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标题：Emerging Trends of Using Open Source Technology for Sustainable Teacher Training Programme in Bangladesh
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作者：Mahbub Hasan ; Mahbub Hasan ; Shahadat Hossain Khan 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2015
卷号：195
页码：862-871
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.06.365
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Open Source Technology (OST) is now a powerful platform that has aptitudes in different extents. It provides many in-built software applications (e.g., Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox etc.) at no cost which can be linked to different educational applications. These applications have some features along with synchronizing documents in multiple electronic devices like desktop, laptop, tabs, and mobile phones that are not even available in many of the paid software. Moreover, these technologies have pedagogical, technological and financial affordances especially for the developing countries, like Bangladesh that have budget constrains which results in the issue of sustainability. Considering these aspects, OST could be a suitable alternative for the users of educational institutions in Bangladesh that might evolve many added benefits. For example, OST does not require any additional maintenance cost like annual software updating, domain and hosting charges and so on. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a detailed guideline of using this emerging technology for teacher training programme where trainers are the teachers and trainee teachers are the students. This conceptual paper shows the thorough procedures of how the users (teacher and student) can accomplish their specific tasks like producing, storing, sharing during the training programme by using OST. At the end of the training, the trainee teachers will be competent enough to use these applications to their own education settings. Thus teacher training would be a means to introduce these emerging technologies in many educational institutions within a short time. Moreover, using these technologies will not demand any cost other than the internet charge and hence the programme will be sustainable. An empirical research could be done in order to explore more potentiality in this emerging concept.
关键词：Open source technology;Google platform;teacher training;Bangladesh.