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eTextBookseTextBooksPosted Jul 28, 2006 13:34 UTC (Fri) by illtyd (guest, #2124)In reply to: eTextBooks by felixfix Parent article: India rejects One Laptop Per Child (Register)
So in addition to USD100 per student for laptops, the government is also supposed to divert money from building schools and paying teachers to digitise, translate and update textbooks as well?
There are some good points about the OLPC plan, but an "appropriate technology" approach to education and an understand of the budget impact of $100/student additional spending are note among them.
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Sigh Posted Jul 28, 2006 14:15 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] Read the other posts with actual numbers. The cost of the laptop plus the cost to acquire and electronically distribute eTextbooks is less than the cost to acquire and physically distribute real textbooks.
On top of that cost savings, the students don't have to carry around a pile of heavy physical books. They can now carry around hundreds of books.
Plus the books can be updated and actually relevant to the locale and the time, rather than out of date castoffs from a foreign country in a foreign language.
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