E-learning pilot scheme at 20 schools this year

National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) will take up a 3-year pilot programme on e-learning as a teaching method in 20 secondary schools from this year, its chairman said yesterday.
The programme will be launched under the Secondary Education Sector Development Project (SESDP).
“The board is to go for a feasibility study to take electronic learning as a method of teaching mathematics, sciences and computer science,” NCTB Professor Dr M Masir Uddin told a seminar on E-learning in Bangladesh: From Concept to Business Case in Dhaka.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information services (BASIS) organised the seminar on the sideline of the Softexpo 2008 which began yesterday at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre.
Chairman of Regulatory Reforms Commission Dr Akbar Ali Khan was present at the seminar as chief guest.
The NCTB chief also spelt out the board's plan to disseminate e-learning across the country on any good experience from the scheme.
A number of speakers, however, stressed the need for wide expansion of e-learning as it is easily accessible and cost effective.
"We have scarcity of resources and skilled teachers, so it will be very effective to introduce e-learning for teaching students," Nitai Chandra Sutradhar, chairman of Technical Education Board, said.
Akbar Ali Khan urged the government to arrange e-learning for primary level students side by side the computer education being imparted to secondary and higher secondary students.
“E-learning can be very effective for children as they can learn anything very easily”, the former adviser to the caretaker government remarked.