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Books vs e-material: what is the deal?

Published: 14 June 2007 Publication History

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To read text on paper or on a computer screen is an everyday business for university students but which do they prefer? In this paper a research conducted at Reykjavik University in Iceland discussed. The focus is on university students' attitudes to use books versus computers in they study. The research shows that students like both learning by reading books and from computers, they use computers frequently in their study but also books and paper and pencil.

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CompSysTech '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Computer systems and technologies
June 2007
761 pages
ISBN:9789549641509
DOI:10.1145/1330598
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  1. book attitudes
  2. computer attitudes
  3. learning

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