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1. ...adding simplicity to sense
InOpen Technologies
SINE IIT Bombay
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2. The role of FOSS for
Computer education
@ schools in India
Dr. Farida Khan | Dr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur | Rupesh
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3. Objective of Today’s Talk
To understand:
1.How FOSS has (really ?) facilitated educational expansion in
the Indian context
2.Role of FOSS from the user perspective and its requirement
for Indian students.
3.Case Studies featuring FOSS in Indian Schools
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4. FOSS seems to be a forced implementation
FOSS : What does FOSS stand for ?
or
Forced Set of Obsolete Software Systems
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5. How FOSS has facilitated through educational
expansion in the Indian context
1. Created 1000’s of ‘Awesome’ Network Engineers #RedHat
2. Saved some money in lot of Colleges #Decorated Linux
Labs in Schools & Colleges
3. Saved Money by forcing people using Open Office
#frustrated employees/students
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6. Whats the Problem ?
1. We are anti Microsoft #death-spiral
2.We are Open ! We are Free #who cares
3. Linux is the best OS #OS vs Applications
4. Saved Money by forcing people using Open Office and so on
#frustrated employees/students
5. Where is the seamless support ? #Everyone is busy re-
inventing wheels
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7. How FOSS has ‘actually’ facilitated through
educational expansion in the Indian context
1. Some ‘Awesome’ Apps #Scratch #Gcompris #Languages
(QT, Python)
2. Education Server school Tools (class management), web
server (CMS, academic information system, e-learning,
knowledge portal etc.)
3. Free High Quality Course Materials (No Copyright License)
(FOSS supports) #Khan Academy #Computer Masti
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8. How FOSS ‘can’ actually facilitate educational
expansion in the Indian context
1. Stop Forcing Linux OS. Make People use Open Source
Applications. They will automatically choose OS sooner or
later.
2. Demystify that Open Source is Geeky. Provide High quality
commercial Technical Support Services & Training
3. Address Scaling through a ‘seamless’ way. Strength of FOSS is
- Legal & Affordable. Improve beyond #Total Cost of
Ownership. Focus on Intangible Benefits & Old Hardware
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9. The role of FOSS for
Computer education
@ schools in India
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13. Content - Service
OUP, MacMillan,
Providers # NIIT,
Navneet .. #Publishers
Educomp, InOpen
Internet Local IT Vendors
#Audio/Video Tutorials #Hardware Suppliers
Instructor #Some
Expert which School
Hires
14. FOSS in School Computer education
1.At OS #Edubuntu #Fedora. Large Scale Deployments in Kerala,
West Bengal, Gujarat and Uttrakhand shows its acceptable
#Scalability #Low-Cost
2. For Basic #Tux Paint (vs MS Paint), #Gcompris
3. Open Office for Publishing (alternate to MS Office),
4. Java, Alternate Compilers to Turbo C, QT and other
programming languages.
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15. FOSS in School - Case Studies
1. IT @ Schools #Kerala Govt.
2. Internet Tutorials #Khan Academy #OSCAR #Spoken
Tutorials
3. Creative Commons
4. Computer Masti - World’s first full fledged Computer
Science Curriculum (k-12) in open sources
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16. IT @ school
IT @ school is a project of Department of General Education,
Government of Kerala
1.Setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools :
2.Achievements:
1.World’s largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS initiatives in
education sector i.e 16 lakh Students
2.Content is cent percent localized
3. A separate Edu TV Channel #Victor for OSS
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17. Internet Tutorials #Khan Academy #OSCAR
Khan Academy - 3.5 million Unique Visitors With over 2700
videos, it is easily the most exhaustive collection of instruction on
the internet allowing learners to know that they can fill in almost
any of their "gaps" with the content on this site. #Foss Academy
OSCAR - Web-based, interactive animations for teaching various
concepts and technologies. This is useful not only for classroom
teaching but also for enabling independent-learning and distance
education.
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18. Creative Commons
The world is shifting to a form of peer production which they
term ‘Wikinomics’. This idea of a Creative Commons has spread,
and includes theOpen Courseware movement, designed to make
educational resources freely available.
Creative Commons designed to encourage students and teachers
to practice the 4 R’s (reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) as part of
their learning and teaching.
1.School of Open with P2PU. Open Policy / Legislation exchange
2. Improving OER search and discovery. The Learning
Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI).
3.Ability to track use and reuse of CC-licensed works.
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19. Computer Masti
• The need for an active computer learning based curriculum is
addressed throughComputer Masti (CM). Designed as a content-
service solution to teach IT/CS in schools. Uses only FOSS based
scenarios and application
• The content is presented in a story format around 3 characters.
Adopts a constructivist pedagogical approach, which encourages
the characters to ask questions, and to explore on their own.
Key Points :
1. IIT Bombay - InOpen collaborative Product. Extensive Research content. Intellectual
Property.
2. Acceptance across all kinds of schools and varied IT setups. Implemented across
75000 students in 1 year. Available in 8 Indian Languages and 2 Foreign Languages.
75kunique visitors. Featured in leading national Newspapers, Media blogs and
Research papers / Journals
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20. FOSS @ Schools : Computer Masti
1.Uses more than 40 FOSS applications including
educational games, productivity tools and programming
languages
2.Provides all FOSS related technical Support to
Schools
3.Have saved more than 4 mn from Schools. Revenue
Generation of more than 50 mn
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21. FOSS @ Schools : Computer Masti
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FOSS in general
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22. Testimonials
Esteemed Clients “ Super stuff! ”
- Mark Shuttleworth - Founder, Canonical and Ubuntu .
“ A dream for every parent and must for every child”
Economic Times - ET Now
Jamnabai Narsee, Vikhe Patil “This is a story where we in the west can look to the developing world, to a
Mumbai School, Pune country like India who is using technology innovatively. I am talking about
Computer Masti..”
- Times of India
“The Curriculum is very helpful for teachers with its Teacher’s guide.The
worksheet and the activities are very attractive. I enjoyed it very much”
- Mrs. Haseena Suresh – IES group of schools
Springfiled School.
SSRVM Rizvi Foundation
Art of Living Schools Mumbai “The curriculum makes me feels good as I able to relate to the need which I
see in my schools.The students are bored of dry and mechanical Curriculum”
- Mr. Chandrasekhar – Orchid International School, Nasik
“Our Routine Computer Classes have turned into so fun....”
- Mrs. Lalitha Hariharan – Principal, Rizvi group of schools
Kendra Vidyala, Al Barkat School
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23. Fundamentals of Technology Acceptance
Usefulness | Easy to Use | Support till threshold
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