The Failure of e-Readers in Higher Education

• In Event: D&D - E-learning Readers and Textbooks

Short Description

This research proposal reports a study investigating the effectiveness of e-readers in higher education. E-readers are devices developed especially for reading e-books. This longitudinal study focuses on the benefits of e-readers for selected aspects of students’ learning needs. The findings indicate that e-reader provide an inexpensive opportunity to improve an institution’s range of offered media, however, students demand multifunctional devices which facilitate their learning needs.

Authors

• Jan Delcker, University of Mannheim

• Biljana Rudic, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University

• Andrea Honal, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University

• Matthias Baum, Kaiserslautern University of Technology

• Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Mannheim