Multimedia Classrooms
6,000 digital contents developed
The country's teachers at primary and secondary levels have shown their skills in developing digital contents for multimedia classrooms that have started changing the century-old traditional teacher- centered learning system.
Over 6,000 digital contents have so far been developed by the teachers through a blog site www.ictineducation.ning.com developed exclusively for them, said an official of the Access to Information Programme of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
A total of 12, 462 teachers are the members of the blog who upload the digital contents in the site regularly and download the same for using in the multimedia classrooms, he said.
Meanwhile, 12, 000 teachers -- 10,000 at secondary level and 2,000 at primary level -- have been provided training to develop digital contents, said Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Secretary and National Project Director (NPD) of A2I Programme Md Nazrul Islam Khan.
Training will be given to more 10,000 teachers by 2013 so that they can develop digital contents, he said, adding that the teachers will play an important role in carrying out the government's plan to set up 20,500 multimedia classrooms by this year.
Over 4,000 multimedia classrooms have so far been set up in the country, an information ministry official said.
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