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This video tutorial covers how to engage in a critical use of electronic readers. While there are some recommendations about how to perform technical tasks in this video, the tutorial is mostly about the issues that make electronic devices appropriate (or not) for reading textbooks.

The video tutorial is paired with an interactive mind map and a document with an interactive table of contents. Both of these provide you the ability to directly access different parts of the video so (1) instructors can assign only parts of it, or (2) so it can be watched in a nonlinear fashion.

Bibliography

Cassidy, E., Martinez, M., & Shen, L. (2012). Not in love, or not in the know? Graduate student and faculty use (and non-use) of e-books. The Journal of Academic Librarianship,38(6).

Daniel, D., & Woody, W. (2013). E-textbooks at what cost? Performance and use of electronic v. print texts. Computers & Education, (62).

Hanley, L., & Bonilla, D. (2016). Atolls, Islands, and Archipelagos: The California OER Council and the New Landscape for Open Education in California. Open Praxis, 8(2).

Muir, L., & Hawes, G. (2013). The Case for e-Book Literacy: Undergraduate Students' Experience with e-Books for Course Work. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, (39).

Staiger, J. (2012). How E-books Are Used. Reference & User Services Quarterly, (51).

Waters, J., Roach, J., Emde, J., McEathron, S., & Russell, K. (2014). A comparison of e-book and print book discovery, preferences, and usage by science and engineering faculty and graduate students at the University of Kansas. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.

Woody, W. D., Daniel, D., & Baker, C. (2010). E-books or textbooks:S Students prefer textbooks. Computers and Education, (55).

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