within > > India's education system. Five years ago, the South Indian state of > Kerala, > > pioneered open source in schools with its famous i...@schools project, > that > > now covers three million students from the 5th-10 standards, involves > > 200,000 teachers across 4071 schools. Since then, other Indian states > like > > Karnataka, Gujarat, Assam, West Bengal and others have made open source a > > key part of their school education initiatives. > > Given the amount of time that has passed between FOSS adoption in > these states it would be good to have an independent study done to > assess the improvements in place and, also the potential loopholes > that need to be addressed. > IT For Change did a study comparing the Kerala model with the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model followed by other states. It found that the Kerala model was clearly superior. The report is at: http://www.itforchange.net/media/Policy_Brief_on_ICTs_in_School_Education_from_IT_for_Change_August_2009.pdf At the Jaipur workshop one of the Master trainers from Kerala spoke about their experience and it was impressive how empowered these teachers were. The teachers are now so technically savvy that they create their own spins. > I note that you did not mention PLoS or, BOAI like initiatives - is > there a a report somewhere about progress along those lines when it > comes to India ? > I don't have this right now, but if I come across something like this, I will forward ir to this group. Venky
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