Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Thursday, 27 Feb 2014, 16:03
Ones to watch:
Amazon
Pearson
Academic publishers
Writers
Educators
University Faculties
Schools
Research in and of faculties.
Initiatives to give eReaders preloaded with course books to students.
Proactive use of eReaders by learners, say junior doctors.
Research in schools. Related research on mobile learning.
Drivers include cost savings.
The purchase of books and their distribution is expensive compared to digital versions that are easily uploaded and include a multitude of affordances:
highlighting,
book marking,
annotating,
sharing,
searching ...
Whilst digital versions of millions of books, journals and papers increase access and scope of reading, developers are producing new interactive, multimedia formats even blending eBooks into the learning process with assessment and student analysis through quizzes and games.
A student can find rapidly from vast sources the material they need to see, though distraction is an issue. They can fast track through 'reading', branch out or study something else in parallel.
H818 Activity 2.2 eBooks vs. Textbooks
Ones to watch:
The purchase of books and their distribution is expensive compared to digital versions that are easily uploaded and include a multitude of affordances:
Whilst digital versions of millions of books, journals and papers increase access and scope of reading, developers are producing new interactive, multimedia formats even blending eBooks into the learning process with assessment and student analysis through quizzes and games.
A student can find rapidly from vast sources the material they need to see, though distraction is an issue. They can fast track through 'reading', branch out or study something else in parallel.
Has this been cornered by Martin Weller?
The Institute of Educational
Technology at the OU is a leader.
Ones to watch:
Ones to follow:
Open Access: Guardian Higher Education Network