Introducing mobile technology for enhancing teaching and learning in Bangladesh: Teacher perspectives
Abstract
This paper reviews the themes emerging from Bangladeshi teachers鈥� experiences of taking part in the initial research and the development stage of a professional development programme they were involved with. The Secondary Teaching and Learning Programme is an information and communications technologies-enhanced supported open distance learning programme of professional development in English-language teaching. This paper presents evidence arising from semi-structured interviews carried out with teachers from a pre-pilot study for the English in Action project. The teachers participating in this study reflect upon six months鈥� experience of using professional development materials (course material of audio podcasts enhanced with text and images; videos of classroom practice; audio of classroom language) and classroom resources (audio recordings of text-book reading passages, songs, poems and stories), all accessed via portable digital media players (iPods).
Citation
Shohel, M.M.C.; Power, T. Introducing mobile technology for enhancing teaching and learning in Bangladesh: teacher perspectives. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning (2010) 25 (3) 201-215. [Special Issue: Mobile learning: using portable technologies to create new learning] [DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2010.511953]