Digital textbooks launch in Sept

The government has taken an initiative to turn all textbooks of class VI to X into Interactive Digital Textbooks (IDTs) ones, the first of its kind in the country, making the topics attractive and enjoyable for students, officials said, reports UNB.

As part of the initiative, they said the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Bangladesh (NCTB) and the Teaching Quality Improvement-II in Secondary Education under the Ministry of Education in collaboration with BRAC has already started preparing the textbooks of class VI to X into IDTs.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to launch the IDTs in September, the month of literacy, they said.

Education Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan said that the launching of IDTs will be another milestone step forward in the journey towards Digital Bangladesh, and the ministry has targeted to inaugurate the IDTs in mid-September next.

According to the sources, the NCTB, TQI and BRAC have already provided extensive training on making IDTs to experts and trainers of 14 Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs), four private TTCs, five Higher Secondary Teachers Training Institutes, Home Economic College, Education Boards, and Technical Education Board under TQI project, and they have started making digital contents for the IDTs.

The experts of Bangladesh Association of Software Information and Services (BASIS) and Access to Information (A2I) Programme have also been providing technical assistance in preparing make the IDTs, the sources added.