Invitation to participate in a study: Students’ Attitudes to Digital Textbooks

[Keith Young]

Hi Folks,

I’m conducting a study from the Education Department at Maynooth University and am recruiting post-primary schools to take part. This study will examine students’ attitudes to the use of digital textbooks in post-primary schools where students have their own devices (iPad, Surface or Android). The study is designed to be very quick to administer and will cause minimal disruption or workload for a participating school. 

The use of mobile devices and digital textbooks in these schools now exceeds 10% of students nationally and represents significant expenditure of time, resources and effort in the creation of mobile learning programmes across the education sector. Recent international studies and media reports concerning the acceptability and cognitive impact of e-readers to students at all levels of education highlight the need for more in-depth research. The results will allow schools to make more informed decisions about whether to focus on e-reading (and the resulting lighter schoolbags) or to focus on other potential benefits of mobile learning as they develop their technology initiatives. Schools will also benefit from bringing the student voice into the decision-making process; a voice largely absent at the outset of these projects.

This study takes a narrow focus on user acceptance in the post-primary sector and is set within schools that have adopted mobile devices for students. Administered through an anonymous student questionnaire, the study will examine aspects of students’ usage of, and attitudes towards, digital textbooks on their personal tablet computers. The focus areas include: (a) students’ usage of their mobile device; particularly how often they use it as an e-reader versus other types of usage, (b) whether students supplement the content from digital textbooks with other resources from the internet, (c) to quantify what proportion of educational content comes from the digital textbook alone, and (d) to understand students’ preferences for reading and engaging with textbooks: whether digitally or in print.

If you and your school are interested in taking part please contact me directly for full information including ethical standards and how to participate.

Keith Young

PhD Candidate

Maynooth University Department of Education

Email: keith...@mac.com

[Catherine Duffy]

Hi Keith

If we can help you at all here in Malahide we would be happy to do so. 

Best wishes, 

Catherine 

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