Campus report :E-books are now being interactive to ensure the quality teaching in remote areas of the country. So the teaching activities through the e-books in the interactive multimedia classroom will be made more pleasant and straightforward.Technology expert said, the initiative is definitely praiseworthy. It will be easier for parents and the students to collect books if the project is fully implemented. However, the program would be more effective if the initiative of distribution of affordable tablet computer will be taken. Students do not have to carry a bag no more.This is a magnificent initiative, somewhat exceptional. Attempt to convert text books into E-books, which was began in 2011.Achievement of this initiative also remarkable. Meanwhile, 71 percent of primary and secondary books have been converted to e-book already. Bangladesh is the first country among SAARC nations take this initiative. There is no record of this type of initiative in any equivalent per capita income countries as Bangladesh. Naturally, the academics of the country have seen this initiative as a bold step.They said, the concerns about books will be ended if the initiative implemented fully. The government’s huge sums of amount spending to print the textbooks every year will be reduced. The expenditure will be reduced fully if the E-book compatible devices ensured. So the children will be released from the burden of the text books. The negative impact also reduced from the environment. Overall, the country will move towards to a knowledge-based economy. The education-related organizations have the opportunity to collect text books anywhere in the world at any time as well as the students because of the E-book. Immigrant Bangladeshi families are also benefited, because a significant portion of these children study through the domestic medium. These students were suffering be so much due to the limitations of the text books. The suffering dropped so much due to the E-book circulation.Primary and secondary-level textbooks are available online for reading and downloading from the year 2011. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated www.ebook.gov.bd, a website where the books are available in e-book format.The site is a collaboration of National Textbook and Curriculum Board (NCTB) and the UNDP-funded Access to Information (A2I) program under the Prime Minister’s Office. Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid, primary and mass education minister Afsarul Amin, and A2I director Nazrul Islam Khan were present at the inauguration ceremony.-Courtesy eduicon
