European nation of Slovakia has launched a new website with e-Books
India Edunews, Updated On:29-Apr-2012
London: In this present era to make world digitize new steps taken by so many countries So, In a first of its kind anywhere in the world, the European nation of Slovakia has launched a new website to provide the public with digitized school textbooks free of cost. Books are in the form of E- Books.
rn
rnThe education ministry on Thursday launched the eaktovka.sk. website, where people could access a total of 26 digitized textbooks and compulsory-reading books as well as download 65 audio-recordings. Which make the study simple and easy .The word "aktovka" means "schoolbag" in Slovak.
rn
rnEducation Minister Eugen Jurzyca said: "We hope that pupils will be able to study even in places where they don't bring their textbooks, such as during the holidays at their grandma's, but also that teachers will have an easier time putting together various textbooks or their sections on, for example, physics or chemistry."
rn
rnJurzyca said around 92 percent of households with school-going children who own personal computers and 70 percent of those which have access to the internet would visit the website.