Japan's education ministry has drafted guidelines making a hybrid of paper and digital textbooks standard from the 2030 academic year, with digital content playing a supplemental role, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.While digital textbooks will become formal teaching materials in that year, the draft bars fully digital textbooks for pupils in fourth grade or below and calls for a smaller proportion of digital content in hybrid textbooks than for older groups. The ministry will present the draft to an expert panel on Thursday.From fifth grade onward, fully digital textbooks wou…READ FULL ARTICLE
