The phenomenology of on-screen reading: University students' lived experience of digitised text

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 515-526

  Rose, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-BOOKS; GAIN INSIGHT; PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FILES; PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 79953776163     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01043.x     Document Type: Article

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