UNB, Dhaka :
The government has taken an initiative to turn all textbooks of class VI to X into Interactive Digital Textbooks (IDTs) ones, the first of its kind in the country, making the topics attractive and enjoyable for students, officials said.
As part of the initiative, they said, the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Bangladesh (NCTB) and the Teaching Quality Improvement-II in Secondary Education under the Ministry of Education in collaboration with BRAC has already started preparing the textbooks of class VI to X into IDTs.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to launch the IDTs in September, the month of literacy, they said.
Education Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan told UNB that the launching of
IDTs will be another milestone step forward in the journey towards Digital Bangladesh, and the ministry has targeted to inaugurate the IDTs in mid-September next.
According to the sources, the NCTB, TQI and BRAC have already provided extensive training on making IDTs to experts and trainers of 14 Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs), four private TTCs, five Higher Secondary Teachers Training Institutes, Home Economic College, Education Boards, Technical Education Board under TQI project, and they have started making digital contents for the IDTs.
The experts of Bangladesh Association of Software Information and Services (BASIS) and Access to Information (A2I) Programme have also been providing technical assistance in preparing make the IDTs, the sources added.
The Education Secretary said his ministry is in negotiations with donors for funds to provide Tablet PCs to students so that they can read the IDT online and avoid carrying so many books to their classes.
“The IDTs will be attractive and enjoyable for the students as the topic contains video, animation through hyperlink,” Khan said adding the IDTs will help the students come out from the culture of memorising knowledge.
Additional Secretary of Education Ministry Banomali Bhowmik who is also a project director of TQI said the quality of teachers in delivering their lectures is being improved by providing them adequate training on the topics of IDTs.
“I feel very excited after making a video-animation-mix digital content by our team on a topic of Hindu religion of class six which was appreciated by the Education Secretary last week at the National Academy for Education Management (Naem),” said Principal of Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Teachers Training College Sheela Barnadate Gomes.
The government has taken an initiative to turn all textbooks of class VI to X into Interactive Digital Textbooks (IDTs) ones, the first of its kind in the country, making the topics attractive and enjoyable for students, officials said.
As part of the initiative, they said, the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Bangladesh (NCTB) and the Teaching Quality Improvement-II in Secondary Education under the Ministry of Education in collaboration with BRAC has already started preparing the textbooks of class VI to X into IDTs.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to launch the IDTs in September, the month of literacy, they said.
Education Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan told UNB that the launching of
IDTs will be another milestone step forward in the journey towards Digital Bangladesh, and the ministry has targeted to inaugurate the IDTs in mid-September next.
According to the sources, the NCTB, TQI and BRAC have already provided extensive training on making IDTs to experts and trainers of 14 Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs), four private TTCs, five Higher Secondary Teachers Training Institutes, Home Economic College, Education Boards, Technical Education Board under TQI project, and they have started making digital contents for the IDTs.
The experts of Bangladesh Association of Software Information and Services (BASIS) and Access to Information (A2I) Programme have also been providing technical assistance in preparing make the IDTs, the sources added.
The Education Secretary said his ministry is in negotiations with donors for funds to provide Tablet PCs to students so that they can read the IDT online and avoid carrying so many books to their classes.
“The IDTs will be attractive and enjoyable for the students as the topic contains video, animation through hyperlink,” Khan said adding the IDTs will help the students come out from the culture of memorising knowledge.
Additional Secretary of Education Ministry Banomali Bhowmik who is also a project director of TQI said the quality of teachers in delivering their lectures is being improved by providing them adequate training on the topics of IDTs.
“I feel very excited after making a video-animation-mix digital content by our team on a topic of Hindu religion of class six which was appreciated by the Education Secretary last week at the National Academy for Education Management (Naem),” said Principal of Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Teachers Training College Sheela Barnadate Gomes.
