Comparing Digital And Textbooks And Their Effects On...
Comparison of Digital and Print textbooks and their effects on helping university
students study efficiently
Joyce J. Lam
University of California, Irvine
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Joyce Josephine Lam
University of California, Irvine
[email protected] SS3A HW ID: 104
Abstract
This paper explores the pros and cons of using digital formats verses print formats of
textbooks, particularly e textbooks and traditional textbooks, and seeks to ask how
effective these textbook formats are for university students and their studies. The
purpose of this paper is to examine these different textbook formats is to see which
has the potential and ability to help students in the best capacity possible. There are
clear reasons on how digital textbooks and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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Because we live in a modern age of much technological advancements, many
students in universities are looking to see if it is still worth buying physical
textbooks or to utilize digital formats like e textbooks as a means of efficiency or
even as a way to cut costs of paying for expensive textbooks. To understand which
format is more effective, we need to study the different formats and see what are the
strengths and weaknesses found in the two different formats. This paper will examine
research done by multiple researchers and use their research to help find the format
that best helps students to study and retain material learned from their textbook
Defining E textbooks and Traditional Textbooks
E textbooks are often defined as texts that are able to be accessed on electronic
devices. Most research has defined them as texts that are digital and accessed via
electronic screens (Rockinson Szapkiw, Courdoff, Carter, Bennett, 2012), in which
there two formats that exist. The first format is the page fidelity e textbook and
second is the reflowable digital e textbook. The page fidelity e textbook is a simple
scanned picture of the print version of a book, which can usually come in the form
of a PDF (Rockinson Szapkiw, Courdoff, Carter, Bennett, 2012). The page fidelity e
textbook has no