BSS, Dhaka :
The government will convert all textbooks from class one to five under the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) into multimedia books for making them attractive, enjoyable and easily understandable to the learners.
“Initially, 33 books from class one to five under NCTB will be converted into multimedia books with the collaboration of Information and Communication Technology (ICTD) Division and BRAC,” Education Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan told a workshop on “projection of multimedia books” at the BRAC Center.
The contents of some books including mathematics, science and environment converted into multimedia books under the project of ICT Division titled “Developing Interactive Multimedia Digital Version of Primary Education Contents” were exhibited at the function.
Khan said the government also will take steps to convert all books of technical education and Madrasha education curriculums into multimedia books.
“The learners will not need to memorize the texts, if the education contents are converted into digital version using pictures, chart, diagram, audio and video” he said.
Khan said the government has a plan to supply tablets to the educational institutions to read multimedia books.
“We are talking to the donor agencies to provide assistance for supplying tablets to the educational institutions which will turn the books of NCTB, Technical Education Board and Madrasha Education Board into multimedia books,” he said.
Director Education of BRAC Shafiqul Islam said they have appointed two foreign ‘e -Learning’ experts- Marteen Delkle of Netherlands and Ruhee Tustam, a Harvard University fellow to develop contents and convert the books of NCTB from class one to five into multimedia books.
“BRAC has expertise to convert all books from class one to ten into digital version,” he said.
NCTB Chairman Md. Abul Kashem Miah, Project Director of Developing Interactive Multimedia Digital Version of Primary Education Contents Project Md. Akhter Hossain and Nila Afroz of BRAC, among others, addressed the function.
