Date of Award
Spring 5-2015
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
Committee Chair
Taralynn Hartsell
Committee Chair Department
Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
Committee Member 2
Shuyan Wang
Committee Member 2 Department
Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
Committee Member 3
Jonathan Beedle
Committee Member 3 Department
Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
Committee Member 4
Kyna Shelley
Committee Member 4 Department
Educational Studies and Research
Abstract
As digital content, e-Textbooks display text on the screen, integrate multimedia within textual components, and allow reading on portable devices; which make learning highly interactive, flexible, and immediately accessible, increase students’ engagements in learning, and make learning content portable, transferrable, and searchable. Those advanced features did not bring prosperity in using e-Textbooks in education. The adoption of using e-Textbooks in higher education is still far from its confirmation stage. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the perceived attributes of using e-Textbooks by instructors and their actual use of e-Textbooks in higher educational settings, to discuss the factors that prevent instructors from using e-Textbooks in teaching, and to provide statistical evidence for promoting digital content and e-Textbooks into higher education in the future. A quantitative study was conducted to measure instructors who are from public universities in the college of education on how they perceived using e-Textbooks in higher education. Several factors emerged to explain the relationships between instructors and using e-Textbooks. With the findings, it suggests instructors, e-Textbooks publishers, institutions, and instructional designers need to work collaboratively to enhance the using of e-Textbooks in higher education.
Copyright
2015, Sirui Wang
Recommended Citation
Wang, Sirui, "Perceived Attributes and Factors Influencing Instructors’ Using E-Textbooks in Higher Education" (2015). Dissertations. 41.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/41
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