Online Education Can Continue in Bangladesh: Experts

Experts at a virtual conference said that online education can continue in the country as most of the universities are fruitfully performing all their activities online during the pandemic.

The conference titled "Online Higher Education in Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges" was organized by the Faculty of Business Administration of BGC Trust University Bangladesh via Zoom platforms.

Chairman, Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation & Chairman, Executive Committee of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited and Professor, Accounting Department, University of Chittagong Professor Dr. Md. Salim Uddin, FCA, FCMA  presented as a keynote paper at Virtual Conference.

Moreover, the conference was adorned with marvelous sessions of the national and international scholarly figures like  Associate Prof. Dr. Asif Mahbub Karim, Dean, Binary Graduate School, Binary University, Malaysia, Dr. Fazlul Rabbanee, Senior lecturer in the School of Marketing Curtin University, Australia, Dr. Lutfor Rahman  Senior Research Analyst, London UK. & Dr. Farid A. Sobhani Professor, School of Business & Economics & Director-MBA & MIHRM Programs United International University, Dhaka. 

Prof. Dr. Salim Uddin analyzed all the significant factors of online higher education by focusing the most cardinal prospects and pragmatic challenges in the existing socio-economic situation of Bangladesh. Furthermore, he stated that there are expanding multidimensional scopes of higher education accessibility notwithstanding the pandemic situation through technological enhancement.

In the pivotal speech of Chief Guest Prof. Dr. Saroj Kanti Singh Hazari said, ''Despite being in a crisis situation of COVID-19, higher education and research are supposed to be continued for the betterment of the nation''. 

In addition to this, he mentioned that some universities are conducting online education fruitfully during pandemic which is very much motivational for enhancing new dimensions in the quality higher education mechanisms.

Apart from this, the distinguished speakers shared some wonderful practical experiences of online quality education in this pandemic situation which are being successfully practiced at home and abroad.

At the same time, the speakers emphasized that by analyzing contemporary practices of online education methodologies of foreign universities, we can fruitfully continue online education in Bangladesh.