Electronic Texts and Learning: Findings from Two Studies

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Electronic Texts and Learning Findings from two pilot studies Trina Marmarelli, Reed College NITLE Symposium, April 17, 2012

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Electronic Texts and LearningFindings from two pilot studies

Trina Marmarelli, Reed CollegeNITLE Symposium, April 17, 2012

The trouble with paper

Fall 2009: the Kindle DX

• Three upper-division seminars: English literature, French literature, political science

• 43 students

• Amazon e-books and electronic reserve readings

Fall 2010: the iPad

• One upper-division political science seminar

• Seven students

• 161 electronic texts (all e-reserves)

• Over 3300 pages

Outside of class

• Portability

• Organization

• Reading

• Annotation

In class

• Preparation

• Organization

• Navigation

• Distraction

What’s missing

• Standard, optimized PDF formatting

• Better options for file management

• Integrated reference management

• Painless text input

Beyond paper replacement

• Faculty iPad program, 2010–present

• More whole-class pilots, fall 2012

• Better e-textbooks (?)

Inkling

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Complications

• Comprehension

• Fragmentation

• Support

What works for us

• Starting small

• Ownership

• Communication