The Washington Post today carried an interesting article entitled "In South Korean Classrooms, digital textbook Revolution meets some resistance." Of course it has met resistance, just as it will in the United States, Europe and around the world, and largely for the same reasons. The transition over to e-textbooks is going to upset the entire publishing industry....a process that has already started. It is also going to contribute to fundamental changes in the nature of teaching, learning and research. Lectures will never be quite the same again, nor will textbooks and academic monographs. One of the key issues, and a very difficult one here in Korea, will be how to decide upon and produce textbook content, and how much of it will be in Korean versus English or other languages.
The Washington Post article is well worth reading. My own best guess is that South Korea will not retreat from its push for "smart education," however difficult the forthcoming transition may be.
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