Guru.lk chosen to produce country’s first official E textbook
View(s):Guru.lk, Sri Lanka’s leading eLearning portal has been chosen by the Educational Publications Department of the Ministry of Education to produce the first official E textbook to support the government’s efforts to promote learning in a digital format in schools.
The assignment, awarded via competitive tender, requires Guru.lk to develop original content for the GCE Ordinary Level Science syllabus, using visually stimulating graphics, videos and interactive content that maximises the effectiveness of engaging and collaborative learning via computers, tabs and other devices, the company said in a media release.
This approach is intended to enable students to learn much more in a shorter time span with the assistance of their teachers as well as through self-study, and lead to greater use of the computer labs in schools across the country. It is also scaled to accommodate the use of students’ own digital devices in the future. This is in line with the Government’s vision to digitally empower its citizens for development to trickle down to the masses.
The introduction of E textbooks will also improve the quality of learning experience for students, and update and upgrade teacher knowledge.
The ease of distribution will facilitate wider access to students, and the platform makes amendment and updating of content easy. The introduction of E textbooks is seen as an important step in the government’s efforts to get ICT in to education to keep up with global requirements, and as a milestone in the local educational publications field as it will change the way education is delivered to students.