Schoolchildren having to lug heavy bags filled to bursting with textbooks might soon be a thing of the past, as the Federal Government plans to introduce digital textbooks to the Malaysian education system in 2016.
Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the rollout will be part of the second wave of the government’s textbook transformation programme, after last year’s digital textbook proposal, and will help digitise teaching, learning, collaboration and administration across the education system.
“This innovation will also address the issue of heavy schoolbags, an issue that’s constantly raised by concerned parents,” he said, as reported by Hayati Ibrahim of Harian Metro.
“The most important part of this programme is that parents will not have to bear any extra cost; schools will be equipped with Google Chromebooks to facilitate the storage and access to the new digital textbooks,” he added when addressing the Education Ministry’s Innovation Day event in Putrajaya yesterday.
The first wave of digital reference books released by the ministry last February made 313 textbook titles available to students, teachers and parents through the 1BestariNet portal, jointly run by the Education Ministry and YTL’s YES internet service provider.
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