TY - GEN
T1 - Academic professor perception of the future of electronic textbooks
AU - Sheen, Kimberly Anne
AU - Luximon, Yan
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Electronic textbooks have slowly made their way into regular usage in classrooms, yet many electronic textbooks remain a digital representation of their physical counterparts and an understanding of how they should be organized or utilized is still lacking. In past research, questions to professors have not focused on how electronic textbooks are used in their course, how they believe students should use them, and what they believe is necessary in the future. Semi-structured interviews with design and engineering professors found that generally professors agreed with student ideas regarding future components. They did feel some additional components, such as tagging, would help facilitate student learning. This paper presents an understanding of different disciplines approaches and an understanding of electronic textbooks and what professors think should be included in the future. It also assists in highlighting any mismatch between student and professor perception of future electronic textbook components.
AB - Electronic textbooks have slowly made their way into regular usage in classrooms, yet many electronic textbooks remain a digital representation of their physical counterparts and an understanding of how they should be organized or utilized is still lacking. In past research, questions to professors have not focused on how electronic textbooks are used in their course, how they believe students should use them, and what they believe is necessary in the future. Semi-structured interviews with design and engineering professors found that generally professors agreed with student ideas regarding future components. They did feel some additional components, such as tagging, would help facilitate student learning. This paper presents an understanding of different disciplines approaches and an understanding of electronic textbooks and what professors think should be included in the future. It also assists in highlighting any mismatch between student and professor perception of future electronic textbook components.
KW - Contrasting perceptions
KW - Electronic textbooks
KW - Future design
KW - Interviews
KW - Textbook design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992700482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_17
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783319416939
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 165
EP - 173
BT - Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors - Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, AHFE 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
ER -