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Makale Özeti:
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Bangladesh Open University (BOU) runs school programs as part of its academic
activities through open schooling since its inception. As of today, the Open School
uses the first generation self-learning materials (SLMs) written, before an era,
following an in-house style and template.
The concerned faculty member corrects, every year, texts before the reprint; but
this is limited to spelling mistakes, factual errors and page make-ups only. The
University has taken policy and steps to revise the texts as a whole which is still
limited to the previous process. But; the current government is implementing the
agenda of digital Bangladesh which definitely will influence the texts vis-à-vis
template, learner’s instructions, gender-sensitiveness, context and content. In
addition, education theory has been sifted from instructivism to constructivism
which is being experimented and implemented by the Ministerial project entitled
Teaching Quality Improvement (TQI) partnering with the BOU School of Education
with new texts. Time changes, new things are being adopted. Open School also
requires revising its texts in relation to the government’s current agenda of
implementing the digital Bangladesh. This study collects data from tutors, distance
educators, writers and reviewers and finally develops a framework for revising the
OS SLMs at a digital environment.
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