“In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.”
DEVELOPING WEBTEXTBOOK LEARNING WEBSITE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN: Yousaf Khan & Haroon Yousaf
All Glory be to Allah Who helped us in developing a website for online e-learning in Pakistan through WebTextbook. In the month of January, 2014 When Haroon Yousaf (Student of Software Engineering in 3rd Semester of University of Swat) started developing a website for promoting online learning in Pakistan for his father Yousaf Khan, Ex-Senior Instructor (Material Development) PITE, Peshawar currently working as Vice Principal GHSS Charbagh Swat pursuing his Ph.D (Teacher Education in AIOU, Islamabad) and a part time tutor in University of Peshawar (Distance Education) in the subjects of Teacher Education (M.Ed) and Educational Psychology; provided his books, Tests, PowerPoint Presentations, research monograph and research articles to be made as an Open Education Resource (OER) in Pakistan. So, the website Online e-Learning was developed in PHP Script and MYSQL.
Website: http://www.alqalam.pk/
VISION :
Seeing Pakistan a world leader in webtextbooks learning in the 21st century.
MISSION:
Developing Teacher Education through ICT-integration and promoting e-learning in Pakistan with quality, relevance and excellence.
GOAL:
Brining innovation in pedagogy and developing andragogy for life long and continuous learning.
AIM:
Using ICT as a tool of learning and e-education.
OBJECTIVE:
Developing WebTextbooks for teacher education through ICT.
The authors Welcome all those who want to learn for serving humanity with fairness and justice.