Online education is one of the priorities of the education department and many of the school textbooks are available online and on CD. The head of Research & Curriculum at the ministry of education, Mohyeddin Mohammadian said one of the policies of the ministry of education is to promote Persian language on the Internet, and several websites are already operating. He said with cooperation from the ministry of telecommunication, the capacity for creating 600,000 student emails have been made possible this year and 140,000 students are using their email accounts.
