South Korea Digitizing Entire School Curriculum

Digital Textbooks

Digital Textbooks

South Korea plans on digitizing educational materials for its entire primary school curriculum by 2015. Tablet PCs will be used instead of textbooks, with the government spending $2.4 billion on completing the mandate. Samsung is expected to manufacture the tablets. Read the full article at MIT’s Technology Review

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