Defining the stages which the reader follows when reading e-resources is one of several factors which can provide significant insights into actual reading behaviours and cognitive processes of readers. Two different samples of students who study in Libyan primary schools, aged 9 to 12, were selected to investigate how students use and interact with both print and digital school books, identify ...

of Fischer-Hoch's first-hand descriptions of the pathogenic virology laboratories in Britain and in China, the experiences she accounts were also witnessed by McCormick, and it seems as though the addition of the chapters authored by Fischer-Hoch was an afterthought. But the back-and-forth alternation of these two voices gives the work a conversational feeling, and although somewhat disorganize...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

Nowadays, the new paradigm demands digital textbooks which contain interactive contents. Our goal is to design the digital textbook providing effective multimedia and cutting interface for interactive education. To achieve this purpose, we propose the user friendly cutting interface and interactive animation for digital textbook. This interface complemented current digital textbook interface wh...

Within the paper we present real remote experiment “Free fall of a body in a glass tube”. The experiment is based on the movement of a permanent magnet in a glass tube with induction pick up coils for position measurement. The paper also shows the possibilities of implementation of this experiment to direct educational process as a part of new strategy of education – Integrated eLearning (INTe-...

Introduction. A legislative mandate to adopt digital textbooks in Florida provides an opportunity to identify concerns school librarians have regarding digital textbook implementation. Method. The stages of concern questionnaire was used to identify stages of concern among Florida school librarians about their potential role in this implementation. Analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to ...

Research into the adoption and satisfaction level of academic electronic textbooks (etextbooks) by students continues to proliferate as e-textbooks become more commonplace. To date this research has indicated that either students prefer print textbooks to e-textbooks or the results are inconclusive. Prior research on the overall acceptance of technology suggested that females are significantly ...

The VTEXT framework is designed to provide many of the desired features of an etextbook in such a way that it provides pedagogical value rather than just convenience for students. Many so-called e-textbook solutions available today provide few features beyond those possible with hardcopy textbooks. The VTEXT framework is built as an add-in to Microsoft’s note-taking program, OneNote. The add-in...

E de la Cruz-Hernandez, E Perez-Cardenas, L Taja-Chayeb, A Chavez-Blanco, C TrejoBecerril, J Trujillo, JL Medina-Franco, A Dueñas-Gonzalez* Unidad de Investigación en Cáncer, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Mexico City, and Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, ISSEMYM Cancer Center, Toluca, Mexico. Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, 11350 SW Village Parkway...