Textbook Affordability and Student Acceptance of eTextbooks: An Institutional Case-study
There is significant interest among institutions of higher education in the potential of digital textbooks to enhance student learning and to address issues arising from textbook affordability. Innovations in digital textbook design and delivery infrastructure and the emergence of exemplary practi...
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Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2018-10-01
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| description | There is significant interest among institutions of higher education in the potential of digital textbooks to
enhance student learning and to address issues arising from textbook affordability. Innovations in digital
textbook design and delivery infrastructure and the emergence of exemplary practices from early adopters
signal that digital reading may be a practical alternative to print. Less well understood, however, is students’
experience of textbook affordability, their experience of print and digital textbook utilization, and factors that
might influence their acceptance of digital textbooks. This paper explores the results of a semester-long
eTextbook research project at a Canadian college and shares six suggestions grounded in student feedback |
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| spelling | doaj.art-543c2240895c4e40a49123a6dbaac32e2022-12-21T19:14:26ZengSociety for Teaching and Learning in Higher EducationCanadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1918-29021918-29022018-10-0192https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.2.3Textbook Affordability and Student Acceptance of eTextbooks: An Institutional Case-studyAndy M. Benoit0Lethbridge CollegeThere is significant interest among institutions of higher education in the potential of digital textbooks to enhance student learning and to address issues arising from textbook affordability. Innovations in digital textbook design and delivery infrastructure and the emergence of exemplary practices from early adopters signal that digital reading may be a practical alternative to print. Less well understood, however, is students’ experience of textbook affordability, their experience of print and digital textbook utilization, and factors that might influence their acceptance of digital textbooks. This paper explores the results of a semester-long eTextbook research project at a Canadian college and shares six suggestions grounded in student feedbackhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cjsotl_rcacea/vol9/iss2/3digital textbookseTextbooksopen textbookstextbook affordabilitydigital learninghigher education |
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| title | Textbook Affordability and Student Acceptance of eTextbooks: An Institutional Case-study |
| title_full | Textbook Affordability and Student Acceptance of eTextbooks: An Institutional Case-study |
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| title_sort | textbook affordability and student acceptance of etextbooks an institutional case study |
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