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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"eBooks."”.
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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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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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Using Technology and Multimodal Literacy to Actively Engage Struggling and Disengaged Readers
… library resources can provide students with eBooks that engage and enable readers to read a variety of books. Data was gathered through parent and student surveys, observations, interviews and student response journals. Through exploration and exposure to different genres of eBooks students …
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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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Electronic book usage amongst academic librarians in South Africa
… practice and what the usage patterns of ebooks are amongst academic librarians. The methodology used to collect the data is survey research. An electronic questionnaire was distributed on the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) mailing list.
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VText: A Plug-in Extension to Add Electronic Textbook Functionality to Microsoft OneNote
Electronic textbooks are different from ebooks (electronic books) in that they allow the user to go beyond just reading material on a computer screen. Electronic textbooks encourage the user to accomplish all of the operations typically performed with a hardcopy text in addition to some functions …
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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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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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Modelo de ebook multimédia para divulgação cultural investigação e desenvolvimento de um protótipo no formato EPUB
… conhecer as potencialidades dessa integração em ebooks interativos e a sua possível utilização em diferentes áreas do saber. O trabalho da recolha de textos e a sua análise permitiram a criação de um protótipo de ebook interativo, cujo objetivo era a estruturação das especificações que compõem a …
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What Do Book Publishers Do and How is the Book Evolving?
… resilience as part of a broader family including ebooks and audiobooks. Long-term trends in the UK publishing industry are identified through analysis of time series data to establish what correlation if any exists between the national income of a country and its sales of books. The methods …
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Using Electronic Books to Increase Elementary Students’ Motivation to Read
<p>One of the main challenges that elementary teachers face is developing a reading program that adequately meets the need of all students. Given that not all students learn in the same manner, it is imperative that teachers find ways to motivate and excite all students when it comes to reading. …
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The battle of print and E.
Using a survey approach, this study explored consumers' uses and gratifications for e-books and hardcopy books, specifically, ownership, personal use and venues for purchasing them. The survey of 124 respondents revealed hard copies of the printed word were the most commonly used medium, while …
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Facilitating Comprehension and Motivation by Engaging Adolescents as iPad Readers
Technologies continue to transform the many ways that we read, write, and communicate, redefining what it means to be literate in the 21st century. For example, the explosive growth in tablet computers over the last few years has seemingly everyone embracing the new digital literacies without any …