College Student Perception of Electronic Textbooks

Abstract: Students have more distractions than ever before. Society is pushing towards digitisation and online access. Using mobile devices smartly but having the ability to concentrate when you need to can be a challenge. The old fashion library is on its way out, in favour of vibrant digital learning centres where students can search, chat, twitter and blog. Data storage is also more affordable these days, which has made this shift possible. This research focused on electronic textbooks acceptance among today´s college students. Specifically, this study examined the reason why students prefer one format to the other.

Students acceptance of electronic textbooks was overwhelmingly positive. From the study 55.9% preferred to use e-books and 11.9% conducted all of their reading online where as 89% did a mixture of online and print reading. However, 53.4% felt they easily got distracted reading books online. Portability (94.9%) was reported the number one reason why students wanted to read books online.

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Authors: Cathrine Linnes