Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Dear Sankarshan,
My replies are inline.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:42 PM, sankarshan
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan
<[email protected] <mailto:[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.
The above link has a 4 page 'policy brief'. For the detailed research
report, visit http://cerg.commons.net.in/node/3
Guru
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