South Korea to convert textbooks to digital books in order to introduce tablet learning
South Korea has somewhat decided to integrate technology on a larger scale into their education system by converting textbooks and other study material into digital books (eBooks). Sakshaat, India’s $35 Tablet PC which our HRD minister announced last year was aimed at something similar to what South Korea is planning to do now.
A young South Korean boy learning his coursework from a Tablet PC. Digital Education.
South Korea plans to spend over $2 billion developing digital textbooks in order to replace textbooks in all the schools by 2015.
Although, this is quite a tedious step to take in a country like India because there are so many remote villages which don’t have proper teachers, our first goal should be to provide basic education to all our citizens and after that introduce technically advanced learning systems.
Since we import most of the stuff, like laptops, mobile phones etc. from Korean companies, people who maybe interested in these technically advanced learning systems may contact South Korean govt. for it and probably they would be happy to lend their stuff, of course at a price. 
Coming back to the South Korean Vision.
All the tablet PCs would be provided by the school and students would be connected to the school system on a cloud-based system. They can download their homework, study material etc. from the cloud based system itself.
If a student is on leave, he can remotely access his homework, lectures and coursework via the internet.
If this stuff is introduced in India, I feel the strength of people attending would decrease a little. That would be another problem. 
Never mind.
This plan to introduce digital learning in South Korean schools is a good idea, they have a quite small population as compared to us or China or United States therefore it won’t take them much time to implement this in most of their schools.
What is your opinion on this topic? Do you think out country is ready to switch from a board teaching methodology to technically advanced learning systems? Leave a comment down below with your reply. Thanks.
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I disagree with your comment that “our first goal should be to provide basic education to all our citizens and after that introduce technically advanced learning systems”. Technology sometimes finds solutions which obviate the need to solve problems existing in an earlier paradigm. The need to have good educational facilities, teachers and staff to provide education to all remote villages in India is still a problem in need of a solution (political will, less corruption, government policies etc. need to be addressed before this problem is solved). It does not mean that better solutions offered by technology, even if they are limited in scope and reach, should be postponed. New technology based efforts like the one you have listed, should be taken up by entrepreneurial educational institutions. There must definitely be at-least a few hundred (or thousand) schools in India, with demographics which can support the cost for new technologies (like tablets, mobile based learning, e-learning etc), if it is proven to make the education system better atleast in those schools. It is only after real-life trials of such systems that the problems related to them can be understood and better solutions proposed, so as to make them more robust and efficient, so that they can then be rolled out on a larger scale. Who knows, this could be one of those revolutions needed in our education system which will actually make education enjoyable (and hence more efficient and effective) in schools. Digitization of textbooks, and efforts to standardize this, would be a start in this direction. Are you aware of any such effort being made in India today?