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Shanghai Opts For Electronic Textbooks

Posted June 30, 2010 11:45 AM

From InformationWeek:

Shanghai plans to become the first city in China to scrap paper textbooks in favor of e-books and hopes to institute its plan within the next five years. The idea first came to light when the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission said it is already experimenting with electronic textbooks. The commission was responding to a suggestion from Huang Shanming, an advisor to the city government.

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Re: Shanghai Opts For Electronic Textbooks

07/01/2010 7:14 AM

Not a bad idea.

Clearwater High School in Florida is switching to e-readers (Amazon Kindle?) next year to replace text books.

see article here

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