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Slovakia launches website with e-books
Friday December 23, 2011 04:57:17 PM,
IANS
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London: 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 digitised
school textbooks free of cost.
The education ministry Thursday launched the eaktovka.sk. website,
where people could access a total of 26 digitised textbooks and
compulsory-reading books as well as download 65 audio-recordings.
The word "aktovka" means "schoolbag" in Slovak, reported Xinhua.
Education 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."
Jurzyca 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.
Slovakia, also known as the Slovak Republic, has a population of
around 5.4 million. It was part of Czechoslovakia till 1993, when
the country was bifurcated into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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