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The future of education with ebooks

Article Category: Education

Author Name: chickie maxwell

Digital books are showing signs of success in the mainstream market but can they replace traditional textbooks in schools and universities? While publishers are eager to put their books on the shelves, educational institutions rethink costs and benefits of using ebooks.

Cost students have to shoulder in using textbooks is one of the main issue schools are considering. Will digital books cut costs? The reason new textbooks get their share of the market is that revisions and additions are often required in classes each semester. With ebooks, revisions and additions can be delivered automatically. This not only saves money but increases efficiency in obtaining data as well. The wireless technology employed by electronic reading devices is said to better handle content delivery.

Instructors and curriculum developers also depend on a popular assumption: that students are part of a generation more responsive to ebooks and other innovative means of learning including podcasting. This is especially evident among younger students who react better to online content than print.

Perhaps the biggest selling point ebooks and ereaders have lies in their flexibility.

Electronic reading devices can be fully customized to suit different classes while teachers themselves can customize content based on their lesson plans. Popular 10-inch devices also weigh lighter than a single textbook and have unique interactive features textbooks can never match. Among them are built-in dictionaries, which the Kindle popularized, and pronunciation guides. Rich features including audio, video and animation can also be added to provide a more interactive tool. Perhaps the iPad have stimulated a passion among curriculum designers to develop multimedia forms of learning.

What about libraries? There's an increasing number of public and private libraries that enable access to scanned or digitized texts. The New York Public Library's ebooks collection, which users can access, search and review online, is a good example. Other libraries have started loaning a specific number of digital books for a limited time.

Despite its promise, the digital book has its own set of drawbacks to address. First, there's the clumsy highlighting and bookmarking feature even avid readers who consume content from Kindles and iPads complain about. Second, battery life should match the number of hours students actually spend on consuming texts. Finally, reading devices should be flexible enough to adopt different styles of citation, an essential feature for scholars and university students. Most devices including the Kindle and the Sony Reader don't have page numbers and have different identifiers instead. This not only confuses readers who have to switch among various screen sizes but also prevent scholars to find cited passages according to page. Although the Modern Language Association (MLA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the University of Chicago Press have taken steps to address the issue of ebook citation, many scholars are still unaware of the new guidelines or, if aware, find new styles of citation awkward.

Once all these are perfected, or at least improved, the increase of digital tools in schools and universities should not come as a surprise.

Keywords: ebooks

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