Digitised textbooks to ease students burden

Updated on: Thursday, September 03, 2009

Chennai: Now, with the advent of the Internet, all textbooks are uploaded online, due to which students can keep their books in school and can download the books from the site whenever they like or need.

Gone are the days when students carried loads of books to school

On Wednesday, Dr P. Perumalsamy, director of school education, said that the textbooks were digitised by a team of experts who converted them to the PDF format and uploaded them on the school education department website www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in.

This move would ensure easy availability of textbooks and will minimise student's book load, he said.

'If students from other states want to study on our board system and appear as a private candidate they can also use it,' Dr Perumalsamy said.

With online lectures, the Internet has come to the aid in places where there is shortage of good faculty.

IIT's National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTel) is one such initiative. A senior official in IIT Madras said that the main objective of NPTeL program was to enhance the quality of engineering education by developing curriculum-based video and web courses.

'This is being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bengaluru as a collaborative project. In the first phase of the project, supplementary content for 129 web courses in engineering/science and humanities have been developed. Each course contains materials that can be covered in depth in 40 or more lecture hours,' the official said.

Digitised textbooks to ease students burden

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