e-textbook use among college students
Posted May 14, 2009 · by David · in classroom IT
I attended a presentation yesterday, one of the UNC Scholary Communications Working Group brown-bag lunch series, about e-textbook adoption by professors and students. Bob Henshaw from IT and John Jones from Student Stores studied a dozen classes in which e-textbooks were offered as an option alongside traditional textbooks. At UNC, professors choose not only the textbooks for their classes but whether the e-book version is an acceptable substitute; if they permit the e-version, students can choose the version they want. (We’re not talking about open textbooks or web-based textbooks; these are all produced by textbook publishers.) Few students (less than 10 percent) chose them, and some who did actually went back to the store and bought a print copy. Here are several reasons: Read the rest of this entry »