Emerging Trends of Using Open Source Technology for Sustainable Teacher Training Programme in Bangladesh

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.…