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ERIC Number: EJ1249745
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0870
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Undesirable Difficulties: Investigating Barriers to Students' Learning with Ebooks in a Semester-Length Course
Pierard, Cindy; Svihla, Vanessa; Clement, Susanne K.; Fazio, Bing-Shan
College & Research Libraries, v81 n2 p170-192 Mar 2020
Our ability to make informed decisions about ebooks is constrained by our limited understanding of how students perceive and use them. A team of librarians and a professor in learning sciences asked graduate students to serve as informants on student experience with ebooks. We analyzed student work in two semester-long studies, focusing on barriers and affordances they identified. In the first cohort, students who chose to explore ebooks uncovered affordances. In the second cohort, student comfort levels with PDF formats increased, while comfort with ebooks decreased. We discuss strategies for minimizing challenges and increasing desirable difficulties to support ebooks as learning tools.
Association of College and Research Libraries. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. e-mail: acrl@ala.org; Web site: http://crl.acrl.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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