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View Poll Results: Should school text books be converted to Ebooks | |||
Yes I am 100 percent for this! | 49 | 80.33% | |
No I dont think it would work! | 8 | 13.11% | |
Do not care one way or the other! | 4 | 6.56% | |
It's just a fad E-books and E-readers will never catch on! | 0 | 0% | |
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07-05-2011, 06:45 PM | #46 |
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Some of us took the conversation to include K-12, not just postsecondary.
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07-05-2011, 06:58 PM | #47 |
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Herzing University is migrating to etextbooks. I thought I'd hate them. I couldn't have been more wrong. I love being able to keyword search and no fumbling for bookmarks. Virtual Bookshelf (Vitalsource) is the platform they're using. I don't know what will happen if I get an etextbook that I want to keep for future reference purposes though. I guess as long as I keep a valid user account with vitalsource I'll be able to use them. And its handy to be able to have a copy of my current texts on my iPad for when I need to study but I don't necessarily want to stay home!
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07-05-2011, 08:32 PM | #48 |
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07-05-2011, 08:49 PM | #49 |
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Certainly, they don't HAVE to. But, the reality is that they do, at least in my district. Actually, that's not true. They adopt new textbooks before they have a chance to consider getting the new edition...
Golly, I wonder why our district is broke... It's those damned overpaid teachers, right? |
07-05-2011, 10:02 PM | #50 | |
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And say you're sitting in class, and trying to find something that argues a certain point or backs up an argument you want to make. Flipping around in a pbook is a lot faster. I can rapidly skim / flip through it and find probably the content / chapter / whatever I'm looking for. Not as easy with an ebook. It's a mixed bag. The search function can be really useful if you know exactly what you are searching for. But it's a LOT harder to rapidly flip through the book and find what you are looking for. Last edited by GreenMonkey; 07-05-2011 at 10:04 PM. |
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07-06-2011, 01:07 AM | #51 |
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To be read on a large LCD device, yes. But text books and e-ink displays do not work well IMO.
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07-06-2011, 03:23 AM | #52 |
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From what I've seen, the majority of students and faculty do not like the idea of ebook texts replacing paper ones. That's the case at my university, and according to stuff I've read in trade mags like Education Technology, it's the case in general. The idea of e-texts seems to do much better with non-students, or former students thinking "Oh I wish I would have had that," than it does with people who actually would need to use them. I'm responsible for learning-technology at a big state Uni, and the e-text idea has been shot down a few times (as in we've proposed it, offered to subsidize the hardware, and they still don't want it). We're buying iPads for instructors, though, for lecturing.
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07-06-2011, 10:03 AM | #53 |
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yeah, but when you exam last years vs this years edition, there really isn't much difference. even the questions are not changed much. just like apple and its i-universe. only minor incremental changes every year so that apple can get people to upgrade. front facing cameras should have been standard with the 3gs model. but wasn't there till iphone 4. granted there is only so much you can add to the iphone to make it unique every year. i guess with the iphone 5 maybe 4g or some kind of payment system using the phone??
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07-06-2011, 02:13 PM | #54 | |
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I guess if you search by flipping, eBooks would be harder because they flip slower than a paper book, but for me I never find what I want by flipping, so eBooks definitely have the edge for my reviewing. |
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