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E-readers—portable, low-power, high-resolution digital devices—are changing the economics of text-based intellectual property, including educational materials, and a move to digital texts would have broad implications both for the traditional campus bookstore and for an institution’s library. Explore this resource site—a collection of all EDUCAUSE related E-Reader resources.
- Mobile Perspectives: On E-Books—E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Review, March/April 2011. "The current optimal e-reading solution for higher education is a robust laptop home base with an ecosystem that interacts with tablets and e-readers for mobile consumption."
- Teaching and Learning with E-Readers: A Case Study at CLU, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, September 2010. The authors describe California Lutheran University's two-semester pilot that explores how course use of e-readers affects student learning.
- 7 Things You Should Know About E-Readers, ELI 7 Things, March 2010.
- Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers, EFF, February 2010. EFF has created a checklist that can help guide you through questions related to the use of e-books and e-readers.
- Professor Faces Obstacles in Testing E-Reader Device for Digital Textbooks, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2010.
- Kindles in the Classroom: Theories, Practices, and Results in a Lower-Division English Course, ELI Annual Conference, January 2010. At California Lutheran University, the goal of the Kindle pilot project was to explore and identify the practices that would best optimize the Kindle's teaching/learning potential—a potential a potential CLU recognized as promoting deeper student engagement in critical reading and writing.
- E-Readers and E-Textbooks: Current Reality and Future Possibilities, EDUCAUSE Live!, August 2009. This seminar addresses the current state of e-reader devices and their functionality as platforms for the delivery of e-textbooks, as experienced by Northwest Missouri State University in its 2008–2009 pilot study.
- A Campus-Wide E-Textbook Initiative, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, July 2009. This article focuses on the process that Northwest Missouri State University followed in studying the feasibility of transitioning from the rental of traditional textbooks to the rental of e-textbooks, along with the extensive integration of e-textbooks across the university’s academic environment.
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E-Readers
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E-Readers True E-readers—portable, low-power, high-res…
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We Love E-Books!
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April 1, 2013
Carrie Rampp is Director of Library Services and Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. True confession: I really love e-books. They are so conven…
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Kindle Accessibility Concerns Continue
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March 13, 2013
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) continues to raise concerns about the accessibility of Amazon's Kindle devices as well as its Kindle apps for other devices (e.g., the iPad) for pe…
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A Study of Mobile Learning Trends at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School
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January 28, 2013
Key Takeaways To plan for future mobile learning two military educational schools conducted a study of current mobile device ownership and use by their students. Survey re…
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From Standardized to Personalized: A Trajectory for Mobile Learning
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August 6, 2012
Join the ELI’s Malcolm Brown, director, and Veronica Diaz, associate director, as they moderate this webinar with William Rankin. For almost five centuries, our educational structures and pract…
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The Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablet
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March 15, 2012
"The Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablets is one in a series of surveys to track students' use, acceptance, and preferences when using mobile technology. The survey, now i…
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Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey
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September 22, 2011
Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus. This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries . To learn whether…
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eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?
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January 24, 2012
What role, if any, should colleges and universities play in the shift from print to digital textbooks (eTexts) ? One perspective is that eTexts are a consumer transaction between a publisher …
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A Study of Four Textbook Distribution Models
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December 15, 2011
Key Takeaways In preparation for campus-wide e-text adoption , Daytona State College completed a two-year comparative study of four textbook distribution models : print purch…
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Expert Discussion Session: Evolving Models for E-Texts
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February 14, 2012
In this session, we'll briefly describe Indiana University's e-text agreements with five publishers and with Courseload, the provider of the e-text e-reader software. These agreements are…
