Smart Education.

Smart Education:

Learners can study more efficiently, flexibly, and comfortably in smart learning environments, which mix a physical classroom with several virtual learning environments. To make Smart Bangladesh a reality, the government has set up four pillars: Smart citizens, a smart economy, a smart government, and a smart society. 

Smart education system is designed to strengthen the capabilities of 21st century’s learners by offering an intelligent and customized learning solution. The smart education is already implemented in some of the developed countries. The smart education in Bangladesh is in no way less than advance nations. It’s already in use in most of the higher educational institutes. Students use electronic gadgets in classrooms and outside campus for learning. Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) are well in use. Majority of board related administrative task are online. ERP is widely used for general administrations related to attendance, transport management, hospitality, stock and asset management whereas LMS helps planning day to day classroom activities, curriculum planning, assignment and projects. Today students work on collaborative projects online and submit common report. At present, Bangladesh provides 16% of the global online workforce, making Bangladesh the second largest source of the digital workforce. The future of our digital sector as a vibrant ecosystem of start-ups, tech giants, and digitally empowered citizens all working in harmony towards a prosperous Bangladesh.

For building a smart nation, a strong foundation in digital literacy is essential. Good education and appropriate skills are basic requirements not only for reaping better opportunities for the youth, but also for building a prosperous economy. The new generation has to be groomed with education and technology for smart Bangladesh. Thus, building skilled manpower is the most important aspect of a smart Bangladesh that it is needed to spread the use of digital devices, information technology more widely. At present, the cutting-edge technologies represented by 5G, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and blockchain have been widely applied in the field of education, presenting the education system gradually with the intelligent characteristics of openness, sharing, interaction, collaboration and ubiquity, and greatly improving the quality of education. So, to make Bangladesh smart we have to make our education system technologically smart. It will increase students' involvement in the learning process, and as a result, they will love to learn. It can be given through blended learning which assimilates both face to face and online learning. Blended learning should be delivered through a flipped classroom where a video clip of what a teacher wishes to teach is given to students before they come to class. That is, before teaching the class, the students have to watch everything in the video or others online tools. Thus, students can watch the lecture of a given topic before attending class. Then in the classroom, they get a chance for problem-solving, collaboration and engagement. And then at home, they reflect on how far they have learned.