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Textbooks Weighing You Down? Check out our E-Readers [Poster] [PDF]
, 2013 This poster discusses a grant project for purchasing e-book readers as a way of circulating textbooks to college students at the University of North Texas.
Sears, Suzanne, Brannon, Sian
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Teaching Matters: Is There a Text in This Class? E-readers, E-books, and Information Literacy
Communications in Information Literacy, 2012 This column explores current issues with e-books and e-readers in academic classrooms. It suggests ways the academic library can explore and meet the information literacy needs of students, faculty, and staff who are using these new devices or seeing ...
Janelle M. Zauha
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An application of activity theory to the “problem of e-books”
Heliyon, 2020 The “problem of e-books” is defined as the difficulty improving the adoption rates of e-books by students. The adoption rates of e-books for academic use remain low, and research into the reasons for this have resulted in inconclusive findings.
Karen Kirby, Muhammad N. Anwar
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Cogent Education, 2016 This quasi-experimental mixed methods study examined the use of e-readers during guided reading instruction and its impact on 5th grade students’ reading motivation, attitude toward reading, and reading comprehension.
Deanna Long, Susan Szabo
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How Networked Communication Has Changed the Ways We Tell Stories
Between, 2014 In the midst of the digital revolution, we are confronted with the task of defining how media will change our lives and how we communicate with each other in the years to come.
Anna Notaro
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Experiencing literature on the e‐reader: the effects of reading narrative texts on screen [PDF]
Journal of Research in Reading, 2021 BackgroundThe digitalisation of literature is proliferating, and the increasing spread of digital reading devices and the availability of digital texts is likely to make books on screen a lasting phenomenon, but little attention has been paid to the consequences of digitalisation for the experience of narrative fiction.
Schwabe, Annika +3 more
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An e-book on industry tactics: preliminary results about readers’ opinions and awareness
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023 For decades, tobacco companies have undermined tobacco control measures. The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) Tobacco Control Group created an e-book outlining 7 key-tactics (Advertising, Front groups, Manipulating the media ...
Maria Sofia Cattaruzza +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The emergence of e-books with the characteristics of easy access and reading any time anywhere is a subject of debate in academia. Topics include the use of e-books in libraries, their use in support teaching, new possibilities for reading activities ...
Yu-Zhou Luo +3 more
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An eye-tracking investigation into readers’ sensitivity to actual versus expected utility in the comprehension of conditionals [PDF]
, 2014 The successful comprehension of a utility conditional (i.e., an ‘if p, then q’ statement where p and/or q is valued by one or more agents) requires the construction of a mental representation of the situation described by that conditional, and ...
Haigh, Matthew +4 more
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E-Book Readers in Higher Education
SAGE Open, 2013 This article reports on a research project at the University of Agder that has studied the use of e-readers as a tool for academic study. E-readers (Kindle DX and iPad) were loaded with texts from required reading lists in five courses with 94 ...
Arthur N. Olsen +2 more
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