Prof. Dr. Alauddin Ahmed
Md. Afzal Hossain Sarwar
Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh
Teacher-led Digital Content Development:
A new initiative for teacher’s empowerment
Building and Sustainable ICT in Education Agencies : Lessons and
Challenges
Area: 144,000 km2Population: 160 millionPer Capita: $600 (approx.)
Primary Schools: 82,218Teachers: 400,000Students: 16,001,605
Secondary Schools: 25,218Teachers: 230,000Students: 7,501,605
Internet users: 15% of pop.Mobile users : 35% of pop.
Bangladesh: At a Glance
Education
Service @ citizens’ doorsteps
Vision 2021: Digital BangladeshHealth Agriculture
Disaster Mgt.E-Gov. etc.
More…
Goals of Digital
Bangladesh Education
1. ensuring a productive 21st-century-ready workforce2. improving curriculum, pedagogy and teacher’s capacity
building to ensure quality education for all3. ensuring transparency, efficiency and effectiveness at
all levels of educational administration4. securing accountability to real stakeholder namely the
students and parents and enabling the citizens to participate in policy making
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ICTs for enhancing quality of Teaching-Learning
Teacher training Classroom teaching-learning Supplementary materials Self-Learning materials
Digital content developmentTop-Down Model
Bottom-up Model
Content development by others
Content development by teachers
• Passive role of teachers
• Difficult to modify
• Development cost is huge
• Ensure teacher’s ownership
• Need minimum technology literacy
(PPT, Internet, Avro, etc.)
• Liberty for content development
• Highly-professional
• Attractive
• Easy to operate
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Lesson Learned:Empowerment of teachers…
Creativity being unleashed Confidence is increasing Collaboration among teachers Motivation, training, incentives
Lesson Learned: Empowerment of teachers…
Creativity being unleashed Confidence is increasing Collaboration among teachers Motivation, training, incentives
Empowerment = C.C.C. Motivation
Teacher-led content development •Develop content according to needs
•Demonstrate difficult-to-teach content
• Modify content at any time
• Opportunity to use repeatedly
• Best use of time
• Create student-centered learning environment
•Ensure enjoyable and effective learning
<< Content development by teachers
Growth of Plants
www.teachersdomain.com
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Digestive System
Content using in classroom
Skeleton
Creativity being unleashed
Integration of ICT & Pedagogy
- Students’ level of experience
- T-S interaction
- Inquisitiveness
- Question-answer
- Group/pair/individual work
- Project-based learning, etc.
Using in Multimedia Classroom
Confidence is increasing
1 Laptop + 1 MM Projector + Teacher-led contents
Enhancing quality teaching-learning
Enjoyable & effective learning Easy to understand Sustainable learning
Learning by participationTeacher-centered Env. Student-
centered environment
Content portal for teachers-students…
Collaboration among the teachers
Motivation, Training, Incentive…
Training process has been started Govt. establishing about 15,000 MM Classrooms Contents are being developed and uploaded on
the portal by teachers Best content developer teachers will be
recognized through incentive packages Content competition –national & local level Interest free loan for teachers to purchase laptop
Challenges
• ICT Infrastructure and Delivery channels• Lack of Electricity • Lack of Internet Connectivity• Digital divide between rural and urban areas schools• Big number of schools and teachers• Huge financial involvement
PPP • GoB• UNDP • UNESCO• unicef • World Bank• ADB• CIDA• USAID• JICA• Intel • Microsoft• Save the Children, USA• KOICA, EXIM Bank, Korea • British Council • WordForge Foundation• Others
Thank you
