Principal Investigator: Lec Taslima Mohsina Mimi 

Title: Access of ICT and its perceived influence on secondary school students’ overall learning 

Fund: 3,30,000/- 

Objective: 

The research topic for this study is ICT and its' access where it will try to find out the perspectives of parents, teachers, and students about ICT uses and its influence on learning. Some high key objectives are given in detail as follows: 

1. To discover the nature and extent of access to ICT available to secondary schools. 

2. To investigate how access to ICT is impacting overall students' learning. 

3. To find out the perspective of parents, teachers, and students about ICT uses and its influences on learning. 

Expected outcome: 

Increasingly, younger children are logging in to various social media platforms and virtual networks. The range of outcomes from all this, both good and undesirable, is easily imaginable. This undeniable power of the internet must be channeled and utilized in the best possible manner and to the best benefit of the nation. The significance of this research lies in the fact that  

1. The purpose of the study is to provide reliable information/basis for strategists and planners for comprehensive information, communication and motivational interventions at the family level to positively regulate access to ICT. 

2. It will provide an opportunity to put together well-informed and fine-tuned communication/information plans for ensuring regulated, positive outcome of children's access to, and use of the referred media/material, if and as required. Also, although there have been discussions and some newspaper reports and columns, not much, if any work at all, is known of in this area in Bangladesh. The proposed research may form the basis for further, in-depth research in this area. 

3. Its immediate objective is to understand the value, both positive and negative, that both young users and their parents attach to their children's access and use of digital media vis-à-vis their overall learning process and achievements, including academic achievements in school. The study will seek to understand intra-family dynamics in this matter, including mothers, fathers and the children themselves. 

Duration: 2 years