Schoolchildren may soon be using digital textbooks after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Wednesday it will invest W2.2 trillion by 2015 to create an environment where students can study using better and more interactive content anytime and anywhere (US$1=W1,077).

The ministry wants to develop digital textbooks for all subjects and all schools. In the early stage of transition, both paperback and digital textbooks will be used.

The digital textbooks will contain the contents of ordinary textbooks and various reference resources such as multimedia and FAQs to help students understand the materials better.

The government also wants to build a cloud computing system in all schools, so that users can access a database of all digital textbooks and choose what they want from their tablet PCs.