A new e-book initiative has seen more than 60 schools swap traditional books for hand-held devices that bring interactive learning to the classroom.

The Educational Company of Ireland (Edco) has rolled out a full curriculum of post-primary e-books following a successful two-year pilot, Business and Leadership reports.

Students can use the devices to take notes, highlight and search text, create bookmarks and link to external resources, which allows them to personalise their educational resources.

Julie Glennon, sales and marketing manager at Edco, said: "There are many advantages with e-learning, the most important being that learning is greatly enhanced through interactivity and bringing lessons to life."

She added that e-books will help schools and parents to save money, as well as significantly reduce the amount of weight children have to carry in their rucksacks.

Edco developed the devices alongside Intel, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung as part of a drive to support the Bring Your Own Device initiative.

Written by Donal Walsh

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