E-Books coming to Russian schools
“A group of schoolchildren will say goodbye to some of their heavy old textbooks this fall, instead bringing to school a few computer disks. Prosveshcheniye-MEDIA, a subsidiary of the Prosveshcheniye publishing house, is developing the multimedia disks, or electronic textbooks, which will be introduced for the first time this September in science and history classes at around 100 elementary schools equipped with computers throughout the country, including 12 in Moscow.” - Moscow Times, July 23.
The TeleRead take: The story raises excellent questions, such as how well the teachers will be prepared. It does not get into issues such as tablet-style machines vs. desktop PCs. TeleRead would address those matters.
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