7 Things You Should Know About eReaders
EDUCAUSE has an excellent series of 2-page quick reads/handouts called 7 Things You Should Know About.... We'll be sharing a number of these in the blog in the coming weeks and months.
eReaders put books, newspapers, magazines, and other materials in a book-sized device that holds thousands of pages. I never thought I'd like digital books until I installed the Kindle app on my iPhone and discovered how much easier it is to hold than a book and how handy it is to have a book everywhere I go. eReaders aren't generally as small as an iPhone, but they are still more portable than carrying dozens of books at once. 7 Things You Should Know About E-Readers (PDF) will give you some technical details about eReaders along with how they are and can be used in education. This quick to read 2-page guide covers what it is, how it works, who's doing it (including textbook publishers), why eReaders are a significant technology, what the downsides are, where it's going, and what the implications are for teaching and learning.
Possibly the most popular, or at least the most well-known eReader is Amazon's Kindle. If you'd like to see what it's like, we have a Kindle DX at CTEL. Just contact a course designer or David Vardeman (vardeman@usm.maine.edu) to check it out. We're particularly interested in what you think of reading a textbook on an eReader, so if you use a textbook that has a Kindle edition, let us know!
For additional related reading, Knowledge@Wharton delves into the economics of digital textbooks and The New York Times reports on the ability for profs to create their own or change existing digital textbooks.
eReaders put books, newspapers, magazines, and other materials in a book-sized device that holds thousands of pages. I never thought I'd like digital books until I installed the Kindle app on my iPhone and discovered how much easier it is to hold than a book and how handy it is to have a book everywhere I go. eReaders aren't generally as small as an iPhone, but they are still more portable than carrying dozens of books at once. 7 Things You Should Know About E-Readers (PDF) will give you some technical details about eReaders along with how they are and can be used in education. This quick to read 2-page guide covers what it is, how it works, who's doing it (including textbook publishers), why eReaders are a significant technology, what the downsides are, where it's going, and what the implications are for teaching and learning.
Possibly the most popular, or at least the most well-known eReader is Amazon's Kindle. If you'd like to see what it's like, we have a Kindle DX at CTEL. Just contact a course designer or David Vardeman (vardeman@usm.maine.edu) to check it out. We're particularly interested in what you think of reading a textbook on an eReader, so if you use a textbook that has a Kindle edition, let us know!
For additional related reading, Knowledge@Wharton delves into the economics of digital textbooks and The New York Times reports on the ability for profs to create their own or change existing digital textbooks.
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