UWI Mona Goes Digital – Students to Reap Benefits from Introduction of E-books and Smart Tablets

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The University of the West Indies, (UWI) Mona has introduced electronic books to students in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, making the programme more affordable to its students. This is another innovation for The UWI Mona, being the first educational institution in the English Speaking Caribbean to offer e-book services to students. The e-book programme which was launched at the new faculty of Basic Medical Sciences on February 19, 2013, was initiated as a response to the increasing cost of tertiary education, primarily the cost of text books in the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

The initiative aims to provide students studying at The UWI Mona, convenient and cost-effective access to textbooks; along with a seamless integration of technology into the teaching and learning experience. Speaking at the launch, Minister of Education Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites lauded The UWI Mona for the E-Book project. “We spend roughly $3 billion a year in this country purchasing school books. The state spends about a third of that and this project represents the application of technology, which will remove the burden of the heavy cost of printed material, which many of our parents can scarcely bear,” the minister stated. More