Launching Classbook - the first electronic textbook in Vietnam

During the pilot phase, Classbook was introduced in nearly 400 schools in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, and Da Nang.

Classbook electronic textbook is a product researched and developed by Vietnam Education Publishing House (NXBGDVN), launched in Hanoi on the morning of June 26, 2013.

With an 8” multi-touch screen, 4:3 ratio, Classbook provides a reading experience similar to traditional textbooks. IPS (In Plane Switching) anti-glare technology ensures wide viewing angle support (up to 178 degrees) with true and natural colors, without adversely affecting the user's eyesight. Classbook has a battery life of 8-10 hours, meeting the needs of students during school time.

Classbook comes pre-installed with a complete set of textbooks and supplementary books according to the general education program from grade 1 to grade 12, ensuring that it meets the requirements of the standard curriculum framework of the Ministry of Education and Training. During the time of using the device, users can update all reprints of these books for free. In addition, Classbook also has more than 20 supplementary applications for many subjects, suitable for different ages.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong speaks at the Classbook launch ceremony

Not only does it contain the content of traditional textbooks, Classbook e-textbooks also support editing and integration of multimedia content for lessons and provide functions that allow students to interact with lesson content.

For example, when reading English books, students can look up the meaning of a word by touching the word on the screen, can use the touch function to listen to the correct pronunciation of a sentence, a paragraph or an entire lesson, can record their own voice to compare with their native accent or watch video lectures. With Music, students can listen to songs, watch performances of that song or sing along to the accompaniment, learn information about the musician through the extended materials for each lesson in the textbook. Similar to other subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geography, Biology, Literature, students can exploit simulation experiments, images, maps, audio clips or documentaries or listen to poetry recitations, stories, thereby receiving lessons in the textbook in a more vivid and interesting way.

Classbook

In particular, Classbook helps students self-assess their understanding of lessons or self-test their level of proficiency in subjects. The multiple-choice testing mechanism on the computer with automatic scoring and timing capabilities helps students take mock tests or practice and then correct their own work. More importantly, the results will be recorded so that parents can monitor their children's progress.

In addition to the content on the device, Classbook users can also connect to the online bookstore and the Classbook Store application (http://classbook.vn/), is an address that provides an electronic educational book library including textbooks, supplementary books, teacher's books, reference books, soft skills books, etc.; learning applications and expanded resources for subjects such as simulation experiments, teaching materials, test and solution libraries, test preparation materials, learning materials... With an open model, the content on Classbook Store will be built and shared by publishers, content providers or online services for education and above all the teacher community itself.

With the teacher version, Classbook allows users to use additional reference materials, books, and other lectures via memory cards to serve the teaching process.

Classbook can be applied from grade 1 to grade 12, reaching nearly 15 million high school students in Vietnam, contributing to improving and expanding the ability to absorb knowledge. At the same time, the mechanism to control Internet connection and installed applications integrated in Classbook also helps parents feel more secure about their children using this device.

During the pilot phase, the Classbook product was introduced to nearly 400 schools in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong and Da Nang. Many students and teachers decided to use the product.

Electronic textbooks today are no longer a research or experimental concept. In some countries such as the US, France, Korea, India, Singapore or Thailand, there have been initiatives or programs to build and deploy the use of electronic textbooks on a large scale. It can be said that this is an inevitable trend of modern education.

In Vietnam, since 2009, the Vietnam Education Publishing House has cooperated with a Korean partner to carry out the first experiments on electronic textbooks. In 2012, the Vietnam Education Publishing House established the Education Electronic Book Joint Stock Company (EDC) - with the main function and task of developing and deploying electronic textbooks on specialized learning devices Classbook, transferring the content of textbooks currently used in schools and preparing for the goal of renewing textbooks after 2015.

Representative of the Education Publishing House, Mr. Ngo Tran Ai - Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of the Vietnam Education Publishing House emphasized: "With a development orientation in line with the trend of modern education, based on the combined strength of hardware, software and content technology, combining the traditional pedagogy of textbooks and new educational methods through human-computer interaction, the Vietnam Education Publishing House believes that Classbook will be a pioneering product not only domestically but also in the region in this field. We hope that this product will bring teachers and students quality content, further enhancing the role of the Vietnam Education Publishing House in the task of providing textbooks and educational equipment for the Vietnamese market, making a positive contribution to education in particular and the modernization of the country in general"./.

According to (vov.vn) - HL