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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Ebook"”.
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EBook Exploration: How EBooks Support Emergent Literacy
Abstract This research study explores how eBooks support young children’s emergent literacy development. Specifically, it focuses on what kinds and modes are available in eBooks for young children, how eBooks motivate or engage students to read and write and how they support students’ decoding and …
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How Hard Is It To Find a Good Man? And Other Stories - An eBook (in Development)
Short stories and screenplay.
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Modelo de ebook multimédia para divulgação cultural investigação e desenvolvimento de um protótipo no formato EPUB
… as possibilidades de criação de um modelo de ebook interativo, com o título “A Lagoa de Óbidos”, no formato EPUB3, e a compreensão das vantagens e desvantagens da sua utilização sustentada num painel com 21 participantes. O formato EPUB (electronic publication) define um conjunto de …
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Mobile Books: Effect of Engagement on Students’ Motivation and Cognitive Strategy Use
… motivation to read mobile electronic storybooks (eBooks) and cognitive strategies used during eBook reading. Data collection comprised motivation and parent questionnaires, behavioural observation checklists, cognitive strategies rubric, and teacher interviews. Students’ emotional engagement with …
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Mobile learning como estratégia para melhorar a aprendizagem: estudo de um caso em Moçambique
… aprendizagem o potencial dos livros eletrônicos (ebooks) vem se destacando pelo seu papel em ajudarem ao usuário a transformar a leitura passiva em aprendizagem interativa e dinâmica, promovendo desta feita para uma melhor retenção e apropriação das matérias. Tomando essa premissa, o presente …
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An Examination Of Print Awareness When Using Electronic And Printed Books With Preschool-Aged Children
… through dialogic reading using both printed and ebook formats. During this study, five participants were selected from a local, private preschool and participated in a weeklong study in which they were read to dialogically with specific prompts concerning print awareness skills for a one-on-one …
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E-book usage in academic libraries: does the research indicate it is a tame solution or wicked problem ?
… Journal articles with subject matter concerning ebook usage in academic libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom were collected. Due to technological advances, only articles which had been published from 2004 to 2014 were collected. Other limitations of the study included language, …
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Pixel Is The New Print. How Electronic Books Support Emergent Literacy: A Case Study
… study was to investigate how electronic books (ebooks) motivate and engage an emergent reader, as well as how ebooks support decoding and comprehension. Qualitative data was collected from one second grade female student. The results of the study indicated the participant displayed a strong …
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Prevention of Domestic Violence against Women in sub-Saharan Africa: a library based evaluation of the effectiveness of health promotion strategies
… (CINAHL Complete, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), E-Journals, and MEDLINE with Full Text); PubMed; and Cochrane databases. Findings: The main findings of the review suggests that the effectiveness of health promotion strategies is to a large extent influenced by a …
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From Text to Tech: Theorizing Changing Experimental Narrative Structures
… House of Leaves by Mark Danieleski, the enhanced ebook version of The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Danieleski (with a brief consideration of Tender Claws’ Pry), and Ken Levine’s BioShock Infinite. With each text, I break down how the specific medium strategically facilitates or disrupts the reading …
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How do I facilitate pupil oral language development by using iPads as a learning tool with junior infants?
… and used the Book Creator app to make their own eBook. My thesis is a source of encouragement for colleagues to nurture and embrace a culture of using iPads as a learning tool in their school.
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Social Gatekeeping, the Serendipitous Tie and Discovery: Authors Connecting Readers to Books through Social Media Outreach
… In the same time period, the market share for eBooks increased dramatically and now comprises 20% or more of sales from many of the biggest publishing companies. This hyper-abundance of titles in an increasingly heterogeneous market place has made it difficult for consumers to connect to books …
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Design of electrode for electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices using multiwall carbon nanotubes
… electronic devices such as smart cards and ebook readers, while thicker LbL-MWNT electrodes could expand the application of electrochemical capacitors into heavy vehicle and industrial systems, where the ability to deliver high energy at high power will be an enabling technological …
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Three Essays on the Role of Individualized Data in Marketing
… data on children’s reading behavior from an eBook app to trace out both the short-run and long-run treatment effects of providing free access to digital reading resources to children with different socio-demographic backgrounds. We find that free access to digital content leads to a dramatic …
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Artificial Intelligence and Persuasive Computing Approach for Motivating Students and Enhancing their Learning Experience
… different sources: 488 students’ data from an eBook platform and over 125,000 students’ data from massive open online courses. This analysis aimed to investigate the relationship between data-driven engagement measures and academic performance, as well as to model students' engagement levels …
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Lost in the cloud : cultural lag in the transition to eTextbooks.
The age of electronic textbook delivery is upon us. On the national level, the Department of Education is advocating eTextbook delivery in K-12. President Obama recommends that eTextbooks be employed in K-12 education by 2017. In economic hard times, these measures may make good sense. The cost of …
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E-books no processo de ensino-aprendizagem num curso online: estudo de um caso no contexto universitário angolano
Numa instituição de ensino, os estudantes e os docentes são os elementos basilares cuja interação é essencial conhecer-se e estruturar-se, quando se coloca a questão central de assegurar os meios e condições para que seja possível alcançar um ensino de qualidade condigna. Para tal, é necessário o …
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Electronic Books: An Overview of the First Two Generations.
<p>The electronic text reading device, or e-book, is an idea that has reached the implementation stage. Technology has only recently made possible the production of a device to challenge the printed book’s dominance as the media for information transmission. These microprocessor-based devices are …