Instructional Design for OER-based Blended Learning Workshop Held at BOU

New Delhi, May 10, 2019: Bangladesh Open University (BOU) organized three-day workshop on ‘Instructional Design for OER-based Blended Vocational Education and Training through Distance Education’ from 08-10 May 2019 at the BOU Campus Gazipur with the support from Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi under the project on ‘Impacting Education and Open Schooling through OER- Making a Difference among the Learners’. The aim of the workshop was to enhance capacity of content developers and faculties with theories and practices of ICT-based open and distance education system with a view to implementing OER-based blended vocational education programme.

BOU Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor (Dr.) Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain inaugurated the event as the chief guest. He urged that BOU’s VET project has been contemporary as the government currently has given the drive to increase the number of vocational education in the country for economic development.

Prof. Hossain facilitated the two sessions in the workshop. Thirty three (33) faculties from the Open School (OS) and the School of Education (SOE) were participated in the workshop. The event was presided over by the SOE Dean Professor Sufia Begum. It was conducted in technical and working sessions that facilitated by Md. Mizanoor Rahman on “Open and Distance Learning: international development and diversification”; Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi on “Instructional Design and OER Learning” and Kazi Sharmin Pamela on “Audio-Vision through PPT Slide Show”. Prof. Dr. Sabina Yeasmin was present in the inaugural session as one of the members of the project implementation committee.

The participants came out with 30 units of module, 30 PPTs and 30 videos on course introduction for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and eB.Ed. programmes. These videos were uploaded as trail materials to the OER Repository using D-SPACE for BOU developed with the help of Dr. Barnali Roy Chowdhury (as CEMCA Consultant), NSOU, Kolkata.