E-textbooks: A personalized learning experience or a digital distraction?

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 482-491

  Dobler, Elizabeth ^a  

^a EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice, preference; College university students; Comprehension monitoring; Informational text; Instructional technology; New literacies; Qualitative; Specific media (hypertext, Internet, film, music, etc.); Text types, text features; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924069789     PISSN: 10813004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jaal.391     Document Type: Article

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