Capacity Building

IT for Change has organised capacity building programmes to train teachers and teacher educators about FOSS platforms, in order to support constructivist models for curricular resources design and development. The programmes showed the potential for public software in the public educational system.

This paper is a response to a call for papers on "Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents - Experiences of South Asian countries" by the gender list of Solution Exchange (UNESCO) and Plan India. The commentary discusses the background, strategies...

The Department of Public Instruction, Government of Karnataka and Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, have initiated a public software based ICT education programme imed at all the high schools of the state. This entire programme, including the...

Public Software Centre is engaging with Department of Technical Education (DTE), Government of Karnataka to help them in the process of shifting to public software along with revising their syllabus to include public software educational tools.

Resources
Teachers' Communities of Learning project, 2010-2011
Impact assessment study on the 'Regional resource centre for elementary education' (RRCE)
ICT programmes in schools in Yadgir District
Advocacy campaigns for a national policy on ICT in school education - 2008-2011
Computer learning programmes in schools - Moving from BOOT models to an integrated approach
Karnataka ICT@Schools Programme
State Master Trainers on Public Software educational tools programme
What is Public Software?
Policy brief – ICTs in education. Outsourced versus Integrated Approach

Events