I studied this in my reading classes a few years ago. Students felt the e-book was difficult to annotate and they didn't like the notes features. They also felt the e-book was difficult to study and print annotations for review later. I teach how to annotate the text using different colors for various purposes (yellow for vocab; green for important; pink for questions) and the e-book didn't offer the right colors for them to do this. They said that once they've annotated this way it was hard to go back to just highlighting in yellow with notes that weren't visible unless you clicked the icon. :-)
Comprehension suffered as well. Students read and responded to a variety of readings both in hard copy and online, the comprehension scores were higher for the hard copy readings (82% class avg for hard copy and 63% class avg for online). Time on task was also longer for the online versions as well.
Renee Wright, PhD
English Faculty, E102D
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Yes. I was at a CRLA conference years ago and the speaker presented data from a student survey the showed that students preferred hard copy. Among other reasons they said it was less likely they'd get distracted by doing other computer activities if they weren't accessing the material electronically.
Saundra McGuire, Ph.D.
(Ret) Assistant Vice Chancellor & Professor of Chemistry
Director Emerita, Center for Academic Success
Louisiana State University
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Thanks for sharing, Saundra. I've always felt that at least for most students, hard copies were better.
M. Elaine Richardson, PhD
Professor and Director Emerita
Clemson University
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> I'm responding to an old post, but research published in Scientific American in late 2013 provides evidence that the brain prefers paper. See the link below, which contains a link to the article.
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> http://www.dor2dor.com/blog/brain-prefers-paper-and-print/#.VWdEkyyUKD
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> Cheers!
> Saundra
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> Emerita, Center for Academic Success Louisiana State University
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> Ebooks for academic work are BY FAR superior to printed texts IF the text is open and accessible; can be marked up, manipulated, remixed, condensed, summarized, etc., without having to type but copy and paste. I'm thinking especially of textbooks with this assertion. With printed text, one's markups serve as comprehension constructors. When the text is as manipulable as it can be an an open e-text format, that's all the more so, in my experience. Toward that end, folks like Flatworld Knowledge have a great idea. We just need more academic institutions to think longer term and get off the corporate publisher gravy train and start investing in having their faculty write more open textbooks.
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> Stephen Ewen
> UberStudent Linux
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>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Jennifer speaks < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Wow, there are a lot of great points to this! I must say, there are
>> things I enjoy about having a real book, but at the same time there
>> are things I enjoy about having an e-book. I love having a real book
>> so I can hi-light in it and write notes in it. Yes, you can do these
>> things with an e-book, but it isn't quite the same. However, with an
>> e-book such as on Kindle, the biggest disadvantage I have noted is
>> that there are no page numbers, so while in class or completing
>> assignments it is difficult to locate where you need to be. Great
>> information, thanks for sharing!
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