TY - GEN
T1 - The future of electronic textbooks from a user perspective
AU - Sheen, Kimberly Anne
AU - Luximon, Yan
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Electronic textbooks have been a popular research topic for decades. Yet, research on student perspectives in this area has been conducted in hindsight and focused on the existing technology. Still, future features are decided by publishers, universities, and academics with limited input from the actual students who would use them. This article identifies the components that university students feel facilitate their studies without linking them to a specific form of hardware and presents a general overview of the perception of textbook components. An online survey was designed to collect students’ opinion on each component outside of the constraints of technology. The survey found that university students believe that future electronic textbooks should include text, highlighting tools, bookmarks, supplemental multimedia content, language translation capabilities, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. By including the input of students in the design of the textbooks, a better educational tool could be designed.
AB - Electronic textbooks have been a popular research topic for decades. Yet, research on student perspectives in this area has been conducted in hindsight and focused on the existing technology. Still, future features are decided by publishers, universities, and academics with limited input from the actual students who would use them. This article identifies the components that university students feel facilitate their studies without linking them to a specific form of hardware and presents a general overview of the perception of textbook components. An online survey was designed to collect students’ opinion on each component outside of the constraints of technology. The survey found that university students believe that future electronic textbooks should include text, highlighting tools, bookmarks, supplemental multimedia content, language translation capabilities, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. By including the input of students in the design of the textbooks, a better educational tool could be designed.
KW - Education/training
KW - Electronic textbooks
KW - Human computer interaction
KW - Interface tools
KW - User perspective
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84947086846&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-20609-7_66
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-20609-7_66
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783319206080
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 704
EP - 713
BT - Learning and Collaboration Technologies - 2nd International Conference, LCT 2015 Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2015 Held as Part of 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2015
Y2 - 2 August 2015 through 7 August 2015
ER -