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The Ministry of Education, represented by the Directorate-General of Curriculum Development, launched a project to digitize the Omani curriculum for grades 1-12, in cooperation with BP Oman. This project is part of an integrated digital transformation plan that aligns with the goals of Oman Vision 2040.

The project aims to transform school curricula into interactive digital content that enhances modern learning methods and considers students' levels and individual differences. This will contribute to improving academic achievement, developing self-learning and collaborative learning skills, and equipping students with future skills.

The Directorate explained that the project is being implemented in successive phases, as a main committee was formed, along with a number of work teams comprising specialists from the Ministry's General Diwan and the governorates' educational directorates. The first phase focuses on digitizing the curricula for grades 1-4, and a number of curricula for grades 5 and 6, by designing diverse interactive content that includes activities, educational games, audio and video clips, motion graphics, and digital art exhibitions. Work is underway to launch the second phase, which will include completing the digitization of the remaining curricula for grades 1-4, and the curricula for grades 5-8, in accordance with the approved authoring and development plan.

The Directorate is working to expand the use of Quick Response (QR) codes in new textbooks to link them to digital content, while continuously updating educational resources and teacher guides and making them available through the Education Technology website on the Education Portal. The website enables students and teachers to access interactive digital books, electronic versions of textbooks, and supporting educational films.

The Directorate emphasized that training and qualifying teachers and students is a fundamental pillar for the project's success. Practical experiments were implemented in a number of schools in grades (1-4) in the governorates of the Sultanate of Oman, accompanied by training workshops on the mechanisms for employing digital books in classrooms. Training workshops are being expanded to include all schools in partnership with educational supervision and technical support teams.

As part of the digital transformation requirements, the Ministry is working to modernize the infrastructure of the Sultanate's schools through a project to provide all primary school classes with interactive screens and increase internet speed to 1 gigabit, ensuring an integrated educational environment that promotes interactive learning and supports the principle of educational justice. The Ministry also launched the "Noor Educational Platform," an integrated electronic environment for managing teaching and learning processes. It enables students to view interactive digital content related to curricula and link them to learning outcomes, contributing to enhancing personalized education for students and reducing reliance on private lessons.

The Directorate-General of Curriculum Development emphasized that the curriculum digitization project is not merely a technical transformation, but rather an intellectual and educational leap, subject to continuous review and evaluation to ensure the quality of the content and the effectiveness of its outcomes. It also reiterated its openness to all educational and media proposals that contribute to developing the educational process, affirming that the ministry is making steady progress toward building a flexible, modern, and comprehensive digital education system that will enhance the Sultanate of Oman's competitiveness in the future.