80% of textbooks digitized in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan plans to complete the digitization of all textbooks by next year. According to the country’s Ministry of Education, the current progress stands at 80 percent. Electronic books have passed state expertise and are included in the list of educational and methodological complexes.

“11 publishing houses in the country were involved in the development of digital textbooks. Teachers have been provided with methodological recommendations to adopt innovative teaching approaches. To date, 94 percent of primary school textbooks, 81 percent of textbooks for grades 5-9, and 61 percent of textbooks for grades 10-11 have been converted into electronic format,” Mereke Nurmukhanova, Press Secretary of the Kazakh Ministry of Education, said.  

It should be noted that along with e-books, schools actively utilize digital educational resources with multimedia content. These resources serve as supplementary teaching materials. More than 50,000 digital educational materials have been developed to date. Over 6,500 Kazakh schools have been connected to these resources since the beginning of the year. Up to three million students and teachers use digital educational content on a daily basis, comprising over 50,000 video lessons covering all grades.