Bangladesh "Virtual Classroom"

Bangladesh "Virtual Classroom" a project developing ICT based distance education in Bangladesh using Mobile Technology to Create a Virtual Interactive Participatory Classroom
 

The project use mobile technology's Short Messaging Service (SMS) along with live telecast to create an ‘almost' ideal classroom situation for distance learning. The ideal face-to-face classroom situation is when each student follows the thread of the lecture and can answer the interactive questions posed by the lecturer/trainer/teacher. Implementing this ideal in a distance education context using existing contemporary methods such as the Internet can be expensive and impractical for a developing country like Bangladesh. The technological requirements such as Internet access and computing resources required for both the student and the provider are difficult to meet, especially in the context of rural Bangladesh where the need for distance education is the most. In Bangladesh, the cost of Internet bandwidth is high and there is no inexpensive internal infrastructure using which such solutions as countrywide video conferencing can be implemented.
 

Web Based Interactive Education System for a large classroom a project developing ICT based Classroom Education using LAN to create an Interactive Participatory Classroom

The proposed system is a real-time interactive education tool that ensures fruitful interactivity between all participants in a class. The students would require a responding device such as a laptop computer or a desktop computer. Teacher can deliver a concept and test the absorption by a question to the class using the proposed system. The system would enable an electronic response from every student to be recorded and plotted as a bar graph. The teacher can therefore monitor, check and record the participation of each member of the whole class in micro perspective and assess the progress of learning of the whole class from macro perspective.

Contact information: Yousuf M Islam, PhD, Managing Director, Soft-Ed Limited.
E-mail:ymislam@gmail.com