"Under its Smart Education programme, announced on 1 July, the ministry is to spend 2.2 trillion Won ($2 billion) digitising all elementary and secondary school textbooks currently in use so they can be read on a variety of devices, including computers, interactive whiteboards, iPad-like tablets and smartphones. Classes will also be video-streamed online so children who can't come in due to poor health or weather don't miss out.
Children with disabilities may also benefit: e-books could be controlled by eye-tracking or gesture recognition, for example."
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