`Do E-Textbooks Work For Students ?
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a very useful article about student reaction to e- texts at Northwest Missouri State that indicates widepsread use of e- texts are a number of years in the future , see http://chronicle.com/infotech, “6 Lessons Campus Learned About E-textbooks”
NW Missouri has been a leader in e text use but students found the texts awkward to navigate inside the e-text format. 40% of students said they studied less becasue of the e-texts. It was hard to highlight or enlarge the text,or share notes with other students. The biggest student problem was battery life. Marketing students found the dense tables in the e-text hard to use.
Despite these and other problems President Dean Hubbard thinks the flaws will be overcome and e-texts will be common on college campuses. He thinks it will spread like convenience stores in gas stations after the first few adopters are satisfied. I wonder about k12 adoption though because of the need to retrain so many teachers to use e-texts.
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I used an e-textbook this spring semester and it was the first time I did it. It was for an English course and there were some short story titles the instructor had asked for that were hard to find. I searched on the Barnes and Noble website for them and happened to find two. I was really glad that I was able to use them as an e-textbook that way I didn’t have to make one more trip to the library or worry about the extra weight in my bag. I think the e-reader helped me tremendously because of its portability. The only thing making notes was very tedious.
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