Use patterns for ebooks: The effects of subject, age and availability on rate of use

Fry, Amy

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“…As shown in the table below, the least participants involved were above 60 years, followed by those between 22-30 years, contribute to 7.97% and 11.59%, respectively. The largest group of the participants involved in the study involved faculty members ranging between 31 -60 years who contributed to the largest number of participants in the study (Fry, 2020). Further, the consideration of using open books does not greatly vary depending on the college or the center.…”

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Open To Support Accessibility: The Use of Open Books by SQU Faculty

Saadi

2022

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With Sultan Qaboos University (SQU)’s growing strategic priorities to improve teaching and research performance while increasing their competitive edge and reducing costs, Open Educational Resources (OER) appear as a possible option where e-books are often cited to help streamline the SQU’s resources and services. Similarly, the Instructional and Learning Technologies Program in the College of Education has an interest in the use of open books as a method of increasing accessibility to textbook materials for faculty and students. This descriptive study employed a survey to investigate SQU faculty uses and perceptions of open books to identify the advantages of increasing its accessibility. The analysis of the findings indicates that the faculty at SQU have access to open books and encourage positive experiences using them in their classrooms. That implicates a number of pedagogical benefits that can be supported by the use of open books. Therefore, it is important to grow the awareness among the policy makers and faculty about the benefits of encouraging and granting students access to other OER resources that might lead to more student learning.

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Open To Support Accessibility: The Use of Open Books by SQU Faculty

Saadi

2022

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“…This result was similar to what was reported by Wu and Chen (2011), who claimed that the participants from medicine and sciences used e-text books more than users from other disciplines. Fry (2020) claimed that rate of use in science subjects is higher than humanities, but it may be different for individual users.…”

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“…However, the respondents also identified some barriers in accessing and using e-books such as difficulty in navigating the e-books, session time out, printing and downloading documents. Fry (2020) conducted a study on Ohio Link academic consortium to check the rate of use of e-books in all subjects in the past ten years. He concluded that the use of e-books was high when they were new but the achievement of a high rate of use could take several years.…”

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Awareness, use and attitudes of students towards e-books: differences based on gender, discipline and degree level

Jbeen

Rehman

Mahmood

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the level of awareness, use and attitudes of students regarding e-books. Design/methodology/approach This study used a quantitative research design based on the survey method. A structured questionnaire was designed and used for data collection from four different universities of Pakistan. A total of 305 responses were collected from a sample of 400, and 303 of those responses were used for data analysis. Findings The results of this study indicated that students were aware of e-books and used them in their daily lives. Most of the respondents had a positive attitude towards e-books and indicated that they considered e-books are easy to find and support them in their assignments. Online features of e-books were important to them. There was a significant difference of opinion found among students of different disciplines regarding the use of e-books. Research limitations/implications This study was limited to four disciplines in four universities, one discipline per university. Therefore, its findings may not be applied to other universities or other disciplines. Practical implications This paper offers a new idea to academic libraries related to purchasing e-books. This study will provide guidelines to information professionals for development of their e-book collection and implementation of innovative approaches in library services or e-books services to facilitate their users according to their need. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study on the level of awareness, use and attitudes of university students towards e-books in Pakistan.

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“…Using e-books follows the design pattern on the story board. Based on some of the theoretical studies above, the e-book provides benefits to make it easier for parents to guide children to learn from home (Fry, 2020).…”

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Parenting E-book: Coping Early Childhood Education Problems During Learning from Home

Asmawati

Hidayat

2020

jpud

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During COVID-19, early-childhood school closings led to higher levels of stress in parents when compared to childless adults. In addition, lack of time to prepare, as well as mental-health problems, worry, and stress in parenting, may have hampered parents' ability to support their children's educational needs. The research aims to solve the problem of early childhood parenting during learning from home and improve the quality of early childhood parenting. The research method uses the research and development stage of the Borg & Gall model. Participants are mothers who have children aged 5-6 years. The data collection technique was done through expert validation and effectiveness testing with a quasi-experimental design. The data analysis used paired t-test statistical analysis. The findings show that the validity of the results of the material expert's test is 96%, and the media expert's test is 94% in the very good category. 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Use patterns for ebooks: The effects of subject, age and availability on rate of use

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Open To Support Accessibility: The Use of Open Books by SQU Faculty

Open To Support Accessibility: The Use of Open Books by SQU Faculty

Awareness, use and attitudes of students towards e-books: differences based on gender, discipline and degree level

Parenting E-book: Coping Early Childhood Education Problems During Learning from Home

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