On Sunday 15 January 2017 12:49 PM, Milind Oka wrote:
Hi,
In last month's proceedings, Hon High Court passed an important order
to make appropriate changes in
School/College curriculum for academic year 2017-18 ( in view of
Notification dated 17 June 2014 which advises
states to adopt open source on priority)
Government has formed an experts committee for this implementation.
The report is expected
before 8 March 17. So next date is kept on 31 March 2017.
Another good news is that Prof Kannan of 'Spoken Tutorials' seems to
be one of the members in the committee. Prof Kannan,
being a strong supporter of open source, has been putting great
efforts to promote open source. He himself says that obsolete
curriculum is the biggest problem in ICT education. Also he has signed
our on line petition for Mandating Open Source. His work
will be meaningful if open source is effectively implemented through
curriculum.
Now we can definitely expect a report from the committee suggesting
mandatory adoption of Open Source in Education in
strong and clear words. Best wishes to Prof Kannan and his team.
Earlier, Mr Krishnakant Mane and DFF filed a similar PIL in order to
have a greater impact of the original petition. The two petitions will
now be joined (Probably on 31 March). Original petition is
representing students and teachers while Krishnakant is representing
Visually
impaired students and students in rural areas in particular. Lots of
thanks to Krishnakant.
Hon High Court Order on 8 Dec :
http://docdro.id/pM73elw
MHRD Notification which High Court Order refers :
http://docdro.id/aPc7MSF
-- Regards
Milind
Very happy to hear these updates. Good work.
Usually, whenever we voice we do get good judgments and new committees
will be made. This is one of the ways in which the Govt keeps us less
reactive. We think our voices are heard. The gulf between policies,
supreme court judgments is so deep and wide, the existing practices will
continue.
Therefore it is important for few of us to continue to create well
designed good quality interventions that can support this transition.
--
GN