Students to get e-books, apps

The government has taken initiatives to transform textbook contents of technical education into e-books and mobile applications (apps).

The education ministry will, at first, transform textbook contents of 65 different trades of SSC (vocational) course into e-books and mobile apps in the next five months, said sources.

Principals of different technical and vocational institutes would be responsible to make the e-books and mobile apps with technical help from Buet. The project would be funded by Bangladesh Technical Education Board.

"We have already started making all books from class VI to X at secondary level into Interactive Digital Textbook, and our next initiative is to turn textbook contents of different trades of technical education into e-books and mobile apps," Education Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan told the news agency yesterday. 

He said Interactive Digital Textbook of class VI of secondary level would be inaugurated in September, while dateline for turning the books of 65 different trades of SSC vocational into e-book and mobile apps has been set in October.

The education secretary said the government has a plan to provide tabs to students so that they can read the e-books and mobile apps using the technological devices.