Thanks Mr. John Eyles

I am really happy to write this blog after participating Mr. John Eyles lecture about "The Mobile Learning Revolution". His total presentation was very interesting and when he focused on the “B.B.C Janala” a mobile phone operated English teaching program in Bangladesh, my interest reached at its maximum. I am really happy to see such a great person who is directly related with such a program.

Bangladesh is a country of 150 million people and now a day almost every family is using a mobile phone. So it is powerful tool to communicate with people and B.B.C is using it for teaching English. BBC Janala (“Window”) is offering over 250 audio and SMS lessons to the growing 50.4 million mobile users in Bangladesh.

To make the lessons affordable, the BBC has teamed up with all six of Bangladesh’s mobile operators who have agreed to cut the cost of calls to the service by up to 75%. Each lesson is a three-minute phone call, costing about 3 taka (4 YEN)

Therefore this kind of program will be successful among other developing countries as well. I like to show my respect to Mr. John Eyles for his noble activities in Bangladesh and to Professor Philip Sugai for introducing him with us.