The government plans to establish ICT training and resource centres in 125 upazilas and create one lakh IT literate teachers at secondary schools and madrasas within the next two years to spread e-learning across the country, said official sources.
Education Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan told the news agency that in light of the government's Digital Bangladesh vision, the education ministry has launched a number of e-education projects, including the one for IT literate teachers.
"We have already introduced multimedia classrooms in 23,500 schools and trained over 20,000 teachers in multimedia. Now, we are establishing 125 upazila ICT training and resource centres and creating one lakh IT literate teachers by giving them training on e-learning," he added.
According to sources, as a part of the plan to create one lakh IT literate teachers, Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS) has just completed training of 760 teachers in training of trainers (TOTs) course on March 18, 2015.
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Quelle/Source: The Daily Star, 21.03.2015