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Tina Ulrich

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. - The Washington... - 0 views

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  • A University of Washington pilot study of digital textbooks found that a quarter of students still bought print versions of e-textbooks that they were given for free.
  • Pew studies show the highest print readership rates are among those ages 18 to 29, and the same age group is still using public libraries in large numbers.
  • “building a physical map in my mind of where things are.” Researchers say readers remember the location of information simply by page and text layout
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  • think this plays a key role in comprehension.
  • “I don’t absorb as much,” one student told Baron. Another said, “It’s harder to keep your place online.”
  • Baron writes that she found “jaw-dropping” results to the question of whether students were more likely to multitask in hard copy (1 percent) vs. reading on-screen (90 percent).
  • If price weren’t a factor, Baron’s research shows that students overwhelmingly prefer print. Other studies show similar results.
Tina Ulrich

Get a printed copy of Introduction to Sociology - OpenStax College - 0 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 15 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Tina Ulrich on 15 Sep 14
     
    Bookstores can order copies of OpenStax textbooks from National Assoc. of College Stores. Individuals can order them from Amazon
Tina Ulrich

On OER and College Bookstores - 3 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 29 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Specifically, I think there’s a huge opportunity for bookstores to offer optional print-on-demand to students when faculty adopt OER in place of commercial textbooks.
  • Here’s the insane part: the college bookstore actually makes more pre-tax profit on the $18 print-on-demand open textbook than they do on the $150 publisher biology book, while earning the same per-book percentages for overhead and personnel.
  • Tina Ulrich on 29 Apr 14
     
    Breakdown of where the price of a new textbook goes. Suggests that bookstores could actually make more profit by selling low-cost print-outs of OER textbooks.
Tina Ulrich

OpenStax Deal With College-Stores Group Will Trim Textbook Prices - Wired Campus - Blog... - 0 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 14 May 14 - No Cached
  • OpenStax, a two-year-old nonprofit venture, offers open-source textbooks that are free online and that cost from $30 to $54 in print versions
  • Print prices are expected to drop by about 2 percent in 2015, thanks to the agreement with college-stores association. The deal will save the publisher shipping costs and includes distribution to 3,000 college stores around the nation.
  • Tina Ulrich on 14 May 14
     
    Cooperation beginning between OER companies and college bookstores.
Joelle Hannert

Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books - 0 views

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  • Joelle Hannert on 21 May 15
     
    WASHINGTON (January 15, 2015) - A new joint grant program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to give a second life to outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into freely accessible e-books. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will jointly provide $1 million to convert out-of-print books into EPUB e-books with a Creative Commons (CC) license, ensuring that the books are freely downloadable with searchable texts and in formats that are compatible with any e-reading device. Books proposed under the Humanities Open Book program must be of demonstrable intellectual significance and broad interest to current readers.
  • Tina Ulrich on 26 May 15
     
    Woo hoo! Now if I can just remember this when the need arises.
Tina Ulrich

Being a Better Online Reader - The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 31 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • a theme began to emerge: the more reading moved online, the less students seemed to understand.
  • Was the digital format to blame for their superficial approaches, or was something else at work?
  • The screen, for one, seems to encourage more skimming behavior: when we scroll, we tend to read more quickly (and less deeply) than when we move sequentially from page to page.
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  • On screen, people tended to browse and scan, to look for keywords, and to read in a less linear, more selective fashion
  • On the page, they tended to concentrate more on following the text.
  • Her hunch is that the physicality of a printed page may matter for those reading experiences when you need a firmer grounding in the material.
  • When Mangen tested the readers’ comprehension, she found that the medium mattered a lot.
  • there’s still no longitudinal data about digital reading.
  • The online world, she argues, may require students to exercise much greater self-control than a physical book.
  • the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention.
  • students fared equally well on a post-reading multiple-choice test when they were given a fixed amount of time to read, but that their digital performance plummeted when they had to regulate their time themselves.
  • if they read the original texts on paper or a computer with no Internet access, their end product was superior to that of their Internet-enabled counterparts.
  • the allure of multitasking on the Internet
  • “Physical, tangible books give children a lot of time,” she says. “And the digital milieu speeds everything up. So we need to do things much more slowly and gradually than we are.”
  • Wolf is optimistic that we can learn to navigate online reading just as deeply as we once did print—if we go about it with the necessary thoughtfulness.
  • In a new study, the introduction of an interactive annotation component helped improve comprehension and reading strategy use in a group of fifth graders. It turns out that they could read deeply. They just had to be taught how.
  • As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.”
Tina Ulrich

The Affordability of Open: Cable Green talks OER and Changes in Higher Ed | Office of D... - 0 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 15 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • eLearning is on the verge of a revolution and it's up to our adaptive educators to catalyze the change.
  • You can produce more than 1 million e-books at the same cost of printing that same book on paper.
  • He stressed the importance of changing the university culture in favor of proudly borrowing and sharing work from other institutions.
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  • Using open resources, instructors are no longer recreating and prepping content that has was already been developed elsewhere. This time can be devoted to student interaction instead.
  • The idea here is that the public should have access to publicly funded material, Green said. Not only do people have the right to view what they have in some way funded, but open licensing also increases the likelihood of academic research being read and used.
  • Take Aways: Put a CC License your course material A CC-BY license is best, giving educators and students the most freedom Share your content in a format that can be edited--Beware of the PDF! Encourage your university to place CC Licenses on all MOOCS Start the discussion! Get your university to take action and embrace OER
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