Electronic Texts and Learning: Findings from Two Studies
Transcript of Electronic Texts and Learning: Findings from Two Studies
Electronic Texts and LearningFindings from two pilot studies
Trina Marmarelli, Reed CollegeNITLE Symposium, April 17, 2012
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
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 (?)
More information
http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/kindle_pilot/index.html
http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/ipad_pilot/index.html