The Issues and Challenges of Using Multimedia at a District Level, Specialized Girls’ College in Bangladesh
- 1 Jashore Government Girls’ College, Jashore, Bangladesh
- 2 Department of English, Jashore Government Girls’ College, Jashore, Bangladesh
Abstract
The use of multimedia in imparting education has inevitably been trendy owing to its multifold benefits which have been established and reinvestigated as inseparable teaching aid and tool in teaching - learning process. But This technological assisting component cannot be accorded in many of the institutions of Bangladesh due to several internal as well as external factors. This paper aims to highlight the emerging factors that beset in the institution of Bangladesh. This institutional study on the issues and challenges of using of multimedia in a district (urban area) level girls’ college projects a thorough realization of the difficulties what this types of attributive colleges face in Bangladesh. The re source constraint, the lack of motivation of the teachers, the lack of expert human resource, the insufficient digital tools and lack of multimedia - enabled class environment are found to be barriers and some guiding directives are also imposed in this paper that emerges through the interviews of the teachers and the Vice principal. Thus, the paper, in a miniature effort, tries to lay out the challenges the college of Bangladesh faces and highlight some remedial ways to cope up the challenges.
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