Britannica, from encyclopedia to the world's leading digital learning tool

Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's oldest English-language encyclopedia, with a history of 250 years. Britannica began exploring the digital market in the 1970s.

From 2018 to the present,Britannicahas stopped producing the print edition and moved entirely to digital products.

Today, Britannica is the world’s leading provider of online educational learning resources, No. 1 in the United States, with more than 140 million customers: students, teachers, and educational institutions worldwide, and a rich, diverse body of resources for every age and every level.

It provides a diverse, rich digital resource for every age and every level of ability, for general schools, libraries, and universities. Britannica is headquartered in Chicago, United States, with offices in many places around the world, such as Sydney, London, Paris, and Tokyo.

Britannica and prestigious awards

Britannica is a provider of education products that has received many major awards from prestigious organizations worldwide, such as:Outstanding Achievement Awardof AEP for the categorySupplementary Resources and Reference Materials, Teachers' Choice Product AwardofLearning Magazinefor the categoryExcellent classroom product.

Outstanding Achievement Awardof the Golden Lamp for the categoryIn-class reference materials for preschool through grade 5 and for grades 9-12, Title“The best database”from the School Library journal,BETT Award.

Britannica products

With a vast body of material drawn from Encyclopedia Britannica, users can explore and research any topic or concept using the search tool.

Britannica School builds a platform for 3 levels: primary (Elementary), lower secondary (Middle), and upper secondary (High), and the imagery and interface are designed specifically for each level.

The Knowledge Exploration section includes readings and biographies across 12 topics, with more than 3000 videos and 90,000 images of excellent design for STEM education. All readings on Britannica are linked to Google Translate Premium and can be translated into more than 100 languages with good translation quality.

Every document can be instantly converted into audio(read the text). The text can translate the meaning and pronounce each word, providing strong support for learners of English as a second language.

One of Britannica's most useful functions for learning and research is citation formatting according to different standards around the world: MLA, APA, Harvard, and Chicago Manual Style.

In addition, for each resource on Britannica, learners can easily personalize it, save it to personal favorites, convert it to print form, email it, or share it on online classroom software such as Google Meeting, Team meeting…

Along with the explosive growth of digital products in education, Britannica is a powerful aid in changing the classroom model (Flipped classroom) by changing the teacher's role from“the sage on the stage”into the role of a facilitator for learners as they explore a vast body of knowledge.

Britannica has many features to best support a new way of learning, such as: access from any device, and content that is safe, accurate, and up to date.

Each topic includes many different media, such as text, images, audio, and video, many features to support users for whom English is a 2nd language, and usage statistics reports.

Applying Britannica in schools can bring great potential for students, teachers, and education managers alike, strengthen the use of IT in schools, and help develop a digital learning-resource center model, along with the digitization of lectures and learning materials.

Activities inBritannica School, Britannica Expedition: Learnand Britannica Launch Packs Science helps both students and teachers build the habit of proactively seeking information and conducting research, drawing on humanity's vast encyclopedic store of knowledge.

Britannica also helps develop STEM learning and strengthen the English proficiency of students and teachers, helping them access modern, advanced learning methods in a flat global world.

In Vietnam

Is the direct representative in Vietnam ofBritannica, Hung Viet is proud to transfer the Britannica platform to students, teachers, and educational institutions in Vietnam, helping to realize the policy of promoting the application of IT in schools.

This program helps develop a digital learning-resource center model and digitize learning materials, lectures, and so on, in order to keep pace with Vietnam's general trend toward Industry 4.0 and contribute to realizing the Scheme“Strengthening the application of information technology and digital transformation in education and training for the 2022 – 2025 period, with an orientation to 2030”of the Ministry of Education & Training.