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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 shifted 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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