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Hundreds of teachers get tablets through E-Learning programme

Keith Smith, Chief Executive Officer of E-Learning Jamaica
 
Hundreds of teachers have started to receive computer tablets through state run entity, E-Learning Jamaica under the Tablets for Teachers programme.
 
Some 25,000 tablets are to be distributed by next month.
 
The teachers to benefit under this phase of the programme were selected based on a 2018 heads of agreement signed between the Jamaica Teachers Association and the Government.
 
Speaking Tuesday on TVJ's Smile Jamaica programme, Keith Smith, Chief Executive Officer of E-Learning Jamaica, said more than 2,000 tablets have already been distributed across Portland and St. Thomas and another 23,000 will be distributed by August. 
 
He said teachers have already started to use the tablets and this will "have a big impact on the teachers' ability to offer this sort of distance learning when the new term opens."  
 
Eighteen thousand tablets are in the island, with another seven thousand to arrive soon.
 
 
 


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