Re: [Fsf-friends] INDIA: Text books are on the Net in Kerala... for the asking

fred> Open courses and e-learning fred> K.G. Kumar fred> SOMETHING revolutionary is happening in Kerala's education sector. From the fred> next academic year (2004-05) onwards, all textbooks for students of Class 10 fred> will be available on the Internet. Textbooks for students studying in fred> Kerala where Malayalam or English is the medium of instruction are already fred> available online. <snip> fred> In 1999, MIT Provost Robert A. Brown asked the MIT Council on Education fred> Technology to provide strategic guidance on how MIT should position itself fred> in the distance/ e-learning environment. The resulting recommendation led to fred> the idea of MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), which made available on the Net fred> materials from virtually all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses. </snip> Reminds me of my school days. One of the questions in Malayalam subject was to write an essay on Cow. One was supposed to write about features of Cows and its many many products etc, but many of us didn't get more than afew sentences. So we wrote after the first para that "cow is usually tied to coconet trees. Coconut trees are found in Kerala. Coconut has many byproducts which can be used for... ... ..." The story ends with more on coconut than about the "subject". Fred, please refrain from such misleading subjects and even more misleading articles. Also please make sure you read what you forward. God Bless Journalism! -- Ramakrishnan http://www.hackGNU.org/ Use Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding!