Share Paper: Student Trends with Digital Textbook Options in Preservice Education
Thursday, March 20 10:15-10:45 AM Clearwater
Abstract: This paper described the baseline findings of a study investigating textbook reading amounts and delivery formats for undergraduates students taking an introductory educational technology course. Initial findings include information concerning smart phone, tablet, and ebook reading device ownership rates, low digital textbook usage outside of the researched course, and student preferences concerning electronic textbook reading features such as highlighting, note taking and portability.