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06-11-2009, 03:28 PM | #1 |
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E-Textbooks: Lessons Learned From Northwest Missouri State University
Earlier this year MobileReader TeamCA pointed out an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Northwest Missouri State University's experiments with e-textbooks.
Well that University is in that publication again, apparently Amazon's recent comments about their own planned experiments with e-textbooks has prompted the University to share some of their insights for any university considering electronic textbooks. In a nutshell:
Have a look at the full article for the full details of their conclusions. The fact that this was printed in the Chronicle of Higher Education means that it's pretty well targeted for educators to see and have their thinking on the matter of e-textbooks influenced. How do you think that Northwest Missouri State University's perspective is likely to impact the move toward e-textbooks? Whatever that move may be, of course. |
06-11-2009, 04:04 PM | #2 |
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Seems you need an account access the linked article. But sounds interesting...
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06-11-2009, 04:13 PM | #3 |
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I'd like to know about the 'different study skills' that are needed (#2, above).
Just got my Kindle DX and am loving it. I have lots of PDFs, so it's going to be a wonderful, but I am thinking that on books and articles that are ones I want a lot of notes on will need more than the built-in highlight and notetaking features. Back to old-school notes on index cards or in notebooks? (Like rgeorg, I can't access the article.) |
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That's strange ... I don't think I have an account.
I'll post the full points individually. |
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And just for fun, here's the tag -- the conclusion of the university's president, Dean L. Hubbard (a Kindle-phile, as it happens):
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Thanks! That does help, though I wish for #2 that they had gone into more detail.
(Just discovered that for some PDFs at least, the DX won't let me highlight or make notes. Oh, the irony that my newest tech requires me to pull out my oldest (fountain pens and paper). |
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Not to be repetitive, but I posted the below comments over on Teleread a few days ago. Since the topic is getting more response over here, I thought I'd reiterate.
----- It looks to me like this was a study destined to fail. For academic purposes a larger screen, easier non-linear navigation, annotation capabilities and some way to share or collaborate are needed. Also, for many classes, color is needed. A dictionary lookup feature would be sorely missed as well. This is not pleasure reading of strictly fiction. This is academic use, which has greater requirements. |
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