From: Görkem Çetin (gorkem@gorkemcetin.com)
Date: Wed 29 Mar 2006 - 00:36:26 EEST
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=interactive01_mar27_2006
SOME 80 universities and colleges will incorporate open source subjects
into their computer science (CS) and information technology (IT)-related
courses later this year under a program that seeks to help schools
develop more employable graduates.
“There is a growing demand for open source, and this program aims to
enhance the skills of students in open source systems,” said Dominic
Sabado, manager of the European IT Service Center Foundation (EITSC), a
partner in the Philippine Open Source Initiative (Positive) program.
A joint project of the Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit, a
development arm of the German government; Wireless Services Asia, a
private European company; and EITSC of the European Chamber of Commerce
of the Philippines, Positive encourages local tertiary-level schools
with CS or IT-related subjects to download and use free open source
course materials developed by six partner schools.
The materials include syllabuses, course presentations, laboratory
workbooks, and exercises and tests developed over six months by the
Asia-Pacific Colleges, Angeles University Foundation, Cebu Institute of
Technology, Don Bosco Technical College, Mindanao State University
Institute of Technology and the Department of Science and Technology
Region 7 Open Source Computer and Security Laboratory.
These materials, Sabado said, addresses a deficiency in many CS and
IT-related curriculums, which focus on proprietary—mostly Microsoft—
technology.
Schools may register for the program and download the course materials
from the Positive Web site (http://www.positive.ph), Sabado said.
Because of budget constraints, the project initially developed four
courses to cover the fundamentals of IT, operating systems, database
management and Web programming.
The six partner schools will roll out the new curriculum starting next
month, and other schools are expected to follow suit later this year,
Sabado told Standard Today.
Positive was launched last February at the national convention of the
Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE) in Iloilo
City.
To encourage some 250 PSITE-member schools to adopt the open source
course materials, Positive will begin a series of training sessions for
faculty members in five major cities to how to integrate these into
their existing curriculum, Sabado said.
EITSC, which seeks to promote the Philippines as a supplier of IT and
IT-related services to Europe, believes a workforce with skills in open
source technologies will help outsourcing companies here capture more
business.
“We’re providing options,” Sabado said. “Open source is a technology
platform that will have an effect on business, and if you don’t have the
graduates with these skills, you’ll miss out on these opportunities.”
Chin Wong
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