E-books or textbooks: Students prefer textbooks

Computers and Education

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 945-948

  Woody, William Douglas ^a   Daniel, David B ^b   Baker, Crystal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interface; Pedagogical issues; Post secondary education

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER USE; E-BOOKS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; HYPERLINKS; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION; PRINT BOOKS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEXTBOOKS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 77955550086     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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