Textbooks going fully digital depends on connectivity and device ownership, Dewan Rakyat told

Any move towards digital textbooks will consider the limited degree of digital device ownership among students as well as internet connectivity, said Deputy Education Minister Lim Hui Ying in the DewanRakyat on Thursday (March 9). Read more at

She told the Dewan Rakyat that efforts by the ministry to change materials within the education system from physical to digital form will be made continuously to address the issue of students carrying heavy bags to school.

"Of course we have plans to digitalise textbooks but it is limited by digital device and internet connectivity in our plan to reduce the use of physical books and boost digital learning," she said in reply to Wan Hassan Mohd Romli during Question Time on Thursday . However, Lim said there was no specific time-frame for the print-to-digital conversion as it was subject to a number of factors including the government's financial capabilities.

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