NCDC introduces digital syllabus

Kampala. The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has introduced a digital learning syllabus for secondary schools.
The system is a teaching and learning tool aimed at aiding secondary school learners across the country to understand the different syllabus concepts with ease and at their convenience.

Addressing a group of teachers at the NCDC head office in Kyambogo on Sunday, Dr James Droti, the head of department for Secondary curriculum, said the digital syllabus is an online and offline system where specific learning materials are uploaded on a tablet that is monitored by the teachers and that it does not allow students to add their own content.
He explained that the system is a text to speech technology that accommodates all subjects in the secondary curriculum.

Mr Ivan Mukasa, a software engineer and programme manager virtue learn, said the digital syllabus has been introduced to counter the challenges that have been hindering the analogue syllabus, for instance over dependency on teachers’ notes and difficulty for curriculum developers to establish the learning outcomes for the different topics learnt.

“We are hopeful that our new innovation will solve some of these challenges, it has a virtue laboratory which is a fully interactive video game where learners will perform experiments, collect data and answer questions to assess their understanding,” he said.

Mr Mukasa said the different features on this tablet will convey key information on the processes of science and will also enable learners to have hands-on skills.
According to Grace Baguma, the director of NCDC, the digital syllabus will help the education sector shift from the traditional way of having teacher centred approaches in the learning process to the learner centred method.
Currently, a tablet costs Shs650,000 and any school can get access to it.

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