Are you using an e-textbook this semester? If so, both instructors and students can expect to reap the benefits. A recent study conducted by Andrew Feldstein of Virginia State University reveals that e-textbooks offer many advantages over traditional hardcopy texts. Below are a few.<\/p>\n
\u2022E-textbooks feature rich content that is readily available and accessible. Students report this type of content to be more useful.
\n\u2022More students report reading their assigned material in e-textbooks.
\n\u2022Students using e-textbooks tend to have higher grades.
\n\u2022Student failure rates are lower.
\n\u2022Withdrawal rates from courses are lower.<\/p>\n
Details of this study are described in the periodical, Online Cl@ssroom<\/em>, which is available for checkout from the Faculty Resources Collection in the library.<\/p>\n Orlando, J. (Ed.). (2015). The Benefits of E-textbooks. Online Cl@ssroom<\/em>, 15(7), 1\u20134.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you using an e-textbook this semester? If so, both instructors and students can expect to reap the benefits. A recent study conducted by Andrew Feldstein of Virginia State University reveals that e-textbooks offer many advantages over traditional hardcopy texts. Below are a few. \u2022E-textbooks feature rich content that is readily available and accessible. Students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-focus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}