Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe Publishing House (GWO) - one of the first privately owned educational publishing houses in Poland prints textbooks for mathematics, Polish language, history, physics, biology, and art.
| Type | general partnership |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing house |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Małgorzata Dobrowolska (CEO) Marcin Karpiński, Jacek Lech, Tomasz Małkowski, Agnieszka Łuczak |
| Products | textbooks, multimedia, e-books |
| Website | http://www.gwo.pl |
History
Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe was founded in 1991. The first GWO books dealt with mathematics. The series of so-called Zeszyty Gdańskie (Gdansk Workbooks) and Calendars.[1]
Products
Nowadays, apart from math textbook series entitled Math Plus, GWO prints books for learning Polish language (Amongst Us and Learn thy Language for primary junior high schools, Between the texts for high school), history (Time Travels for all levels), physics (Physics Plus for junior high), biology (Biology with Tangram for high school), art (Freshly Painted for primary school), and a number of teaching support books.
Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe has also launched a series of online project: online courses (Matematura.pl, Matlandia, Gimplus), interactive historical maps (History of Poland and Roman Empire), as well as online applications supporting teachers (Test Composer). Moreover, GWO offers selected textbooks, tests, teacher support materials, and magazines as e-books.