Durban – South Africa needs to “proceed with caution” in its eagerness to roll out paperless classrooms, a senior education researcher with the Human Sciences Research Council has said.

Researcher Linda Zuze was referring to an international study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which found no substantial improvement in pupils’ reading, maths or science achievement in countries that had invested heavily in information and communication technology (ICT) for education.