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Education Ministry, Fastlink Sign Science Curriculum Digitization Agreement

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 06:00 CDT

According to "Jordan Times", the Ministry of Education signed an agreement with mobile operator Fastlink to digitize the science curriculum of all-school grades - one that is described by specialists as a unique model integrating IT into 12 years of education. Under what Education Minister Khalid Touqan described as the "first-ever e-learning agreement with a Jordanian counterpart," Fastlink will sponsor local IT company Rubicon with $1.8 million to develop an electronic curriculum that parallels textbook scientific materials for classes ranging from grade one up to Tawjihi

. Touqan said the agreement exemplified a "pioneering and strategic partnership" with the private sector to transform learning into an IT-enabled process. Digitizing science curricula is the second such endeavor in the country following a previous deal with CISCO Systems to digitize the mathematics curriculum. The initiative is a five- year educational reform plan to modernize teaching techniques at the country's 3,000 schools, in a bid to propel Jordan into the world of knowledge economy.

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